the meeting will come to order. this is the april 1st, 2024 rules committee meeting. i'm supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. i'm joined by committee vice chair shamann walton and committee member, ash-shafi'i will be here shortly. our clerk is victor young, and i would like to thank corwin color tv for broadcasting this meeting. mr. 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 myself. the rules committee clerk at victor young at sf gov. org. if you submit

public comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the file. you may also send your comment via us mail to our office in city hall one. doctor carlson place, room 244 san francisco, california 94102. please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda on april 16th, 2024, unless otherwise stated. that completes my initial announcements. thank you so much. can you please read item number one? yes. item number one is a motion approving rejecting the mayor's nomination for reappointment of fiona hinsey to the municipal transportation agency board of directors terms ending march 1st, 20, 2028. thank you. and i understand, commissioner hynes is on on zoom or online, yes, we

will unmute her line right now. good morning, madam chair and supervisors. walton and stuff. like i as, mr. clark mentioned, my name is fiona hinsey, and i'm seeking your, positive recommendation today for reappointment to the sfmta board of directors. it has been my honor to serve the city, on the board of directors since 2021, in that time, i've served as a chair of the policy and governance committee, as well as a member of our vision zero subcommittee. and, supervisor chavez asked me to address, some of my goals, for next time, our my number one goal. will be

addressing our vision zero, goal , goal and policy, as you all know, we've, recommitted to vision zero as of last week, and, particularly, i'll be looking at to strengthen, interdepartmental communication and collaboration when it comes to vision zero, such as working with the fire department and public works to expedite, to expedite and make our project a reality. and also, i know that there was some discussion at the to about, our biking and rolling plan, formerly formerly known as our active communities plan, one of my priorities will be to get that done and to, see implementation of some of that

work. additionally we, the, the, it's agency is going to be embarking on its first, accessibility strategy, and a look at a look at, our, our all of our programs and how they fit, into accessibility for people with, for people with disabilities. so i'll be looking into that, as a member of the disability community, myself and i will disability advocate, serve. and lastly, i think my, last goal will be to help to advocate as much as i can for us as sustainable, funding source for us, whether that's,

hopefully that will come from a state measure, but if not, i retaining, as hard as we can at the state level. for a sustainable funding source. and in the meantime, being as creative with our budget as we can to leverage dollars to get, projects done more efficiently and as well as, when it comes to transit fares, making sure we, minimize the, the, impact of any fare increases to, to, the most, transit dependent riders, when i am not doing, as of mta related work, as many of you know, i'm the director of public policy at independent living resource

center, which is a disability rights. and advocacy organization. and i manage our public policy work, including a lot of work with the dignity fund. and i serve as co-chair of a coalition of agencies serving the elderly, which is a provider association for a professional organization for providers of senior disability services. so i'm very connected. to the city, and i'm very connected to the supervisor advocating for, senior and disability disability issues. so with that, i'm open to answering any of your questions. thank you so much for that. and thank you for your service thus far, so appreciate that you're willing to serve again. so thanks for that, colleagues. are there any questions or comments? no.

supervisor no. i just wanted to thank fiona for her willingness to serve and continue to serve. i understand that this is a difficult environment with such a densely settled city to address and serve, disabled community. but she's been such a strong advocate and voice for that community. it's really is an honor to reappoint her and continue to work in collaboration with her. so that's it. thank you, madam chair. thank you so much. and with that, we'll open this item up for public comment. yes. members of the public wish to speak on this item should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. there will be a soft chime when you have 30s left and a louder chime when your time has expired. is there anybody who would like to make public comment on this matter, we don't have any speakers on this

matter. public comment is now closed. i'd like to make a motion to send, this item to the full board with positive recommendation. or do i need to remove, we need to amend to remove rejecting throughout the legislation and then recommend, as amended. thank you, can i do that? yes. on that motion. vice chair walton, a walton i supervisor. sapphire. sapphire i chair. ronen i ronen i the motion passes without objection. that motion passes unanimously. thank you so much, commissioner haynes, mr. clerk, can you please read item number two, yes. before i start on that, i was informed that janet tarlov was on the bus. oh, she has arrived. never mind, item number two is a motion approving rejecting the mayor's nomination for reappointment of janet tarlov to the municipal transportation agency board of directors. terms ending march 1st, 2028. wonderful. and miss

