actions taken the effective resignation. >> are there any corrections
to the minutes? Seeing none, colleagues if there are no
changes then without objection
and the meeting minutes stand
subject to general public comment. And Madam Clerk, can you please read the consent calendar?
>> items one through four one
through four comprise the consent calendar.
>> items 1 through 4 supervisor
tang. Tang aye supervisor
weiner aye. Supervisor yee
aye. Avalos aye. Supervisor
breed breed aye campos aye
cohen aye supervisor farrell
aye supervisor kim aye and mar
absent there are 9 ayes. >> thank you the consent
calendar passes and Madam
Clerk, item number 5, please.
>> approximately 8.1 million
from reserves for fiscal year
2014 through 15 15 15 15
15 for site development.
>> on item 5 tang aye.
Supervisor ween weiner aye
avalos aye supervisor breed
breed aye campos aye supervisor
cohen aye. Supervisor farrell.
Farrell aye. Supervisor kim.
Kim aye supervisor mar there are 10 ayes.
>> the measure is adopted. >> item 6 please.
>> item 6 is an ordinance to
approve and authorize to
execute land acquisition
agreement for property located
at 15 hundred at 15 hundred through 1580 mission street
with an anticipated cost and
the implementation of a local
business enterprise utilization program and exempting the
project from contracting requirements in the
administrative code and
approving the architect and developer.
>> the item is adopted nan
under unanimously.
>> item 7 please 7 please.
Requires the payment of
prevailing wages by both the
contract ors and subcontractors under the contract. >> colleagues any comment from
this item.
Item? The item is adopted unanimously. Item 8, please.
>> an ordinance to amend the
administrative code. Chapter
14 b to codify the transfer and implementation and enforcement from the human rights
commission to the city administrator and require the
mayor to annually set a
participation goal of not less
than 40 percent and increase
the certification thresholds and increase the bid discount
allowed on contracts between 10 10 thousand and 10 million to
require administrative code development agreements to
include a utilization plan and
be subject to certain chapter
14 provisions and authorize
various other changes in chapter 14 b.
>> item is finally adopted unanimously. Item 9 please.
>> to clarify the requirement for municipal electric power
service to city departments facilitates and new developments.
>> same call? This item has
finally passed unanimously next item please.
>>.
>> this item is finally adopted
unanimously item 11 please.
>> to allow alcoholic beverage
control type 23 small beer
manufacture licenses and making environmental findings.
>> this item is adopted unanimously. Thank you.
>> item 12 is an ordinance to
amend the police codes on on
on on the limitations for employment and housing.
>> this item has finally passed unanimously. . >> modify the requirement for
the van ness rapid transit
project. Require certain city contract
ors with 20 or more employees
establishing and setting forth
the duties of the advisory board.
>> this item has finally passed unanimously without objection. Next item.
>> item 15 an ordinance to
revise the binding financial
policy under the charter section 9.120 regarding required funding levels of the
general reserve and update provisions regarding the rainy day fund. >> this item requires a two-thirds vote without
objection this item finally
passes unanimously. Item 16.
>> I'm sorry that one passes on
on first reading. Item 15. Item 16, please.
>> an ordinance to authorize the electronic payment for parking and reduced parking
ticket requirements and
increase small lot exemptions
and revenue control equipment requirements without objection
this item passes on first
reading unanimously. Item 17.
>> authorize the department of
the environment to expand a 3
hundred a $300,000 grant for
fuel vehicles in the city to to September 30th, 2016, without objection this item
passes on first reading next
item, please.
>> item 18 the mayors office of
housing of community development
443 thousand research
contract grants from the irs
from September September 30, 2014, to December 31, 2016. >> without objection this
resolution is adopted. Unanimously.
>> items 19 through 21 are the resolutions authorizing the
city to participate in the
renewable energy programs renewable energy financing
program joint powers agreement amendment and the statewide
community development authority to create administrative process to accept applications
and levy assessments.
>> colleague in front of us
today are 3 resolutions to
restart green sf here in in sf it's a project that I've been
working on over a year at this
time and last year we had the department of the environment take the necessary steps which
is a clean energy financing program for residential
properties of 4 units or less
and enables homeowners and for
the last year everyone involved has been working to make this program to what it is today to
include a number of important
components workforce
opportunities and creating local jobs on local projects
for our residents and
competitive interest rates as
well and we all believe in our green economy here in san
francisco and I believe we need all options on the table to try to capitalize this revolution
that's happening and we've seen
similar sonoma and and save
money on monthly utility bills
thousands of dollars saved
annually and san francisco's
leadership on this topic we
have more work to do and I hope
you will join me and have it up
and running spring of next
year which is the goal and in
particular roger kim the mayor's senior environmental
advisor and our department of public finance and the
commission on the environment
particular Mr. Arsa as well as
my staff and with that I hope to have your support.
>> thank you. Colleague same
house same call on this item?
No objection these resolutions
are adopted.
>> item 22. For a professional
services agreement and design and develop install and
maintain an integrated ground transportation and taxi
management system between trans
core pursuant to charter section . >> colleagues any discussion on
this item or do we need a role
call vote? Supervisor campos. >> thank you this is an item that came before the budget and finance committee and it's a
contract at the airport I
raised concerns at the budget committee and so we'll be voting against that today. Thank you.
>> all right. Any further comments? Seeing none same
house -- oh, roll call vote Madam Clerk.
>> tang aye weiner aye yee aye
supervisor avalos avalos no
supervisor breed aye supervisor
campos no, supervisor cohen aye
supervisor farrell aye
supervisor kim kim aye
supervisor mar aye. Mar aye.
>> there are 8 ayes and 2 2 2 noes.
>> this resolution shall be adopted.
>> item 23 a resolution for
installation of subsurface tie
backs at 923 if at 923 fulsom street development project. >> without objection this
resolution is adopted. Supervisor avalos.
>> thank you Madam Clerk I'd
like to rescind the vote on item number 7.
>> all right colleagues without objection. Seconded by
supervisor farrell without objection.
>> I have continued the items from the last reading just
making sure that we're aligned
with our proper way we align our services for security for
the mta and we'll explain the amendment.
>> so the ordinance provides
that the mta in its rft can require bidders to pay
prevailing wages to security
contract ors and currently there's no definition of a
prevailing wage so a table has been submitted for inclusion
into the clerk's file setting out what the prevailing wages
will be and accompanying an
amendment to the ordinance
that prevailing wages are those
that are set forth in the clerk's file. >> okay so we can accept that
amendment offered and support the underlying ordinance so
clarifying the language around prevailing wage for our security
contract ors for the mta.
>> a second to that motion.
Role call vote please on item 7
on the amendment I'm sorry. >> supervisor tang aye supervisor weiner aye
supervisor yee aye supervisor
avalos aye supervisor breed,
breed, supervisor avalos just
made an amendment to item 7.
Breed aye supervisor campos aye
cohen aye supervisor farrell
aye supervisor kim kim aye.
Mar aye. There are 10 ayes.
>> the amendment passes and now
the under lining item same
house same call on that for
item 7 as amendmented. As
amended. We May need to do a
role call vote.
>> all right on the underlying
item 7 7 as amended. Without objection this item is passed
on first reading as amended and
now if we can go back to item
23 where we were I think we'll
need to redo that. Supervisor campos.
>> motion to rescind.
>> seconded by supervisor
farrell thank you the vote is
rescinded and now Madam Clerk roll call.
>> item 23 supervisor tang aye
weiner aye yee aye avalos aye
supervisor breed aye supervisor
campos aye supervisor cohen aye
supervisor farrell farrell aye
supervisor kim aye mar aye there are 10 ayes.
>> that item is adopted. That
resolution is adopted. Item 24 please.
>> item 24 is a resolution to
authorize the nullification for the conservation areas open space and the bay view radio
property to allow the planning department to recommend new
designations that align more
closely with the policies and goals adopted by the city. >> without objection that
resolution is adopted. Next item please Madam Clerk.
>> item 25 is an ordinance to
amend the campaign and
governmental conduct code
reflecting organizational and staffing changes.
>> thank you Madam Clerk and I
actually just have one typo
change to make to item 25 as a
sponsor on that item page 31
line 20 instead of saying steam
filter should say steam fit er
so seconded by supervisor farrell without objection that
amendment is adopted and item
25 please. We May need a roll
call vote since the house has changed.
>> item 25 supervisor tang aye
supervisor weiner aye yee aye
avalos aye breed aye campos aye
supervisor cohen, cohen aye,
supervisor farrell, farrell aye
supervisor kim kim aye mar aye
there are 10 ayes. >> that item has passed on first reading next item.
>> item 26 is a motion to
appoint mark schaur to the committee.
>> that that is approved.
>> item 27. >> same house same call that
motion is approved item 28.
>> item 28 is a motion to
appoint bert hill to the
bicycle advisory committee. >> same house same call without objection that motion is approved.
>> item 29 motion to appoint
delano see more and kim and
eric brown terms ending October 21, 2018. >> without objection that
motion is approved next item. >> item 30 is a motion to
confirm the mayor's appointment
to the commission on the
community investment. >> without objection that
motion is approved. >> next item.
>> item 31 the mayor's
appointment to the commission
on community investment and
infrastructure term ending November 3rd, 2018. >> without objection that
motion is approved.
>> item 32 amend the administrative code and creating the office of early
care and education citizen's advisory committee. >> supervisor yee.
>> thank you President Tang.
Our city established the office of early care and education to
help us meet the growing needs in the city especially with the
rising infant and toddler population and early education
for children zero to five and
the citywide plan for early
care out of school time. The
ordinance we're reviewing today
serves the duties and to
establish a citizen's advisory
committee to help with the development of a strategic plan
to improve access for our young to receive high high quality
early care and education with
the passage of prop c in November the office of early
care and education is tasked
with developing a strategic plan
by by 2016 and the advisory
committee a 9 member body
jointly appointed by the mayor
and supervisors and early care
and education of providers and experts and advocates to help advise the director and the
office to help our city expand
early education for all and to offer expertise in the areas of policy planning collaboration
and strategic partnerships. The development of this body
was a collaborative effort with
the staff at the office of
early care and education. The child care planning and
advisory committee and others such as the department of youth
and families and the san francisco unified school district and I really want to
thank the following supervisors
who agreed to coauthor this.
These are supervisors avalos,
kim breed tang and weiner and I
especially want to thank the
staff from supervisor avalos's
office and from supervisor's kim's office and my office and
quite a few individuals from
the few provided important
input into this piece of
legislation. People like
barbara carl son early care and
education and coordinator and other members of that same
body and we also have members
from the community coalition
and san francisco carla bland
early education division and
jamilla brooks from sf U.S. D
and with all of their input we
feel like we're heading down
the right road and since the
institution of this ordinance
we have made amendments to
strengthen the language and
thankful for all the input from
city staff and so these again,
these amendments were minor
it's clarifying the role of the cac even further and changing
some some of the deadlines so
we can make sure we can meet
we can meet these deadlines and
the the board confirmation
process and with that I hope I have the support of my colleagues.
>> can we take same house same
call oh second on the motion to
amendment mar the amendment has
passed and if we can take that
same house same call on the I
on the underlying. I apologize
the amendments are made on the
committee level. Correct supervisor yee?
>> correct correct.
>> that ordinance is passed on
first reading.
>> colleague same house same call without objection that ordinance is passed on first
reading and now colleagues since
we are here at 230 with your permission unanimously I'd like
to take a special memorial at
2: 30 we have family members
here we're honored by your
presence and so today on behalf
of our city families I'd like
to offer an in in memorium in
memorium and today we have in
our presence her two children
her mother jeanne and the two most important people in jennifer's life her
sister-in-law and her niece and
I'd also like to acknowledge
her sister, sara. Colleagues
as many of you know jennifer
passed away I think too early.
She has been described as
brilliant talented and quick
which quick witted and an
honest broker in the world of
politics. She started working for the city for the city in
2004 as a legislative aid to
then supervisor peer and in
2010 jennifer took over our office of economic and workforce development and it
was there she took our world by
storm and did so many things and accomplished so many things
on behalf of san franciscans. Jennifer oversaw the development and implementation
of the city's first ever
economic development plan and the office of the economic analysis within the
controller's office and
evaluated with respect to its long-term economic impact on
the city and helped manage the
comprehensive reform to she
helped pass the tax credit
paving the way for 2 companies in 2003 to over 250 companies
today and she recruited
companies to midmarket with tax incentives and at the same time
those companies would give back
and jennifer was a champion for
small businesses and she loved
the office of small business
and assistance center and pay
roll tax exemption and tax credit program in san francisco
and the city's public and
private business development initiative connecting china and
san francisco and the tourism
sector marketing and promotions program led by san francisco
travel association and funded
the renovation of the moss cone
center and implemented
improvements in 25 corridors
and including pier 70 and the warrior's planned move to
mission bay and with a heavy
heart we're sad to hear
jennifer has passed from us..
