welcome to the sfvrz meeting of tuesday, December 15, 2015,
Madam Clerk can you please call the roll.
>> supervisor avalos supervisor breed
commissioner campos
supervisor cowen
supervisor farrell supervisor kim
not presents
supervisor mar
supervisor President Wesson sin.
>> supervisor tang
supervisor wiener
supervisor yee Madam President we have quorum. >> ladies and gentlemen,
please join us in the pledge of
allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all thank you very much Madam Clerk any communication.
>> there are no communication to report Madam President.
>> colleagues, any changes to
the regular meeting mini I minutes of November 3rd seeing
none, motion to approve by supervisor mar seconded by
commissioner campos colleagues we'll take that without objection. We'll take that without objection. Those
meeting minutes passes unanimously after.
Madam Clerk read the consent
agenda items 1 through 7
of the board pursuant individual board members, no one is required to comment on your matter.
Seeing no names on the roster Madam Clerk
supervisor cowen
supervisor farrell
supervisor kim
supervisor mar
supervisor President Wesson sin supervisor tang
supervisor wiener supervisor yee
>> supervisor avalos
supervisor breed commissioner campos there are 11izing.
>> those items are final
passed and adopted unanimously next item.
>> oh, Madam Clerk yes call
item 8 item 8 all the times 9
administrative code to establish
a fund for city services 80 and accomplishes an advisory
committee for the eyes of monies
from the fund for 9 mission bay transportation improvement fund.
>> supervisor peskin
now the judicial matters have
been adjudicated by the board I
can vote on those items. >> thank you, supervisor
peskin for that clarification
and Madam Clerk on item 8 call roll.
>> commissioner hayon supervisor farrell
supervisor kim
supervisor mar supervisor peskin.
>> supervisor tang supervisor wiener
supervisor yee supervisor avalos
no supervisor breed. >> commissioner campos
there are 10 I's one no with
supervisor avalos in the decedent.
>> the ordinance is finally
passed Madam Clerk reads items 9 and 10 total. >> to designate to the director of the public works the
authority to accept the required
improvements and authorizes the
director of real estate for
about easements and grants deeds
to the improvements for 9 golden
state warriors center at mission
bay and the summer vacation for
the sanctuary sewer and san
francisc purposes two offers of dedication for the quick
claims with the interest in 9 authorization of general manager
did public works and the
director of properties to
execute the quick claim deeds
for the licenses that are a
retroactive extension for the
public use of temporary terry
boulevard connector road. >> roll call.
>> supervisor cowen
supervisor farrell
supervisor kim
supervisor mar
supervisor peskin.
>> supervisor tang
supervisor wiener
supervisor yee
supervisor avalos supervisor breed.
>> commissioner campos there are 11 I's.
>> those ordinances are finally passed unanimously
Madam Clerk call item 11.
>> item 11 resolution to approve a mills act property
contract on montgomery and the
city pursuant to the administrative code chapter 71 and authorizing the execution of this contract.
>> seeing none, no names on
the roster colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The resolution is
adopted unanimously item 12.
>> ordinance to amend the administrative code to provide
the city permanent support to be
reasonable to enroll the public
to provide an annual report. >> supervisor farrell. >> thank you supervisor
President London breed the item before you it some city services
auto report for the supports of housing portfolio to serve the
homeless in san francisco they
partner with h s a for the
housing I'd like the degree
obvious u how those changes over
7, 8, 9 the report noted they
had a difficult time of getting
the data for the supportive of
housing folks from the data they
were able to get the report
noted approximately 200 and 50
adults didn't use the in home
services and anymore family
buildings can apply for cal
workers on behalf of their
children across your country
helps to help the population
that provides a serious of income support services that
help people get connected and
find employment and secure food
how to get health care and in home supported services they
help to stretch your dollars to
get the people the needs so the ordinance the item before you
provides new requirements in h s
a for the xrorments of public benefits for their clients it requires the providers report
back to the city within 3 months
on the public benls illusion to insure quick public benefits
when people are housed it
requires an annual report it will require for thorough
outreach in case management from
the provider by having them
document the times and for hsa
it mandates a share for the providers that lists the requirements for the public
benefits they also share it on
their website just like the eviction transparency legislation I introduced this
board amazing support this law
the first in the city will help
to collect the cat data to understand what portfolio and
something that the city wants to encourage they provide some of the basic needs and I hope we
get behind today, I want to thank supervisor mar and supervisor tang for supporting
this and hsa for working on this
specifically trent and noel and
joyce crumble and my staff and all the housing providers in
this and colleagues, I ask for your support. >> thank you supervisor farrell
seeing no other names on the roster colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The ordinance is
passed on the first reading unanimously
item 13 please.
Item to amend the ordinance to
authors the san francisco public utilities commission to enter
into one or more for the insult all the time and aggregate not
to exceed $1.7 billion to
finance several other projects
the cost of the west side water
project pursuant that is enacted
by the voters and to reiterate
indicate the previous connections taken. >> colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The item passes
unanimously on the first reading
item 14.
>> an ordinance to
retroactively authorize the office of economic workforce
development to accept and expend
the grant 239 united states
department of labor for September 2030 and amending the
salary ordinance to provide the
creation of one, 9874 community
specialist position in the office of economic and workforce development colleagues, can we take that
same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The ordinance passes amount on the first reading. >> item 15. >> item 15 a resolution to
approve a lease with the U.S.
Government for occupancy and
operation of the replacement air
traffic control center totally
$20 over the 20-year term. >> same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The resolution is
adopted unanimously Madam Clerk call item 16 and thirty together
>> item 16 a resolution to
retroactively authorize the rec
and park department to accept and expend 5 hundred plus urban
green for community grant from
the california national
resources for the innovating
town square through 2016 and to
authorize the director to file
an understanding of the terms
for the agreement and item thirty is a resolution to
retroactively authorize the rec and park department to accept
and expend a $450,000 grant from
9 parks alliance of improvements
to the noah valley town square.
>> colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? We'll take that without
objection. The resolutions are adopted unanimously
Madam Clerk can you call the next item.
>> item 17 a resolution retroactively approving the
fixed modifications for the airport terminal 3 encroachment
project for the construction
between p-3 the joint venture
and to authorize the director to
execute further modifications
not to exceed approximately
$12 million in a term no more
than February ri7d.
>> same house, same call? We're on track the resolution is adopted unanimously
Madam Clerk call 18 through 22 together.
>> these are 5 resolution for
contracts for the department of
public health, item 8 to approve
amendment 2 to the behavorial
contract with a better way ink
extending the contract through
2017 for a total initiative
$14 million and item 14 for the
behavioral health services 360s
with an increase total not to
exceed 27 million and 20
resolution to the public health behavorial health services with
the youth services for the new total not to exceed $11.8 million item 21 a resolution to approve the amendment to the behavorial
health services contract with
the oaks children center to
extend through 2027 or 2017 with
a total not to exceed
$16.3 million and item 22 an
amendment to the contract with
the reject of san francisco for
the infant parents program with
a co-responding not to exceed 12 that is >> colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? We'll take that without
objection. These recessess are
adopted unanimously item 23.
>> item if a resolution pursuant to the san francisco
administrative code chapter 29
that the proposed airport
shoreline at the intrlt airport
is responsible. >> same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The resolution is
adopted unanimously item 24
>> item 24 retroactively authorize the public utilities commission to execute the first amendment for the power
scheduling and corporation with
the services with ap x inc. Increasing the not to exceed of
one and $5 million with no change for the 5 year agreement
duration and allowing for the payment of the california
independent system operator
power transmission charges. >> same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The resolution is
adopted unanimously next item, please.
>> >> the authorization of the public utilities commission to negotiate and execute a hetch
hetchy water and power for the
planning and design services for mountain tunnel improvements for
not to exceed $21 million for a
duration not to exceed 13 years
with option pursuant to the chapter.
>> same house, same call? We're on track the resolution is adopted unanimously item 26.
>> to authorize the filing of
an application for funding
assigned to the metropolitan transportation commission to
complete the project and authorize public works to accept and expend approximately
$2 million in states improvement grant fund.
>> supervisor peskin.
>> thank you Madam President a
small comment but so far as I'm
coming back with a fresh set of
ice I noticed those items to indicate with the funds are
spent for and I think we have an obligation to members of the public to actually let them know
so it would be I intend to vote
for it and observing for curve
extensions on lombard street in the second supervisorial district I don't know if so this
a comment to the clerk or the department that ordinary this
but I think we should insist on
saying what the item is for.
>> through the President Thank you, supervisor peskin we'll see to that.
>> thank you, supervisor peskin colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The resolution is adopted unanimously item 27.
>> item 27 is a resolution to approve an amendment to the
fiscal year 2015-2016 budget the
office of community economic
development operating as the in the course of the trial agency
to the agency by increasing the
proceeds by one and $35 million
for expenditures not to exceed
one and $35 million and
approving the principle amount not to exceed one and
$35 million to finance the obligations in the mission bay
south project area. >> same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The resolution is adopted unanimously item 28
>> item 28 resolution to retroactively
authorize of filing of an application tattoos metropolitan transportation concussion
matching funds to complete the
projects and authorizing public
works to expend money in the
transportation grant fund. >> supervisor peskin.
>> Madam Clerk I have the same
point as to the title for the
lombard dispose project in the second supervisorial district. >> colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The resolution is adopted unanimously
item 29.
>> a resolution to roosevelt authorize of district attorney's office to accept and expend a
200 and 91 thousand from the
california department of safety
for the prosecution program for 2016. >> same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The resolution is adopted unanimously Madam Clerk can you please call
item 31 and item 31 a resolution to authorize 3 separate
transactions the first, the execution and specification for
the property on 80 listen with
an ordinance amount of one and
35 thousand and a sale agreement
between 9 city and hudson for
the real property located added
555 selby for $6.3 million and
the thirsted the execution and acceptance of a purchase and
sale between the city and w y l
services inc. For the real property on dead on arrival vice
avenue for $5 million
I had a few issues I know there is gone through committee and
john updyke will be here to
speak to some of the concerns
specifically with the lack of appraisal for one of the properties in my understanding you have new information to
present to the board in order to
support the boards decision to
purchase without an appraisal director john updyke. >> john updyke director of real estate
you're correct in the hearing
before the budget & finance the
members expressed skefrndz about
the back up support particular
for the acquisition of goggling
vest and since that time we secured an independent analysis
of values in the area providing
by cv r real estate and that
information has been priority to
the budget analyst so perhaps
they'll comment but it provides
a number of compatible sales a
total of 7 we're located 5 are
data points on behalf of or more
steven than the purchase price
for the cal vest prompted 2 ploy we believe strongly adjusts
within the fair market range
that was based on the report but
updated data confirm that I'll
be happy to to go into that.
>> I wonder if many rose or
his members have a change to
valley harvey rose not seen it
not evaluated that data. >> ongoing Mr. Updyke when did
you present this to those the budget analyst.
>> immediately upon receipt thursday of last week.
>> supervisor peskin.
>> ma'am, and colleagues and understand that acquisition of
this site is quite necessary for
a project that has long been in
the making relative to where the
sewer digestser I'm troubled by
not only the issues that you and the budget analyst raised that Mr. Updyke respond to I'm
troubled by the fact no uniform
policy in our city how we go
about acquiring real property other cities and other
governments actually have rules
as to and I prevails being
required for the acquisition of
properties or properties above a
certain level in any cities and
states and disposing requirement
how the appraisals are reviewed compatible sales are interesting
but absent an analysis is not
the kind of subject matter rear
that the budget analyst is familiar or trained in 245s up
to someone that is a member of
the appraisal institute so I'm going to vote for this another item on the calendar that gets
to policy but I think we/should
have a collective policy
discussion about perhaps amanda the administrative code to set those policy perimeters in place
so the future we actually have
an appraisal prepared that is
been reviewed as to the adequacy having said that, this is important and that sale data is before us whether it is analyzed
by the budget analyst and all
vote but let's clean up this.
>> thank you, supervisor peskin. >> supervisor cowen. >> thank you very much
Madam President I will be voting
to support 24 but supports any
even consistentness I feel not
like the manner in which this
was really brought to us I feel
lie or like it was rushed leave
behind the scenes and
conversations that had to happen
between the department heads and myself and ultimately Mr. John
updyke to get to the point to recognize the portions ever
importance of this property I don't want to ultimately interfere with the timeline the
timeline will be very, very
costly for price payers,
however, I'm in agreement with what supervisor peskin mentions
for more a a thorough constructive conversation and
evaluation of property too much
money on that piece but nfl few opposite I'm going to hold my
nose and vote for that.
>> thank you supervisor cowen, supervisor avalos. >> thank you supervisor President Breed I'd like to
occur or concur with the
comments of supervisor peskin we
don't have a clear status how we had an appraisal is different
standard for how we treat the
properties by the city verse
's that citizens want to use for
instance, I have a resident that has been negotiating to pretty
much land that the city will
never use and gotten the highest appraisal and decided after
years of negotiation not
purchasing the property it didn't do anyone any good to make the improvements on the
land is a huge benefit for the neighborhood by in this case
we're going an appraisal that is
not the best deal so I think in terms of how we set standards
but how we treat the residents
and the benefits and advantages
we give ourselves. >> thank you supervisor avalos
seeing no other a names on the
rufrt Madam Clerk call the roll.
>> supervisor cowen supervisor farrell
supervisor kim
supervisor mar
supervisor peskin.
>> supervisor tang
supervisor wiener supervisor yee.
>> supervisor avalos supervisor breed commissioner campos there are 11 I's.
>> the resolution is adopted unanimously item 32 please.
Item 32 a resolution inform approve a coach agreement with
the state of california for the construction and support of van
ness transit improvement and to make ceqa finding.
>> supervisor peskin.
>> Madam President I promise
not to comment on every item.
>> you promise.
>> I promise after recently
returning I have been informed
that as part of the van ness
transit improvement project all of the historic old street
lights on the link of haven is slated to be removed I think
there is got to be a way to
retain those beginning feature until the departments figure out
I will be consistently voting no until the municipal transportation agency and dpw figure out that out. >> thank you, supervisor peskin
add much more I will say there aren't very many individuals
like you in the world and the
work you do both help relentless and paxil and every single
minute of our job and day it
criminally I've no further seen
you off without ocean and care
about what this means for the city and what it means to you
you're love I think it is the 0 more exemplar in terms of our
leadership I will say I think
over the last couple of years
you've had an opportunity to say
good by to a number of
individuals that is different you'll come back to san
francisco commissioner campos go
bought up ted that passing I don't think any of us have
gotten over the loss and his
absence his leadership and had a
right but also eric and jessie
collin and other we'll be recognizing today
I just want to thank you and one
last thing I know you're
recently honored in the woman
empowerment 7 by 7 that was
great to see all women after a
or around we're often one of the
few women in the room and sarah
you earned that space and hold
people accountability to make
sure our voices are harder thank
you and please come back. >> (Clapping.)
>> supervisor peskin.
>> thank you sarah I'm sorry it is my.
>> did they say supervisor peskin. >> exactly. >> (Clapping.)
>> I'm sorry only my second board meeting you're leaving
having been on that see of the
rail for the last seven years
since I was last on the board
thank you for making it fun as a surfer advocate and as important
as the issues you did that with
humor and made that a lot of tun
fun it is important to have fun,
I have you're cell phone nun
number you can rest assured as
we're continuing our March to properly address short-term
rentals I'll be calling you. >> thank you supervisor cowen's.
>> thank you sarah I I have to tell you it is
a pleasure to work with you in
the hill and it is been fun that
you have been spitting mad I've
sat in ed peskin's seat and
received the spit so can attest
to the sarah spitfire it is a
perfect adjective I'm happy
you're going to la not because you're leaving her but for the
right reason to have the ballot
it is important to get engrossed
if our personal life I commend you for recognizing the importance of having a balanced
life to put the energy into our
personal life so center a we've
experience and I wish you the best thank you.