tarlov, if you wouldn't mind coming up. hello. good morning. thanks for being good morning. good morning. very, very beautiful day out there. it's beautiful. it's gorgeous, and i don't know, we might have some questions, but if you have anything to, to start off with, feel free. yeah, i did prepare a few remarks. thank you, good morning, chair ronen. and supervisors walton and safai. hello. back there. i'm very grateful to the mayor for her confidence in me that she has selected me for reappointment to the sfmta board of directors, and i appreciate your consideration of my candidacy today. it's been only a few months since my initial appointment, so i've obviously been engaged in a significant learning curve in a short time. i came to the position with many years of participation in the san francisco merchant community and other merchant community advocacy organizations. my

engagement with the mta was certainly robust during those years, and provided strong preparation for mta board service. since beginning my service as a director, i have made it a point to meet with as many advocate groups as possible, and i've interacted with folks that represent a broad cross-section of views, even as the board has made decisions that profoundly impact these communities. as i've spoken with and listened to taxi drivers, with members of the vehicular unhoused community, and with safety advocates and business leaders, i've read everything i can get my hands on about transit best practices in the us and around the world, community advocates, my colleagues on the board, the mta staff, and our elected officials and their staffs have been invaluable resources for me while i hit the ground running. although the passions that drive each of the groups i've met with are equally powerful, i've discovered that all advocacy groups are not operating on an

equal footing. some groups have paid staff, but many do not. some are new, some have decades of historical experience and knowledge. if i am allowed to continue, one area of focus for me will be to help groups advocate effectively for their point of view. i'm suitably impressed with the work of the mta staff and i see their earnest desire to provide services and infrastructure that move our city forward into an uncertain future. it's my hope that i will be able to make a strong contribution toward helping staff craft solutions that work well for as many people as possible, particularly vulnerable communities of color. seniors, the disabled, the unhoused and families living in poverty. safe transit for citizens who are willing and able to adopt modes of transit that help us achieve our city's climate goals, will always be a top priority for me. it can often seem that communities are

in conflict with one another, and that decisions made by the mta separate winners from losers . i reject that narrative. careful listening, effective communication, and simply meeting each other as fellow citizens are powerful forces for forging solutions that work as well as possible for the most people, safe travel for people, goods and services is paramount, but it doesn't work without providing access to the greatest number of people. achieving these goals will never be fully accomplished, but i am committed to working with my colleagues and with my fellow citizens to discern which solutions best allow the agency to move forward strongly toward its goals. thank you again for your consideration, and i look forward to answering any questions you may have. thank you so much. i appreciate how seriously you're taking this this new position in this role. it's really refreshing to have someone do so much work to get

caught up and to learn. so i wanted to thank you for that, colleagues, do you have any questions? no, i, i'd like to echo that sentiment. it's only been, what, a month or two? and look how deeply you've dove in. i would say i appreciate that you brought up the vehicular unhoused, that is a big area of concern. i've been doing some site visits in different parts of the city, and i just want to say just from the experience that that i have had, and i know supervisor walton also has has deeply dove in on this. the idea that we can do, to design, to push that community, that those residents into different locations, that's all that really happens. and i understand that we, you know, we have to do those things, particularly on lake merced, that those

residents have been there for a significant amount of time and it's just continued to grow. but if you don't have a real solution, then all you're really doing is pushing them from one, one neighborhood to another. and what ends up happening is it ends up being the southeast part of san francisco that ends up bearing that, because there is a lot of industrial sites, there is a lot of areas under bridges and freeways. so the solution can't be just we're going to do a protected bike lane. and then that community ends up being pushed to, you know, those those individuals end up being pushed to another part of the city. so i, i appreciate you thinking about that. i know that it's not incumbent upon your department to have that as a solution, but i think it requires mta's collaboration. and that's what we did when we did our the first safe parking in the city at the upper yard. we worked in collaboration because once you do create the safe spaces you