She has done so much and on
behalf of the board I'd like to
extend our deepest sympathies
and we're grateful for for
for her contributions to san
francisco and mayor lee has
opened a condolence book available in the mayor's office
in room 200 at city hall and I
wanted to announce on December
16th next tuesday at 11:00 A.M.
That jennifer's memorial will
take place at pier 27 and all
the great work that she has
done for our city so with that,
again, I'd like to make this without objection from the entire board of supervisor's
and I'd like to offer members
of our board some remarks and
also invite up todd rufo from
our office of economic development to say a few words
and after that we'd like to
yield the floor to jennifer's
father allen and to dan if they would like to say a few words so with that supervisor farrell.
>> thank you. To jennifer and
to her family you know my class of colleagues came to the
board of supervisor's about 4
years ago now and she worked
for my predecessor for a while
and I could really rely on her if you will and started working on some on some of the
warrior's issues and some other
projects and she was one of the
most -- I just want to let you
know -- you know, she was one of the most amazing people to
work with so hardworking obviously accomplished so much
but really a great person and a
great colleague inside of city hall and you know, I remember
not only working with her but
after being diagnosed seeing her last year during a holiday
party about this time and her
amazing strength and heart and dedication and commitment to
fight what she was fighting and then really hit home this year with the race with jennifer
that our clerk was so
instrumental in putting together
, your mother your sister and daughter were so inspiring to
all of us we love her and still
do and always will and just want to let you know how
amazing she was to all of us inside of city hall and we thank you and her family for
the gift of all of her time here in city hall and just know
how much she will be missed here in city hall.
>> thank you I actually had the
opportunity to work with jen she was one of the first members of the city family I
got to work with. She probably
came into my office the third
day and she soon became a very large presence in our office and many of the projects
president tang mentioned took
place in our district as well
as the waterfront projects to the warrior's arena and you
know, jen and I did not always agree but the one thing I can
say about jen is that she was
incredibly smart and we all respected and admired her and
we knew she cared deeply about
the city and I got the opportunity to spend sometime
with her in shanghai a couple
of weeks before her diagnosis
came out and I think we debate and discuss a lot about what's the best moving forward for san
francisco whether our economy
and our community but that diagnosis that day really honed in what was most important to us and that is the people the
people that we work with, the
the people that care about the city, we're all in this
together and there's so much humanity I think that jen's
story had brought in in terms
of of what mattered and I just
want to really thank her family
because I know how hard she
worked and so many hours that
she spent with us at city hall
and instead of the folks that
were closest to her and she
called our office in June I remember thinking why are you
calling me but it's a showcase to her commitment and
dedication she loved this job
and this work. I was so glad
to work with someone who loved
what she did and even to the
last day and to have lost a
member of our family but also
just our gratitude to the community and family that supported her I think through
one of the most challenging times that that anyone could
go through and to acknowledge the incredible work that she has done for all of us.
>> thank you supervisor kim. Supervisor weiner.
>> thank you Madam President. It's hard to believe that jen
isn't here anymore. She was a
really amazing person I got to
work with her in her capacity
and also on campaigns and also
as a constituent and by getting
to know her in that respect as
well. She would sometimes help
me navigate the politics in that neighborhood and it's important to have those very
very level headed people in a
neighborhood level who can
help you through some very difficult situations and jen
was always there and it was always great to go to work with
her in all of those different
capacities and the one consistent aspect of jen
whether it was on a personal
level or campaign or in city
hall or in the neighborhood
was absolute and total integrity and we know in this believe and in this line of work there are a lot of different types of people that
you deal with and some can
can be more pleasant than
others and you can have people that are more straightforward than others and when you have people whether you agree or
disagree on particular issues that you know -- I don't know
the phrase -- honest broker has
been used but being completely
candid with you and just
totally and utterly honest and straightforward that makes all the difference in the world and her level of professionalism
and just commitment to the
city was extraordinary. Jen, I
think and I know with a lot of
different kinds of illnesses there are the ups and the downs
and it's a roller coaster
whether you can beat it or not
beat it and she called me 1 day
with her bucket list and going
to the top of the golden gate
bridge and I think that was
when it hit me the fact she
called and said it was my
bucket list she fought I know
until the end she was a fighter and we're all going to Miss Her a lot.
>> thank you supervisor weiner. Supervisor avalos.
>> thank you Madam President. I got to work with jennifer
move mats as a legislative aid and it was really great to work
with her and she brought so much enthusiasm to her work I got
to know her pretty well I played
softball with her we had a bod
team that had a team and we
played in the middle of winter
in the presido I know jennifer
played second base and I know baseball was important to her
and she told me how she really cared about the history of
baseball and she was really
committed to racial justice that was really important to
her when she was in school and
moving forward I saw her as compassionate in san francisco
and I was could I got to get a
tour of the of the old levi
factory and she was making sure
that school would be accessible to many people who wouldn't really have access to it and
it's really opening doors to a lot of people in san francisco
and I think that's what drove
her those values of justice that made her work meaningful
to her and I didn't also always agree with jennifer on the
approaches she gave us coming
from tax breaks but I always
knew that she was really a straight shooter and someone
that I could have a really
great conversation with offline about what's behind the
background behind policy that
that we disagreed on and I really valid that relationship and I valid her friendship and
you you you know she's been through hard times even before her fight with cancer and we
had a lot of talks about that
as well about you you you
you know difficulties with
relationships and the memory is
strong with someone with a
great deal of integrity and
someone who has made this a
better place.
>> thank you Madam President.
I'll be very brief I speak as someone who at times agreed
with jennifer and I think it's
a testament to her and her
legacy that so many individuals
whether they agree with her or
not respected her and admired
her. Life is very fragile and
I'm I'm I'm I'm especially
grateful to her children and
family and the fact that they allowed her her to be a part
of this family and sometimes this work can be very tough and
the sense of humanity gets lost
but jennifer besides being a straight shooter someone who
really cared about this city
and it's only fitting given the
legacy she has left with the
city, her greatest legacy is her children and to her
children I want to say your mom
was a pretty amazing person and
it's easy to be brave in good
times but the true test of
character happens when there are challenging times and by
that measure she was an incredible human being and you
have a lot to be proud of and
know that she will always be remembered for her contributions and her heart thank you.
>> thank you. >> I just want to acknowledge
the family and let you know we
grieve with you I've had the
opportunity to watch jen and
her career mature she was a
legislative aid and I was a
staffer and I actually use her as an example when I talk to
my staff you can see what a
hardworking person can do and
what they can acquire in a in
a short period of time. It's important to remember that her
body was sick and what remains
true social true is that her
spirit is still with us. And
it's a spirit that goes on in
my work. As a member of the
board of supervisors but also she lives in our hearts and mind with the people that
worked with her, her family and
also in her children that's
that's the greatest legacy and
gift that she's given to the city. Thank you.
>> I'd like to offer Madam Clerk an opportunity for some words. >> thank you Madam President. What is most striking to me
about jennifer is that in the
midst of a significant medical
crisis she embraced and assumed
the main role to raise funds for the ucsf cancer center to help move the science forward to find a cure for others some
day it was a critical time for
jennifer when one's natural instinct would have been to
turn inward and focus on the self and at great cost to jennifer she gave up her
privacy and became the public
face of a worthy cause that she
knew would most likely impact others. And to me this is the
mark of a true and brave and compassionate person to give to
others in a time of personal
crisis and few would have the
courage to do something like
that and I'm in awe to have
known such bravery and not forgetting her sacrifice. Thank you Madam President.
>> thank you Madam Clerk and
now I'd like to turn the floor
over to todd -- from owd Mr. Rufo.
>> Madam President thank you so
much. Many people with us in
in the chamber today to staff members and planning and so
many other departments that are
here -- I think they are here because jennifer touched all of
our lives and meant so much to
us all. Of course jennifer was
brilliant and courageous and
funny and inspiring, but she had that rare ability to help
all of us be our best, to take
ideas that we have and make
them better, to help us find
and get to the opportunities,
to find the way forward when we
May not know. She helped us
all be better people. But I
also think about the people who aren't in the chambers
today the resident, the visitors the small businesses,
the kids who all know jennifer
even if they had never met her
these are people who May go to
a warrior's game or start a
business or a visitor to the
moss cone center or someone
taking a stroll on the waterfront jennifer gave 10
years to this city she loved this city, she loved the work
and she gave so much to all of
us. I think in these moments
as I shared with others I've
asked all of us to be there for
each other for these challenging and difficult days ahead and to continue to send that positive energy to her
friends and family in these difficult days. I think just
one thought from me me to the
family you know your mom was
the the most courageous and inspirational and selfless
people I've ever known and I appreciate the opportunity and
I'm so grateful for having known her. Thank you.
>> thank you Mr. Rufo and without objection if any of the family members would like to give any remarks I'd like to
offer them this opportunity.
>> thank you for being here with us. >> thank you very much Madam
Clerk and I'm allen I'm
jennifer's dad and I'm going to initially make one correction
the newspaper reports when they
first came out about jennifer's passing said that I was of new
york well that's a long time
ago I've lived in san francisco
for the past 6 years and I'm
just so very happy I'm out here and look forward to spending the rest of my life here I want
to take this opportunity to
thank everyone who has been so
supportive and the friendship
and with attitude and with
every fiber of their being from so many different sources and
so many different areas that have helped jennifer and helped our family during this very
difficult period. The people
here in city government, the
folks at the port authority, the people the people at the
san francisco giants who
cooperated with that race over
340 $340,000 for the pancreas center at ucsf and the folks
at the golden state warriors
who have been close friends of jennifer during this process
and I really think that jennifer's spirit now is with
the giants and the kwar I the warrior's and will continue to
be so and the staff at the schools for one full year
provided hot evening meals for
the for the family every night while jennifer was in this
illness and the folks at the
at the outstanding ucsf medical
center and the pancreas and especially her doctor, these
are extraordinary individuals
who faced with difficult
disease all the time and we
want to, you know, just
hopefully -- this is san
francisco, right? [Laughter] I
think a lot of I've been to a
lot of supervisors meetings so
I know. The creative spirit of the people in san francisco cannot be beaten I'm telling
you and finally the folks at hospice by the bay I don't know how they do it but they were
just wonderful so on behalf of our entire family we want to
thank you all for what you have
done and know that jennifer's
spirit is going to continue
within all of us and all of you
and some day soon we'll find a
cure for this terrible disease. Thank you very much.
>> thank you thank you. At this time I'd like to offer any
other family members the
opportunity to speak. Well
seeing none -- all right then
at this time I want to again
send our deepest condolences s to the family thank you very
much for being here today. I'd like to move onto the next
special order. Supervisor
weiner has a special special accommodation today.
>> thank you Madam President.
Thank you. Madam President
today I'd like to honor a long
time and departing employee of
the department of public health
michael baxter ter who is
leaving the department due to
illness. Michael has been an
incredible champion of lgbt
issues and michael for decades
has been a real leader in helping the city to address
these very real needs. Michael
started his work in 1984
through tireless work and intense commitments he rose to
the role of director of
community health programs for
youth. His work really ran the
gamut for example, development
of health education programs
for incarcerated youth to being
a founding member for the I
for the youth center and clinic
and chair as the adolescent steering committee for 6 years
and throughout his year michael
has always made time to mentor
upcoming leaders and through
his intense dedication his work will continue to positively
impact public health in san
francisco for generation. The people of san francisco have
been fortunate to have michael
as their advocate and I'd like to thank michael for his many years of service to the people
of san francisco.. I know supervisor campos would like to
make some remarks as well. >> thank you supervisor weiner.
I've had the opportunity and
the honor to work with michael
and the current chair of the dimensions collaborative board
for the dimensions clinic.
It's it's a public-private
collaboration that offers
comprehensive health services
for lgbt and building a
continuum of care for hiv
positive youth. He has always
had so many commitments but has gone out of his way above
beyond what is expected of
anyone and has truly worked to
establish protocols for
improving the service delivery
to so many transgender youth in san francisco I'm very honored
to say that I've been able to
work with him and I'm grateful
to him and his family for the sacrifices made to help our community. What I've always
appreciated about michael, he
has also taken the time to
mentor young people and I think that he has always understood
the importance of nurturing
the next exigency the next
generation so it's my honor to
join the supervisor today and I especially want to thank his family because when someone makes the kind of commitment and provides the kind of service that michael has
provided and has made, it's not
just they who are making a sacrifice it's the family
members as well. Thank you.