>> (Clapping.). Okay. >> supervisor avalos.
>> if you can stand please
join me in giving a standing no
vacation to sarah as she leaves. >> (Clapping.)
>> novation to sarah as she leaves. >> (Clapping.)
>> what did we want stop the evictions. >> (Clapping.)
>>
Laughter: .
>> I am standing up.
Laughter: . Yeah >> (Clapping.)
>> pardon me.
>> thanks for letting me say
something although I expected
for chanting
so I just want to be just to be
clear those of you who know me
know I'm moving to los angeles for love
and I cannot building the
amazing support for any espouse
for my departure look at that
bow tie but so I want to be just
to be clear I still deeply love
this city
san francisco is an amazing city
both historically and now
and yet I've been making my decision, you know, in recent
most to leave this city I've
been doing a lot of thinking how
much my heart has been being broken slowly over time particularly in the last few
years by the city I love
my heart breaks every time a
senior on fixed income is thrown
out of her home onto streets
because of corporate guarantees
my heart has broken has we're
extremity witnessed shooting of
alex and mario woods my hearts
breaks that private buses are
given the right away over people
that want to get to work on time. >> (Clapping.)
>> any heart breaks the
homeless are washed off the
streets as big tech moves into
the neighborhood where they once
would it's taken it's town hall
on me and other in this room the hope we have, however, I
want to leave you all with hope
for the city and my hope
the hope we have is that we can
all be part of mitigating the
corporate taxi over the city and
insuring that more seniors are not losing their homes that this
is still a welcoming city to
immigrants to people who are
seeking refugee from violence
due to the conditions in their
country or violence in their
home they're a young queer that
came out that we can be that
kind of city with all of us continuing to do the type of
work I've been doing
I take you have hope in leaving
because I hope that I've done
age a little something to
affiliate the hastings aspects
I've mentioned with my work I've
helped fewer people from being
displaced than could have been >> (Clapping.)
>> and so with that, I have
some words to share with you all
I think will continue to make
the city a hopeful place I
imwlor not only my colleagues
but the public to doing
everything we can to strengthen,
expand and preserve rent control
in san francisco >> (Clapping.)
>> without rent control in
this city we likely would be an
incredibly different place a
dark place where we would not
even have the artists who are
still here that creates trblts
to the beauty of our city not
have the teachers who are
educating our children with such passion
we would not have is the immigrants coming in and escaping violence and poverties and being able to make those
home here in this city and country
we all, all of us including the
board and including my
colleagues and the general public comment need to be having any lengths about not just
preserving and strengthening,
expanding but also keeping an
eye on on the potential loss of rent-controlled units it is happening in in any way, shape,
or form and it is I think acids
so as I leave you're all all of
you have to take up the mantel
in small or large ways tommy you can too insure and watch like a hawk like.
>> hawk that the very precious
little remaining air force
resources in the form of rent
control are not lost out the
backdoor if you read the housing
balance if the planning
commission we're nfl having a
net gain of affordable units
we're losing so many through the
loss of reversals so watch on all sides of the spectrum how to keep people in this city
I want to take a moment to just
say that those of you who are talking about my potential ever
me coming and wanting me to
return if this is the hope
please talk to my girlfriend and
a few other things teresa for
the nice bow tie I want to thank
mini the live legacy of towed
who is gotten me through the
hard times this last year and I
want to thank my parents who nfl missed their connecting flight e
flight couldn't be here but I
know this would have made them
proud and happen a shout out to them and the amazing folks I've
had the pleasure to work with
and done so much for the city
who have cement me going in the
trenches and empowered and produced something that was meaningful legislation so give
that a shout out folks welcome
back aaron and really most of
all I want to welcome my staff
if you guys can come up nfl a
lot of people are working at the office hard. >> (Clapping.)
>> fl a lot of people are working at the office hard. >> (Clapping.) >> l a lot of people are working at the office hard. >> (Clapping.) >> a lot of people are working at the office hard. >> (Clapping.) >> a lot of people are working at the office hard. >> (Clapping.) >> I get a lot of credit for
being the face of this o and you
know leading do efforts of what
human rights committee does but
certainly not just me
there are so many hard working
volunteers and staff that helps
to make our efforts sketch of
successive I want to take the
opportunity to commend them
thank you it was heartwarming to
have so many in the audience I
love you guys just love you to death. >> (Clapping.)
>> our city. >> (Repeated.) >> thank you and congratulations
next up I don't know if you can
complete with that supervisor kim but you're next.
>> thank you supervisor President Breed I
hope folks will stay I'm
recognizing two other amazing
individuals in san francisco jim
medicare could and beven duffey .
>> (Clapping.). I wanted to
start with jim this is quite a
couple of months to corporate I
know we're extremity been
collecting his things and also
his life accomplishment and well disney today's certificate of
honor through the memories of
his friends and neighbors he is
best understood I'm glad to see
the friends and a family are
here today jim was born if st.
Paul, minnesota mini and
survived by his husband roy and
they have been together 35 years
they married October 2013 and
survived by his sister that
lives in st. Paul, minnesota and
attended the university of the minnesota majoring in
communication in 1977 he moved
to san francisco and eventually
got a printing business with his partner in the south of market
an area that is the focus of his activityism in urban planning
they've eefrnd a 5 star and
continues to operate jim a
primary a community artist and a
sdriern he served as a mentor to
many his deep knowledge officers
him a unique prospective at the planning department and his
organize skills iowa's were a
help to the plans and being a more balanced and complete
neighborhood we are able to pass two years ago
the plan approved by the board
was a key components of jim's lasting legacy in san francisco
he's been admired for his
commitment to community but
specific for it's tarnishing and
sense of justice I have to say that people explicit agree with
jim and in fact, I have many
aspires stories of very loud and maybe even raising our voice
conversations in my office but jim always knew how to come back
and many instances with a plan acknowledging our continued work
to make that a better place city
hall knows him and the bureaucratic establishment knows
him but jim was on the front
line with the activists someone who concerned about every single block in the south of market and in the stalwart his participation in the community
was expensive but name a few he
was a member of the south of
market residents associations
housing act coalition and
addison democratic club and
harvey milk lgbtq and the live task force and the western soma
task force and nope to take a leadership roll in other
organizations as a foushd the
south of market council he was
institutional in the citywide
organization for responsible for
the vibrancy of the city's entertainment and night time jim
will be known as the only person to attend every single meeting
for the western soma and this is quite difficult for anything
I the President To end with a
quote from anyone who poke at
his america barbara I felt it
talked about who he was she said
being a neighborhood activist is
tough and exhaust and unusually
thank also tarnish to be with
the long haul rather than one
issue jim had the 10 city and
the staying power people didn't
always agree with him and lord
knows the board of education
establishment if agree but jim
was on the front line it is energy and personal political
capita that most people will not
make he was commented committed
and never gave up he loved the
south of market and shaping the future he ruffled features that
is the nature of being an
attachment I'll Miss Tim tremendously I wanted to bring
up his partner and any members
of the community that want to
come up to accept this
accommodations on his behalf.
>> can I say something.
>> hi I'll speak for both roy
and his sister I'll chris schaffer jim medicare could see
roommate in college he met gym
and learned so much from him about, about the city planning
process that was significant the
name of the task force was the
western soma citizens planning task force he believed deeply in having the voice off people
being part of that process and jim would say distancing I'm bringing everybody to the table
there were 22 people elected to
an on that task force and spent 8 years creating something block by block and building by
building with a whole fabric in
other parts of his words were
the whole neighborhood fabric to gym bringing many people
together and the other to
consider whom were his friends
like jack write colleen and I'm
sorry the point is he brought together people that themselves
loved that neighborhood and were
all part of that planning so I on the lesson from will jim's
life the voices of people to be
respected to be heard and he was
the vehicle by which we all come
together under that tent so thank you very much to the board of supervisors.
>> (Clapping.).
>> I can say this having
worked with in the officer with
jimmy know how hard and how much
time he spent on this to make
the community a better place. >> (Clapping.)
>>
Laughter: .
>> one more one , one more hand one more.
>> now for the nucleus
accommodations I want to bring
up that doesn't need
any introduction supervisor
beven duffey. >> (Clapping.) >> >> oh, my goodness went
saying farewell to a lot of people.
>> I have a bunch of
9-year-old you can make it short.
>> it's not going to, short if
you did less I'll barely
sculpture the topic but sending
off beven duffey after 21 years
to the people and the city and county of san francisco with a
tremendous amount of gratitude
and love bench has led an extraordinary life with being
raised in harlem by a close
member billy holiday was beven
duffey's God moth and, in fact,
a rare jazz reporting a young
beven making jokes about that I
need to find that
as a grown up beven was a senior
assistant for the office of
negotiate representative shirley
and later with the legislative life with the philanthropy
referring to himself a gay
leader a I was exactly 10 years
ago in 2005 an ordinance as
beven was the vote everyone in
the room saying ami to personally e-mail beven he
respond to his e-mail and not on
the board of supervisors I know
that was an steroid task even
those that didn't agree with
beven appreciated how hard he
worked and communicated with all the communities when I become
supervisor I wanted to emulate
beven's model he's the gold
standard part of our jobs to
build and gain the trust we can communicate and trust we're
investing our take dollars if
schools or affordable housing or
streets I certainly have fallen
short of beven duffey standard
but I think you're crafty and
relentless to fyi the pothole
down the street to launching innovation we're extremity been
touched by your jeopardy reiterate and endless witness
and humor I worked with bench to
make sure he was commented then
to making the committee sorry
for the joke relevant on the board of supervisors and
actually developed a theme to
tackle on two or three issues to prioritize collaboration and
resolve over the loose 3 years I
working closely and after the
mayor appoint the housing
engagement almost everyday someone walks into the office
that didn't have a home and tell how their survivor in san francisco they come landmarking
for resources, support and, in fact, hope
and also call the beven duffey
and rushed up from the basement preparing to bring this individual to help them get
connected to services or housing
in the winter of 2013 a cough
came to both our offices with
their 3 year-old daughter and 18
month-old baby they won a
lottery and that was two blocks
a saltwater pool and free joking
classes marry they spent 6 years in and out of homeless shelter
not enough to make the rent in
the city when they won the lottery they were 29 points
short if the minimum score to
qualify they notified the family they were speed limit to pick up
the keys they were going to give the unit to someone else befsh
got on the horn and called
multiple paternity excluding our
office we called the mayor's
office of housing and we call
all called north america in a to
work on the credit score he
worked with them to raise the
credit score and worked with the
family center to fund-raise to
guarantee their first year of the are we talking about
after all the work neiman denied the credit application we are
that all at wit's end
we have all at wit's end we some
of us were prairie crying and
beven said without a word run to
the neiman office and perching
signed the lease on behalf of
the ramos family to move in that week
that the testament to beven's
tenancy we know him for the
initiative an exam of pilots the
city has not taken on and worked
on the bureaucracy and if say
this is a list of things we've
done and this is how we do it
and continue to do it beven
actually launches some crazy
ideas with his charisma and
penalty and tenancy not only moved a board group of
stakeholders that are skeptical
of officials he is able to get philanthropists and others to
help fund some of his crazy
ideas the city May not be able
to pilot I want to recognize the
mayor for appointing beven it
takes courage and let him loss homeless is an issue we're
extremity struggled with over thirty years and need new ideas
and see what we can work and one of the things I've learned
actually hearsay is policy you
hire is policy more important
than any legislation you pass I
want to recognize the mayor for
taking you on this in role
you're leaving big shoes to fill
but investigated the time to groom other statistical warmth
in features in this room we went
so much and I just want to say at this point, a tremendous amount of you're leadership and
character we wish you well in
the next chapter of life you'll
continue to be a superstar dad
coaching your son's successor
and basketball team and I would
like to welcome and recognize the 8 members of the fourth
grader that have come out to see
their favorite coach honored today. >> (Clapping.)
>> 6thank you, beven before I embarrass you several of my
colleagues want to say a few words.
>> before I recognize any other supervisor I've quota
emigrate to be the first befb you're an amazing hubby
remembered when up started city
hall act out of college you
hired me as an intern you didn't
pay me anything but I learned a lot more
I remembered how people used to
come to the door of the mayor's
office of services a lot of
problems you'd come out there I
couldn't handle it and work with
people with a smile on your face
as if nothing was wrong and they
were the only person that important you cared about people
cared about making a difference
and giving folks mike like me
rough around the edges an opportunity I will always be
grateful I watched you over the
years continue to just grow and you know, I know you're a lot of older me
Laughter:
You continue to grow and continue to nurture young people and continue to give me give people an opportunity and bring folks into city government and
support and encourage and help
them you're just an amazing person
and I'm just really sad to see
you go the only reason why I put
up a fight when you told me you wanted to do some personal
things and you wanted to extend
more time with sidney I couldn't
fight against that you've dedicated you're life spending
hours with folks all over san francisco like supervisor kim
point holes or returning around
at night to try to support homelessness people on the
streets and figuring out what we
do to you know help that person that person at that time, you've
always been there to roll up
you're sleeves and do the work
because you care about people generously you're a rare breed
and person overwhelm to Miss
You, you know you'll be around
and can't help be available when
someone calls you for help
you're knowledgeable about the city and knowledgeable about everything and people continue
to learn if you but we are effective because we learned
from the best
and you were absolutely an
incredible teacher even though I
didn't listen half the time I'm what grateful and a whole host of folks that are doing well,
because of you're support and everything you've done to change san francisco and make that a
better place for all of us who live there beven I'm grateful fewer service.
>> thank you so much for being
an amazing person with that. >> (Clapping.)
>> I want to recognize commissioner campos. >> thank you supervisor President London breed supervisor President London
breed think you're a rare breed
that's quite a environment I
don't want to belabor the point
the thing about beacon hill
thank goodness you're not going
anywhere the only thing I'll say
in retrospect our time together
as colleagues, I wasn't sure
what to expect but I want to say from the bottom of my heart
thank you for our class, for your compassionate for taking
the time to help a new supervisor learn the ropes
and what I think is remarkable about what you do besides all
the knowledge about the city and
the great things you've done is the humanity you bring to everything you do I don't think
that people fully understand that
I appreciated that as a member of the board of supervisors we
worked together on many issues
it wasn't issues involving only the community the gay community
I the fact that you
understood that being different
to being gay you have to have an
open heart to other people in
other communities I appreciated that
and then watching you work on
the issue of homelessness the
creative way in which you've
tackled that the most initiative
way in homeless the navigation center happened I was proud probation officer work with you but I appreciated and continue
to appreciate the way in which you interact with the homelessness people and the
humanity and dignity that you
accord them this is something often missing in government and
I learned a lot in watching you
so I know we have we've got a lot more work to do but tuff so
much I love you and proud of you. >> supervisor cowen's.
>> thank you it feels surreal
to stand on this side of chamber
and honor form supervisor beven
duffey you're not leaving the
city I suspect you'll go into
retirement but retain around and
assembly want to speak to how much I've pefrnl learned from
you and personally come to know
beven when he was the director and I too had an intern
experience I was introduced to
the homebound program that the
city offers to folks that are
homeless somehow if came across
any desk what a great policy for
the city to have it was
compassionate and semi sid excuse me.
>> rooftop mom is talking.
>> I can hear the whispers but
beven you've been such an
amazing friend and mentor for
many young people I'm very excited about you're future it
is not if here in the city
personally but you do know that
beven has spent more time in the
kitchen it's been left public
meetings coaching I don't get that coaching I don't know what
that is like I see a thumbs-up from the teammates.
>> I play a good social game.
>> you're the right
personality to team the
teammates how to be a full
member we want to leave you I
believe you're the standard when
it comes to be the public
servants in my office we try to
respond to e-mails and
phenomenon messages within twenty-four hours that is the
benching duffey standard and
some days we meet the mark and
other days strive you've done a
tremendous job one of the things
I admire you're working cross
the olsen lee's to bring people
who are nationality enemies to
work for the greater good of
humanity and in supervisor President London breed's terms a rare breed the item before you
to give you respect you're an
incredible hubby love you and a
pleasure to serve san francisco with you.