don't want there to, then be a magnet where people are waiting on the periphery. and so that's where mta's policies can be very important. yes, i appreciate it. excited to reappoint you and keep up the great work. supervisor walton. thank you, chair ronen and i do just want to state director. and it's not just for you, but for you and your colleagues as well. just to be mindful of policy and how we are responding to the needs out in community, particularly folks who live in in vehicles, as you know, there was a, a major removal effort the past week to remove some folks living in vehicles from bernal heights to follow some of the parking regulations. and naturally, like supervisor safai alluded to a big chunk of those residents who are living in vehicles did come to the southeast sector of san francisco. and so we do all have

to figure out a way to work together, find spaces and places for people to be so that they can be safe while we connect them to permanent housing, which is the ultimate goal. but just really want all of you, to focus on coming up with solutions. of course, along with the department of homelessness and supportive housing, department of public works, and of me and my colleagues as well. but definitely, just wanted to appreciate the work that you have been doing over the past couple of months. may i, may i just respond very briefly? i, during my time on the board, a lot of the discussions, of course, we've been doing our our regular business as supervisor safai, mentioned, but, we've been focused, quite a lot on the budget, which has been there's a lot of homework with that. and, but i, i hope and expect that

there will be a, inter-agency collaboration and i don't know yet what exactly that looks like, but i, i don't know how this could be solved without that, that happening. and, and i think that it's a really, it's an important opportunity for us as a city to, to effectively do that because the sites where people are parking are they're just not built for that. it's the infrastructure is not there. so sanitation is suffering. people's quality of life is suffering and on, on all sides. and so, yeah, i'm, i'm all about solutions and working with other people. and, you know, i did go to winston drive and i met with a lot of the people who are

living there. and, you know, they're they're working people, many of them. i could very easily imagine some of those folks i don't i don't think that i ever employed somebody who who i, you know, people in transition certainly lived in their cars for brief periods of time, but who, you know, lived in an rv as a solution. but these were people that i could easily imagine interacting with and trying to help connect with services as an employer. and, and, and i think that there's a lot of will within the city to address these issues, and i look forward to being part of the solution. so thank you very much for delving into that a little bit more. appreciate it. thank you. and i you know, i was going to talk about this as well,

particularly about the rvs that were recently removed from, from bernal heights, i disagreed with the mayor who ordered that to happen. and for years i had been talking to my constituents about the fact that there is no place for these people to go and that there were 15 rvs on a site, that there was some separation from the front doors of households by huge greenery. we had done everything to make the situation better for everyone involved by having regular dpw cleanups, by working with cross collaboration, putting more trash cans, having the hot team go out and regularly engage people to try to, get them housing. and i did not think it was fair to remove these individuals because there wasn't a place for them to go. and what supervisor walton said was the

same thing that i said, so you're going to move them to someone else's front door in someone else's neighborhood. and let's be real, it's you know, parkmerced it's the bayview that really has the bulk of the issue of people living in, in their vehicles, not bernal heights. we have one street with 15 cars on it, and it's relatively, you know, if a problem ever comes up, we deal with that problem. so now there's no rvs on this boulevard, it it it's completely it's very different. it feels very different. and already some of those vehicles are showing up in the mission. so now they're a problem in the mission. and the mission, unlike bernal heights, deals with, you know, homelessness, unlike many neighborhoods, there are tent encampments everywhere. and so, you know, again, it just feels like the wealthier neighborhoods, like bernal

heights get attention. and people were moved. and then the neighborhoods that have more working class people, like the mission, bear the brunt of this housing problem and poverty problem that we all have to deal with. so i, you know, i this has nothing to do with you, but i just want to tell you this story, because it really, really upset me, that this happened. i had been refusing to move these vehicles for quite some time because i didn't want them to become a problem of a another neighborhood that's even more besieged than than bernal heights. so, again, these are such complicated issues. there's no easy solution. it is come to the point where now even mta has to play a primary role in, in a, you know, coming up with solutions for these poverty problems, which is what they

