# Board of Supervisors Minutes: December 15, 2020 - Meeting date: 2020-12-15 - Document type: minutes - Pages in official PDF: 45 - [Canonical HTML transcript](https://sfbos.info/documents/730/2020-12-15-minutes) - [Authoritative City PDF](https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=M&ID=825838&GUID=93EAED2C-E1F7-467B-9D31-24662F3EE4FF) > This text was extracted for search and accessibility. The linked City PDF is the authoritative public record. ## Structured legislative records ### File 201383: Administrative Code - Permanent Supportive Housing - Rent Contribution Standard - Pages: 6-7 - Vote 1: amendment - Action: 201383 [Administrative Code - Permanent Supportive Housing - Rent Contribution Standard] Sponsors: Haney; Walton, Ronen, Preston, Peskin, Mar and Fewer Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to establish a standard of 30% of the monthly adjusted household income as the maximum contribution to rent for households participating in Permanent Supportive Housing Programs operated by the City and County of San Francisco. (Fiscal Impact) Supervisor Haney, seconded by Supervisor Peskin, moved that this duplicated Ordinance be REFERRED to the Budget and Finance Committee. The motion carried by the following vote: - Ayes: Fewer, Haney, Mandelman, Mar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton, Yee ### File 201328: Emergency Ordinance - Limiting COVID-19 Impacts by Not Moving People Experiencing Homelessness Currently Placed in Shelter-in-Place Hotel Rooms - Pages: 7-8 - Vote 1: referral - Action: days of the effective date of this emergency ordinance, the Department shall submit to the Board of Supervisors a report designed to inform planning for a possible expansion of the SIP Program consistent with the City’s COVID-19 public health response and FEMA guidelines for non-congregate sheltering, along with a proposed resolution to accept the report. The report shall include, at a minimum: (1) an estimate of the number of unhoused individuals and households who are vulnerable to COVID-19, as such vulnerability is defined by the CDC, and who are not temporarily housed in a SIP Hotel; (2) the number of Housing Referral Status households in the Adult, Transitional Age Youth, and Family shelter systems who are City and County of San Francisco Page 1148 Printed at 2:36 pm on 1/22/21 Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes 12/15/2020 not temporarily residing in a SIP Hotel; (3) a detailed update on available exits from SIP Hotels, including the timeframe in which each type of exit is expected to be made available and the current and planned sources of funding for each; and (4) proposals for ways in which the costs of SIP Hotels may be reduced.’ The motion carried by the following vote: - Ayes: Fewer, Haney, Mandelman, Mar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton, Yee - Vote 2: rescission - Action: ncy Management Agency (“FEMA”) provides written notification that FEMA funding available for SIP Hotel rooms is terminated or not extended or modified in a way that no longer reimburses any costs of these rooms, or people experiencing homelessness housed in SIP Hotel rooms obtain a stable housing placement; for every ten SIP Hotel rooms vacated, six SIP Hotel rooms shall be available to shelter people experiencing homelessness at risk of COVID-19 infection, until the County Health Officer’s Stay Safer At Home Order is rescinded or expires; and requiring the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing to prepare publicly available reports on the progress of placements from SIP Hotels into stable housing. (Pursuant to Charter, Section 2.107, this matter requires the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Board of Supervisors (8 votes) for passage.) (Fiscal Impact) (Supervisor Mandelman dissented in Committee.) Supervisor Peskin, seconded by Supervisor Fewer, moved that this Ordinance be CONTINUED AS AMENDED ON FINAL PASSAGE to a Board of Supervisors Special Meeting, with the Board sitting as a Committee of the Whole, on December 22, 2020. The motion FAILED by the following vote: - Ayes: Fewer, Peskin - Noes: Haney, Mandelman, Mar, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton, Yee - Vote 3: final-passage, likely final - Action: Supervisor Walton, seconded by Supervisors Peskin and Ronen, moved to terminate the debate and call the question. Before the vote was taken, President Yee indicated a vote was not necessary as discussions on the matter had concluded. FINALLY PASSED AS AMENDED by the following vote: - Ayes: Fewer, Haney, Mandelman, Mar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton, Yee ### File 201278: Amendments to Airport Concessions Leases - Forgive Tenant Rent During COVID-19 Pandemic - Pages: 8-9 - Vote 1: first-reading - Action: 201278 [Amendments to Airport Concessions Leases - Forgive Tenant Rent During COVID-19 Pandemic] Ordinance authorizing the Airport Commission, under the San Francisco International Airport’s COVID-19 Emergency Rent Relief Program, to amend certain leases with Airport concession tenants without Board of Supervisors approval under Charter, Section 9.118, and waiving Administrative Code and Environment Code requirements enacted after the most recent modification of each lease for such lease amendments, to allow for expeditious rent forgiveness necessitated by Airport tenants’ financial hardships caused by the public health emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Airport Commission) PASSED ON FIRST READING by the following vote: - Ayes: Fewer, Haney, Mandelman, Mar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton, Yee ## Extracted text ### [Page 7](https://sfbos.info/documents/730/2020-12-15-minutes#page-7) Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes 12/15/2020 201328 [Emergency Ordinance - Limiting COVID-19 Impacts by Not Moving People Experiencing Homelessness Currently Placed in Shelter-in-Place Hotel Rooms] Sponsors: Haney; Walton, Ronen and Preston Emergency ordinance to prohibit the City from requiring people experiencing homelessness currently housed in approximately 2,000 Shelter-in-Place (“SIP”) Hotel rooms to move from those rooms until the Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA”) provides written notification that FEMA funding available for SIP Hotel rooms is terminated or modified in a way that no longer reimburses any costs of these rooms, or people experiencing homelessness housed in SIP Hotel rooms obtain a stable housing placement; these 2,000 SIP Hotel rooms shall continue to be available as they are vacated to shelter people experiencing homelessness at risk of COVID-19 infection, until the County Health Officer’s Stay Safer At Home Order is rescinded or expires; and requiring the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing to prepare publicly available reports on the progress of placements from SIP Hotels into stable housing. (Pursuant to Charter, Section 2.107, this matter requires the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Board of Supervisors (8 votes) for passage.) (Fiscal Impact) (Supervisor Mandelman dissented in Committee.) Supervisor Haney, seconded by Supervisor Mandelman, moved that this Ordinance be AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING NEW TITLE, on Page 1, Line 7, by adding ‘not extended or’, Line 9, by striking ‘2,000’ and adding ‘for every ten’, and Line 10, by adding ‘vacated, six SIP Hotel rooms’ and striking ‘continue to’; on Page 5, Lines 2-7, by adding ‘and for COVID-19-vulnerable individuals who are currently unsheltered. (j) In enacting this emergency ordinance, it is the intention of the Board of Supervisors that the housing resources made available to clients in SIP Hotels not reduce the housing resources made available to individuals experiencing homelessness who are not currently placed in a SIP Hotel.’; on Page 8, Lines 5-6, by adding ‘and Provision of Temporary Shelter in Hotels to Other People Experiencing Homelessness’, Line 8, by striking ‘or thereafter for new Clients,’, Lines 10-15, by striking ‘FEMA provides the City with written notification that FEMA funding available for the SIP Hotel rooms is terminated, or is modified in a way that no longer reimburses any costs of these rooms. (b) The Clients housed in the approximately 2300 2,000 SIP Hotel rooms as of November 15, 2020, or thereafter for new Clients, shall not be moved from their placements by the City until’, Line 17, by adding ‘consistent with their Housing Referral Status’, and Lines 19-21, by striking ‘, as the City determines in writing, and with which the Client concurs is appropriate’ and ‘Clients shall not be required to move from their SIP Hotel placement for any other purpose, unless: 1)’, and adding ‘consistent with their Coordinated Entry Assessment Status’; on Page 9, Lines 6-19, by adding ‘6) FEMA provides the City with written notification that FEMA funding available for the SIP Hotel rooms is terminated, or is modified in a way that no longer reimburses any costs of these rooms. Failure of FEMA to provide written notice extending funding for this program for the upcoming month by the last day of the current month shall constitute notification of termination. (b) Subject to the budgetary and fiscal provisions of the Charter, during the effective period of this emergency ordinance or until FEMA provides the City with written notification that FEMA funding available for SIP Hotel rooms is terminated, or is modified in a way that no longer reimburses any costs of these rooms, or FEMA fails to provide written notice extending funding for the upcoming month, for every ten SIP Hotel rooms that are vacated by an individual under