>> thank you supervisor cowen supervisor farrell. >> thank you sxhoepd beven it
is very surreal to be here with
you you know as people were
talking we didn't get a chance
to serve bench gave me my first
job and hooked up, up in los
angeles who I worked foreclose
to a year and the memories of
that when you first gave me their phone number to give me a
call to hire this guy from san
francisco I remember knocking on
doors and where my wife lives to
our first victory parties when I
exited stage left when you said
you were the biggest queen in san francisco something along that line
Laughter:
To really over the past few years working with you and you
know how I feel I love you
you've done an amazing, amazing job for the city of san
francisco it is an honor to work with you in a professional
capacity I never expected that
opportunity and been an amazing
and with heart and soul and all
the comments are true you're an
amazing individual and sidney it
looks like May have gone out of
the room you need to know you
have an amazing dad, I want you
to know everybody inside of city
hall knows him thinks the world
of him I want to let you know what an amazing person you're
father is and can't wait to see
what an amazing coach but sidney
you I want to make sure you
heard that, please know how
special your dad is and take
care of him at home. >> thank you supervisor farrell's supervisor mar.
>> I want to echo something
that supervisor farrell said I have seen beven as a legislator
but as a dad, I think brought
out his humanity and as a dad
but supervisor farrell's said to
sidney and her teammates decades before you appreciate how much your dad has done for the city
for you and for the communities
I want to say that beven has
laid ground work for our approaches to homeless in the
city I know that sam doma will
follow if in big footprint but
appreciative you're approached
hems with sympathy. >> thank you for mernts me on the importance of relationships and the respect 6 people we dealt with in the communities
but back to the billy holiday
reference there is a lot of
phone number I didn't baloney fakeness throughout the building
when I dealt with you as mentors small business that asked for
advice you've been so real and
speak from you're heart and try
to embrace other people that I
appreciate and working with you
but thank you thank you for all you do.
>> thank you supervisor mar supervisor tang. >> congratulations beven but you win the records for the
number of people that said I
love you so I think a lot has
been said about you I will always remember you for the
person you carries around the
kittie I'll show you
so you was the only supervisor
that shared the same love for
hallowed kitty.
>> I make me smile but supervisor mar's comments I will
say there are people you know to they're a little bit nicer when
our a supervisor but you were
kind and down to earth in this
matter the status before I of the supervisor you were kind and
I want to thank you and, of
course, I wanted to acknowledge
boo who's here maybe you one of
our best hires when you were a
supervisor I want to acknowledge
bow I wish you all the best in our retirement. >> right? And supervisor avalos
and I'll be brief I wanted to
not repeat what everyone else
said I agree but a few moments
to highlight and seeing when I
was a legislative aide to or a
supervisor you are ingratiation
speech in 2006 when the city
kept grabbing the microphone and
your managing to let the city do
whatever it wanted to do I thought it was great a liberty
you allow people around you
you're vote on avenue, I think
in 2006 multiple times the 8
vote and it was a huge
significance push to get that that has been programmed and provided housing for people
under the human rights and very,
very strong on that a number of
occasions I appreciate that as
well as you're vote for local
hiring you were the 8 vote there
you always proclaim I was the 8
vote 8 vote yes, thank you for
being the 8 vote without you that wouldn't have happened I appreciate that and lastly, thank you for letting me use
you're car one time
Laughter: .
>> I'm sorry, I didn't put in
gas if in it I didn't have any
cash at the time but it was very, very helpful.
>> it was my version of the
car and cash something different.
Laughter:
>> so just the work you've done
rent controls you're work on homelessness has stood out I
heard you occupy the radio and
who is that guy you have such a
breath of living and heart that is a weird thing for people that
work for government so it is sad
to see you're expertise will go
I appreciative what you're
presence has brought to san francisco. >> thank you supervisor yee. >> thank you supervisor President London breed I'll keep
it short first of all, I'm
really upset I never got hired by you as.
>> intern you didn't mentor me
Laughter:
But I want to say a few things I
love you love that you love
billy holiday and the fact you
were a baby talking to me about
public schools and eventually
did go interest, you know, people talk about that and I
love the fact you were in our
public schools and love the
facts you were going to retire
from our position I walked
through it you were busy but
showed up here you're team and
you walk through to educate the beat officer about the services
that we can give to the homeless people
rather than the on thing that
they might think is one alternative so thank you very
much thank you, supervisor ash last but not least.
>> aaron peskin.
>> everything has been said
but not by everybody I was
landmarking to serving with
bench a decade later I promise
to be good but you left. >> he May come back.
>> don't be surprised if we
serve with beven duffey again one of those days.
>> thank you Madam President. >> thank you. >> supervisors thank you so
very much I will be brief I want
to knowledge you're city
treasurer jose cisneros and he's
one of my closet friends and
incredible proud of the service he's prototyped with kindergarten so college and it san francisco I do want to
acknowledge the folks that have
worked with me bow was cited by legislative aide to at the board of supervisors and amanda freed
is here and, in fact, this is awesome and I'd like to
acknowledge any colleagues at
hope and as people said sam
dodge will be doing angle
outstanding job alongside two incredible colleagues the
colleagues at any life at city
hall has done amazing work he
wouldn't mind standing and be
recognized for helping people in
public housing and sarah the one
thing that was not said she
figured out to make public
housing bhertd better in san
francisco and christen who was
an intern working with me and
came back and is working in the
hope office and doing simple an
outstanding job public service
is about hoping people he
learned from shirley chris I am
and like the father I never had
han to help susan brainstorm a member of the board of supervisors had an incredible
job and work with former mayor
willie brown was an unbelievable
experience we recognized in our
younger days we didn't, quite
what it was element that a mayor
would allow me to give auto thirty, 10 appoints and
followin those individuals would sit and tell them what I have they are need
that the mayor was committing to handle that and there was so
many connections to the people I
think are not recognized by
folks and the prisoner of
working with mia's the director
of hope and offered abbas an
apology to the mayor it is a
pain in the tail to have an
elected official so I appreciated how warm and gracious in working with his administration I believe there are things like the navigation
center and it is a foundational
city commitment expensive to mitigate the impact of people
living on the streets to help
them and to see the stories I've
read this week about public
housing in chicago and realizing
that services the focuses is on
poor people and the least
focused on I'm grateful it so
many of you here and truly the
braid was my happy place and thank you to supervisor wiener
for psyching me in being a hardworking individual and successful in representing
district 8 and take at a moment
to visit raven here I don't know
if you guys are willing to share
your names if you're in Ms. 134 west.
>> hi, I'm sid I'm beven's
kid
I'm in Mr. Otherers class as I'm
in Ms. 134 west class as hi my name is rosy.
>> and you guys know my
parents I love megan trainer.
>> I'm in the fourth grade class.
>> hi 2011 a ann jay in-I'm
sophie in Ms. Woods class.
>> I'm in Mr. Rs class.
>> I want to acknowledge that
andrea is the student body
President Can we give a raise and cheer for the supervisors
someone want to do.
>> it all establishment off at the in the course of the trial
game when the coach said
belching do our thing go-go
beven go ravens go, go, go, go ravens go. >> thank you guys thank you very much. >> (Clapping.)
>> I know you're here or here
for serious things I want to
appreciate the passion for justice I appreciate you're
being parish I'm sorry for the
delay but justice will not be denied but detailed. >> 6thank you, beven. >> (Clapping.)
>> >> so I the President To
invite all of beneficiaries form
staffers to come forward for the
photo and take an exception
because I think the entire board
wanted to take a photo so you'll
offer for the folks to take this photo with beven.
>> hold on a second.
Laughter:
We're checking with the clerk.
>> we'll take a two minute
recess for a photo see all right. We're back from
recess we'll resume with the
boards business Madam Clerk call
36 through 42.
>> the ordinances that pertain to the recommendation service
project and 36 for the execution
and delivery of the not to
exceed $20,015,000,000 for the construction and install
installation of certain alleges for a rehabilitation facility for general authority to the
city officials to take the
action with the certificates and
item 37 to appropriate 200 and
$15 millstruction of rehabilitation detention facility and the associated cost
of 2015-2016 and it place those funds on controllers reserved
item 38 to authorize the tracks
for the shoings of real property
on braivent street for 4, 56 and
76 street for the lend trusts
respecting and not to exceed
$14.5 million and item 39 norsz
is execution of tax exception
and commercial paper notes in an aggregate amount of $11.3 million for the
constructions of rehabilitation detention facility to replace
the koirnl couldn't jails three and four. >> next to. >> (Speaking foreign language.)
H accept and expend the revenue
bond for the public works for the construction of the
rehabilitation and retention to
replace the council jails and 41
to appropriate one $.5 million
for the rerenovation of the san francisco board of appeals for
the pushing in 2015-2016 and
item 42 to amend the 10 year
capital plan for fiscal years
2016 through 2025 for the corrections and recognize the
scope and to advance the
projects within the justice
facility improvement program financed in the general fund debt program.
>> thank you, Madam Clerk okay ladies and gentlemen, now we're extremity gotten the in his itself it is time to get
down to work I want to recognize supervisor breed who is first if the cue. >> thank you supervisor cowen.
>> bear with me colleagues he
have a lot to say about this particular project as a supervisor I've been working on
this issue for over a year
my staff and I have invited each
the 6 jails at least one my
office is in constant communications with
miscellaneous and anti jail advocates and earlier 24 hour
revised the plan if 5 hundred
and 12 bystanders to three hundred and 84 supervisor kim
and I held the hearings on the proposed jail and alternatives
to incarceration had the board
voted to prefor or apply for
state funding I made a motion to specifically say the board of
supervisors shall retain authority to approve or disapprove the jail facility
this is an issue I take seriously but honestly it is person to me
I've seen way too many people
from my communities friends and
family members end up on the
wrong side of the bars my brot
spent years there this was not
an issue to take lightly you
notice when you walk through county jail it is older the
plumbing is bad and the offices
are delipidated but the gnats
are in large sells down large
hauls like an old alcatraz and
many of the inmates are sleeping
in their bunks nothing he will
for them to do not ref educational programs they're not
being exposed to the kinds of opportunities that will help
them stay out of jail and the
folks with mental health and substance issues not ref the
kind of see treatment that will
view them as patients instead of prisoners 850 brilliant needs to come down
but we need to tear down the map
of incarceration it represents
(Clapping.)
Nfl and joe jackson morgan is
the third center the plan before
us in its senate reiteration is the era that san francisco is trying to leave behind
we need to focus more resources
on humane effective mental
health and on a system it xaeshths the crime and recidivism I'm certainly not
opted to a new facility next to 850 bryant but strongly opposed to this jail
it is too big it is too
expensive, and it is good
focused on incarcerating people
which we know disprovrpt means
category people of
color. >> (Clapping.)
>> I'm not going to support
another stand alone jail to lock
up african-american and latinos
in the city. >> (Clapping.)
>> I'm not going to support
continuing it lock up people
with millennials and need treatment not imprisonment and
not lock that up people that
have subsidies problems I want
to see a greater than investment
for those who survive under the
systemic I can repeat incarceration but be combined
with other city needs at the
site like the B.A. In the court
but most of all a greater
entertainment for mental illness
my brother had a drug problem
needs treatment not to be locked up. >> (Clapping.)
>> this is an un realistic 8
years the city spent $50 million
on the juvenile detention
facility that is consistently
less than half full a bad
financial investment but it's
low occupancy is how our support promissory notes programs have
been let's learn skip the bat development and moderate with
the support program I want to
thank bryan with the capital improvement plan committee and
the naomi kelly and everyone on
the city staff they've put a lot
of hours into working on this I
also want to thank the advocates
and my unstoppable guide and for
pushing the city to do better
I know that speak folks think we
need a new jail on 8 percent 50
brilliant and fiscally eir are
not only but we need to involve
in health treatment and not a
jail I support that. >> (Clapping.)
>> and as President Of the board of supervisors I'm
optimistic that we can reach a
consensus we can invest without sacrificing the state funding there will be much discussion
and don't want to preexempt it
but offer any suggests I want to thank supervisor kim who was
independently work on the
approach I'll describe and happy
to join with her and another
colleagues first, it becomes the
new city attorney's office a
mental health facility arrest a
courthouse we should jump at the
opportunity to buy the land 850
about come down we need a
replacement facility and most everyone in san francisco know
paving well land is not getting
cheaper is even in the unlikely
event we don't use those parcels
they will be a good investment
and second introducing a
receives urging the director of
public housing to plan for the
closure of couldn't jails three
and four and current
retroactives that better serve at risk individuals the working
group will include mlk providers and the city attorney's office public defender's office the
police department, e and did you
want and pretrial diversion and
the controller's office and the
dpw and the prisoner vacancies
advocates and contemplates
inmates that benefited from substance abuse my hope that the chair will report back to the
board with a plan that offers
effect and humane have felt in
public health and maintain over
eligibility for state funding to
build overseeing facilities I'll
reiterate not a new jail I want to thank supervisor kim, supervisor wiener came back commissioner campos and supervisor farrell for
co-sponsors that resolution with me in order to accomplish the prospect pretty much and time to
be global for the estate finding I'm asking my claelgz colleagues
to join me in giving the verbal
direction to begin to have the characterization collision of
the 3 properties I move we roach
item 38 to be amend to roach references to previously
promoted jail and $200 million
in certificate of participation just to be clear removing the
money that comments us to the
jail and money to potentially
purchase the property that comes
before the board of supervisors so I'd like to propose we change
the stated use for the property
because under the cotter legislative we're specifically
the property is used for the
jail we need to use this
property for any other use
the board will have the
opportunity to accept or regret
the purchase again supervisor jane kim amendments 36 to issue the certificates of
participation just for the cost of the property I'm introducing amendments to
item 37 to appropriate
overseeing for the cost of the property and pass those amendments around and colleagues
ask for your support I'll move
we table item 39 the $11.3 million for the intern
funds for the constructions of jail just to be clear to
everyone we're rejecting the planned jail
my final motion. >> (Clapping.)
>> would be to send item 36
and 37 as amended back to
committee with 38 and table 40
the acceptance of state fund and
item 41 and 42 to 9 did not find
public health so we'll hear them
in the conclude of the yuch I don't want to cramp the discussion but people have to
know where we stand a majority
of this board opposed spend
$300 million over and over on a
design to imbritain people of
color this board want to see greater investment in mental health treatment for those especially those living on our
streets I think we have an
obligation to the taxpayers we
represent not simply reject
state funding by try to reflect our volumes
keeping those states funds free
up the capital improvement and
help to provide for more mental health job train and all the
things that keep people out of
jail and in a real home we can
create a safer and humane city
colleagues he hope you'll take
my comments and my comments and my amendments take into
consideration this is was a really, really challenging issue
I know for many of us but I know
that is clear that many of the members of the board and many folks in the city and county of san francisco don't want to see
us waste money on a new stand alone jury trial facility it is
exactly what I will not do thank you. >> (Clapping.)