are, and, and i agree, we need more interaction between departments, we certainly, you know, made sure that that happened in the case of the 15 vehicles on bernal heights boulevard, but i'm not sure it would have happened if we hadn't gotten involved and interjected ourselves. so i just encourage you to keep keep that voice of the need to have a real structured, multi-departmental approach to these problems, you're absolutely right about that. and again, there's no easy answer. there's no easy solution to these problems. and i'm quite aware of that. but, just want you to, to know that, not every supervisor wants to kick people out of their neighborhood. and, just to make it convenient. this is this is all of our problems, and we all have to work together on these solutions, so i wanted to mention that, and, and i just wanted to give you a chance. you

kind of mentioned this in, in your remarks, and i really, again, appreciated your remarks, but just wondering what your experience has been like so far in terms of has anything surprised you? and it's different than you thought it would be or has anything, you know, been particularly fun to work on or i just love because we never get this chance of appointing someone and then having the same person come back a few months later and get to ask these questions. so i'm just curious about your experience. you know, i've, i've been having a wonderful experience. it's, you know, these are these are significant issues and they affect a lot of people. and you know, i'm no miracle worker, but i do think i bring a sense of approach. and i and i listen well and, in terms of what, has surprised me, you know, i, i

kind of went in with a, you know, kind of a, you know, a general citizens like rah rah rah, mta doesn't listen, and they're not transparent. and it's this, you know, and i really feel, that has not been the case. you know, the minute i started spending any significant amount of time on the mta website site, looking at, you know, detailed plans and records of, you know, community outreach and, and, you know, i was i was pretty impressed compared with, you know, some of the other agencies that i've interacted with. and, you know, i reserve judgment because maybe i just haven't spent, spent a lot of time on the dpw website, you know, understanding what their projects are or, you know, the health department trying to understand why the health inspector or the weights and measures people do what they do, but, but mta, you know, i, i

really feel and that's one of the reasons that i, i mentioned in my remarks that, something that i'm passionate about is helping, people advocate for their point of view. i may or may not share their point of view, but i can certainly let them know that, you know, before each board meeting, every single piece of correspondence that is sent to the board is forwarded to us at 5 p.m. the day before the board meeting. and, you know , i'm sure that i'm not alone. i'm i'm sure i'm holy, just one of the team reading all of those pieces of correspondence and i, you know, i had the experience. it was a tiny little win. but, of reading a, a, you know, a letter from one of the merchants who was like, mta, it's killing my business. and it turned out he had a, a bus shelter installed in front of his

business. and the once i delved into it, i learned that his. he just recently signed the lease and moved and moved in, and his landlord had neglected to let him know that that bus shelter was scheduled to be installed. and i was able to reach out to the staff and, and meet with the woman who's in charge of all the bus shelters. and she was like, you know, i think we can move this. and we were able to do it. and it's a, you know, it's a tiny little thing. but to that business owner, it's enormous. and so, you know, certainly what i have done it if it, if it had not been a business related thing where i was like, oh, i know what this is. and i went down and i, i looked to see what the situation was, and i was like, oh, yes, this is a serious problem for this person, and, you know, those are the kinds of things that really energize me. and i really feel that there are a lot of advocacy groups that

don't there are a lot of advocacy groups who know exactly what they're doing. they you know, they write the letters to the right people. they use the right language. they they know what they can ask for. that's maybe going to be achievable. and, you know, but a lot of groups, you know, it's just it's the basic, feeling is they're just outraged and they feel helpless. and and i want to be a person that can help them, you know, understand how they can get their point of view across without hiring an executive director or something like that. so i love it, i love it. thank you. thank you so much for your work. that's that's sort of the dream, commissioner, that we want. so thank you for caring and reading and intervening and doing all those things. it's it means a lot really appreciate you. and i'm excited to support you. your reappointment, but it