>> supervisor avalos.
>> thank you. I just also want
to put in a word for michael bax ter I've known him for a number
of years he used to run the health clinic at the balboa high school and there's few individuals I've seen in my work over the years who have
been so dedicated to their
work. I I know that he worked
many long hours and on top of
his work at the clinic he was coordinating health services in
other schools and other places
in the department and he made a huge difference in young
people's lives and brought them
to a level of awareness about their health in san francisco
and it was remarkable as well
he was able to keep alive the
balboa clinic when others were
falling by the wayside and I
hope I get to see him again soon but I just want to say
thank you so much for all you have done in the city for public health for young people.
>> Madam President if I could
ask sharylyn adams to accept
the com mendation.
>> I'm here on behalf of
michael and his partner and son are with him today. I think
for all of us here to celebrate
michael's work he is an amazing
man who has mentored not only so many young people people but also many of us in this
work to be tireless advocates for young adults in the city
and he really, you know, he was
all about about -- he created opportunities for young people
to have healthcare and mental
health and substance abuse
services and hopeless youth for
so many such a powerful voice that they should have access to
the very services that they
need and in his leaving the
department this glue this web
I think we'll join so I thank
you for taking the time to honor michael and his work for
the city. Thank you so much.
>>
>> [Applause].
>> thank you supervisor weiner.
Our next special accommodation will be presented by supervisor kim.
>> thank you. We're actually
honoring a lot of upstanding individuals today while this
individual is not an official member of the city family he is
certainly a member of our city
and a district 6 resident. I'm honoring an individual today
that many of you have probably read about in the press
recently. His name is ben
schwart z. Ben was attacked in our neighborhood after taking a
stand at the verbal abuse directed at his girlfriend he
was returning from a party early saturday morning and
passed a man making threats to
her and after crossing to the other side of the street and
being followed ben asked the
perpetrator and punches were
thrown and ben ended up being
stabbed 9 times in the back,
face and neck and arms with the knife narrowly missing his
spinal cord but puncturing his
lung. While there are many men
and women women ben made a
public statement and he and
elevated this issue and in fact
one that is so pervasive that
there's a consensus not even
subconscious often talked about on daily talk shows that
harassment is not a big deal in
fact women who raise their
voice and speak out against
sexual discrimination are over
reacting woman are told that
cat calls are seen as compliments and we should be
flattered and even when this
flatter y is degrading. I
remember I was no more than 11 years old and it continued throughout middle and high school and I remember not being
able to understand why men
spoke to me when I clearly was not of age to be listening to
be listening to those types of
comments. And it impacts every
single female friend that I
had. Ben called this reaction
what it was sexist and critics
wondered why he chose to go
back to retrieve his wallet
they claimed this would not
have happened if he had just
gotten a cab but people are missing the point every human being regardless of whether they are a man or woman should be able to walk on the city
streets free from harassment
and violence. Dress is not an open invitation and they
should not have further abuse heaped on them by the public
for being responsible for
another person's crime or
abuse. Ben and his girlfriend wrote from the hospital they said now for the folks that
have never met us not once have
only heard our story via
internet and media stations.
To those who feel passionate about stopping harassment and feel like woman need to be
done with this crap or feel like the right thing was done,
we feel you and trust me we're on your side. We think if
enough people started barking about this more folks would get
involved and maybe if enough people start to take notice
some permanent changes can take
place real soon. It's really
hard to believe that guys can
say vulgar and dirty crap to
women and get away with being
creeps all day. It's just
unacceptable behavior. He once
saw a bike online and suspected
it was stolen so he purchased
the bicycle and tracked down
the owner who he didn't know
to return the bike to him. His
friend recently said -- if you
are his friend you are for life
and I've watched him support
many friends. You can see
he's so kind hearted. We get to recognize a lot of people
here at this board and folks that have done so much but I think it's also important to
remember the every day heros
who are standing up to issues and problems that we have here
in our society. Sfpd is still
looking for the man he escaped
in a silver sedan. 5754444 anonymous tip line most
importantly I you I wanted to recognize ben a resident of our
city for his bravery and also his simple act of humanity so thank you so much for being here today and I want to invite
you up to say a few words. >> [Applause].
>> well, thank you for having me. Thank you for those kind
words. It was very sweet. I guess you said quite a lot about the story and a few things I just wanted to thank
first and foremost the two men
who came to my aid that night
and so helpless ly stopped and found towels from the backs of
their cars and put them on my
neck and my back and could have
quite possibly saved my life and to my friends here today who have supported me through
all of this, my family, who
have been so great through all
of this as well, to to
everybody at the general hospital who saved my life and
who I feel are totally unappreciated and just fantastic staff over there especially in the trauma
department as you can see I was
stabbed 9 times and here I
stand before you today. And to
everyone who came out to our
donation page, my friend
danielle a who is here today I
would have never hoped we would
have raised enough money to
even pay for my ambulance many people I don't know donated to
help out with this cause and
felt some sort of resonance with what this meant and a lot
of people have gone through this especially women the
community downtown area all
over san francisco and every
large city have felt some sort of connection with this problem that's been growing and growing
and growing and like I said in
my note there if it's just a
small piece of positive change
that can come from this or wans
or awareness that can raised from this I'm happy to be an advocate for that and thank you
all very much for letting me
me speak. Thank you. [Applause]. >>
>> thank you supervisor kim and
our last special commendation ation will be presented by supervisor mar.
>> thank you President Tang
tang I'd like to ask if terry
good win can come forward and
colleagues please join me in
recognizing an amazing
activityist for civil rights and
physical disabilities and
community based organizations to really address key opportunity needs for for
people with disabilities.
Terry good win has spent 35
years of building the arc for san francisco the director of
employment services at the arc
and I'm going to read through a
number of key points about why she's so significant for san francisco but especially for
people with disabilities in our
city for 35 city for 35 years
she's helped to build strong
community based organizations and partnerships especially
with model businesses and
employers in our city to help
support dignity and employment opportunities for people with
disabilities and she's been instrumental with our office
giving us guidance and insight
in our hearings and meetings and conversations to fight for full employment rights for people with disabilities and to
implement as fully as possible,
civil service rule 115 one tool
ensurg that people with severe disabilities have opportunities
for employment and city employment is a critical issue
for my office and terry was a key member of the former panel on city employment for persons with disabilities and it was a
task force setup by our department of human resources
this is about 6 to 7 years ago
and because of terry's advocacy and many others in the community we've reestablished
this panel and her insights
will help us advance the work
that began many many many years ago. Providing alternative processes for individuals with
disabilities to join the city's
workforce without having to go through the civil service
examination and if the worker performs well during that
period the worker can advance
to a regular permanent civil
service staff position. Terry
joined around 1980 and her leadership in building employment services over the years really brought the arc the arc to be a critical
component of our city's safety
net programs so she's built the
arc and so it's expanded
regionally. In October during
disability awareness month,
she's been instrumental in bringing together annual events
that acknowledge key model
employers. The tenth
anniversary award ceremony --
she's a she's a she's a
tremendous leader and the
academy of sciences hosted our
last ceremony and I want to
thank her and dignity for people with disabilities it's not out of charity it's out of employment rights and dignity for people like many from the
arc and other groups that
access jobs in many of the businesses and city government
as well. Terry is going to be taking on a new position after
35 years at the arc as a
deputy director of jobs for california best buddies california another great organization a nonprofit
similar to the to the arc
that's dedicated to advocating
for people with intellectual and
physical disabilities. And supporting young people like
john hammond and I know in many
high school and see colleges
best buddies really helps to link up really talented and
really great advocates like john hammond from our district.
In terry's years of dedicated service she formed and
maintained the business based advisory council produced 10 years of corporate support and recognition events called the
work life awards. They are a
a signature event celebrating
model businesses championing their success a unique partnership and congratulations
on 10 years of that work here
and hopefully it spreads throughout the state I want to
cut to the chase one of terry's most important
accomplishments has been the
development of project search
an internship program at pg and
e now has a 95 percent job
placement rate and she's worked
to develop more internships with new programs like the
academy of sciences in my
district and the spca as well.
Terry has refocussed especially
within the tech sector I know
and establishing the agencies
presence also in the midmarket coalition with strong
relationships with utilizing
new tools for city employment.
I think terry's values are what
I want to emphasize and providing opportunities for people with disabilities and
especially in bringing partnerships and corporate and
business communities together she's an amazing individual in
conclusion I know she's going to continue her amazing service
to san francisco but now the
region and state as well so
colleagues please give a warm
a warm board of supervisor's welcome to terry from the arc
and now with best buddies thank you. >> [Applause].
>> thank you so much supervisor
mar I appreciate it so much and
I'm so honored to have this
acknowledgment. We've been
able to place like you said
over 250 people in jobs places
like twitter and morrison
forest er and I'm excited to
move forward with best buddies
and I'm hoping I'll be able to
expand my reach. We have come
a long way for people with disabilities developmental
disabilities but we have a lot longer way to go basically people with developmental
disabilities have 80 percent unemployment rate so with your
help and with the board of
supervisors here I hope we can take some action to change that. The good news is that we've done fairly well with the
private sector but not with the
public sector. Supervisor mar
helped to highlight the rule
115 has not produced hires in
the last decade of people with disabilities so we really need
to change that and I want to
urge mayor lee and all of you
to champion this leadership
effort to make 2015 the year of
san francisco hiring the people with developmental disabilities and all disability and see make
it a model program for which other cities can follow so thank you so much I'm so
honored and I look forward to
working with all of you on this new call, an important call to action. It is really critical
so you so thank you. [Applause]. >>
>> thank you everyone. That
concludes our special accommodations. I'd like to
ask colleagues that we provide
to the remaining items. >> item 34 a resolution to
support the creation of open
source voting systems and study
new models of voting system development. >> supervisor weiner. >> colleagues our election
system of course is the backbone of our democracy and
free and fair elections. And
those elections are conducted
in a free trans parent and fair
way today before us a resolution
in support of san francisco working along with communities and organizations across the
state to make our elections
more transparent and secure by
moving towards open source voting. Currently consisting
of a black box system holding
proprietor software. Senate
bill 360 allowing counties to
develop and own and operate
public voting systems and opens
the door for voting technology
used to administer elections
publicly available and viewable
and by following the open
source path we can ensure that
electiony also have and less opportunity for fraud and more accurate results so this
resolution will move us in in
that direction by requesting
that lafco study how san francisco could implement its
own voting system and move
towards open source. So this is an important step forward colleagues I want to acknowledge that we've all
received some e-mails in the
last few days from some advocates expressing concern not with the substance of the
resolution I believe there's universal support for the
substance of the resolution --
but expressing concern that one
organization is named in the
resolution and in the spirit of
moving forward in in a united
a way as possible because I
believe the same goal I'm going to suggest or make a motion to
amend so that we are keeping this general in nature and not naming any particular
organization. I do want to say that the organization at issue the california association of voting officials is an organization that I believe 20
california counties have joined
and but with that said I think
it would make sense not to name any particular organization
because there are various groups working on this issue so the motion to amend I would do
a few things I'll make it as an
oral motion the first is in the
title to strike the words the california association of
voting officials and to strike
that from the title and then to
strike several whereas clauses
the whereas clause the two war
the two where as clauses page 4
lines 11 to 21 and page 5 lines 1 to 3 and again,
colleagues this is not in any way negativity to any particular organization but given there's different
advocates who work with various organizations we thought it would be best just to be
general in nature so that is my amendment.
>> so supervisor weiner has
made a motion. That is adopted supervisor mar.
>> thank you so much supervisor weiner to bringing this forward
and ben turner as well and I'm
supportive of this approach and
I wanted to thank Mr. Finish
Mr. Finley and many others and
others for giving insights and making this a better resolution
as well and mimi kennedy as
well. This helps us move
forward in the most inclusive way so thank you for making those amendments.
>> thank you supervisor mar. >> supervisor kim.
>> thank you I'd like to add my name as a sponsor to this item
and I want to thank supervisor weiner for bringing this before us I think it's certainly an important issue at the department of elections but
also over all I think for the city and county of san francisco and I know a couple of months ago I made a request
to the budget and legislative analysts regarding how we can
move our alliance from licensed software to open source I think there's a number of different
issues that that make this an
important one one the budget
being one but being able to create transparent software that's free and accessible and often better maintained because they are open source I know this continues to be a big dialogue and you are up in dc
and I hope we can continue this dialogue beyond the department of elections to the evident
to the rest of our departments here in the city.
>> thank you supervisor kim
seeing no discussion on this item. The resolution is
adopted as amendmented.
>> item 35 a resolution to
extend the term for the balboa
park community station advisory committee without objection
this resolution is adopted.