>> ladies and gentlemen, I just want to brought to your attention a few housekeeping
rules I hate to be the bear of
bad news we prohibit the
showings of support by applause
as a alternative an opportunity
to use your fingers if you hear
something you like or
disagreeable instead of that a thumbs down a powerful visual
message we'll receive and want
to remind we have a no signs in
the chamber as well next person is supervisor kim followed by commissioner campos and supervisor yee and supervisor farrell supervisor kim. >> thank you supervisor cowen
I just the want to say I'm proud to be standing with supervisor breed that is an incredible
difficult issue and I can't say
I know of very many
jurisdictions that talk about
turning down $8 million to
rebuild a job that is a
courageous step we don't want
the easy answer not the easy
solution it is easy to sweep
those that have the at least off
the streets their homeless and because they're sick because
they if graduate from high
school or addicted to drugs jail
is the easy answer this board
want to say address that issue
and make that a healthy hvkt and
stronger system we have the only county in the state of
california that has built a jail
since 2000 this is of concern
for two reasons one nationally
and in the state of california
elected officials democrats and
republicans and daze are stopping the massive categorization 25 years later
we're learning those policies
are incredible expensive and
burdensome but not achieving
other goals weed hope for and san francisco a vietnam veteran
with post traffic was charged
with arson of fire for a rome
exchange he spent three hundred
days in jail before the jury
found him not guilty of arson he
got the xnl as a form of theefrp
for his post traumatic stress
his jail cost us four to five thousand a day and the mental
health for a year would have
cost on $20,000 plus and h at
$56 a day a father of a 6
year-old reduced to plead guilty
and jailed for 3 months 3we6789
he was and I quilted he lost
custody of his daughter and car
and cost 13 thousand in public
funds we know that nearly
three-quarters of women in state
prison suffer or suffer from
drugs on the local advocacy
world talk about how jails with
a refugee because we have a progressive sheriff's department
and aggressive district attorney and public defender's office, in
fact, when I worked added lawyer
of community for civil rights we
talked about how it was finally in jail people can assess
shelter and bed and 3 meals a day and health care and rehab
services and access to the ged
programs and more
a form inmate told me he saw the
prison swell people attempted to
create a crime to get a
temporary sentence to get
regional refuge from the cold
one person in 4 spent time in
jail and mental health issues
and so we have to ask users
can't there is another way to
assess those serves not in jail
jails are expensive to build we
end up pagan for new jails for
decades the city will be
building proechd to build a
facility for through issuing koupgsz that costs the citizens
of san francisco over 3 homicide million dollars in construction alone san francisco voters have not
yielded approved the construction of jails construction costs are 10
percent of total cost of a jail
over a lifetime according to the association
we know that we're extremity been talking about reducing jail
beds but I think at the time the state granted application we didn't have in the alternatives
nofrd to make a fair decision today
I think there is so much we can
do in san francisco two factors that determine the jail population the number of people
booked into jail and the length
of their stay the average length
between booking and release has
fallen by 13 percent since. (Off the record.) We're implementing many of the practices that left to right itself and states across the country are finally calling for
over the last 5 years our average jail population declined
by 8 percent a faster rate in
the previous years in 2014 has
been the lowest since 1982 corresponding to the controller's office report 2014 was the lowest and based on the
impact of proposition 47 the
strategy use of the methods of
incarceration like electronic
monitoring and the continuing advances by the supervision practices the decrease in the
number of beds is not a surety
if san francisco a filing 50
percent of the jail beds today
why do we need another jail
we're leadership in san francisco that is reducing our
jail population by half yet our city is incurring the is only capital opposite instead of
closing we need to close the
jail at 850 bryant not safe for
the inmates and not for the men
and women that serve in our sheriff's department to be working there as well we definitely need to close that
facility and actually, I think we can do that now
>> and as we continue incur what a new criminal justice
system and reimagine our criminal justice system there are important questions first
who are we holding in our jails
who percentage are heels and surviving u suffering from mlk
and how many in jail they can't
afford bail if we discover that
thirtyers of our jail population
are homeless let's build a different shelter like permanent
affordable housing if we know
that a percentage is impacted by
mlk let's build a medical
industry or center where it is possess appropriate to address
what we see in the city in fact
I get overwhelms we invest their
taxpayers into mlk services
there is an assumption they
exist for the dangerous criminals this assumptions is supported by data and information about the population
but this is what we know we know
the negative impacts of yale
human beings a short stay if
jail can untie the lives of
those who are did not on-we
know individuals that have been
evicted because there were not
available to make the impact-
income to pay rent of later
their cases are dropped parents
losses custody of their children
and one case leading to a death
of a common cold in chesterfield
when the defendant was not
affording the bail and his
babies not if this how to take
care of him the U.S. Leads the
world in pretrial and an
estimate half a million people
are in the jails on any given
day can't make bail we there is still a lot more work to do we
know that those calls of action are happening throughout the
country I hope we are a model
for how to make our communities
safer I want to recognize
supervisor breed for doing a tremendous amount of work and
thank you to you and your staff and I have I didn't has been
working on this issue over a
year and the tremendous
advocates percentage provides
the issues I've that idle but most importantly recognize laura thrombins and others that
>> thank you, Madam Chair I like to ask the members of the
public to say a no to a new jail
to stand if you're able?
>> thank you, thank you.
>> I ask that was I think that
the fact that most people in
this room are standing tells us
where san francisco really is on this issue
and I think that a clear message
couldn't have been sent thank
you very much you May sit if you
like but I want to ask that because I want that I am going
to stick with us as we move forward you you know time after
time a number of us question whether or not a new jail is
needed and staff to consider the
option we held a meeting that
supervisor kim chaired we asked
about the alternatives and no alternatives that was seriously
considered so from the request
from the board to consider alternative of alternatives was
not headed maybe the fact that
most people in the room standing
against the new jail about get
through to our staff they'll consider going into a different
direction and to the folks that
are here he wanted to know there is a lot of procedural questions
and maneuver that is happening
the key question what we're
doing on item 40 40 specifically allows the
sheriff it authorizes the sheriff's department to accept
and expend $80 million for the
purpose of rehabilitating and
building a detention facility
by tabling that item today along
the lines of what supervisor President London breed and
supervisor kim hsa have outlined we're sending a clear message
that any effort to build a new
jail in san francisco will not be moving forward out that this
body and whether it hemispheres
today or down in a month or year I don't see it board of
supervisors in any way approving
anything that allows with the
expenditure of money to build
would a new jail in the
sfoivenlths is it is not what
san francisco wants that simple
with that, I also want to leave
us with this
it is not enough that we do this today
we need to not only rededicate
ourselves thirty to this effort
what roma and other have been
fooiktd forgive coming up with
alternatives but focus on
sacramento parts of the problem
is the misguided misappropriated priorities of santa monica the
only thing that sacramento gives jurisdiction for san francisco
is for jails
and by saying no, thank you governor jerry brown only thank
you but, yes we need money for other things
we need money for housing, we
need money for education, we
need money inform 40 for so many things our families in san
francisco are struggling to stay here
and so not enough to shoot this
down we need a to recommit ourselves to going to sacramento
so the money is given to city's
like san francisco so address
the niece of people of this city
I hope that happens we know by
voting to table not only am I
voting to say no to a new jail
but, yes to invest in the future
of of our families thank you. >> (Clapping.)
>> thank you commissioner campos
next will be supervisor yee. >> thank you very much
this has been a difficult
discussion and I think was last
week, we had the hearing that was shedding a lot of light and
on any thinking and it's been difficult discussion because it
is like how do we turn a negative discussion into a
positive how do we sit down and
figure out what we really can do
for people that are in
situations where they might be
incarcerated I think I want to
say I appreciate supervisor breed and supervisor kim and
everyone that is working on this
to look at it how to have a
positive discussion and the
amendments that you've asks for
and to start that dialogue with
the working group is really the way to look at this as a positive discussion
I think we should have this I'm
glad you brought this up and to
get us in that direction and by having this working group and investigating some time to have
a discussion people get together
but provides an opportunity for
our system to try out they're
new itself program to use the
national assessment to actually
reduce the number of people that
are incarcerated into put them
into alternative programs
yeah you know $80 million really
is we should be keep the
$80 million and put it if
preschool I mean it if you want
to talk about prevention we know that works and don't know why
the state didn't support that I want to support the amendments that are going to be made and so
forth I have one question and
which I hope someone can answer
he want 80 us to go ahead and
try to purchase that property
but why are we using certificate
of participation but it will
cost us several millions in
terms of interest or whatever it
is why can't say we find
$15 million in the budget and
pay for it we don't losses million dollars this is a
question I want to know I want to pose it.
>> supervisors ben controllers
certainly large items we do like many governments that finance
but cash could be used for is
that cash will come from the
general fund likely but an option indians this is going
back to the committee and part of ad hoc committee.
>> I want to stressed if we could find funding in the
general funds to pay for this
this means we will have several
million dollars that could go
into services.
>> is that it supervisor yee.
>> next supervisor farrell.
>> thank you, Madam Chair I
want to extend supervisor President Breed it is a tough
issue and the person choice is relevant and jermaine and coming
from the right place I'm in full
support and the other week if
committee he simply want to say
I hope we March down this road in a consecutive manner
you know if we close the current
hall of justice we know and we're extremity talked about in
deplorable position for the prisoners and the deputy
sheriffs we'll be in an
overcrowding situation and as
much of a supporter and hope the
built as the board at the state
level to plug more into those
efforts and certainly commend the efforts around mental health but
more than anything thank you to
supervisor breed for her efforts here. >> supervisor mar.
>> thank you. I want to first
acknowledge deputy chief
friedman in the back deputy
chief and other for really show
me the treble conditions within
the hall of justice and bryan strong important I think trying
to do his best with the difficult situation I'm sorry to
be on the side of the thirty nonprofit and social justice organizations and did many
members in the audience that are
have been a growing coalition
against the building of the new
jail I want to say and commissioner campos asked people
to stand this is not the first
time we're extremity seen the
multi racial justice you've been
here for budget committee mergers that supervisor katie
tang and supervisor farrell eye
and I and the gao and your
strengths is growing he want to say as black lives matter and
critical resistance it is a
racial justice issue and C.J.
Has hieltdz the number the burns
institute to that 49 percent of jail is filled with african-americans and a huge percentage of latinos and chicanos and other of color as
well 7.3 times the arresting
rates for african-americans then
the general population and
growing the industrial complex
as the folks have said needs to
be stopped would be principles
and building up racial multiply
so it is not about the board of supervisors but the movements
out there that are challenging
the growing collection I wanted
to say I'm here in solidarity
with this coalition and young
people for the young impedes e
women's investments have been
out more and more and give
proposes to the young people not
investing in the jails I also
wanted to acknowledge that san
francisco as other have said
california do much better in
investing in alternatives and
people and mental illness extort
systems and up to 40 percent of
our in custody as the healthy rofrtd in the budget
conceptually committee are
people that suffer from mental
illness they need treat I'm glad
our department of mlk is looking
that road but supervisor President Breed and supervisor jane kim one way or another we're extremity shift not
building new jails I wanted to
say we don't need to continue to
criminal ccii criminal lists the
powerful over ero often the
coalition of homeless that stood
up we need to continue to
decrime scene the efforts and
not mental illness but giving
people real opts without a doubt
a just jails a more beds in the
system we have now, one thousand plus inmates that is three hundred and 50 in the hall of
justice and marks the 33 year
low for our system down from the 2 thousand three hundred inmates
in the mid 90s I think that was
about 10 years ago that new jail emerged that population was at
that level but because the
coalition and other gradual and rapid decreases in the
population I believe with bail
reform as the gao and the mental
health services we're moving forward towards the community-based alternatives so
I stands with the coalition and
am proud of board for taking this bold and strong action along with the coalition. >> thank you supervisor mar and supervisor peskin. >> schoolz.
>> thank you supervisor avalos all.
>> thank you it is actually
important to go out commissioner mark farrell it supervisor eric
mar if it was 15 years ago we
got andrew's protesting prop 21
that kartsz more people giving
the da daze as charging people
as adults we took over the
oakland planning commission i met a lot of people during that
time the I critical resistance
was around and starting and I
feel like it is I'm excited to see how much the organize has
done on for years and the voice
of people have come to this
board through several meetings we're extremity had and openly
and rooektd $80 million from the
state government to build a new
jail and not a lot of victories
they have not been I roll call
in alameda county in 2000 and
2001 that went forward it is
hard to finds overseeing
victories and say now no to the
complex and I think here we work
at city hall and accept things
we kind of sleepwalk in you're
jobs and resolve those problems
capable city workers to make sure our facilities as a gay
good as they can be but start to
build a new jail and make it smaller the current jails three
and four and doing our part to
prevent the incarceration of
people because we have few jail
beds but stacking the step to
continue the prison and industrial complex the way our
facilities lock up and keep
people down especially brown and
black they're clearly other ways
to go I actually find themselves
of myself thinking main that's
the way things are you read
angela davidson and with that in
my ahead this is a way to go
that was a couple years ago and
it took people and roma meet me and san francisco state university and turned my head
around what are you thinking
what have you been part of vance
and going to be a facility that
is part of keeping people
downturn their lives negatively
forever we have this before us
and I'm excited a second time to
be voting against this effort to
build a new jail in san
francisco I want to thank my colleagues
for their strong and bryan
strong that works on the capital improvement plan committee and
the controller's office and even in the sheriff's department that
is important we fellow what supervisor President London breed has talked about in terms
of looking at alternatives to
building a new jail and what we
put if place has nothing to do
with with the people behind bars
but people with a substance we
need to make our lives better and making sure we have love
treatment and places to live we
can have access to mlk services and keeping our community whole and families those are the
things that make a difference and as supervisor yee talked about childcare makes the
biggest difference so in terms
of investments for young people
below the age of 5 will be with
them the rest of their lives
that's the greatest investment
for love we all know is what is mavericking human beings
complete I'm happy to vote against this this is a small
step that is taking this out of
the valuation of being part of
what is sleepwalk way of vetting
the industrial complex much more
to do I'm looking forward to being part that have.
>> thank you, supervisor peskin. >> thank you acting President
I'm so proud to be on this board
today it is as a on and on son
of two mental health professionals that is exactly
what I was raised on I want to
thank everyone in the community
rothman ma and other thomas for
making this vote with the leadership of supervisor President London breed and supervisor kim subpoena an easy
vote to take as I've reemerged
myself in the week I've been
here for bad players I ever
remarkably combrosz combrelsz on
the ones the liable sheriff mike
advocating our outgoing sheriff
a thinking has evolved our in
coming sheriff kevin about the
inmate population the tour I received yesterday, I think they want to have the facilities
where they have the ability to
have mental health services that
topnotch and really in large
part going to be in sheriff's
bailey to work with this board
and the advocates in other
words, to achieve what we must
achieve the closer of C.J. Four
I look forward and expend to the sheriff's department very sincerely the desire to work to
achieve that and make that dream
come true with the complexes of
clagz and complexes of san bruno
and C.J. One and two and work
with the states to hang on the $80 million where san francisco
is the progressive leaders in criminal justice system under
the leadership of sheriff
hennessy and will be as we move forward. >> thank you, supervisor wiener.
>> thank you make I Madam Chair thank you supervisor President London breed we're extremity had a number of confections over the
most about this proposal and
also about the drastic needs for
more mental health services in san francisco more beds and
ability to take people that are
in crisis and destable and get
them healthy I think we all agree that massive incarceration
is a huge problem in the country
one of the greatest challenges
as self-I think inflicted wound
in san francisco and in addition to the telephone to 13 hundred
daily number of people in our
jail system on a given day
balanced by 50 percent in the last decades we're extremity
bucked the national trends and significantly reducing our jail
population and in fact, we have
almost as many people now on
some type of diversion in our
county jail system so I do think
this is important we talk about
massive incarceration on a national level to really
acknowledge san francisco we
have not yielded just rallied against massive incarceration
but walked the walked under
reducing the number of people in
our jail facilities and moving more and more people into alternative of jail incarceration that's a positive
thing I'm happy to support what
we are doing today, I think to
say stent we get people in a safeway into different
alternatives be is miscellaneous or substance abuse program
they're not carted it is good
for the taxpayer and good for
the communities
I want to note that we need to
get this right this can't be
just talk about how important to have more mlk facilities or
alternatives we have a crime
problem here in san francisco I
know that our violent crime levels in san francisco have
gone down but in a number of areas at the scene of the crime
is significant up in the city
not a blip you sitting down up
in our neighborhoods everyday
and it is a very real thing we need to make sure if we're don't
go to be sixth reducing our
number of jail beds as will
happen when this jail is torn
down and not replaced we have those real alternatives if we don't have those real alternatives we're going to have
a real problem on our hands I've
seen strategies including in the
examiner how we have our jails
at 50 percent empty or one
thousand empty jail beds I've
landmarked the numbers and talked to a lot of people that
is not true we'll be when this jail is torn down our jail
population will be one or one
and 50 above our capacity
and we're going to have to work
through that so as we're doing
it all I'm saying doing it is
eyes wide open and not
opinionated our jails are half
by but have to make hard choices
and not pretend we don't have to make those alternatives a reality the miscellaneous system in this state as your honor,
raffled we in san francisco and other local jurisdictions pay
the price for that everyday and
we as local jurisdictions local communities have to react to
that and we have to do do that
we're not getting the help if 9
sulfate and federal government we'll looking forward to getting that done. >> thank you, supervisor wiener it supervisor tang. >> I think a lot has been said
I agree with on this topic I do want to thank supervisor President London breed for the
decision or the kind of
x-chromesomes that have proposed so I know that sheriff is
leaving his position but want to thank him one of the first
things we do was take me on the
tour of all the jails so I feel
like this conversation had a
better understanding how some of the inmates are going through
and the issues we have a quorum
I do want to second the motion
you've made I don't know if you
want to have me restate so just to be clear. >> go ahead.