looks like supervisor saff had one last question. yeah, i just again, i think this is really important because you're one of the you are even though it's not an official position, requirement. it's important to have the perspective of a small business owner or business owner on the body. and so i appreciate the fact that you come with years of experience of running a business, in the city. one of the things that i've heard, and i think i said this before, that i've heard over and over again, biggest criticism of mta board and some of the mta decisions is not considered how some of the policy choices impact small businesses. and the example that i think of is the valencia street corridor in particular. i think we talked about that a little bit. supervisor ronen and i had a conversation with jeff tumlin. he gave us a commitment that that was not working. they were going to come up with a

plan to move forward with the i think the original design, which was protected bike lane, pulling the bikes out. but honestly, there's been, you know, very little movement, if any, and a lot of businesses are shuttering and a lot of businesses are really concerned. and so what i would what i would say, i just want to give you a minute or two to talk about this, but i think it's super important because i personally think there's a way that you can balance most of these decisions out in an effective way. as supervisor, when they were choosing where to place shared bikes or where they were talking about some of the traffic signals or traffic calming or daylighting. we went through an extensive kind of engagement with the mta. we always had a commitment from the mta, by the way. i've had it for seven years. it's never been fulfilled, but i've had it that they were going to assign and create more community outreach.

you know, going back to the example that rosa had talked about in terms of vernal or some of the decisions that were made. you know, they have public information officers, but they're always there in a little bit more of a reactive mode, not necessarily doing the proactive work. and so i think it's one of the biggest shortcomings of the mta is that their lack of outreach and communication on, you know, versus when i worked at public works. and i know public works is still more engaged in this. they have a little bit more of an effective team kind of getting out there proactively on the ground, talking to the merchants, letting them know this is the disruptions to anticipate. this is the work that's going to happen along there. so it's a very it's a very stark contrast between the two agencies, so in your role in particular, it's really about thinking, i mean, there's so many different things and you've taken it on in, in, in all its capacity. but i just think it's important to kind of ground it also in the

perspective of small businesses and how the decisions that are made. so i just want to give you an opportunity to talk about that, because i think there's a lot of room to grow. right? that's very that's a very important, subject. and there's a lot of progress to be made. with regard to, the commitment to, to move away from the center running bike lane on valencia, the board, i think, you know, that you probably know that the board directed staff to continue with the pilot for the planned year and simultaneously, which is, you know, going going on where we're probably three quarters of the way through the year and, and simultaneously to work on a proposal for the side, the curbside running bike lanes and, and the trade off, as you

know, with that, is that, with the parklets as they are, you lose automatically to a parking space on each side of the parklet to allow, the, the bikes to move around them. so that is a very significant loss of parking, which, everybody wants to avoid. and so one of the things that they are, exploring is floating the parklets to where the, where the cars will be parked, so that is, you know, there are a lot of things to consider with that, too. you know, if there's, you know, if people are dining in these parking parklets and there's alcohol being served and waitstaff going back and forth and cyclists, are there accidents that are going to happen as a result of that, you

know, there's, there's a great deal to be considered with that configuration as well. and you know, the main the main point is there's no perfect solution in i will say, as a cyclist, i am, so relieved not to have to pull into traffic 2 or 3 times during the course of every block to go around. uber drivers pulled over . we cannot you know, i it might hurt me here in this in this situation, but we can't go back to the way it was. no, no, i don't think no one's asking for that. in fact, both supervisor ronen and i were in the same meeting. we said that's not the goal, but it was very good to hear, because i do hear that from the from the merchant community and. no, no, no, no, no, that's not it was to continue the plan that was started around 14, working its way up, that was halted, right,

because of the pandemic and the and the installation of all the parklets and the loss of parking that that because, i mean, you and i were talking about because we're both very familiar with that one block between 14th and 15th and, and the four barrel parklet was our, thing. and next time you go by, you notice there's, there's a, there's a parking space, an entire parking space in front of the parklet, and there's an entire parking space next to the parklet. they can't be used for anything. it couldn't be used for commercial deliveries or no, i understand, so, so those are those are the concerns and the and the but also part of the reason why it is there is because it's coming out of the center lane to go to the protected lane. so you have to have that crossover. no, it was always there. i feel sure, because i, i, i traveled that route, the minute that was installed, but anyway, it works.