>> item 36 motion to appoint
joshua marker and kenneth olsen
to the advisory committee
terms ending December 16, 2016. Without objection this motion is approved.
>> and now Madam Clerk if you
could read our first special 3:00 P.M. Order.
>> items 37 through 40 the
special order for a public
hearing for persons interested
in the project located at
broderick street is exempt from
the review items 38 through 40
are the motions affirming or reversing the department's
exemption and preparation of findings.
>> colleagues, we have the
appeal for environmental review
for this hearing we'll consider
the consider and colleagues
unless there's an objection.
Given that we do have multiple
appellates in this case -- next the members of the public
supporting the appeal shall have up to 2 minutes each followed by that the planning
department shall have up to to
10 minutes to describe the
grounds for for for for for
for for for for the exempt
ion so with that I'd like to
offer the supervisor farrell an opportunity for opening remarks.
>> thank you I'll with hold remarks until after wards.
>> with that we can have the
appellants. Are the appellants
here in the chamber?
>> which microphone should I use?
>> you can use the one to your
right of the podium. . >> therefore if you could tell
us where 7 and a half minutes
are over and we can share it
between us. Good afternoon
supervisors. We are here once
again members of the community
to redress our grievances. We
were here on appeal exactly 27
months ago on the same project with part of the same issues
that we face today in a manner
that we call dejavo U.S. All
over again or a variant on the
play same time next year.
>> the communities should be
informed in total ity they
are allowed to see what is to
be built and for the last 2
years we have not been able to
to do that. Once the project sponsor abandoned the plans immediately after our signing the agreement, she took 6 months to come up with a new
set of plans we found out about
in April and there after 7 permits have been issued on
this job. The net effect for
us has been that basically the fundamentals of the agreement
since this is the oldest
building in calhalo's
neighborhood our neighborhood
125 years old, it is part of a very historic district of similar historical resource
buildings our family home being
next door on the south side
side 2845 broderick and has
both a social and arc arc tech
turl history and what happened
then in April was a set of permits were beginning to be
issued and we discovered that
that the original plans for the
building with defect defective and that the building was lifted the height of the building after the lift varied
and it was over 40 feet on the
northern elevation we immediately contacted the city
and she was given a notice of
correction. She gave it in for
July 1st 2013 and in fact she
was supposed to have a notification to the neighbors
in light of their requirement originally with a permit
therefore where we are today is
simply to challenge the issue
of the seqa negative determination and to address
the issue of the building
height, the encroachment in the
setback with the fire place.
Encroachment into the back
yard building on the lot and
the changes to the facade of
the building due to the
dwelling unit merger. As as
as as as we mentioned to you
the height of the building has tremendous effect on the light,
air, of all the adjoining
neighbors the folks on fill bert
street preponderance of street perpendicular to us had
most of their kitchen light totally destroyed by the lift
of of the building and the
squaring of the roof for the
development of the roof. The
encroachment has been addressed in the original agreement. She
initially wanted to have a second egress for a new unit that was being created and
through the hard work of city
planning historical
preservation she was given such
an, egress through the garage and now abandoned it
this prevents us again from light, air and repair of our
buildings and goes against the
very issue that issue that is
characteristic. Very wide alleyways between the buildings
and that was a characteristic
of the building between 1890
and 1915 and while she has
claimed she wants to create
other aspects of of the
development on the roof we've never actually seen what the
plans are. The side of the building is still planned to
to be change and there's a
permit she had withdrawn but
appears to be coming back --
changing the entry system of the building to suit her new development and the
environmental and historical
preservation issues has a lot
to do with the architecture and
in fact whether those entry
ways are going to be used now
for the staircase from two two separate units.
>> you have 7 minutes and 30 seconds left.
>> we're asking you to do the
following things as a consensus
of all the neighbors that we
presented to supervisor farrell
and I will let him give you his interpretation of his issues
and I will come back and I'll
finish with what we are
requesting.
>> thank you. Next appellant, please.
>> is it possible to plug this
in or no? No? Don't worry.
That's okay. I'll just put this
on.. Okay. My name is paul
wise and I live at 2824 broderick street directly
across the street and I've been
asked by tim to speak on his
behalf tonight our next door neighbors also living on the
east side of broderick street also directly across from this property. The neighbors on the
east side of broderick street are here today or I'm representing them because we're
not satisfied with the process by which the property in
question has gotten to to this
point. Our main concern is
that the project sponsor had some drawings that were misrepresented they were done to obtain a permit to raise the
building and then they were retroactively corrected essentially with a stroke of a
pen. Had the neighbors been
presented with the factually correct drawings from the beginning our reaction to the project would have been different when the plans were submitted and I don't know if
you can see this diagram that I
brought, but my wife and I
joked that this house looks like
a partially extracted tooth.
This is something that we talked about a moment ago and
this project is a blue print
for how to sir to circum
navigate the project. It's been under construction for several years now and it's
clear there have been breaches
that need to be addressed and that's why we're here today. Thank you.
>> thank you. Do I see the other appellant filling the remainder of the time? >> yes.
>> you have 4 minutes and and 50 seconds.
>> thank you. What we had
requested on behalf of all the neighbors in the area who are
concerned with this with regard to the height the building
should be lowered between 12
and 18 inches which will still
allow for garage opening for
most vehicles. Lowering the
house would also allow the
garage doors opening and the
neighbors are willing to pay for a structural engineer to help create the plans necessary
to lower the house 12 to 18 inches. Per the agreement
signed by the members on on September on September 4th,
2012, no new construction expansion into the south side alleyway the profile of the building should remain as as
to that so that the light isn't
severely restricted this includes any new bay windows or
other expansions into the space
return the house to the original profile in the rear and return the historic porch
and deck that that existed
before the construction began.
Eliminate any staircases
extended into the rear yard the
rear yard house scheduled to extend closer to 20 feet to
the west. Building unit merger -- have the city review the
twelg the dwelling unit
merger was conducted and roof
development no squaring off of of the roof and the neighbors
need to see the full plan of the roof development which has
not been is shown to us again.
Review the engineering plans for drainage and lateral support for both the south and
north of the property assumes
bb bbi can provide the plans
the neighbors are willing to pay
for an engineer to see how it impacts other historical resources this goes back to the
very issue that is now going on
at on at bbi in a meeting with
supervisor farrell scot sanchez
from city planning and joseph
did joseph duffy we have gone
over the issues and they have
assigned someone from dbi to
review the entire situation of
the multiple permits and piecemeal and to bring it all
under one umbrella. This is
what the supreme court called
for in such cases. We believe
this should go forward as
quickly as possible and they
have submit to city planning
checking for city entitlements
and notifications need to be
given they will be given and
reviewed with their own
engineers. The underground
streams in the area we all have and there's water pooling in
many of our homes in fact at
the moor head's home on fill
bert street. What is going to
happen to in fact to our own
foundations as a result so we
are requesting you today to
help us preserve historical
assets and resources in san francisco. Bring the building
back to its exterior envelope
under the agreement to remain
in tact no one is against the
project sponsor and interior
development of her building but
we strongly believe that the envelope of the building should
remain in tact as we as we
agreed and the footprint
should remain in tact as we
agreed and a 2-unit building
and convertible into the use of a home. Thank you. >> thank you. So at this time
I'd like to call up any members
of the public who would like to
support the appeal they will have up to 2 minutes each.
Come to the podium. Any members of the public who would
like to speak in support of the
appeal?
>> I never got a notice. I
live behind this building --
number 2 is I equate this case
and I repeated ly asked if construction was going on and the expansion I would like to
double check and have someone
double check. The light hair on the environmental -- he is
going to be totally black they made an exception to the rule
on the left side of his house
and all of a sudden he's getting
dry rot, mold and other things
just because of that that.
If he raised the building on the east side he's going to
have no light and air. Now, the streams the map of the streams is a little bit off and I would like to see someone come and check it. My problem
is this case has gone on very long and the neighbors have a
right to have gone through
every permit I've seen smut campaigns and I firmly believe this should be sent back to city planning and to the
department of building
inspection and get a complete handle on what this project
really is. I honestly believe
I found out there is another,
another drawing that has not been presented to the neighbors
and I think that this is beyond -- it's the fact that they are
not following the rules and the third and last thing -- is this
going to be really 2 units?
Are they going to do it just
like everybody else taking the unit saying they are building 2
units and yet --
>> thank you. Are there any
other members of the public who would wish to speak in support
of the appeal? Please make
your way up to the podium.
Good. Seeing no other members of the public I'd like to turn
it over to the planning department staff. >> good afternoon president
tang and members of the board.
I'm a senior preservation planner for the planning
department and senior
environmental planner and environmental review officer.
The project is changes to a
building at broderick street. The appellants have raised a
number of different issues that I'll touch upon in my
presentation but it's important
to note that none of these issues pertain to environmental review. In other words the
peer letters and subsequent corresponds from the appellants
do not present substantial evidence supporting a fair argument that a significant impact May occur as a result of the project that being said I want to go over briefly a few
of the appellant's concerns.
The project violates an
agreement, the project is too tall and disrupts the pattern
on the street, the changes will impact the historic integrity
of the building and the
adjoining, the project will
eliminate one affordable unit
and change the character of the 2-unit building in the area.
The project is inappropriate
for the street. The agreement between the property owner and
the neighbors -- the planning department is not a party to
this agreement and as such
not responsible for innocent
for enforcing the terms. It's
a relatively modest change. The buildings in the vicinity are between 3 and 4 stories in height within the height
limit and will not be out of
character with the surrounding buildings. Largely at the
back of the building and
minimally advisable visible
from the street. As stated in
the department's evaluation response, the project is
consistent with the interior
standards the subject building
is an eligible historic
district however the changes
will not result in impact in this case the district would be materially impaired. The
building would retain
sufficient integrity and historic significance. With
regard to the building unit
merger -- they are not considered affordable by the
planning code and further more
the appellants have not explained how the merger would
actually change the neighbors's character given that the district is significant for its
physical attributes and not so
for its unit count. With regard to the garden shed at the back of the property the
department has determined based
upon the proposed size it will
not trigger a building permit.
While the department acknowledges an error previously the building is within the height limit of the
planning code and in any case the information does not change
the fact that the project is
exempt from sequa not only
lifting the building for a new
garage is consistent with the department's design standards
and this permit is merely correcting a discrepancy in the
plan the majority of the
appellant's concerns about
inconsistent see with the guidelines specifically to
light and air have already been
heard by by the planning commission. Voted on a 7 to
zero vote to approve the
project with no modifications.
Currently pending with the
board of appeals on the issue
of the building permit.
>> the fact remains none of
these issues raised by the
appellants are sequa sequa
issues. None of them will result in a significant impact
to the environment. For the
reasons stated at this hearing
the department finds it complies with the requirements
of sequa while the department appreciates the appellant's
concerns they have not provided the substantial evidence therefore the department recommends that the board up
upholds the exemption and denies the appeal.
>> thank you. Seeing none
we'll now proceed with the project's sponsor. You can
have up to to 15 minutes for a presentation.
>>
>> good afternoon Madam President and members on behalf
of the project sponsor, I want
to digress a little bit from my prepared notes and I wanted to
say and I was going to to
emphasize this later I would have thought I must have walked into a hearing at the board of
appeals or perhaps the planning commission. None of those
issues are sequa issues. For
the members of this board the neighbors here today this will
be the 6th administrative
hearing they will have had and another one scheduled in January to deal with the
release of the suspension of
permits and this is the second
sequa hearing that these folks have had and the important
thing here today this is about whether substantial evidence
has been provided by the appellants that support over
turning the department's decision and so with that said
I'll tell that said proceed with my prepared remarks and
because of the length of this --
this has been going on for 5 years and the interesting point
about this -- Miss White head basically grew up around the corner from this house friends
with the daughter of the woman who lives in the house at the
time the tragedy fire occurred
basically displacing this woman
and the fire was caused --
arson by her own child. You know what an opportunity we can move back to the neighborhood
where mom grew up and we we can raise our kids here. You
don't hear that very often.
That's what happened. Pam and melinda came in and said we
want to create a family home.
We want to have a home that our
family can grow and live in in
and that's what that's
partly what went on. Clients or owners have different, you
know, ideas and living norms
that they have in the house and
that's absolutely not true.
There have been hearings and as
I said board of appeals
hearings and nothing has been done in anything but sunlight
and the reason why this rather
exemption is in front of you is
the zoning administrator said
I want a complete under taking
and one plan set of everything
approved by the board of appeal
. That's the exemption in
front of you today. Those modest expansions that are taking place. With that said i want to go back in time and
take us to the 2012 exemption appeal and the the board didn't hold a hearing on that
because there was an a settlement agreement and at the
time that exemption dealt
with the crux of the neighbors
concern and then going on to
expand the ground floor level towards the rear of the
building and again in 2012
exemption issued for that site
permit and related permits.