>> amending items 36 and 37
and accept and expend that back
to the finance committee and supervisor yee in budget
committee we'll work with the controller's office and mayor's
office and foulth the best
source of funding I believe you
said to also send back item 38
the reference to the jail and
tabling item 39 and 40.
>> and also sending items 41
and 42 the mental health pies back to committee. >> supervisor tang. >> and supervisor cowen.
>> thank you. I just want to
take a moment to recognize an can I believe educator in our
community roma a woman.
>> roma can you stand up please. There we go.
>> (Clapping.). This is agency
woman that is a try educator
through every thing in ear
entire being from here head to
her toes taken time to educate
people on the issue and offend
person stories and given and
bought books certainly a reading
assignment I want to take a moment to appreciate the
portions of an educator and
respect roma and the leadership
of laura thomas that I spent less time but through overwhelms and messages we want to
acknowledge I've received all of
them and recognize supervisor
kim and also supervisor President London breed for their leadership and helping you guess
look at this issue through a different lens
and also want to recognize the mainstream that work every
single day in the building not only those we spends time
talking about those who help but
the office space in the building
there or people that are noirmz to the advocates that make the
realms to educate and rally and
show supports in creating an
summit we owe a debt of advocacy and work I don't know what the
outcome is today but I want to
speak to the advocates
in the social justice movement
and remind them an incredible
amount of work May be one jail we have an incredible system
that is in place for many, many
years that has dpe humanized and tore did you observe people for
generations and work to do to
provide support for you for
you're fellow people in the communities and want to recognize there were thoughtful people that works on the proposal although the proposal
is not the right direction want to recognize the hard work of
the city employees that have put
their time and effort and in putting together this will
proposal I look forward to a more thoughtful decision port commission an incredible state
we live in and posed to be a
leader in the social justice
movement and continue to have
thoughtful conversations around alternatives thank you. >> thank you supervisor cowen.
>> so with that, just a final
few comments before we move to
the vote, of course, my co-sponsors to the resolution for the working groups supervisor kim, supervisor wiener
supervisor farrell supervisor cowen
supervisor campos and, yes that's all I had and again
supervisor peskin and want to
also recognize roma for taking
my phone calls and answering the
questions being a fight for this cause and making sure that you
know we as a city we continue to do better and continue to do
better to serve the people that need us probation officer make
the good policy decisions and
like to thank my aid conner johnson for working hard to
prepare those amendments and prepare a lot of the information
here today we were able to
discuss and I appreciate his
harrods and the aids in my
office a very, very difficult
subject matter as I said it is
personal to me for so many
reasons I'm grateful to any
colleagues who also really care about making a good sounds
policy decision when it comes to something that involves people
that need us to do better with
that, we're amending items 36
and 37 as circulated and we are
sending those back to committee
we are sending items 38, 41 and
42 to committee and tabling
items 39 and 40 I'll start with
each item to be clear first on
the amendment to item number 36
it was moved by me and it was
seconded by supervisor tang,
supervisor kim colleagues we'll take that without objection. We'll take that without objection. The amendment passes amazing
and colleagues on item 37 can we
take moved by me and seconded by
supervisor tang colleagues that amendment without objection we'll take that without objection. The amendment passes unanimously
and the motion to send items 36,
37 and 38 and 41 and 42 back to committee we'll take that
without objection. It passes and
amazing tabled the items we'll take that without objection. We'll take that without
objection. Item 39 and 40 are
tabled paw you can clap aw you can clap w you can clap you can clap
you can clap now. >> (Clapping.)
Chanting:
Chanting:
Chanting:
>> we'll take a quick 5 men recess.
>> all right. Folks we're back
to conduct the business of the
board of supervisors ambassador
m go to our next item.
>> >> item 43 an ordinance to amend the planning code for
the childcare for office and
hotel projects to impose a
childcare fee for residential
projects to provide oust and a
conform the second and other finding.
>> supervisor yee thank you supervisor President
London b I just mentioned in our last
discussion one of the things we
all know that works in
prevention and saying a lot of
funding from society is to
invest early on in early education
and so what this a lot of aspects of a the early education
childcare one of them the bolt
to have facilities to house
those programs so after many months of discussion I'm excited
to be here before you to present
a again, after through committee
the legislation that will
address those hectic under
funding and under redemption go childcare facility the impact
fee was the first that san francisco access on development
that was create over three years
ago and san francisco was the
first city to create inclusionary housing program we're once again creating the
first program to question of
give the developers to dictate units to chiropractor this will
be the first of its kind in the
nation, we currently are 3 thousand 5 hundred children in
the eligibility list waiting for
childcare over of our o,
however, only had 2 percent for the working parents coupled with
the fact we have recreations
within the next 15 years san francisco population will grow
by another one and sfgov highway meaning more children by the
need to do something to start
looking ahead and being creative
how we'll increase violate for
childcare for over families that
expands the impact fees to
include the residential and the developments citywide and
increase the fees to those
determined in the 2014 citywide
nexus study those additional
fees could result in wurpdz of $5 million for the chiropractor
funds for the next 5 to seven
years this sounds like a drop in the bucket but doubling what
we're getting when you look at
the demands for creating and expanding and so forth of
childcare space and being able
to fund 1/5th to one-tenth of
the demand it is socializing
need our costs of 4 hundred to 5
hundred thousand to build out
not talking about building a
building but a small childcare building in san francisco this
is important affordable options
one of the best way to license
home-based childcare that
legislation will create an
option for the developers to
devote one to 8 children at any
given time theer register
project has that up to 3 units to be dedicated to licensed
family childcare to allow them
to get a decreasing amount for the impact fee we believe that
will lead to the creation of
dozens of units that will have the potential of substance abuse to hundreds of families this
legislation is gone through a
number of revisions we continue
to work tireless to address the comments we're extremity received and value each other of
them I want to thank the planning commission, the planning department staff that
worked diligently with us to
craft this legislation monique
and other staff at the mayor's office of housing with sophie
hayward and maria benjamin I want to thank the many, many
childcare providers and participants that came out and
supported that legislation I
especially want to thank my
staff who has worked for over a year to craft this piece of
legislation 0 it is acceptable
and will move forward and I also
want to thank my colleagues supervisor kim and supervisor avalos for co-sponsors this legislation
so I have dedicated my whole
life to making san francisco a family-friendly city and shlgdz
to accomplish that and raised my
family I believe that is an important step in the right direction so colleagues he hope he have you're support.
>> thank you supervisor yee.
>> on item 43 Madam Clerk call
the roll oh, excuse me. Supervisor avalos oh, never mind. >> I want to thank supervisor yee for working on this
legislation I live that a part of san francisco police commission tfa san francisco large population of children
under the age of 5 and losing
our family daycare paradise because of evictions and also
we're have a lack of facilities
for childcare we're losing those
to evictions this is really critical we're actually blofrt the funds to cover the childcare
needs and facilities in san francisco family da's office providers
provide much more valuable than
the family based car consider and having that available for more families makes that possible for families to stay in
san francisco and we can address
the affordability crisis so I
have my full support on this legislation. >> thank you, supervisor kim. >> I want to recognize
supervisor yee and his office
for the leadership around
childcare and early childcare
acres or issues we not had a leader in the board of
supervisors and it is great to
have someone that brings this to
the land use policy and we create more jobs we have to make
sure that the city is live work
by providing increased childcare
center and only by dedicating
the space I'm excited to be a
co-sponsor along with commissioner avalos but thank
you to supervisor yee more than
a statement hoping to invest
into our framework and supervisor avalos.
>> can I be added to the co-sponsor.
>> seeing no other names on
the roster Madam Clerk and
supervisor cowen
supervisor mark farrell
supervisor kim
supervisor mar
supervisor peskin.
>> supervisor tang
supervisor wiener
supervisor yee
supervisor avalos schooed. >> commissioner campos
there are 11 I's and the ordinance is passed unanimously on the first reading item 44
are
ordinance to amend the administrative code to establish the right-of-way policy to
promote safety and tolerance and
ham new among overseeing who use
the streets for bicycle who fail
to stop at stop signs the lowest proprietor. >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you supervisor President London breed first of
all, I want to thank my
co-sponsors for this measures
which I admit is controversial sxhoepd commissioner campos, supervisor kim supervisor mar and supervisor wiener thank you for your
co-sponsorship and also thing jeremy my legislative aide to
for working on this a big
cyclist cyclist in the city that
is very, very person I'm a
lifelong cyclist since the age
of 10 learned at 7 year-old and
got any real bike at 10 years
old I'm mostly beacon to commute
I'm multiply mobile not on the
bike as much the one thing that
biking gave me a sense of this
city a have a tap graph map of san francisco I know where all
the hills and how to avoid them
and whoonz I want to tackle and
know what the practice of crystal I've been krooif under the xhoifr from city hall for 10
years it is a 5 million commute
I circled circled circled I used
a guitar to protect myself if
cars recycling can be a
dangerous opportunity but it
makes it a low low save and part
of raurns or awareness to make sure we're looking at out for people and cars and pedestrians and other vehicles that use you're streets and it is something that legislation is really about
and I'm one of one person there
are thousands of people that
have the experience ever what
the O.J. What it is like in the city how to protect themselves
and other people and make sure their looking at for pedestrians
and a roof cyclists is don't
circle and put people's lives at
fear they're not the main body
of cyclists but the minority and
we don't have like a pr add that
promotes cycling in the is I e
country that leads to a lot of
Miss Exemptions about cycling in
to we see everywhere in san francisco we're extremity seen
the rapid increase of people
riding bikes and led to a
conflict of bicyclists and
drivers new consensus the
commuters that are riding
doubled between 2006 we can
minimize if we yield you're
streets work best when we treat
other like we want to be treated
like cyclists and autopsies
automobile we're wondering what
cyclists and automobiles will be doing the california vehicle
code requires the bikes to
follow the rules as cars but
bikes are different it generates
one hundred was the of power
like hours power cars a uc berkley physics professor found
a cyclist is rolls through a
stop use 25 percentlessly energy than the cyclists excuse me.
That fully stops we've leaders
that traffic flows better when we give bicyclists considerations like bike lanes
and as parts of vision zero the san francisco police department
focus on the 5 the dangerous most dangerous traffic
violations there is running red
lights and stop signs violating pedestrian right-of-way,
exempting turning violations and
speeding, however, district enforcement is current
productive for several reasons
it takes away scarce
enforcements and counter inner
tuff to how people navigate the intersections and discourages
people from bicycling common
sense enforcement of law makes
you are streets more predictable
I've heard a lot about this
ordinance people building that
it gives special accommodations
to bike riders this is not true
it is about setting the priorities for the san francisco police department that reflect our policies and conforming
those policies with the
practices of kind of like in san
francisco the san francisco police department claims the enforcement of bicyclist
violations is a low priority but
we're extremity seen data that
contradicts they dictated office
hours I repeat one hundred and
14 officer hours on 5 and 6th
street for ticketing people on
the wilting that is for most
dangerous intersections they're
not on the wiggle there are no
records of enforcements at
market street and octavia the
city's most dangerous system
that is based on the injuries as
reported boy this department of public health this two day crack
counsel 2 had had and 4
citations with the vast majority
going to bicyclists the san
francisco police department
cites bicyclists through stop
signs on October 1, '12 san francisco police department cruiser we are seen stacking
occult the intrfshgs waller and steiner and ticketing bicyclists between manipulated that was
recorded to me directly and
reports of talk the walk
bicyclists on the wiggle the chronicle recorded a young woman
for rolling to a stop sign at
less than 5 miles per hour she said the stop took 15 minutes
for the ticketing to be made you
having could focus on much more
dangerous activities on a street
the ticketing for biking is 2
this defendant dollars within is
making the project rent to get
more clarity I'm submitting a
letter of inquiry to the police
department for the number of
citation for bicycle riders to
phil to yield this didn't
condone the biologists who don't
slow down to 6 miles per hour
arrest 6 feet to pedestrians
this ordinance will not discourage the police department
from talk the walk unsafe
behavior we can't allow the sfpd
to prioritize ticking of behaviors by bicyclists instead
of focusing on the city's dangerous intersection jeering
first of all, it requires
cyclists so year-old and that
yielding can mean stopping and
making sure the pedestrians have
the right-of-way it also says if
bikes are not to a complete stop but negotiating the inspectors
at 6 mile-per-hour and I think
outside the box as I said it
also specified the distance the
exists must have between themselves and pedestrians at
any rate of feet this ordinance
also has a language that
encourages can't require the mta
but can you remember the mta to
have an education campaign
educating the cyclists and how
the education works this thing
past year $400,500,000 for the vision zero program and we also have money that is available
from the transportation
authority to pay for added education efforts around cyclist
in the city in many legislation
will urge the mta to carry out this education colleagues this is common sense legislation and for a city that is working to
get people out of their cars and
to use less of a cartoonish I am
brilliant that incentives our climate goals and bicyclists
help to meet our overhead needs I encourage our support. >> thank you supervisor avalos supervisor cowen.
>> over a year ago we as a city commit to the vision zero
policy which is a policy that is
committed that commits our city
to 2020 and facilities by the
year of 2024 a good policy I
stand behind and a dozens of
high injury kortsdz we distinct
to see and make improvements to
as part of vision zero commitment approximately 7 thousand intersection in san
francisco and I think we have a collective responsibility to
make sure they're safe to the
best of of our built to everyone that enters into the
intersections whether residents
or not are safe, I think we need to been holistically about
cyclists and pedestrians and
people that are disabled whether
their sight impaired or in a wheelchair they'll be using
overseeing corridors an if this
ordinance passes it will porsche
put in nourment we're extremity
heard testimony from the disability advocates advocating their concerns around that policy
I'd like to the also take a
moment to recognize that just
yesterday a bicyclists was tragically killed on the
southeast part of the city in
the neighborhood we don't know all the details an investigation
is under a way those are the kinds of incidents and situations that I'm really
concerned about I have a real
concern that ordinance will
confuse the issue and future
create a Miss Understanding between drivers and pedestrians
and have a few concerns when it
comes down to improvement
particularly with the novrn english speaking community not
only enforcement if in the monthly lingual community but
enforcement I've yet to see that
happen to the question I received from passionate go san
franciscans phone calls and
overwhelms on both sides of the
issues raised real concerns that
are boycott e legitimate I'm e
I'm not trying to demolish those
from the cycling community but
90 but the passage of that will
come to a harvard challenge for
those seniors and not able to support this legislation as it is today thank you.