yeah. you don't hear people complaining about it on the merchants on 14th street. and again, just we're well, there aren't that many because valencia gardens across the street. and then right there on one side. yeah. so it's not like on one side, 20th and 21st. and we're getting into the weeds here. but obviously it's a it's a complicated topic. and, and we wrestle with it at the board and there's not easy solutions. but and we're waiting for the i guess what i would say from the controller's office as well, just to interrupt you for a second, i guess what i would say is there are stretches along valencia where there are no parklets at all. and so to me, if i were trying to accelerate, i would say, let's focus on the blocks where there's one parklet or no parklets and let's continue to make this work. because i think that shows people that there's progress and that they're headed in that

direction, because i don't think anyone wants to go back to that. but anyway, we don't have to hold this up any longer. i just i wanted to underscore that because that's an extreme example, but i think that there's a lot of situations where over and over and over again, merchants feel like the board is not listening to them, and they are an afterthought. and they're not a concern of the sfmta. and we could sit here and argue till we're blue in the face. dude, there are studies that show if you remove parking and people walk, it's going to increase business. and that's great. that's probably true. but if you have, you know, a drugstore with 80% of the clientele is 80, 80 years and older and they're not they can't even walk from their house. you have to have a way. yes. you go to delivery and all this other stuff. it's just it is one of the loudest criticisms of the sfmta. absolutely. i know the small businesses are run over there. and so how do we and

sorry, it's not a good use of terms but that there you know anyway they're they're not listened to. and so i just wanted to underscore that i know you carry that with you and i appreciate that. and so i'm i'm happy to support your reappointment. thank you, madam chair. now supervisor, suffice has forced me to make a comment. i could not agree with you more, you know, and i do think you're one of the most perfect people to be making decisions about valencia street. because the bottom line is, it is not a big enough street to meet the needs of everyone. but we need to make sure bicyclists are safe, and we need to help businesses succeed as much as possible. and the way that it was before any bike lanes was not acceptable. it was not safe at all. in fact, many bikers would use mission street instead because valencia was so scared and that your facial reaction i couldn't agree with you more with all the busses. so i you know, both as a as a

regular biker and as a small business owner, i can't imagine a better person to, you know, help, help bridge this divide. i am very happy with what's happening now. i'm happy that we're going back to the bike lanes on the side. i do think it is a priority of the mta and i just hope you can continue to monitor that progress and maybe help, help mediate when. you know there are ideas or conflicts that arise between the competing needs for that street. so i'll just leave it at that. but thank you again for your work and we will now open this item up for public comment. is any member of the public here? yes members of the public wish to speak on this item should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. good morning, supervisor ronen and supervisor walton, my name is marion

delery. i'm the vice president of the glen park merchants association and i am here in support of janet tarloff. and i've worked with her for many years, probably about six years with her and the merchants association. and definitely she is a hard working, determined, dedicated, resilient human being and, looking back, during the pandemic, i really have to say she was pretty amazing, getting and keeping her business open and providing essential goods to . the neighborhood and just to see her manage and direct her employees and the customers was pretty an amazing feat, and if there wasn't any employees, janet was boots on the ground, on the floor, stalking, trying to find orders for eggs. she was at the front door. she was a

cashier. so definitely she was hard working and very conscious. of the neighborhood and the needs of the neighborhood, and regarding merchants, just a quick, little, not little story, but, we have a merchant, in glen park that was assaulted by a shoplifter and fortunately, the shoplifter was apprehended, the shop owner wasn't badly hurt, but janet took the time out to visit her and to check in with her at least once or twice a week, and. to see if she needed any assistance or any resources that the city provided. so i just wanted to say that janet has just an amazing aspect for her care and concern with merchants, and she will be a great asset to the mta, especially for the safety and concern of the public and also