Fast forward to today and the
exemption in 2012 based on the
same evidence that planning
department goes through and
historic resources using the
guidelines and again found
after an analysis that there
were no impacts from the height
or curb cut. We're hear today
same appellant, same issues,
different scope of work in fact
more modest scope of work. The
scope of work for this project
is we've got 2 roof decks
alteration and lowering the
main entry threshold once again
the planning department engaged in the review of the potential
impact to the home's historic features and once again based on substantial evidence that
comes with their training and experience staff found this
work would not have a a
significant impact and that the
proposed site and roof top
additions which is not visible
from the adjacent public rights
of way. Again, that's another
rule or guideline under the
rule of standards. Based on substantial evidence the
planning department has concluded that there's no significant impact. That's the
only question here this isn't
this isn't a game of jeopardy. The planning department looks
at the scope of work before it, again, goes through the
analysis that they have done and concluded that they have here that there's no significant impact. Substantial evidence you have been told and know from
previous appeals is really the
linchpin of your decision here.
Substantial evidence is facts, reasonable assumptions
predicated on facts and expert opinions supported by facts. You see the common theme here
is there must be facts. What
substantial evidence is not is
argument, speculations un
substantiated opinion or inaccurate or economic impacts
which do not contribute to to the environment. I would argue
that the appellants have put no substantial evidence in the
record nothing there they
haven't provided any today to
use as an example as a result
of the height lift first of all
that was addressed in in the
2012 categorical exemption. It
is the impact on the house not people so the issue here what
has been done to the house the planning department concludes
twice there is nothing and
particularly with respect to the exemption in front of you
today the scope of work is
extremely modest no impact will
occur.
>> I will acknowledge that one page was put in the papers all the bullet points again had
nothing to do with the sequa issues they were again trying
to capture that again there was a potential impact to the
people because of loss of light
and privacy. These are not substantial evidence they are un substantiated opinion no expert evidence offered they
could have gone out and retained
a historic expert they did
not. Under sequa doesn't rise
to the level of substantial
evidence to overturn the planning department's decision. The real issue here is the
height of the building and the
permit. Nobody has hidden
anything. Again there was a discretionary review hearing on the height of the building. There was a board of appeals
hearing on that permit. The
board of appeals dealt with
some minor modifications on the
side. The cad-x before you today zoning has to be prepared in order for the
suspension to be lifted and it
is that the existing conditions that were approved by the board
of appeals and yet to be
approved conditions. That plan
was dr's so to say they were
not aware of those plans is
just patent ly not true. They
came and made many of the same
arguments you heard today. The planning commission again voted
7 to nothing and then filed the
appeal at the same time they
have -- when the they appealed that suspension. That will be heard by the board of appeals
and quite frankly everything
they raised today -- they are
the body to deal with disputes
regarding issue issue ance of
permits and they have a wide
ranging purview of what they
can do. When the permit is
finally issued by dbi, that
permit will also be appealed
to the board of appeals and
they, too, will make a decision
on whateveral allegations the appellants want to raise. You
can't lower the height. I know
the settlement agreement we can argue we can go on and on about
that but the bottom line it's a private agreement. They are
free to go to court. The city the city should be a party to
it. The city is not a party to it therefore the city can't
enforce it. None of these rise
to the level of substantial
evidence. Based on sequa and
16 b 6 you would have to find there's absolutely no substantial evidence in the
record you have to find this
document document as adequate and you should deny the appeal.
Thank you very much.
>> seeing no questions for the project sponsors, I'd like to invite any members of the
public who are supporting --
sdmroo
>> I'm sorry I think I have 3
minutes and some seconds remaining.
>> good afternoon Madam President and supervisors I was
hoping to get out of talking but
do I have 7 and a half minutes?
>> you have 3 minutes remaining.
>> there's a long history to this project I'm looking
forward to it being over. I
think it's very unfortunately it's come back to this body and
that the appellant continues to persist after so many
complaints all of which have
been addressed it's very frustrating for me as the architect for this project that I have to get up here and defend defend that it's okay
to have lowered the door 18 inches. Really I think
everybody has missed that
including the planning
department the focus of this
sequa is about lowering the
front door and the front porch that's visible from the street
because those things are
visible from the street. The
dorm ers in the back are behind the roof; they are not visible
from the street. Everything
else the appellant has brought
up are subject to permitting
issues and all of those permitting issues are being handled now with the building
department. He continues to obstruct the process by asking
for more things. The project sponsor continues to address
them and more complaints arise.
I've had it.
>> thank you and now at this
time I'd like to call up any
members that wish to support
the public sponsors so if there's anyone here from the public please line up. Last
call. All right seeing none
then our hearing under item 37
has been held and is now closed. >> oh, I apologize let me take
that back and offer the
appellants the opportunity for
rebuttal 5 minutes total so
you May do so at this time.
>> appellants were very pleased
to have had an agreement after
4 months to start construction and build the home that she
wanted to build. What's behind
this issue is a back story.
2821 broderick was bought by
another individual and that
individual proceeded to to
remod l it was remodeled for a
couple of years and convert I
convert convertible into a
home this is a dollars and cents issue. What you see
happening here is the building
out of history out of homes in
san francisco for greed and profit. I think it is
important for us to remember
that diversity of housing allowing the diversity of individuals to live in the
neighborhood whether middle
class or upper middle class whatever they are it's a blessing. It allows the kind
of neighborhood that we have
always had in calhalo build the
history out of them and create
mansions that can then be sold for incredible amount of money.
It will create a lower density
but it will make a golden
ghetto. And the kind of home and diversity the kind of wonderful neighbors that we
have had, that's going to be gone and the issue whether this
is in fact an impact on people other than the building is
false. I think Mr. Moore
testified to what happens when
buildings are raised to such a degree and there's no air and light. You can see what
happens with underground streams when the water is
backed up and you can see in
fact what's happening when roof
tops are expanded to such a degree in fact you don't have the kind of environment that you had once before. The point
of the matter is that this
issue should have never
happened had the project sponsor followed the rules.
That's what we have asked all
along. Follow the rules. Had
she gone on July 1st 2013 corrected her plans and came
back on a notice to their neighbors we could see we
could have been done in very
short order but in fact no one knows what she really wants to
do. When I met with ron and
he told me he asked them to bring in the materials and he
and one of the top engineers
went through to look at it and
he said to me Mr. Zuretski we
could not decipher an alignment
between the works and plans the work in progress and the work
to be done and hence forth they
asked bring us clear, distinct plans so we can see what the project is about and this is
why the supreme court in the
laurel heights case said in in
sequa the neighborhood should
have the total ity and whole view of what the project is
about the question of logo
lowering the doors 18 inches found a new life I'm sure as
we get through the hearing new
permits will emerge that's the
that's the mod U.S. Operandi of
this project sponsor. We're
asking the preservation of
the neighborhood and asking for families to return to san
francisco of course. You are
looking at one individual who was raised in a flat and turned
out to be a pretty good person
. I think our supervisor was
raised in a flat. I think that we ought to remember that
there are other ways to live
except in mansions. [Applause]. >>
>> thank you. Now at this time our hearing under item 37 has
been held and is closed now
item 38 and 40 are in the hands of the board. Supervisor farrell.
>> thank you Madam Farrell.
colleagues in terms of this --
we've been working on this for
years an incredible amount of
time over the years. Since
then new plans and applications
have come up that were submitted
to record will to rectify
that the that the neighbors filed a dr not taken by the planning commission and today
what's in front of us is a cad-x appeal regarding the project that was approved in
July at the planning department. Over the last few
weeks we continue at this board
a few weeks ago until today and I want to thank all the
neighbors for coming as well as
planning and dvi and everyone else from the city staff and
also the project sponsor and
her attorney to discuss the
concerns. As we all attempted to broker a compromise as well but unfortunately this time
around was unsuccessful as much
as we tried. I will say that over all, you know, I have a
number of issues with how this
has been handled over the years
this project including you
know, how the project sponsor has or has not worked with the
neighbors I think there's
frustrations on the both ends. I think the neighbors are
fortunate to have Mr. Zuresky bird dogging this issue for a
number of years and I do wish a compromise could have been
reached and I understand the
frustration. That all being
said our hands are tied here.
We have to look at environment
issues now. There were germane issues raised and I've looked
and looked and in good faith I can not say there's an environmental issue here with
this project that should overturn the planning
department decision from an environmental perspective. You know whether it be the lifting
of the property and the height issue one of the major issues
and I understand exactly what
happened here and you know, the
unit merger I I understand
concerns around that again
that's a permitting issues we have very strict limitations in terms of how we can look at
this and you know, at the end
of the day dvi is going to
review the plans. If there's anything new that gets
submitted it gets reviewed to
planning it's substantially different then
it's going to be looked at in another environmental go through. You know, I want to be clear for me this is far
from a stamp of approval on
this project I wish it was
handled differently I'm very
very frustrated I and my staff
spent a ton of time on this
issue and the job today whether
the planning department and I just don't see any evidence to
the contemporary at all despite
my reservingations. I'm going to table items 39 and 40.
>> motion seconded by supervisor campos. All right. Colleagues can we take this
same house same call or do we need a roll call vote? All
right so the motion has been
made to affirm item 38 without
objection the determination of
the categorical exemption is
now affirmed now item -- Madam
Clerk if you could read our second 3:00 P.M. Special order.
>> pursuant to a motion for
items 41 through 42 to consider
the proposed resolution. To approve actions the subject of item 42 actions by the
commission on community
investment in a site designated
for affordable housing for the
construction of the transbay transit center. >> thank you for this item I'd
like to first offer the opportunity for the district
supervisor and sponsor
supervisor kim for comments
proceeded by Miss Tiffany bohe with that supervisor kim.
>> thank you. However tjp is not able to draw down on the
loan until certain conditions are met. We're currently on
track to meet the conditions in
in late 2015. The construction costs in the
interim many of my colleagues will remember some some of the concerns that come up over the
fact that we really operate almost month to month during
some of the some of the controversies back in September
and to this legislation is
necessary to close the loan.
It allows the city to subordinate the specified
interest related to certain
parcels of land in order to use
these parcels as collateral.
The loan will be repaid as
soon as the loan is drawn down
and the cost for the 12-month loan program can be covered
within our existing phase one
budget. The legislation has no impact on the city and the
legislation was unanimously approved by the finance
committee and it's important to
note regardless of the repayment status of the bridge
loan it will still be subject and I urge my colleagues to
support the resolutions so the interim construction funding can proceed. We have members
on hand and I see our director
tiffany bohe to speak on behalf
of the agency.
>> thank you supervisor kim and
President Tang and supervisors
as the district supervisor indicated we do recommend your approval of these transaction
documents both if your legislative capacity as the
city as well as supervisor
kim outlined this bridge loan
allows the development of
certain parcels parcel f to go forward while this bridge loan
is outstanding and even if a
worst case scenario, if the
unlikely event happens that the lender forecloses on the property which we don't think
is likely those requirements including the affordable
housing requirement that would be enforced really travel and
run with the land. We expect
the bridge loan to be repaid in approximately 1 year after
the board's consideration of this transaction the state department of finance will
review it and the bridge loan is expected to close in January. So with that that
concludes my presentation.
Members of the tjpa as well as
claudia gorum are also here with any questions you have.
>> do we have anymore questions or comments for the staff
present here today? Supervisor
kim? No. Okay with that then
we have items 41 and 42 before us. And we'd like to take
public comment on those two items. Any members of the
public if you wish to speak
you have 2 minutes to speak. Seeing none public comment is
closed for this item. Any
further discussion? All right.
All right. So hour hearing has been held and closed and
now 41 and 42 if we could --
so we could take that same
house same call without objection. Oh, I'm sorry. Our house has changed now we're
going to have to go to roll call vote.
>> on item 42 tang aye.
Supervisor weiner aye. Yee aye
avalos aye breed aye supervisor
campos, campos absent.
Supervisor cohen aye. Farrell
aye. Kim aye mar aye there are 9 ayes.
>> that resolution is adopted
and Madam Clerk to our third special 3:00 P.M. Order.
>> pursuant to a motion approved
on November 25th the board of
supervisors will convene items
33 through 45 to authorize the
execution of the first amendment for the purchase and sale of
real property and to the conditions of the bridge loan
with the value of 171 million
not to exceed the amount from
gold man sacks bank and item 45 is the resolution to authorize the director of property to execute the first amendment to the option for the purchase and
sale of real property between
the city transbay joint powers
authority for the execution and
consent of conditions of the
bridge loan with the value of 171 million.