>> thank you. I see a long
list on the roster at&t park we
talkative today supervisor farrell. >> thank you, supervisor breed first thank you to supervisor avalos and supervisor breed and supervisor wiener that put that worked on this measure as well
as the other co-sponsors I
understand this policy was long
in the making and a direct
response to some of the acts
link the wiggle and take the opportunity to supervisor President London breed I
understand where she is coming
from having said that, die
building that changing the rules
of road a appropriate response
for me first of all, you're students her in san francisco
are more commend until we have
serious suggestions about a subway city that supervisor
wiener started to talk about it
is on this boo going to get
worse and worse and people move to san francisco we doing doing everything we can to promote our transit first policies but
recognize the status of roads
and any up to this point in time
as someone that group I grew up
riding muni pea my bike by myself through the streets of
san francisco before I was a
teenager and when I turned 16
and started to throw a car into
the mix still drive a car and
ride a bike with my kids and walk as much as possible our roads are the crazy itself due
to more people or construction
it is what is haven everyday in san francisco
I see drivers driving for
aggressive than ever before and
bicyclists blowing through stop signs and rltsz every single day
to work and pedestrians walk
with their heads down with their
iphones from my perspectives everything here everybody that
every mode of transportation is
added fault in many ways and
everyone in san francisco needs
to take ownership we need to
take accountant for all
residents we rightfully contempt a ton of resources to vision
zero I support and a number of unfortunate accident on the
other hand, these in district 2
I don't see how this legislation furthers that goal people talked
about this legislation in the
context off pedestrians versus
bicyclists frankly pitting that
against each other drives me this is from my prospective
everyone needs to be more
vigilantes on the streets that means everyone bicyclists and
pedestrians and car drivers and
changing the rules of roads in
san francisco to allow one mode
of transportation to have a
legally different set of rules on the roads doesn't make sense
and a lot has been made about
this works else were
I understand major cities no
europe we talk about idaho and
to states the obvious we're a
different setting idaho, I do as
I looked it up earlier today has
about 20 people per skwierp we
have over 17 thousand people per square mile it is simply
different we need to acknowledge the reality and lastly there is
comments about well, that is a
small resolution you know it
can't say be implemented that is
against state law it didn't
really does much except contradict san francisco police department is don't say more
than that it sends a preliminary hearing to everyone in san francisco that one mode of
transportation in the city has a
different set of rules than
anyone else I'm a huge property
of more bike lanes we did it on
my street with my kids and my wife and I will and in district 2 and making that more
attractive for bicyclists to be
in san francisco we need to increase liability and attractiveness for transit first
but changing the rules of the
road for not only bicyclists but
other people that use the road
to me is the wrong medications I
appreciate the intent of the resolution I understand where supervisor President London
breed is coming from I do
believe a ton of public safety
issues that dictates sfpd is
looking at crime with that said,
I doolittle doable this make sense I'll not are supporting that.
>> thank you supervisor farrell supervisor yee.
>> thank you supervisor President London breed
I want to say I think the
understand the intent that
supervisor avalos is trying to
bring to the table and after all
he was like supervisor jane kim
and myself co-authorize of
dissolutions which rules do we follow I'm thinking whether I'm
a pedestrian or something that
is biking or a driver what we
don't want to do is create more situations where we're second-guessing where a biker
ever or are anyone else will be
doing some anticipation, of
course, careful makes sure regardless if you're walking or
biking are driving a vehicle but there's sometimes assume if there is a stop sign they're
going to stop and if we're
really don't know what someone
about do is scarey I'd to be on
the save side we have rules let's follow it you know what I
mean, I'll be doing it will be
safer so I'll not be supporting the legislation today.
>> thank you schoe supervisor wiener.
>> okay. I'm going to support
supervisor avalos a few option
comments in a row I support that
this legislation and happy to
sign on early as a co-author I
think a lot of expressions of
both support and option but in
terms of the opposition I received almost every single
communication I've received in
opposition e-mails or otherwise
talks about cyclists that run
red lights or blow through stop signs or violate a right-of-way
and almost hit a pedestrian I
almost we're 11 for 11 wanting
the cyclists to get ticketed
their reckless behavior but not
what this legislation is about
this legislation I won't repeat with supervisor avalos said
doesn't in any way exonerate
people that are engaging in
reckless behavior people traiflg
of miller or less critically
slow speeds and people that accusationly enter an
intersection only if no one else
is interest not violating anyone
else's right-of-way we're not talking about someone that blows
through stop signs this didn't
apply to someone who is doing that not talking about running a red light this legislation
didn't apply we're not talking
about a krieflts speeding or
riding on sidewalks I know we
have a boarder discussion around
the way that people act on the
road cyclists and muni drivers
and ridership drivers a
intentional discussion how we
should be sgrak with people in
the city this is legislation is
about a specific type of cycling
not creating danger for anyone
and this legislation is about making sure that people can
actually bike in the city I agree completely with supervisor farrell we're getting be a more and more cross-out
city we see is it on the streets every single day with the congestion of every mode of
transportation and only going to
get more congested as you're
population is growing by other one and 50 thousand people by
the quarters of a century but do the best we can to make that as
easy as possible for people to
assess forms of transportation other than driving their own car
investing in the transportation
system and vice chair a great
car sharing and making that as
easy as possible for people to
ride bikes having a bike system
that reflects the reality how
people ride bikes the fact is a
stop sign at every intersection
on streets little or no traffic
little risk of anything
happening with the bikes entering the intersection slowly
and cautiously some people will
not stop at every single intersection port commission in
every city I've ever seen and
fancy for us to think they're
going to do so so cyclists
continue to get tickets someone
in any districts sent me a citation under 57 mile-per-hour
but got a ticket I don't think
that is how we should be using
our law enforcement resources
people that are are being hit
and dying on the streets we have
far better used for our a scarce law enforcement so I'll be supporting this legislation. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. >> supervisor tang.
>> thank you very much
I know that there been comments
and concerns about safety in
relation I'll not repeat those
one of the top concerns is again
how we are telling me the police department that something should be the lowest enforcement
priority for them that's where I fundamental have the issue what
will stop us in the future police department we'll tell you what you're priorities that
should be worked or worked out
with community members, in fact,
when I go to the police captain
their priorities change they
want the police to focus on
something and next month
something else I hear about
cyclists not riding safely and
it's okay. As along their
caution I I don't like the
police enforcement that one, the fundamental concerns the other
thing is that as we know that state law governs the rules of
road I appreciate we're trying to adopt a san francisco right-of-way policy that is a policy so I wanted to make sure that whether you're a residents
or a visitor coming from out of
state I understand what 9 rules of road are owe not something
that san franciscans know about
the yielding and be a personal level I don't have a problem
that accident yielding again, if you're. >> broadcast bicyclists and experiencing caution and not
coming to a complete stop I
don't believe that that police
should be spending their time endorsing those kinds of situations but that legislation
came being because of some I
think ousted arraigns behavior
from one police captain and not
adapt this because of one type
of behalf we work better with the practical captain to make
sure we addresses our values and
the safety priorities what we
could do a better job and should
do more work in terms of
enforcements on distracked
driving and distransacted bike
and those all those things making sure we are paying
attention so I want to dots best to support the biking communities they've done amazing
things to take the cars oath the
road and like supervisor farrell I grew up bike before it was cool in san francisco so and he
also when I was in college had
on this a bike and if you're
talking about e grerg behavior
the police were hiding behind
bushes on campus ticketing
students we need to be careful
no matter what we are doing I'd
like us to focus on some other
things to make the roads safer
for everyone no matter of mode
of tracking transportation but
not address the police activities. >> supervisor mar.
>> let me be succinct so many
has been building inside on this
issue for me I'll say I'm appreciative that supervisor
avalos has brought that forward and I think best of my knowledge
lash or the scope getting of
bicyclists for the problems
cause a culture speeding and cars is really the issue before us
I think when there is an anti
bicycle bias between the police
department cult not just one or
two police officers that is much
broader than that if the safety committee to others issues we're extremity dolt day and night
with that is ridiculous to say that the counter to vision zero
vision zero and the focus on 5 to identify in a dedicated
approach the danger is and
again, the high injury corridors
with the cars bicyclists unsafe
bicycling is an issue about the
cultural of cars and killing of
people on discredits is night
and day a lot of dialogue but want to binge that back supervisor avalos action a
10-year-old he was riding I had
a green stingray two speedy
learned how to ride safely and
good efforts that he the bicycle
coalition and other lead so
we're trying to reach 20 percent
by 2020 of bicyclists I think
that kind of push back really
important type of policy is
counter to our policy as
supervisor avalos mentioned to a healthier city reducing the
carbon footprint and want to say I think the bias of the ticketing of bicyclists on the widen and other places is something that helps to address by sclaifr what the policies are
when we all rode on the bike to
work day many of us probable be
cautiously slowed and blow
through some stop signs I'll be speed up we know that happens
often I'll say whether it is
idaho, colorado or other city's
it is the right thing to do for san francisco and we should be
pufsh back on the ticketing of
$200 for bicyclists that are not
endaring anyone our times of the
boards politics my colleagues join supervisor avalos and the
other co-sponsors and anti bicyclists bias within the police department and the
cultural and to stop scapegoating bicyclists for
riding safely and trying to make
the city a better place as well that's my $0.02. >> thank you supervisor mar. >> supervisor kim. >> I want to recognize supervisor avalos and his office
and leadership for bringing this policy before us this is something we're extremity talked
about for quite a number ever
years in our confusion how we
can make that a safer city for
all the mode shares but how we
can reduce the congestion on the
streets if you, we want to get
anymore individuals out of their
cars out of the crowded muni and the congested streets into
they're bikes this was on the ordinances that will help to
insure that if you're a muni bus
and the streets is two cross-out
it is for you about save
behavior we don't tolerant
battin behave this ordinances are help to move the
bicyclists through the intersection and across the street
bikers know they don't want to tackle with cars their lose the
fight with the vehicle that is
thousands of pounds so cyclists
is simply not going to engage in
danger behavior they can't say
endanger the pedestrians when we talk about a better transportation city, of course,
we need to talk about anymore muni service and increase the
muni services we need to talk
about shivering that bicyclists
feel safe and create a sets of
laws that are going to encourage
people to bike and do so safely hesitate what this ordinance is
and many of the points are made
why we should support I'm happy to be a co-sponsors with supervisor avalos as a beginning
cyclists on the streets I see how this encourages me to bike
more if there are not cars and
not pedestrians on the street a
slow role through can help to insure that I can safely there
are no goat get through the city
this is a good policy moving
forward I think this can work in san francisco as well.
>> thank you, supervisor kim.
>> supervisor avalos I don't
want to repeat but jeer this legislation is not so much but changing rules I don't think
that is about changing rules but
really about how we can have
make people that yield at stop
signs the lowest priority for law enforcement it is really about making sure we're putting our resources
where they really need to go
cyclists who are approaching
stop signs at slow speeds
looking at for pedestrians are
not causing harm and to stand
the appreciate resources and
such behavior an intersections that are actually not critical
intersections to the vision zero
efforts is making enforcement
recycle we're doing the enforcement but police
department to have discretion
and when we legislate one of the
lowest detroit's priorities we give the police department
discretion we need that kind of
enforcement if we look at market octavia intersection national
getting any kind of enforcement
and we believe because of bias
against cyclists then we're not
doing we we need to do with the vision zero program far people
that run stop signs and violate
the pedestrian right-of-way and competing complete turning violations and speeding but actually allowing the cyclists
do come to a yield at stop signs
we're not endorsing stop signs
but enforcing studying speeding
a cyclist is blogging through
the intersection the police can
go after them they've violated
speeding and avoid and stop sign
by blogging introduce it in a dangers way to just to be clear
we want our police department to
do effective enforcement not to
waste their times think 15
minute $200 fixture or intelligent for people not
causing danger on our streets
colleagues, I have a number ever small amendments I don't believe
I have two of I passed out a
sheet of paper the first I'll
read into the record is on page
3 lines three and four it is vision zero language clean up
the 70 sfldz or san francisco police department is focused on
the behaviors most likely to
result in someone seriously
injured some seriously injured
the next one on page 5 line 3
adding the words always that
bicyclists yield in accordance
with the ordinance the words
always is new an page 7 line 7
fixing a typo a small change
2015 to be 2016 and page 5 lines
11 to telephone we're adding the
words maintain a distance of 6
feet from any pedestrians we're
actually setting the distance
with an pedestrian and I'd like to have a motion to accept those
amendments and last week to
motion that we duplicate the
file that is amended the amended
files and send that back to
committee but like to or have a
vote for the second reading for
the January when we have a
meeting just to be clear the
duplicated file to amend that. >> the duplicated family.
>> to create after the amendment. >> exactly.
>> so supervisor avalos has
made a motion to amend so marked
by supervisor avalos colleagues we'll take that without objection. The amendments pass and you want to duplicate the
file and are you making a motion
to send the duplicated file as
amended back to commissioner lee.
>> you're reading my mind Madam President yes. >> okay
so supervisor avalos as made a
motion to send the duplicated
file back to committee seconded
by supervisor avalos colleagues we'll take that without objection. We'll take that without objection. That passes
and Madam Clerk on the current
item as amended seeing no other
names on the roster please call roll.
>> supervisor cowen no
I heard I first supervisor. >> my apologies no. >> supervisor farrell no
supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor peskin. >> no supervisor tang no
ordinance is passed on the first responder as amended
Madam Clerk go to item number 45
an ordinance to amend the all hands on deck for the permitted
signs under the subsection did of the sugary drink beverages
warning to signs permitted other than October 2014.
>> roll call vote.
>> oh, sorry supervisor wiener
and colleagues that is clean up
to close a loophole in the health warner sign we're
extremity passed earlier this
year I'll appreciate you're support. >> okay supervisor wiener
seeing no other names on the
roster Mr. Clerk Madam Clerk.
>> supervisor cowen supervisor farrell
supervisor kim supervisor mar
supervisor peskin
supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee.
>> supervisor avalos
supervisor breed commissioner campos there are 11 I's. >> this ordinance is passed unanimously on the first reading
all right. Go to committee reports.
>> item 4 of was considered by the land use and transportation meeting on mondays and was
forwarded as a committee reports
item 46 a resolution to expend
for an additional of interim
controls in the castro street to require a conditional use authorization for a promoted use
that has been determined to be
formula retail use and to affirm
the ceqa determination. >> colleagues colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The resolution is adopted unanimously
item 47.
>> was considered by the public safety at a special
meeting on friday and was not
forwarded to the boards as committee report.
>> okay commissioner campos. >> thank you Madam President and thank you to scomplair and supervisor yee nothing I'd like
to have this item vote on today
unfortunately, we have to go
through the meeting imperative
with the our labor partners from who represent employees and various agencies wear under the
applied that have process and
because of that I need to ask
you to continue this item to our
meeting of January 26, 2016,
which will give us enough time to. >> through the wanting to commissioner campos that was not forwarded to the board not
currently before the board. >> okay nelson mandela. >> we'll be skipping over that
item and not having a discussion
since that was michael added to
the agendas Madam Clerk and the
agenda is created before the
item is considered by the committee.
>> thank you for your clarity
sorry so we will basically be
skipping over this item
and commissioner campos is for
clarity a corona that item. >> thank you supervisor breed
on think everything else never mind.
>> supervisor. >> a co-sponsor.