to for the well-being of the community. so thank you. good morning, supervisor henry, president of the south of market association and co-chair of sfpd small business advisory forum. janet is really a superstar. when you think that glen park did not have a supermarket, she went out, worked at fannie fanny off working for all the departments and so many hoops to jump through to make that build that market and then to run it, which means with the mta, with transportation, it's not just for parking, but also for the customers and for people that work for her. she's done a marvelous job and i'm really, really proud of her. then on also with the cdma, she was, chairing the, legislative committee and janet sort of

person. she listens, she listens, and she does make decisions to jump into the fray and say, yes, that's what i think. no she's very reasonable, very understanding, very reliable. never missed a meeting. she's awesome. i hope you reappoint her. thank you. good morning. supervisors. my name is mike zwiefelhofer. i'm a small business owner in north beach. i'm also the president of the north beach business association. i also sit on the council of district merchants. i have just two anecdotes. why? i think janet would be amazing for this job, first over at the kdma , just this past year, we went through a change of bylaws and it became very contentious. we were very divided on the new bylaws, and janet was the one who took us through the whole program, and she and she did it voluntarily. it's an unpaid position, very much like what she's doing now. and she had so much patience, and she got the

kdma through this, this challenging time. easily, even though she was actually, since she sold her small business, she was on her way out of the kdma. so she did all of this just for the for the good of the kdma. and so i think that was amazing. the second anecdote is just last week on one of those very rainy days, janet and i sat in cafe trieste in north beach, and i explained some of those same frustrations you guys were talking about from a small business point of view, and she was so, you know, we, you know, she was so patient and she's going to be such a good person to go out and talk to some of those small business owners, because a lot of the frustrations, it's not necessarily losing that parking spot. it's more like we weren't asked and we weren't we're not listened to. and you know, some sometimes they don't they don't make sense to us from our point of view. so i think janet will be really, really good at kind of bridging that gap. thank you very much. good morning

supervisors. excuse me, my name is renee richards, and i prepared a few notes so that i don't run over my time because i could go on and on about janet tarlov, i'm an attorney and a small textile arts business owner here in san francisco. and i've known janet for about 20 years. our kids went to friends school together back in the days when it was not on valencia street, back when we started, in , in the castro. and so we worked on building the friends school community together. and bringing the school to valencia street, which is a hot topic of conversation for a lot of reasons. but i remember that janet and her family, janet and richard and the kids were really the first people i ever knew who commuted to school. by bike, i mean who parents rode bikes with

their kids down busy streets. and i believe that valencia street still had a bus line at that point. am i right about that? yeah. so i remember sitting there going, wow, that's really brave. like you're taking your kid on the street with this bus line. so she knows that end of being a or that perspective of being a biker herself. and having raised kids in the city and not only, you know, worked with the friends, school community to build the school, but in the at the same. time launched canyon market and also became a leader in her neighborhood and her business, i just want to say that as you've observed, i've listened to the comments this morning that she is committed to san francisco, her business community, her neighbors and friends. and i think that makes her an ideal candidate for this position. she raised her kids here, and many of our friends are now in their 60s and 70s. so now she's attuned to issues of senior,

transportation challenges and so on. i think she's a hard worker and a really creative problem solver, so i hope that you'll keep her on the board. thank you . are there any additional speakers for this matter, there are no additional speakers. thank you. public comment is now closed, i just want to say that it's been a pleasure to get to know you through this process, commissioner tarlov and i have, developed quite an amount of respect for you, and i'm just really appreciative that you're willing to take this role on, and do this, this great service for our city. we need you and, really appreciate. you willing to step up to this. so thank you so much. and with that, i would like to make a motion to remove the word rejecting, throughout the document. and send the amended motion to the full board with positive recommendation.