>> items 43 and 44 we did hear
this the nature of this item
41 and 42 but 42 so at this time I'd like to see if supervisor kim has any comments
or any other member of the
departments. Seeing none. Any members of the public wishing
to speak. Public comment is closed and the hearing has been
held for item 43. 44 and 45 let's take a roll call vote on
items 44 and 45 tang aye weiner
aye yee aye.
>> supervisor avalos, aye,
supervisor breed aye supervisor
campos aye supervisor cohen
aye, farrell aye kim aye mar
aye there are 10 ayes.
>> the resolutions are
unanimously adopted item 46 was considered by the committee at
a rescheduled meeting on on December 4th at 3:00 P.M. And
recommended with the same title
and forwarded by a committee
report. Report and renumbering all sections amending the
business and tax regulations
code and applications fees and
making the environmental findings. >> supervisor mar.
>> thank you President Tang.
Colleagues, this item is a
major historic act I call it
act. It will help us reduce tobacco sales by one half and I
wanted to thank the early
cosponsors but also recent and
current cosponsors david campos
and former President And this
is an important piece of legislation that's youth driven
that came out of 6 years of
work by the reduction force and
many other youth-led
organizations so it's really an
important example of youth led
laws in cities to create better
health equity for our communities it's really about
protecting kids and schools and vulnerable communities from
smoking and targeting and marketing by big tobacco
corporations it will help us
reduce gradually tobacco
permits to have healthier air
as well. This policy is a lot
of hard work. My staff worked hard with the department of public health staff and especially the young leaders
from our communities many many
neighborhoods were represented
and we passed this unanimously
last week and my hats go off
to the leadership institute to
really empower young people with strong skills in organizing research and
effective advocacy here at city
hall so my hat and off and tremendous respect to the where to the young people without
their efforts we we wouldn't
be here today but it's been 6
years of work, though. In san francisco our low income communities and communities of
color and with a large number
of young people we have a a
disproportionate compared to
other neighborhoods.
>> we know that tobacco and cigarettes use is the leading cause of preventible death in
san francisco and thanks so much
for the department of public
health leadership for
emphasising that along with
community-based organizations.
I wanted to give -- and nearly
4 hundred $400 million a year is spent on health costs
related to cigarettes and
tobacco. Also ucsf and stanford
researchers gave us recently
their up to date research and premature death in low income
communities and also tobacco density the higher concentrations of tobacco
permits and sales that density
results in increased youth smoking rates as well so this is about limiting access
access but also reducing big tobacco's efforts to hook young
people on cigarettes and also
the e cigarettes as well and
this over time as I said will
cut our tobacco permits in half according to our estimates through attrition and reducing
the number of tobacco licenses.
Creating a cap of 45 licenses
per district and that cap was
calculated by looking at the
density and to not allow
neighborhoods to go above the existing caps. It takes
nothing away from existing
businesses. In addition any
new permits must be located at
least 500 feet away from
schools so it's protecting kids and limiting access close to
schools and also limiting
permits 500 feet away from an
existing tobacco retailer and
it's limiting clustering. And
no new permits are allowed in
restaurants and bars. Bars and
no new permits are allowed in
any new location so it's
reducing over time drastically
in half within a 10 to 15-year period according to our
estimates so there's small
businesses we've worked with to
give us input so we're protecting small business
owners by preserving the value
of their stores and allowing them to sell their businesses
without being impacted by these
regulations. In response I'm
going to be incorporating these minor amendments today the
first allowing applications for new permits submitted for
approval by the director by
today's date so if somebody is submitting a permit by today's date, they are not subject to
any of the requirements also
cigar bars the owner came and testified that they were
subject to the exemption in the
health code section 1009.23 e
and that their cigar bar for
for five consecutive years can
and both can obtain new permits
on a one time basis it's only a
couple of cigar bars bars that
are being included in this
amendment. So this tobacco
sales reduction act was crafted, again, in coordination
with a number of stakeholders
groups and I thank again the
arab american grocers association and others from the department of public health and especially the community
advocates and the youth leaders the tobacco sales reduction act
also is part of a coordinated
approach that includes
healthy retail sf that allows
us to transform corner corner
stores and strengthening partnerships and healthier
communities and I wanted to
thank my cosponsors again
supervisor kim ween weiner and
chiu and cohen and lastly
nurturing the young leaders and
also the youth leaders from the
tobacco use reduction force all 3 generations of the youth
leaders I wanted to thank from
arab american grocers I wanted to also thank from the
department of public health
derrick smith for his insights
and help in drafting this for amazing work in this legislation and lastly I want
to give tremendous respect to
the young people and read off
the names of the tobacco use
reduction force leaders.
>> reading names.
>> >>
>>
>> lr
>> I really really believe that
we're going to be building a
safer and stronger neighborhood and so thank you supervisor mar
for your leadership in moving
this forward. Thank you supervisor mar.
>> yeah I just wanted to give
another thank you to nick pagalatos from my staff working
so hard with the young people
and I'm really working
respectfully with the arab
american grocers rs to be
supportive of them as well and
their input was really a key
driving part of this but really
the relationships that nick
built with the arab american
grocers that allowed us to work respectfully with them and I
want to say there's a new
generation that are using the hash tag I can't breath in
talking about police misconduct
and I don't want to belittle bit
that but the new youth
organizations sprouting up saying I can't breath because
of second hand smoke it's a growing movement and I think this piece of legislation the youth did the research they did their homework they brought it
to us and while -- I think this
will spread to other cities and
I think this is going to be
seen as a historic day and an I
can't breath day so protecting
kids and vulnerable communities
and giving stronger voices and empowerment to young people so
thank you and thank you. >> thank you supervisor mar and
just to confirm with our deputy city attorney.
>> that's right you can adopt
the amendments and pass the ordinance on first reading today. >> so with that colleagues we can first take the amendment
and if we could take that without objection. The
amendment has been adopted and
now the underlying item item 46
without objection that ordinance has been adopted on
first reading as amended
unanimously and Madam Clerk item 47.
>> at this time supervisor tang
you are the first to introduce new business. >> thank you so colleagues
today I'm introducing a resolution regarding pedestrian safety as we know, it is a
huge concern for all of our districts throughout the entire
city and as you all know the
city has adopted our vision
zero zero 3 point plan through a combination of engineering
education and enforcement and
addressing pedestrian safety we
believe that adherence to traffic laws still remain an
issue so I hope this will
assist by urging the california
judicial council to reevaluate
its fees for certain sections
of the california vehicle code
and the san francisco police
department's touch upon red light violations basic speed laws stop sign violations pedestrian right of way
violations and failure to yield
while turning violations and in addition to the five dangerous
behaviors our office has also
heard numerous complaints from
constituents by the unsafe
passing of vehicles or who have
been in collisions with diss
tracted drivers on their cell phones. For instance while the
baseline for running a stop sign violating a pedestrian's
right of way and unsafe passing
of a standing streetcar is $35
the baseline for violating a
red light is one $100. So includes pedestrian right of
way violations and I'm asking
that the judicial council to
reevaluate its fines for these dangerous behaviors so as we
all know, you know, increasing fines is certainly not something we believe is the only solution to this we
believe it will take a very comprehensive approach so I want to thank supervisor kim on
this resolution and of course
look forward to working with the stakeholders.
>> thank you Madam President. Supervisor yee.
>> thank you Madam Clerk.
Today colleagues I'd like to
instruct the city attorney to
draft legislation. Diss
tracted driving is a dangerous
a dangerous epidemic on our
streets. It took. Miss Moreto
was hit in front of our
building I am committed to improving safety on our streets
and this is the first step
towards that goal and also
today, colleagues another step I'm taking to make our streets
safer is to request our budget
analysts to analyze how much
it would cost to install a
black box into every city
vehicle in our city fleet..
This is an idea that came out
of a symposium that supervisor
kim and myself were at in new york a few weeks ago in which
new york city which has thousands and thousands and thousands of city vehicles,
each one of those vehicles are
equipped with this black box.
I want to tell you a little
story. In 2011 in new york a
city employee actually he's a
politician was fortunate -- in
a car accident. The employee
was not seriously hurt and he told the police he was wearing
a seat belt and was not
speeding. Well, this case put
this employee at at the center
of a growing debate. The
specific piece of equipment
more commonly knowns as the
black box box the information
recorded by this black box a different story soon emerged
the driver was actually driving a hundred miles per hour and
was not wearing a seat belt and according to the computer in
his car that attracts certain
actions. Why tell the story I
I mean these boxes can provide critical safety information and help evaluate what happened
during a crash and what future
steps could be taken to save lives and prevent injuries and
other potential benefits of these systems include reduced
fuel costs and insurance
premiums and reduced time for
claims and mechanical problems
and diagnostics and ability to detect the at risk drivers and
notifications of drivers in distress for example a crash
occurred and ability to make
suggestions to improve driving habits I think installing this
piece of equipment in our city
fleet will make make our
streets safer and drivers more
aware of their driving behavior and thank you for your time on
this particular item. I also
wanted to talk about this other
piece that was brought to my office earlier this month by the san francisco youth commission immigration and
employment committee and urging the city to prevent fee waivers
I'm sorry to provide fee
waivers to san francisco youth
who qualify for deferred action
for childhood arrivals in in
2012 President Obama announced
the deferred action for for arrivals program for youth
between the ages of 15 and 30 who came to the to the united
states before the age of 16 and
are kunlt currently in school or graduated or in the military
and to apply for work
authorization. While we are
still fighting for a pathway to
citizenship for all 11.5
undocumented americans it has
proven to be a life changing for 11 thousand undocumented youth in the bay area alone.
These are youth who will no
longer have to fear fear deportation and have the
opportunity to legally work and
only fee waivers for extreme circumstances. The recipients
must renew their status every 2
years and must pay an
additional $465 in in fees to reapply for low income families
or for for a young person in
school, this this can be a
significant cost and since
there is no type of relief many
of these young people are only
supporting themselves and their
families still at risk of being deported in san francisco we
have a robust network of legal organizations offering free support for undocumented
residents however it's still a struggle for many young
people and their families to
pay for the fees and this can mean choosing between rent or
tuition or food in order to
maintain protection from deportation I agree with the youth commissioners that ask
these young people for
additional $465 just just 2
years after being approved can
be an economic burden therefore
I'm working with the budget and
legal analysts for recipients
struggling to pay for their
renewal fees and supporting the
renewal fees for the approximate
number of residents under one
million for the next year. I
really want to commend as earlier supervisor mar and kim were talking about young people
here it is again young people bringing some awareness to their board of supervisors I want to commend the youth
commission and the committee
chair for putting this
resolution forward that many undocumented youth face on a
day-to-day basis and I want to
acknowledge that our city is
historically an sanctuary city
and an sanctuary city and
implementing the actions President Obama submitted.
>> the first is a planning
code changes which I'm calling
the parking flexibility ordinance. For a long time the
city had very strict minimum parking requirements meaning when someone built new housing they were required to include
parking for all of their new residents. This led to the construction of a lot of
parking lots both above and
below the ground as well as
parking pads and what would otherwise be green spaces or
yards and the use of building first floors for vehicle parking instead of active
retail or us housing. With more engaging ground floors the
city has implement could greater flexibility in its parking requirements space
efficient parking methods like
tandem parking and lifts and
valet are now permitted by right and minimum parking
requirements these changes have been very effective and it is
important to point out they did
not limit anyone's ability to construct parking if they
choose they simply give people
more options. It is about flexibility not mandates and the ordinance I'm introducing
today will provide yet more
flexibility so businesses and
homeowners can have more say on where and if they put parking
on their parking. So existing
parking to active street
street fronting uses and conversion of the freed space
of other uses and is it minimizes conflicts with
transit and bike lanes and helps
restore front and rear yards
and as with anything planning
code related, it's easy to get
lost in the weeds so I'll
highlight a few of key elements
. How much square footage
someone can billed on a given
parcel of land. Currently parking doesn't count in other
words there are limits on how much commercial space you can
have but you can build all the parking that you want and if you have existing parking
spaces you no longer need,
need. Nal districts encourage ground
floor activity but parking
minimums almost force people to
use this ground floor as parking which I experienced a
lot when we approved many of these projects there's a
limited amount of space available in a building envelope. Why force it to be
used as parking. Do we really
want to to prioritize
parking? The permitted amount of underground parking will remain exempt and this will encourage new developments to
put their parking underground and use the first floor for
active uses like retail and
housing and existing buildings
will be able to convert unused
parking spaces if they choose.
This does not prohibit parking.