>> item 48 and 49 with your considered by the public safety and neighborhood committee at
adds specialize joint trial
meeting with the lafco commission on friday
December 11th were forwarded and
48 was recommend with a new title to urge the california
public utilities commission to reject pacific gas & electric
promoted increase fees for solar customers to support net
metering so the customers
receive a fair price for access electrical. Madam Chair rosales >> first of all, I'd like to
thank my colleagues everyone for
kovrz those resolutions item 48
I didn't get our co-sponsorship
because you co-sponsored I hope
you support and this is has been
an historic moment in our
climatic change world and our
world is impacted by climatic
change and conference in paris
and while we didn't get binding change that binds the
government's to take action
there was an agreement we would
actually instead of using the
two degree selling us but the
maximum afternoon temperature rise since preindustrial times
it is significant for a lot of
people the volunteery efforts
you're do not have is engaged is very, very problematic and put burns think cities around the
world to do their part and san
francisco is no extensive the
compliment action goals to effect the climatic change to
implement our cleanpowersf and
we're poised to do that third
year or start next year but this
entire year setting the stage of
cleanpowersf so to camp coming
as a abilities of a challenge we're getting ready to launch
that pg&e the monopoly we buy
our electricity it spying with the california public utilities commission two proposals that
will limit our ability to
implement cleanpowersf one is a
change to the neat brerg
metering is how residents that
have solar or facilities that
generate electrical can use
their electrical but sell the access into the grid and pg&e is changing the rules that will
make that more difficult and cost more for facility and
people that own the electrical
generation like solar to be able
to make it cost fiscal and sorrowfully impact our
cleanpowersf program the other
prop that pg&e has filled the
power adjustment rate it is a
rate they'll charge the
expertise that or existing
pg&e's electrical generation
system and goobtsdz to the
cleanpowersf this is not effect
only cleanpowersf but other
communities choice like marin and other electrical places
around california and limits our
ability to make to launch our clean power and to create our
own facilities in our effort to make the rates competitive with
pencil we'll have less money
about $8.4 million variable
norway for our goals it is
virtually important we send a
strong message by sending the communication to the california public utilities commission to reject those two proposals from
pg&e so we can actually see our
clean power program start and
our goals for compliment action
take effect next year colleagues
he urge tour support.
>> Madam Clerk call item 49 a resolution for the california public utilities commission to
reject the pg&e companies
promoted increase to the power charge emancipation proclamation
difference the p cdc cia in the
application and support
alternatives that will mitigate
the impact on the cca customers
and prospective cca and respect
for the reexamination how the
pcia is calculated and applied
to pg&e consumers and colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The resolutions are
adopted anonymously
Madam Clerk item 50 please. Was considered by the rules
committee at a rescheduled meeting open December 10th and
forwarded as a committee report
and recommended with a new title
to appoint the following 11
members to the cannabis task
force terms enld August 31st jessie eric micro sarah john
barbara tom ambassador laura
terrance and daascy. >> supervisor wiener.
>> thank you Madam President
colleagues today before us is a
major step in making sure that san francisco is prepared when
as I'm hoping will happen to
legalize the adult cannabis use
next November as you recall this
year we unanimously passed
protective to creates a cannabis
state task force so we don't
have a fire drill after
latelytion occurs in terms of
addressing the land use and health and safety and other
issues we're going to have to
grapple when this happens as
this creates a task force of 14 members price the go school
district and the boards of equalization to extend the next year grasping with those and
coming up with a recommendation to the board of supervisors we
can consider last week the rules
committee heard from qualified
candidates that remind me why I
never served on the rules
committee it is awful we made
hard which I see and 11 candidates we continued the
labor seat because of a switch
under one candidate for another and the two business communities
seats I understand the rules committee will take those
appointments up in January but
11 solid candidates and
colleagues he ask for your support in appointing them to the tveng. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. >> supervisor avalos.
>> to par even though we have a
thorough process and those are very, very quality candidates
I'm happy with the diversities
we have for the task force we then people representing different communities and
perspectives I felt we had a
thorough vetting process and it
was pretty thoughtful about our
approaching the people for the task force I urge our support
for those candidates and we'll
be finalizing the 3 members in the new year. >> thank you supervisor mar yeah, he wanted to thank supervisor wiener for the
forward thinking to set up this
task force what a great group of people I'm looking forward to
the remaining seats and round of
people 55 for seats I'm pleased our city as great expertise and
exist of voices that will be
making our policies as this move forward. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. >> thank you misrepresenting I
did just want to thank a few
people first easter allen and spearheading the outreach that
people knew to apply and also
want to thank jeff in any office
that did a lot of great work and
meeting with the candidates and
supervisor avalos office as well.
>> colleagues, can we take
that same house, same call? We'll take that without objection. The motion is approved unanimously
all right Madam Clerk let's go to roll call for introduction. >> supervisor cowen is first
up to introduce new business. >> thank you very much Madam
President and Madam Clerk
colleagues, I have first, the resolution expressing the board of supervisors supports for the
safety for all initiative which
is proposed for that the 2016
statewide ballot by 11th hour gavin newsom we're extremity as
a city been leaders in insuring
that has some of the strongest
gun regulations so I'll let supervisor farrell and I did work and commissioner campos
you've been supportive of this legislation locally we're
extremity band the position of
any magazines we have required
local gun dealers to better
interact and recorded to the law enforcement officials and
required report on ammunition
and the record of gun always
sales and lethal types of
ammunition and prohibit minors
from entering fire rages without
a parents but the progressive
stance we still is limits on
what we do to regulate the
ammunition and gun sales to
imperative to have state and
other legislation to have strict regulations
this promoted inch will be among
this among other things require the point of sale background
schekz and remove the ability
for a third party possession and
anti allowing law the magazines
stating and out of state
purchase of ammunition only
delivered to licensed purposes
san francisco and california and
as well as the country a severe public safety issues when it
comes to gun today in the city
49 homicides that involve guns
we need to support this one that
builds upon the strong stance we
had here in san francisco so the
rest the state May follow the
second item the result of an
issue that has u religion as the
President Rear deck our final
dimension is outdated and didn't
accurately fit several of our current members
particularly this old definition
explicit include or be able members of the judge retirement
to include the years of compensation under the current
system this is simple and clean
update the older definitions to
make sure that the judge are contemplated for that in their years of service keep in mind
the judges are unusual folks
that have spent time as public defender's so the third yes,
ma'am is a hearing request on
the status of oversized vehicle
restriction back under go 2013 I
worked with sfmta and supervisor
chiu to you launch a program to
launch the issue of the parking
of oversized vehicles that is
many part of city but keying
into potrero hill and dog patch neighborhood their proves to be
successful and since then my constituents have requested it
be expanded into neighborhood
that many have seen unsafe oversight sized vehicle
practices a recent exploration
of an oversized vehicle in the district center if ten my
understanding sfmta has put a
holds on the restriction raerlg
due to a desire do study the
issue so I'm going to request
this hearing I'd like a better
understanding the current status
of parking restriction program
and the city's effort if
addressing the parking of oversized vehicles the rest i submit thank you supervisor farrell and colleagues one ordinance today
when the voters a number of
years ago passed the city cash to provide benefits to keep
people stabilized in our city if
it was one the go biggest initiatives for homelessness and people founds housing assaults,
however, in work with the
housing providers and hsa a
potentially minor 200 flaw I
believe that would prudence to amend important individuals
being evicted that cause our decide for resources and
continued to, housed currently
an, an individual was in
undermines hsa notified that
individual before the benefit
can be discontinued we were able
to get that individual on the
cash for stabilization but the third compliance have no source
of income to pay rents and have their housing security
threatened san francisco of them
face eviction so today, I'm introducing a common sense or
more to our cutters cash housing
that concretes a 3 year for the
cash partners and codifies a
sanction for the carrying on cash to help people secure in
their housing and lower the risk
of eviction the intent to
significantly reduce the risk those those holmes individuals
got on the streets this is that
year pilot program for people that are are casing for cash
that decide in supports of
housing and combaenldz in 3 acts
of inflicts internal revenue
their ineligible to receive any
wednesday but this pilot program makes the up to that time
directing to the housing provide
hsa collects the numbers of individual that receives
assistants and will submit an
annual report to the board of supervisors describing the
implementation effectiveness and
room for improvement
individuals won't be able to
qualify under the program if the
discontinues is due to fraud
with the program requirements and ultimately homelessness is a
huge problem in the city we
continue to be at the top of
list for everybody it is the
rights solution and the most
cost and humane solution and the
idea of this proposal and pilot
program to keep the formally
homelessness houses and off the
streets to continue to have
better lives and not cycle
through the resolve doors of homelessness it continues to
have our people housed I want to
thank a number of individuals
and organizations like from my
office and the general advocacy
for approach my office and the
tenderloin housing clinic to the
director of hsa and noah valley
and the fine tuning and colleagues its third reading.
>> thank you supervisor farrell supervisor kim.
>> over the last several
months we're extremity seen
private investment deals seeing
higher and higher vooblt I've asked to reach 40 percent on the
lot 337 and the 5m project in the south of market
we will soon be announcing
another tale with the 40 with
ocii at fulsome and those
projects are negotiated is on a case by case basis but
demonstrated the 12 percent is
not enough and the developers
build much more 9 policy change
is for the low income and middle-income families
new powell information as of
last week confirms the housing
affordability is on the tops of
everyone's minds 70 percent of
voters poodles support to double
the consideration to 25 percent
voters wanted to see that and
prepared to vote in a June
primary to increase those o this
percentage you're office feels
this is the time to visit the
inclusionary housing set in the
fire hydrant in 2012 a different
schap it is clear we need to
revisit the percentage that are
located and the percentages
don't not belong in the charter
and revert back at that time, sclks requirement with an
additional 10 percent of units affordable for middle-income and
enabling in a city where it is
no longer just the poor we need
to house but the middle-income like teachers and nurses are
having a hard time staying in
san francisco the public is worried about the long term residents lou gehrig's disease
their homes and the rents are at
record level and home prices are
out of reach for the majority of san franciscans we can't wait
until November 2016 so that's
why I'm introducing the circulatory amendment to begin
this to rove it from our charter
and landmarking the ways to
examine the affordable housing
and recognize supervisor peskin and look forward to the discussion in terms of f of what we'll be bringing to the voters
I look forward to work with the
mayor's office to increase side affordable housing production
with that, I'll submit. >> supervisor mar.
>> thank you colleagues I'm
introducing a hearing on senior
home career qualities focused on
the fall out of home care for seniors and people with
disabilities I'll be working
with the dos also the budget and legislative analysis office and
other co-sponsored council to make reports largely because of
the senior dignity coalition for
the dignity fund coalition the
care council and what we call I
think 5 years the care for the
generations and senior and disability action our city supported the senior populations
to age in place with dignity and
to continue to stay in their
homes and communities as long as possible for example, we're
extremity nrtdz funding for the
senior centers and the programs
for home clifrdz meal services
for seniors in an effort to end
hunger we 2020 last week he occupied an coincidence into
meals on wheels but one the leaders if the securities task force and brought.
>> number of michael celis
meals seniors slltdz one amazing
woman at the age of one and 8
tylenol's my age I should reveal
alters one and 8 living in here
home an hsa working but I'm
amazed she's so sharp and living
in her community because of
meals an wheels she can do that many, many other seniors out there a can't say afford
health care but earlier this
year I directed the offices to
conduct an analysis in san
francisco keep pace with the
raising high cost of home care invading successfully fighting
for increased was this for the
home care providers we need to
make sure that all seniors have
access to quality care a few
pieces of life expectancy has
increased from 1950 to increases
in 2009 also since 1990 the
number of seniors ages 60 to 44
has grown by 39 percent because
of first, I have of the baby boomer bathrooms was we look at the bay area and san francisco our population of seniors will
grow double in the state to
somewhere near informing percent
the seniors by 20050 and I how
many seniors have a need for
care but current cannot afford
that home care the report will
also been that report will be rolled shortly and the controller's office is working
on a report for the long term
corresponding council for focus
groups conducted what the senior
groups call the upper core
seniors like in home or hsa but
in need and can't afford care of
their own as a baby boornl like
me the seniors of the next year's developing strategies to
keep seniors to stay in their
home auto the institutions and in our communities I look forward to hearing from dos and is controller's office on their
findings and work with the long
term care corresponding council
in our coalition ever senior advocates firefighting for
dignity in an angling friendly
city and I'm proud when we were honors sarah shorted moms ago
I'm proud that san francisco
will be opening a satellite it
is opening on January 11, 2016,
we're extremity organized tells
you but people if the richmond
district it is an amazing tenant organization we're extremity
heard that offers free
counseling for all types of housing including rent-controlled housing and section 8 and been fighting
forgive the rights of tenants
for over 3 of years in 1979 not
long after the fall of I
localities at chinese-americans
came together to talk about the
can condos that are department
of water & power the elderly the human right committee has
bloomed where they help over 5
thousand tenants advising them
on their rights as tenants and
two people have been hired in
the center the richmond is generously offenders space at
their site and opening on
January 11th in the richmond and
r M.D. C an 32 avenue in the communities music center space
there hours are mondays through
wednesday, thursday and friday 9
to noon and reached at their phone call gets underscore
information and hr c sf.Org services are mandarin and
cantonese and we're going
looking for russian and vietnam
and other staff as well its third reading.
>> supervisor peskin.
>> thank you, Madam Clerk
colleagues I've intend at my
first meeting many months I
think we have an imperative to
begin a conversation about spending that rent control
beyond buildings that are built
prior to 1979 observing that has preimpediment by the costa-hawkins act and I hope in
the new year to work with all of you at least to express our sentiment to the states legislator that certainly parts of costa-hawkins should be
revisits I think we all know the power of the california boards
of realtors and the local board
of realtors in sacramento while
it is important to begin that
conversation it occurred maybe
things we can do locally as with supervisor kim's charter
amendment that she introduced and I'm delighted to co-sponsor
we need to stop doing things on
a case by case basis we have
regulated in the ace of park
merced I served with the trinity proptz and supervisor wiener
lead the way and my predecessor supervisor christensen showed
you to subject now units to
reversal so that got that he
thinking we should stop this on a case by case basis in
instances the sister is
conferring a benefit through up
john or other changes like at
adu is something we can
institute rent control I'm asking the city attorney draft
it and look forward to working with folks from the landlords community in the tenants
community and in the development community to make sure that we
get it right and that we talk to all the stakeholders.
>> I was not here in 2012 when
prop c was crafted but you can
see as something who was on the
boards for 8 years legislation
like inclusionary housing go
belong in the cost of
construction change those numbers change and maybe some
days we'll get to a formula it
changes autumn bans the sale of
construction but getting that 12
percent out of the chart and
back to the branch of government
is long overdue a way to address the incredible housing crisis
that hsa as supervisor jane kim
said is acknowledged as the most
important issue by over 70 percent of san francisco
residents I'm honored to co-sponsor that and mentioning trinity properties I had the
pleasure ever many years ago of
negotiating with the owner of trinity properties we were
handing outlining outburst that
deal at 18th street and market through in the wrong direction
and voluntary agreement got a
rent control like scheme only
fitting that today, we adjourn
the board meeting in the memory
of angelo and I'm delighted that supervisor wiener is
co-sponsoring that immemoriam
and the gentleman was the last
of san francisco major postwar
believes and passed away on
December 8th at the age of 91
uncommon referred to as the
godfather of for the italian american communities the
gentleman served on the board
thought boys and girls for 40 years and dependent upon funds
to rebuild the club that opened
this year a huge philanthropist
and a door to the this sisters
of the poor for the eshldz on lake street that he was born and
raised in lump surrounded and supervisor mar's district to
newly emigrated parents and went
to washington high before work
his way to college and serving
in the navy in world war ii and returning to the united states
not blessed with his father's
talents of carpenter reideas as
a small firm and honed it's
skills and prepared the
contracts for his alien speaking
father and sold newspapers door
to door angelo over achieved in property purposes and sales and
set a course for a future if
real estate development in 1956
he married his wife and
prompting started a family
having 7 children
the 59 yvonne served as a
council and one that angelo
troubled his success in family and in business
while he was known as a tough negotiator but possessing I
extensions a great sense ever
humors that was sometimes he
would smile and tell people he
flungdz kindergarten he wasn't that smart I knew bettered
survived by his wife and 7 children and 13 grandchildren
>> thank you, Madam Clerk I have alisa miller very sad in
memoriam today for a member of
staff member of our planning
department staff in the position
mary brown that passed away last week she joined the planning
department in 2008, and before that worked with the san
francisco bike coalition for a
decade for the membership
decoration and its bic net
role rear ends withholding best
practices for bicycle policies
for the engineering and
strategies for circling transportation and presented a
countless community meetings but
it was her return to
congratulate school that led her
to receiving her masters in geography at san francisco state
university and workings with the
department for example for the
bar and marcus book store and my
office on the deboss landmark
the historic on a decade
extremely contentious in the neighborhood very difficulties
did the and mary handled erself a thoughtful and warm person
embodying the best of a public
servants and greatly missed
survived by her parents that
live in san diego and her
ordinarily brother jim and
journeying kenny ask we adjourn in mary's memory >> thank you, supervisor wiener. >> supervisor yee.