the terms of subsection (a), the City shall make six hotel rooms available as temporary shelter Until the Stay Safer At Home Order is rescinded or expires, the City shall continue to keep these approximately 2,300 2,000 SIP Hotel rooms available as they are vacated, for temporary use’, and Line 24, by striking ‘especially vulnerable’ and adding ‘that are especially vulnerable to COVID-19’; on Page 10, by adding ‘The hotel rooms provided under this subsection (c) need not be in the hotels under service agreements with the City as of November 15, 2020.’; on Page 12, Lines 10-23, by adding ‘(e) Within 30 days of the effective date of this emergency ordinance, the Department shall submit to the Board of Supervisors a report designed to inform planning for a possible expansion of the SIP Program consistent with the City’s COVID-19 public health response and FEMA guidelines for non-congregate sheltering, along with a proposed resolution to accept the report. The report shall include, at a minimum: (1) an estimate of the number of unhoused individuals and households who are vulnerable to COVID-19, as such vulnerability is defined by the CDC, and who are not temporarily housed in a SIP Hotel; (2) the number of Housing Referral Status households in the Adult, Transitional Age Youth, and Family shelter systems who are City and County of San Francisco Page 1148 Printed at 2:36 pm on 1/22/21 ### [Page 8](https://sfbos.info/documents/730/2020-12-15-minutes#page-8) Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes 12/15/2020 not temporarily residing in a SIP Hotel; (3) a detailed update on available exits from SIP Hotels, including the timeframe in which each type of exit is expected to be made available and the current and planned sources of funding for each; and (4) proposals for ways in which the costs of SIP Hotels may be reduced.’ The motion carried by the following vote: Ayes: 11 - Fewer, Haney, Mandelman, Mar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton, Yee Emergency ordinance to prohibit the City from requiring people experiencing homelessness currently housed in approximately 2,000 Shelter-in-Place (“SIP”) Hotel rooms to move from those rooms until the Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA”) provides written notification that FEMA funding available for SIP Hotel rooms is terminated or not extended or modified in a way that no longer reimburses any costs of these rooms, or people experiencing homelessness housed in SIP Hotel rooms obtain a stable housing placement; for every ten SIP Hotel rooms vacated, six SIP Hotel rooms shall be available to shelter people experiencing homelessness at risk of COVID-19 infection, until the County Health Officer’s Stay Safer At Home Order is rescinded or expires; and requiring the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing to prepare publicly available reports on the progress of placements from SIP Hotels into stable housing. (Pursuant to Charter, Section 2.107, this matter requires the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Board of Supervisors (8 votes) for passage.) (Fiscal Impact) (Supervisor Mandelman dissented in Committee.) Supervisor Peskin, seconded by Supervisor Fewer, moved that this Ordinance be CONTINUED AS AMENDED ON FINAL PASSAGE to a Board of Supervisors Special Meeting, with the Board sitting as a Committee of the Whole, on December 22, 2020. The motion FAILED by the following vote: Ayes: 2 - Fewer, Peskin Noes: 9 - Haney, Mandelman, Mar, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton, Yee Supervisor Walton, seconded by Supervisors Peskin and Ronen, moved to terminate the debate and call the question. Before the vote was taken, President Yee indicated a vote was not necessary as discussions on the matter had concluded. FINALLY PASSED AS AMENDED by the following vote: Ayes: 11 - Fewer, Haney, Mandelman, Mar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton, Yee 201278 [Amendments to Airport Concessions Leases - Forgive Tenant Rent During COVID-19 Pandemic] Ordinance authorizing the Airport Commission, under the San Francisco International Airport’s COVID-19 Emergency Rent Relief Program, to amend certain leases with Airport concession tenants without Board of Supervisors approval under Charter, Section 9.118, and waiving Administrative Code and Environment Code requirements enacted after the most recent modification of each lease for such lease amendments, to allow for expeditious rent forgiveness necessitated by Airport tenants’ financial hardships caused by the public health emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Airport Commission) PASSED ON FIRST READING by the following vote: Ayes: 11 - Fewer, Haney, Mandelman, Mar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton, Yee City and County of San Francisco Page 1149 Printed at 2:36 pm on 1/22/21