It gives people people the
option to choose. Again, this is not prohibit the construction of off street
parking but simply gives people
the option not to build or
convert it if they choose. For
example houses along the oak and
fell street fell street bike
lanes we could actually create
new rent controlled housing out
of unused garages and this is
code change can reduce
conflicts and hazards and improve safety for bicyclist
and see travel time for muni
riders and bring lower costs
for homeowners and businesses.
The legislation allows exemptions if doing so will
improve a building's front side
or rear yard. So many building
owners paid paved over their
yards to create off street
parking. The legislation will allow them to restore some
green space to their homes and
character to our neighborhoods.
Lastly the legislation
authorizes the zoning
administrator to grant residential mixed districts
this change simply allows some
flexibility to reflect recent
changes to the planning code
and again give residents and business owners more options.
This legislation is carefully
crafted to provide people with options. Homeowners, businesses and residents will have more say in how they use
their property and in the
process we can activate ground
floor spaces and restore green
spaces and yards. My second
item today is a hearing
request. 2 weeks ago the controller's office through the
great work of peg steven son
released its annual city-wide measurements report if if you
haven't read it and you have 16
or 17 hours of free time
especially over our break, I
highly encourage you to at
least skim through it. Every
department using a variety of performance metrics and many of
which are unique to what the department does so you can use
the percentage of 311 calls answered within 60 seconds or
the total number of training
hours the department of human resources delivered last year
the report shows the early
impacts of the federal
affordable care act. We also
see a dramatic increase in muni
related crime which likely
speaks to the cell phone safety issues we have worked on
here in sacramento here and in sacramento and as a member of the expanded budget committee one thing that's most valuable
to me this report can help us
evaluate how or if our investments in staff and resources are actually paying
off for example the police department's average response time to high priority calls
dropped by 54 seconds from 2012
to 2013 and 2013 to 2014.
Likewise this is evidence that
those investments are starting
to bear fruit and the report
shows our park scores are improving partly due in part to
the voter approved bond. I want
to again thank the controller's office for putting
it together and I look forward to hearing more at our hearing.
The rest I submit.
>> thank you supervisor breed. Supervisor campos.
>> thank you very much, Madam Clerk. I have a number of
items but I want to begin with
an item we've had some family
members have been waiting for a
while for me to do this in
memory in in memorium and I'd
ask them to please come up to
the podium. Speaking spanish.
They have a picture of a very
special person for whom I'm
doing an memorium today and
that's in the memory of rosa
mena and they have a picture of
her and with us today are
beckon rebecca and francisco
two of her kids. Rosa worked
as a candy maker before coming
to san francisco in in in 1985 to start her new life with her children and sister. She was
known as a vibrant and
enthusiastic member of our
community who let no barrier
stand in her way. When she
arrived she spoke no english with only a first grade education but she was determined to be successful
and she immediately signed up
for city college classes and soon was on her way. She spent
7 years taking english classes
at city college and became a
leader among her peers and helped countless people in her
community learn english. In
her later years she was an
advocate and she would travel
the state with her daughter
rebecca and she was known for wearing vibrant colors and was
the first one to get up and
dance at a social event and she was also dedicated to art and
her art and expression were
very important to her and she earned a certificate with her daughter a few years ago personally she was like a mother to me like a member of
the family who has been
supported throughout different political endeavors over the
years after her diagnose of
cancer in April of this year she began radiation treatment in
in the south bay and she was actually given a certificate by
her doctors and caregivers at
the age of 92 she was the oldest woman at the facility
to ever complete the very harsh
2-week radiation treatment that
she went through unfortunately
rosa lost her fight against
cancer this week but I remind
everyone that she left very specific instructions that no one is to wear black at her
funeral because she wants to be
remembered for for for for
for for her vibrant cy and
wearing of color color.
>> speaking spanish.
>> rooufrjs.
>> speaking in spanish.
>> if it's okay with my
colleagues I'd like the family
to say a brief couple of words.
>> without objection colleagues, the floor is yours.
>> speaking in spanish.
>> good afternoon. To the President And board of
supervisors I want to say thank
you for the time you have given us today especially supervisor
campos. I'd also like to thank
you for the hard work you do
here. My mother was a good
woman to her family. Also she
was very political. She used
to go around and talk to people about political campaigns in
the city and also she was a
member of the union for the
elders in sf, U.S. W and a lot
of meetings and a lot of trips
going to sacramento and
fighting for the benefits of
the elderly. So my mother was
very dedicated for that giving herself to help other people
and I know everybody around the
neighborhood so I thank you for this opportunity I know my
mother is in a better place
now and I thank you.
>> good afternoon. My name is
-- I would like to say a few
words in this special place.
It is an honor for us especially
for my brother, my sisters that supervisor campos mentioned
the name of my mother rosa mena
who passed away 2-days ago for
terminal cancer. I'm recognize
her for the support in the political campaign. Thank you
so much david campos. I
appreciate you and my family -- God bless you for everything that you help us. Thank you
for the flowers that you bring
to my mother at home. My mother was very happy. Thank
you so much. God bless you.
>> thank you. And May you rest
in peace rosa mena speaking in
spanish. I have a couple of
other items that I want to also
talk about and I'll be as brief
as I can. I want to today I
will be introducing a resolution declaring December 10th human rights day in san
francisco and every year there
after and let me say I want to
thank supervisor avalos and mar
and yee for their cosponsorship
it was adopted by by the
united nations in 1948 in the aftermath of worldwide
depression and war and eleanor
rose roes rose rosevelt strongly build in equal rights of all people and freedom of
speech and freedom freedom
from discrimination and more. It asserts people's rights to
the necessities of life housing
employment and education. As
nelson mandella stated it is
the foundation stone of all international human rights law
and still holds enormous
ethical value for all of us wherever in the world we happen
to live. Tomorrow marks the
66th anniversary of the
passage of this very important
document and as we try in 2014
to address issues around
poverty homelessness racism and
the universal declaration of
human rights is more relative
today than ever. I'd like to
thank the gray panthers.. Everyone is welcome to come to
the steps of city hall
tomorrow. I want to thank the
department of public works and
the san francisco public utilities commission and the
staff for working with my office on a very important and
ongoing issue which
unfortunately May only get
worse as the rain continues in
san francisco. Specifically, the geographic area of 17th and
if fulson and actually a couple of blocks around that
area is actually the lowest point in the city and county of
san francisco and because of
that it actually has on a yearly basis for as long as we
remember, been flooded. And so
we know that we expect
additional rain in the next few
days and so I will simply take
this opportunity to thank the
puc and to ask them and ask the mayor's office to please work with my office because there's
a lot of frustration right now
in the in the neighborhood.
Many homes and businesses have
already been flooded and we expect additional flooding to
take place and something as
basic as simply having sandbags provided to the neighborhoods
but I think we May actually be
running out of sandbags here in in san francisco ultimately
the city will have some
responsibility as the flooding
happens and we're talking about
not just hundreds of thousands
but millions of dollars in
damages and so we have an
opportunity tonight and in the
next coming days to be proactive and I know that the
department of public works, which is actually not responsible for the flooding that happens but is very
responsible and very responsive in addressing the flooding that
takes place has been very helpful in the past and simply
ask that we provide whatever
resources are needed by that department to continue to
prevent the flooding in this neighborhood. The rest I submit.
>> thank you supervisor campos.
Supervisor cohen.
>> thank you. Good evening
everyone. I am introducing legislation today for the city
to officially acquire property
at 66 raymond avenue known to
many as the valley community
center and this is a key step
in allowing the city to have possession of a believe and
make the needed improvement
desperately needed. For over a
hundred years this building has been extremely an important
asset for the community having
served as a service and community hub for residents for
both young and old. We
unfortunately lost the building
to foreclose ure last year and it's been an extremely long
road to get to where we are today and the community members
who have walked with me longer
this particular journey. It's
about reclaiming the symbolic importance and the city's
ownership of this building
means our residents will have a
safe place to gather and for
our families to continue to t
H.R. Ive so thank you and I
also want to recognize john up
dike and his team and also I
want to recognize the
leadership within the mayor's office who has also been a part
of this acquisition. I'm also
introducing a hearing request
on the city's manufacturing and
distribution sectors. We've seen incredible growth in this
industry and after many years
however these businesses, when seeking to start to grow and
stay in san francisco and since
being elected I've focussed on
attracting and growing our city's manufacturing sector
because we have an element to a
diverse economy and traditional
blue collar jobs and discussing recommendations prepared by the cluster strategy a team made up of san francisco planning department and the office of economic and workforce development and steering committee of local businesses
and nonprofit organizations and finally in closing I want to add my voice to the conversation that's happening across the country. I'm
introducing a resolution for
this body to consider supporting the new guidance
that's been recently released
by the obama administration and
the recent tragedy incident
incident involving unarmed
african-american males
obviously raised widespread
concern and these incidents
point to a greater hurdle that
we must overcome as a nation to
rebuild trust and competence between law enforcement and the communities they serve. That's
not to say there's no trust but it is to say we have a lot of
work to do.. Racial
profiling does just the opposite
. It creates a climate where
residents often do not feel
safe in their own communities
and are less likely to collaborate with law
enforcement officials. The new guidance for law enforcement
officials sets the model for local agencies to follow and I think our police department and
law enforcement officials do a
very good job of protecting and serving but I think also there's always room for improvement and I also think it's upon us to set the
standard for other municipalities across the country. San francisco should definitely take a stand in
supporting this guidance in
calling on all law enforcement
agencies. I submit thank you.
>> supervisor farrell. Supervisor kim.
>> thank you. I want to echo my colleagues in their grief
and also outrage about the
continued loss of the life of our young african-american men
and also other men of color nationwide I think over the
past 2 weeks while many of us
were on break there's nothing
more heart wrenching about reading another report of
something that happened that is
unjust and also creating more distrust in our communities particularly around issues of
race and the peaceful and nonviolent protesters that have
put the matter on the national
radar continue to make a
powerful impression on the push for justice. I think we can
all agree that change cannot
happen without massive organized appeals for justice
and as a former youth organizer , I continue to be committed
to find ways to get weapons off
of our city streets and there's
nothing harder in my time on
the board of supervisors than
attending the funeral of a young person no matter how that
person was killed usually from violence but when family
members or parents ask me what
we can do to end this type of violence. In the most recent
homicide in the south of market our office began conversations
with several of our youth programs about what we can do
even in cases where a young person was able to get a job
able to get housing and able to
get his his or her life on
track, to lose their life to
violence is incredibly
distressing and often the
answer we come to is we need
less guns on our streets. This
start the anniversary of sandy
hook there there will be a gun
buyback.. Many of the clients
were medical marijuana club
clients who wanted to give back
to the community. After many conversations and learning of
the work that happened, I was impressed that a small group of local small businesses would take it upon themselves to
demonstrate a commitment to
solutions to inner city violence to that end united
players has worked with green
door and grass roots all
located in district 6 along
with brendon's law firm who have provided the funds
necessary to buyback illegal
arms from our streets. The
buyback will take place this
saturday from 9 to 1:00 P.M. At
united player's club house
anyone turning in a hand gun a
hundred dollars and assault
weapon 2 $200 in compensation
no questions asked. I want to
that to thank our local
district 6 medical marijuana
dispensaries and united players in doing all the fund raising
to make this possible as well
as commander mike rudman for
his support in helping us to
navigate the logistical logistics of putting this on and for the ongoing work to wipe out violence in our
community and build relationships between opposing sides and take back our
community and dlz there's a lot of work that needs to be done I
work forward to working with my colleagues and the rest I submit.
>> thank you supervisor kim. Supervisor mar.
>> thank you Madam Clerk. Let
me ask colleagues if you will
join me in closing the meeting
in honor of an asian arts
activist and long time friend
of mine val chow a writer,
artist and some called him a a
gent le soul and a marine and supported the asian american
theatre community and asian
american arts movement I met him over 30 years ago when
they were housed in the
richmond district and val chow
was a dedicated son and brother and community activist and
friend to those until he un
expected ly passed away he was
a native san franciscan he
grew up and attended local
schools and after graduating from washington high school he
joined the marines and was a
dedicated staff member for the
legion of honor in the richmond
district and golden gate park
and participated in the asian
toast master's club and I think
I think the 18 mountain
warriors was one of his accomplishments and doing a lot
of behind the scenes work for
many asian american arts group
and supported food programs and the aids walk and he also has
been a strong backer and
supporter of the asian cultural
center as well. With his love
laughter and un selfish giving
he will always have a special
place in each of our hearts.
Val's family is honoring his life and remembering his work
and laughter this coming
saturday December 13th from 10
10 10 to 1230 at the de young museum murals room please join
us if if you can at golden
gate park I should say
condolences to his family and the asian american theatre
company and various arts movements in our communities.