>> supervisor avalos. >> thank you Madam Clerk
colleagues last week I mentioned
an introduction that I was
windows at the baftsd look at how the city is preparing for
the super bowl 50 events and I got a motion requesting the
bouflts do this award that could
about last week in land use chair cowen and supervisor kim
and I put in a presentation to get readies for the super bowl
that was alarming to see that there was not clear presentation
about what the costs would be to the city and what kind of resources would be moved around
of a the police department there
was a considerable amount of
general or general fund spent
for the staging muni around the
events especially the plazas but no understanding of the what it
costs it looks like it appears
many hidden costs not discuses
it is important that our authorities is experienced so far there has been no
authorities the city the board
of supervisors has had over city
expenditures and mobilization of
resources for the super bowl 50
events so this request while
that is maids will be formal
we'll be voting on January 12th
we want to thank co-sponsors for this supervisor cowen
supervisor kim and peskin for wanting to get to the become of
what is happening for the city
resources for the super bowl
event I also mentions I'm
requesting data on the traffic bicyclist embarrassment from the police department a letter of inquiry oil be submitting today
as well and I have a charter
amendments I'm reintroducing
something we vote on last year
as well as in the year 2012 one
version looking at how we conduct our run offices for mayoral elections and in recent
years we're extremity been using
the rights choice voting system
for mayoral this charter
election will have an actual run
off 20 twfrn the two top for the mayor's race it is important for
a city when we actually see a
real definition point of view
for how we move what direction
perhaps two candidates running against each other that gives
the voters what they are voting
for Mr. The rank choice 15
candidates in 2011 it is very, very difficult for residents to discern the candidates for
anywhere that year indicating
having the runoff establishes the voter engagement and understanding what is at stake
for the city when they see the
election that a runoff provides
the other parts of charter
amendment is actually
reestablishing the elections to
fill the vacancies on the board
of supervisors and the mrairs
this mayor's office let's elect
our elected officials this process is something that
actually limited our tilt to be
strong and effective legislators
we don't have the definition that elections provide we're not
accountable to the voter we
limit our ability to legislate
effectively this how to have a
strong effort of having our bold
independent and checks and
balances between the mayor's
office and the election branch is rather than having a charts
mainstreamed that the mayor is a voting plea bargain of the board
of supervisors we operate the board of supervisors from the
mayor's office last year, we saw a very water shed momentums for san francisco in the election
for the district 3rd race it
come down to the voters wanted
to see independence and practice
I welcome supervisor peskin as a
result but how the city was so
challenges by the politics and
the mayor spent so much times not only caption k constraining
for his election it shows that
should go something is amiss we
need to be loyal to our voters
so that is what democracy is about
this is a charter amendment and draft charter amendment that
fully as I understand by the
city attorney by but I want to
process we'll take a part in
crafting it operation of powers
that is vitality important the rest I submit. >> thank you supervisor avalos. >> supervisor breed.
>> thank you, colleagues
today, I'm introducing all the
times to mayor ed lee and supervisor tang's creating the
air force bonus program or the
ah bp a meeting with tommy he
mentioned his concerns the apb p
couldn't get people to dear down
existing residential units so iconicly a concern my staff and
I have been working we joined with supervisor tang and the mayor ed lee and the planning department to make sure there
are Mr. Chairs or protections in
the bonus legislation for residential units not just tommy
this concern top e came up about the legislation as well
they've been doing a number of community meetings to discuss that is would be that many of
the members of the communities are concerned and everyone
shared the goal of protecting
the rental units is my
amendments prohibit the use of a
bonus project for a project that
distinguished rent-controlled
units and instruct the parklet
to have a comprehensive policy and is bonus program that will
insure there are no incentives
to depiction rent-controlled
units and all current tenants are protected this prohibition
whether remain in place for one
year or until the board adopts a
comprehensive policy whichever
comes later the majority of
board cannot agree on a approach
one for one replacement
restriction, etc. The
prosecution will remain in place thank you to the supervisors and
owe a big thank you to the deputy city attorney susan cleveland-knowles I know the affordable housing bonus program is extracted legislation many people including myself are
studying it and it's impacts
let's evaluate it will in no way
encourage or cause the depiction
of our rent-controlled unit
housing this legislation is
pending before the commission
I'll send my pamphlet and
request the official packet for the legislation then the
commission can consider is amendments and I'll be happy to
to offer them when the full legislation returns to the board
of supervisors I'm proud to move
forward to protect our precious
rent-controlled housing and ask for your support the rest I submit.
>> thank you supervisor President Breed.
>> seeing no other names that
concludes the roll call.
>> please read public comment.
>> as a whole and not to
matter. Speakers using translation services get up to twice the
time. And if you need to put up a
document on the overhead advise sfgovtv, and take it down when
you are finished.
You thank you first speaker please.
>> our full supervisor san
francisco city mayor ed lee
california govern governor jerry
brown I in favor change my name
today is December 15th and today
going to be the last day for
full meeting in this year I like
to tell to everyone merry
christmas and happy new year our
God to protect each and overview
of you I'm glad to see our
former supervisor Mr. Allen
peskin returned back to us
congratulation peskin our
supervisor jane kim I'm one the
people that live in you're district
last week one of our old
residents committed accidently
fire in our building
that problem cost our company
building d and D.C. About 75
thousand maybe more
70 urns you need to congressman
that when the people get housing
for housing and they have carbon
like that they don't need to something about at all
supervisor I give my coverage to work with every single one of
you because that can be worth
and can be committed in overview of you're homes
supervisor look to me I have the flier.
>> thank you very much.
>> thank you I'm sorry your time is up.
>> thank you.
>> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please. >> good evening supervisors
what I'm about to read is only a
rough draft the following issues will be presented to governor jerry brown and mayor ed lee and
all supervisors and commissions
and more in regards to sfpd and the fire department
I will be asking for eyes wide
open for the sensitivity train
for all police as to why is many
men being hired as police
officer with red flags by their names
and why is one officer making so
many arrests police are making two critical mistakes and cypress k escaping prosecution
what are the majority of people
being shot or arrested when it
comes to blacks and whites
whites get a chance to live but
blacks could go do the
correspondence office I ask all
9 m m being removed from the
plod if they don't know how to
control that firearm what's the point.
>> it has been shown in a large percentage of san
francisco police can't handle
the 9 millimeter not a myriad
ever choices police don't hate
crime they don't hate criminals
they don't hate people
they hate life
thank you very much. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> good evening board of
supervisors I'm alicia here to represent the local rendered presenters and to sfrieft of
invite you to the show that is
coming to town from to 10 and
has a mission to rise the cultural in china over one
million audience has seen the
shows that is educational and
surprising you can have strong
connection that's why to come to
talk you, you performance arts
has a academy called the academy
of arts they've troishgd a lot of the local students in san
francisco and other schools in san francisco ear have invited
the teachers to teach there that
includes the chinese-american
international school in supervisor breed district the
A.D. School in supervisor
wiener's district and 3 schools
in supervisor peskin's they're
the mrerm and john elementary
school and jean parker
elementary and 3 schools in supervisor commissioner campos
district albert taylor and willie l. Brown middle school
and al vest and the eddie taylor
has invited the teachers for
chinese dance show thank you
very much and I'll recommend to
the supervisors to consider an
operation application as in the
past two years. >> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> hello, I supervisor I'm
trying to play the video of the
performing arts.
>> cultural has returned
be inspired, discover and
experience the devin culture
coming to santa fe, san
francisco and sacramento
January 1st through 15.
>> I've been coming to the
theatres a arts I'm not familiar with.
>> overwhelmed I did quality
of dancing I am extremely impressed. >> they sing with they're
hearts and a person on the stage
that played a really, really weird choice.
>> a blessing to see what a
gift God gives especially to the
chinese culture that is devin
those bring the chinese
civilization back to life.
>> thank you thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> we have new supervisors
some left the new supervisor how
you came to the united states
from soviet to say God kill
americans you usually say God
bless america I say God kill
america that is only a fascist
country who can they evacuee a
war survivor because somebody
said something that is like case
in french put in jail for life
or even wanted to kill french
jewish officer but united states
who has millions it is
interesting only one country's
and the world that has to many homeless million people that are
living on the street and eating
from the garbage cans and sleep
on the floor
never seeing doctors and dying
what you care about the city
all the people
God punish america because this
was what they did to kill 8
million indians to the black
people and all elderly people to
kill them on the streets fascist country.
>> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> thank you supervisor President London breed and other
members of the can ball I'm
chris I live at 6 and housing 14
sea lastly spots the reason the compliment conference in paris
led me to the brink of despair
it is agreement inadequate in
any potential results and
entirely without compliance or
admin mechanisms to limit the climatic change and rise of this
amount will not kill us all our
civilization will not collapse
inspirational but will only
degrade the lives and only kill some of us
I stood before you and offered a
simple plan to deal with the
humanities entire carbon upload
this to use free energy do irrigate new trees it doesn't
seek to assign guilty or cost
for events of the past more solve our carbon overload
problem from the past I belief
entirely to mother nature to
deal with that plan offers no
plan and accepts no excuses and can and should be implemented
tomorrow because we have no time
this plan just fixes the problem
please remember from the energy
and fresh water and new trees
and no blame no excuses no time
thank you sxhoepd thank you. >> going forward I have
graphics and sxhoepd and supervisors
welcome back supervisor peskin you're dad and mom's with our ticket out
I think that is where you were at
and that same old place you left
will the some of the names have been changed since.
>> come around but those dreams
are remained and you turned
around and who thought they
thought to lead you back here
where we need you
well, he season a lot of because
we're extremity got him on the
spot week back welcome back,
welcome back good luck and keep
on the right track allen
President Wesson cane
well, all the old acquaintance
be forgot and drink a cup of
kindness yet for a city sure do
shine
a city older than mine back.
>> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> how am I populated to
follow that I'm the founder of
save the palace about the current developments for the rec
and park department for the
palace of fine arts exhibit haul
san franciscans are not happy
about the direction and the view
the 3 plans before them especially the one in the
localities on the site as
radical and acceptable used for
that space to dates many folks are signed the proposal select
by the commission and for the
exhibit haul one dedicated to
the arts we believe that the
commission process was
indenturing flawed from the
beginning only the deepest
pocket can have the long-term
lease we want the pass us of
arts to live up to its name and
expires the future generations the san franciscans working with
the board to address this in the
future thank you for your time.
>> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please. >> I'm magic also for safe the
palace you can look up from our
cell phones for a minute that it
would fine we could make that an
answer the san francisco has led
the world in moving us to this new times it is the time or time
to make it a place to make that
for working groups for the
destruction for the place imagine classrooms. All the methods that exist we
have the tools we need to change
all we need to do is break the
strangle hold and add the arts center it celebrates the idea
and inspire the work we need you
attended the meanwhile the rec and park and percentage
commission is trying to up super
the action of the trader joe's
advertised outrageous within in
their methodology they don't
follow their due diligence and
public input for the public good
and nothing in those documents
would be in any way con stroutd that the restaurant is the
desired open on to used that
this is a sly way to eliminate
the proposals I've the first responsibility to stop in process now
over 20 thousand people are
signed the petition people are
in shock please do you, you can
for the power for the people thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please. >> if you were on the front an
article with that appeared in the oakland post the second
panel is a review that appeared
in the forum the publication of the california criminal justice
system in the September 14,
2014, issue and it talks about
this full scandal unless someone
thinks this is a hoax the last
two pages are evidentiary
documents that should be in our
hands they're a comprehension
confession the orders. >> sir.
>> excuse me. You hear me better.
>> if you read the document
you'll noticed it comes out in
April of 2000 under the issuance statement it talks about the
fact they've bill has required
the voters have is notice on
their face regarding.
>> thank you very much thank you.
>> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> there I'm richard warner in
district 2 for years earlier
this evening a dozens of members if the neighborhood garjtd to
ask for your support of our most
long effort to landmark the
times cook located on the proposed we're extremity met the criteria set forth when I the
university and now ask that you
listen to our community civic
fofrlts and consider move
forward with the nomination process thank you for your time.
>> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> my name is rec he live two
houses down if cook pine whifsz
5 years old I started kindergarten and my folks walked
and stopped to look at the views
I saw the pines I like that it
making made me feel safe and taught that trees help the
bigger the trees the more they
help will one of you landmark a
perfectly good prey tree that
helps us breath. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> in April our loan mount
neighborhood began the process
of landmarking the majestic- cook pine other historic
property the one on the left the san francisco port commission sports the tree the council
reviewed the trees and cultural
and historical value and sent
the decision for the potential landmarking to the full board of supervisors for a review the
facts a decision to allow the
laborers process to move forward
for it historic important tree
is in the boards hands upon
review of our case you're see a lot of interesting facts that we're extremity gathered about the tree and see hundreds of
signatures from the community in
support of landmarking this tree
today, we have several members
of the neighborhood that had to
leave for work and asking a
supervisor come to the aid of
this magnificent tree ask that
his or her if one p will help to
landmark this tree please raise your right hand I'll go to the
office and brief that person on the case thank you.
>> thank you very much. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> we don't advocate for
landmark femurs we make
expectations the ordinance in
the left hand mount or mountain
neighbors is tied to the form
cemeteries in the beginning in
the 1850s the retained and trees
at cook street has historical significance because of the
director of one of the big four
cemeteries while the residents
is one of the eater structures and one of the last surviving cottages on the west side the
tree on the lot is old and not
worthy for the connection to
smith and the landscape styles in the new removed cemeteries we
don't purport to use what the
city use for a landmark status but respect the west side of san
francisco and to us the cook
street cottage are important for recognize and thank you for
you're help
matter >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> now the birth of jesus christ
let me read this now the biggest
of jesus christ was on this wise
you know before I begin let me
say I don't know who the greater terry irate you're talking about
gun control or the muslims that load us up I don't know who is
the worse is it feinstein that
says turn in our guns Mr. And
Mrs. America it is nancy pelosi
that says we need to stop the moment of silence
until we get rid of the analysty
republicans or the muslims I
don't know
now the biggest of jesus christ
was on this wise when his mother
mother mary was espoused she
waser she was found with child
of holy ghost and joseph not
willing to make her a public
exhibition to or example to put
here away but the angle of the
lord said joseph do not fear for
that was conceived is of the holly ghost
and she shall bring forth a son
and call his name jesus they'll
save their people from the as I
understand that might be
fulfilled behold an environmental review begin shall
call his name manuel is God with
us and then joseph being raised
from sleep did as the angle of
the lord and knew here not until
she brought for the her first
son and called his name jesus. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
>> with united for the budget I
know a lot of you have seen me a
lot lastly and appreciate I
think you guys did.
>> Madam President that item
was considered by the board and
in the morning available to speak on that.
>> May speak on the working
group around the mental health each time. >> generally speaking yes.
>> I appreciate that consideration of alternatives
and I'd like to encourage that
we make sure that people that are formally incarcerated and
impacted by the jail system and
the prison system radio
considered for to have leadership in that committee.
>> I'm end it there thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please. >> hi I'm jesus I didn't I
live and work in district 5 and
wanted to say thank you to the board of supervisors appointing the task force that is wonderful
I'm grateful for the opportunity
to serve and finn finally wants
to say the working group for the
sheriff and department of health to consider the jail rae billed
is a great opportunities it are
to the city to consider
this is wonderful for up the
oversight thank you. >> thank you. Next speaker, please.