yes. on that motion, vice chair walton walton i, supervisor. sapphire. sapphire i chair. ronen i. ronen i that motion passes without objection does unanimously. thank you. thank you so much. mr. clerk, can you please read item number three? yes. item number three is a motion approving or rejecting the treasurer's nomination of kevin cohn? terms ending june 17th, 2026 to the treasury oversight committee. i just like to note that there's a, i believe there is a need to add, residency waiver to this, motion, mr. cohen, good. good morning, chair ronen and committee members, kevin cohen. i'm the assistant chief financial officer at the airport. i lead all the financial operations down at the airport, throughout my career, i've really established my financial career, really, in the capital markets. i've raised, billions of dollars for the airport to, engage in all the

wonderful construction and the refunding of our bonds to save the city debt service on all the projects down there. over the years, i've worked closely with the treasurer's office, investing the billions of dollars in general airport revenue bonds to make sure we're making interest income before we, make the payments to the contractors. so that's really the role of the treasury oversight committee, this is actually my second tour on the treasury oversight committee. i served for a number of years, in 2014. and then i stepped off and now being asked to come back on, if confirmed, i'd be honored to serve the public again in this capacity. and i'd be happy to answer any of your questions. well thank you. thanks for your willingness to serve again for this important role. any questions? i don't think we have none. thank you. i will open this item up for public comment. yes. members of the public wishes to speak on this item should line up to speak at this time. i do not see any members

of the public for comment on this matter, public comment is now closed, if i can make a motion. to remove the word rejecting from the document. adam residency waiver and send the amended motion to the full board with positive recommendation, yes. on the motion to amend to remove rejecting throughout the legislation and to add residency waiver and to recommend, as amended, vice chair walton walton i. supervisor safai safai absent. chair. ronen a grodan i that motion passes without objection. that objection that motion passes. thank you so much, mr. clerk, can you please read item number four? yes. item number four is a ordinance waiving specific requirements in the administrative code to allow a food service shared space located at 1429 mendel street to be considered as curbside shared

space. subject to certain requirements and affirm the planning department's determination under the california environmental quality act. thank you, miss supervisor walton. thank you so much, chair ronen and colleagues, i just want to add some context to this item. during the covid 19 emergency and existing business old school cafe, a youth ran supper club at 1429 mendel street between oakdale and palou streets, installed a food service parklet on the public right of way. this food service parklet is located on mendel, in an area which has been closed to vehicular traffic for several years. because the food service area is not located in the curbside lane, it does not qualify as a curbside shared space. under the current law, restaurant, bars and other establishments may place outdoor seating on public sidewalks and streets under the shared spaces

program regulated by chapter 94 a of the administrative code. this ordinance would waive provisions of the administrative code to allow the parklet at 1429 mendel street to be considered a curbside shared space that is, a fixed commercial parklet. this waiver is conditioned on the parklets compliance with all regulations regarding public health and safety design features for shared spaces, and the parklet undertake physical modifications to become compliant with applicable laws and similarly situated shared spaces. and i do just want to add that this business is not only vital to providing a welcomed and needed service to the area, but it is also a business that has been instrumental in providing guidance for young people and teaching them all the skills they need to operate a restaurant business while providing them with case management and mentorship services. thank you chair roni,

thank you so much and i think we can open this item up for public comment. yes, members of the public wish to speak on this item can line up to speak at this time. there is nobody in are we? does not appear we have any public comment on this matter. public comment is now closed, supervisor walton, would you like to do the honors? yes. i would like to make a motion that we move this item forward to the full board with the recommendation on the motion recommending vice chair walton, a walton i supervisor sapphire. sapphire i chair ronen, i ronen i that motion passes without objection passes unanimously. mr. clerk, do we have any other items before us today that completes the agenda for today? the meeting is adjourned.

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charles, can you take it from here? good evening. this is a meeting of the san francisco commission on the environment. the date is monday, march 25th. the time is 5:07 p.m. please note that the ringing and use of cell phones, pagers and similar devices is prohibited. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of anyone using a phone or similar device. public comment will be available for each item on the agenda for comments on matters that are not on the agenda, there will be an opportunity for general public comment. participants who wish