If you want more information on the memorial and how to
acknowledge his work, his
sister can be reached at
415-821-2956 or you can go to
his facebook page that's under valiantcho w. Thank you the
rest I'll submit.
>> thank you supervisor mar.
Supervisor avalos.
>> thank you Madam Clerk I have several items for introduction.
First is a hearing that I want
to thank my cosponsor for the hearing and the hearing will
be on revenue options for our affordable housing crisis in
san francisco we all know that
in 2012 we passed ballot prop c
but it only provides some
minimal support to getting at
at our enormous housing affordability crisis so I think another new option should be on the table and I want to work
with the mayor's office of
housing to explore and possibly the controller's office to explore what housing new options there might be for the
housing. These could include general obligation bonds that's
something I talked about a few
years back before prop c was passed and the city budget
reserve possibly and another
option to meet our
affordable housing crisis. I
also am requesting the
committee hearing for the
reappointment for next week.
Currently she's in this quasi
official retirement board both
wendy and victor's terms on the
board expired on on February
20th, 2014. Reappointed on
March on March 27th and on and on April 3rd a complaint
was filed on the ethics commission. On on December
4th mayor lee swore in. The
board was never notified of her reappointment on December 8th yesterday the mayor notified
the board of supervisors about
the reappointment. To me the
timing is suspicious. If the 30-day window for the board to
reject the appointment will
expire on on January 7th on January 7th 1 day on January
7th 1 day before the meeting in
2015 therefore I'm motioning
the committee as a whole for
next weeks board meeting on her
reappointment and it's important to note we have to
be really cognizant that we
should not just be rubber
stamping appointments. As a
commissioner he should be held to a higher standard but then in December of 2013 the mansion he was building at 25 crown terrace collapsed and slid down the hill. The construction was dramatically different than the approved plan. Illegally reinstalling elevators after they were removed and it seems clear that this board has failed to scrutinize close enough so therefore colleagues I hope you join me next week in reviewing her appointment to the retirement board. I also have what else do I have here?
I have some language for the
youth and family's oversight committee and the rest I
submit. Thank you.
>> thank you supervisor avalos.
Supervisor mar has to be rereferred. >> Madam Clerk colleagues I'm
making a motion today to hold the committee as a whole on the
issue of the impacts of growing labor unrest at the san at the san francisco airport.
I'll be asking our President To work with me to ensure that we
have a committee as a whole.
The impacts of potential labor
unrest if it led to a strike it
May have a horrible impact economically on the city during
the holiday time so I'm urging colleagues and our President To
support the committee as a whole for next tuesday's meeting December December 16th and and I'll be submitting the
language to the clerk within the deadline that we're required. Thank you.
>> thank you supervisor mar. Supervisor campos. >> thank you Madam Clerk I want
to say that I'll be cosponsoring the motion by
supervisor mar I want to thank him and his staff I think it's important for us to at least
have the possibility of having a committee as a whole
following as a whole next
week. Maybe it won't be needed but I think it needs to be ready to have the
conversation in the event that
there's no resolution of a very important labor dispute that's
happening at at the airport. >> thank you supervisor campos.
>> there was a this issue
raised and I think it's a good
thing to put as a placeholder hopefully there's a resolution. Thank you supervisor mar mar
for putting this forward.
>> seeing no other names on the
roster that concludes roll call.
>> at this time Madam Clerk the
public May comment generally
for up to 2 minutes including any comments on the minutes or
the immediate adoption calendar items 49 through 53. Public comments is not allowed on
items which have already been
subject to public comment at a
board committee. Speakers using translation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify and
if you would like a document to
be displayed on the over head
projector please state such to
sfg tv. First speaker please. >> the congress of the of the united states resolution of the city and county of san
francisco board of supervisors
calling for the rescission of
house joint resolution in the
107th congress authorizes the President To use armed forces in the in the united states as in the united states as he
determines to to be necessary
bases on lies on wmd and iraq.
To call the President Into actual service of the of the united states to execute a declaration of war as a
commander in chief. 373
members of the 107th congress including elected california
elected public officers -- authorized the President To use the armed forces of the of the
united states as he determined
to be necessary. Evading a
resolution to declare war as he
determined to be necessary at
the expense and danger to the people whereas every member of congress and public officer in
the united states bound by oath
of office and -- to defend this
constitution for the united
states of america without any reservation. Whereas a direct
result of duly elected public
officers have been deprived of their lives without a
resolution of congress to declare war.
>> thank you. Next speaker
please?
>> there's survivors and
other california taxpayers have
been robbed by 7 congresses.
Now, the san francisco board of
supervisors here by petitions
our represents to congress
diane feinstein barbara boxer
and nancy pelosi to make every
effort to initiate and support
the decision of house resolution
in the 113th congress. Such a
rescission will render public
law authorizing armed forces as
necessary null and void. I've
heard you this afternoon talking
talk about I can't breath a
video is shown to a grand jury
that shows without doubt the
murder of an unarmed man for
selling a cigarette. Police
homicides this country is in
big trouble it's in big debt
funding now 6 un declared wars
as a result of this marshall law
and californians have been
lynched under this law. We the
people if you would like to
help fix this country and restore this constitution which
has been aborted by this law and end the police state,
please consider this petition.
We have e-mailed it to you.
I'm going to to fax it to you
again tomorrow and make an agenda item for next week.
>> thank you very much. Next speaker please. >> peter alexander. Good day I
agree that there's nothing more
heart wrenching than
acknowledging the the most
vicious racists terrorized in
in the slaughterhouse every
day. For those that are
purchasing crab dairy and
seafood I recommend you get a
geiger a geiger counter. I've
also witnessed and according to military statistics the
military has been assaulted
from 1992 to today 3.4 million
vets are dead by the military vaccines and now law enforcement is said to be
assaulted and over the the
last the last 33 years 247
sheriffs and police
whistle-blowers have been
murdered dead. Harley riders
far from the norm m. More than
a rumor, the big picture seen soring and set them roaring.
They are storming the the high
grounds. The general strike.
All harley riders take off your
disguise. Become mighty
warriors with fire in your eyes. Bottom line -- the
bottom line is to -- [Inaudible].
>> thank you. Next speaker
please..
>> I'll turn this on here. The
-- how do you focus it? Sir,
your time is ticking. >> officer can you help me
focus this. The book is called
the franklin cover up and you
were blessed with the presence
of dug malar on several occasions and you are not
worthy to hear him and it's
it's about satanism and murder and if I was to read this book
in the presence of -- they would
rejoice. We're all made in
God's image. He would actually
rather be bit by a line by a
line I by a lion.. The
reason why it was so awful to die on that cross was because the words that they were
speaking were words of truth.
He was the son of God. But if
jesus came off of the cross,
man could not be saved. The
book of roman said God might
be just and the just ifier
jesus christ is the only way to salvation.
>> thank you next speaker please.
>> this thing isn't on right
now. It's flashing.
>> media is on their way.
>> we're starting your time,
Mr. War field.
>> you know, I don't think it's appropriate to start the time of people who are just trying to show you something and your
machinery is not working. I'd
appreciate starting at the
beginning.
>> Mr. War field we can actually see your document from the from the screen.
>> that's right and it's 1
it's 1: 30 already and a half
of my time is gone you mess
them up with machinery that
doesn't work thanks very much.
When talking to the board of
supervisors for example reading newspapers walking around and
so on while the public that they are supposed to be
serving is trying to get 2 minutes of public comment I'm
here to talk about the library
's imminent installation next
month of a threatening technology which I think you
should all be concerned about
it's called biblio commons and
a change to the library's
privacy policy. In fact, it's
it's a major hole in that
policy. It allows biblio commons, the software company
to change terms at any time and assumes agreement by the user
if they continue using it. It exploits children by collecting
information from them and the
public to sell and in other
ways use in any way that they want. There's censorship
that's not been discussed until questions were asked at the commission meeting and no clarity about the costs only
when asked did the library
staff say it would cost a
million over a period of 5 years.
>> thank you very much. Next
speaker please?
>> thank you, President Tang
and other victims of of the
kabal I live at 6th and howard
and I rise to comment about your new board regime much more effective first I'd like to
share with all of you how
useful I found the 2-minute
limit on public comment time.
This has taught be be to be
careful with my words, to be
precise, to be clear. If
members would confine their
remarks hopefully the results
would be more inspiring than
the the obscure narrative it
has turned out to be. Not
only would your words
re-semble or atory I'd also ask
that there be no future
celebrations in any fashion of
any athletic concussion
entertainment industry feeder system and school football and
similar activities and finally
note President Tang that such
references are description and
dissection and not discuss
discussion.
>> there's been a change to
what's happening to the game
change. I'd also like to give
honor to my supervisor london
breed a very historical meeting
this upcoming year. You see
the mayor has a problem with
one of our prestigious leaders,
reverend brown used to be in the housing authority I'm going
to put it all out there I'm going to talk about face and
see places that I've been dealing with for a year I'm
coming out with my own new
publication I'm coming back to
city hall and the press room and
I'm going to be to go it all you know in in 3 minutes I'm
going to tell you all black
negros here in san francisco are in a state of emergency thank
you very much May God bless us all.
>> tom -- last time I was here
I was cutting pumpkin pie. It
was a metaphor. You can see it
. It was the sale of a 4-unit
apartmen, and um the
renters get a stake of the pie at the point of sale and this
is I understood kind of -- the landlord would get a little bit
of a hit like a third in this
case comes out to a third the
landlord gets two-thirds and
the rentthan nothing. Maybe we can do
something nice for for the
landlords. They have a 1031
tax federal maybe we can set a program in the city instead of
losing a tax by not reinvesting
2 years into another rental,
maybe they can hold onto that
money and keep it so that we
kind of mitigate the loss that
we're losing but we're spreading the wealth around. More
people it happens get to share in it instead of being vulnerable and scared we're
taking a little bit more of the speculator's money and we're
passing it around so this way
way people can make an an
escape maybe find another place
to live. I think it helps
more people. Now, if we had a
mayor that came down and said
that they would like this to happen, would you work with him
or her? Thank you. Happy holidays.
>> any other members of the public who wish to speak on general public comment? Seeing
none public comment is now
closed. Madam Clerk.
>> items 49 through 53 are
being considered for immediate adoption.
>> supervisor avalos. >> item fifty please.
>> I would like to request that
we sever item 49. Madam Clerk
-- I'm sorry let's go to the
balance of the adoption without
committee reference agenda.
Items 51 through 51 through 53 supervisor tang.
>> tang aye weiner aye
supervisor yee aye supervisor
avalos aye breed aye campos aye
cohen aye farrell aye kim aye
mar aye there are 10 ayes.
>> those motions are approved and item 49.
>> item 49 is a resolution to
declare the results of the consolidated general election.
>> thank you colleagues I just
have a quick typo to correct
here the declaration on page 4
line 7 there was a misstatement
I'm making a motion to strike
out the letter z so it simply says district 8 so colleagues
if I can take that amendment.
>> second that supervisor farrell without objection
that's adopted and on balance
on 49 as amended. Without
objection that resolution is
adopted as amended unanimously. >> item fifty please.
>> item fifty is related to the
events of ferguson missouri. >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you what I'd like to
do is submit an amendment as a
whole as a resolution and continue to next weeks board
meeting and of course this
resolution originally about
ferguson missouri but things have changed a a lot since
then and that's what I'll be
doing. I'd like to thank supervisors campos cohen and
kim and I think you were
standing up but so without
further ado so so the first amendment right to protest.
Recognize the united states is
the united states is broken and
urging President Obama to to
review judicial practices and
you have all received a copy of this new resolution and I will not read the whole thing I've
actually shared it with our
police chief and we will be -- this is a work in progress but I don't think it will change
very much between now and next
week and I really hope to have
your consideration at at next
week's board meeting for this resolution. This past wentd
past weekend I was in new york
city actually I arrived around
9: 30 on wednesday evening and
the verdict about eric garden
er who was choke held and
killed eric garden er had just come out it was really a
dramatic place to be in new to be in new york city at the
time on thursday I had gone to
a demonstration in the square close to city hall and the place was packed in thousands
and thousands of people elected
officials and family members a woman I met she had 2 kids
under the age of 4 whose father
was accidentally killed by a
police officer and he was
scared going into a public
housing site and all around the
country we have witnessed protests going on people who
have lost faith in in our
police departments and our justice system as a nation and looking at san francisco what we could do better I believe san francisco is not the same
as ferguson and even new york
new york city we do things a bit better at the moment but it's important to build on that and changes at the national level so that's what this
resolution is about and hope to have your support next week.
>> is there a second to that? >> seconded by supervisor breed can we take that without
objection to accept those? Without objection those amendments are accepted and if
