speaker cards on this item? >> clerk: yes, mr. chair, we have one speaker card. ace washington. >> great. mr. washington? >> i know you guys are looking up at me, why is this guy up here, speaking on all these things? he ain't got into suits, no tie, no jury. right now, i'm appalled. every single development you have going on, there's some issues. not deep, but we can solve them, because this ain't the end, this is just the beginning of this set of projects. but if these projects don't adhere to your -- what you going -- hiring community and all of those things that they're supposed to do, and i don't have time to go do it, but if they don't do it -- put it this way: if they haven't done it in the past, what are you giving it to them now for? what i'm saying, case in point -- ace on the case -- what i'm saying, case on point, see, i'm not pointing fingers at nobody. it's the case that i'm working on that points to the issue. so if you all going to sit up here and give these projects to the developments that's supposed to house low income or whatever, particular for us, and they

cards for this item >> yes, we have one speaker card. ace washington. >> great. mr. washington, as you come up, i just want to remind the public that earlier when we opened the meeting that we were -- because of the length of our agenda, we're going to be limiting public comment to two minutes so i want to reiterate that. >> don't bother me. three minutes is two minutes and before this year ago it might be down to one minute. >> mr. washington -- >> politics full of tricks and makings you turn to a lunatic. >> how are you? >> ace on the case in your face, in the place they call city hall. i call it silly hall. i'm here supporting mary. she knows i've been supporting her for years. we've been through some tears. looky here. she could testify. because when i met her, she started in the western addition. we call the fillmore, which i call the feel no more. hey, mary. black businesses there, the feel no more. hey, mary, place to go and get jobs, the feel no more. but i'm here supporting mary because she -- she was there and she made sure that we had work. when i say "we," black african

. washington? >> oh, joyce. >> oh, yes. excuse me. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is joyce armstrong, and i'm the president of public housing tenant association citywide and also a member of the hunters point shipyard cac. when i voted yes on prop o, so did the most of the people in san francisco that don't even live in the bayview. everything i've heard is an improvement on the existing plan while bringing the dda into alignment with the redevelopment plan. i really like the bmr housing for seniors. i really like that since i'm one, and i encourage the commissioners to join me in supporting the amendments to the dda. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> ace washington. [ inaudible ] >> it's okay. i'm here -- i've been here most longer than you all. i don't -- what you all get, stipends? i don't even get that. >> neither do we. >> this has been taking up most of my time. i went to three different commissions, and i still have to stop before i go out. i've always supported healthy. see, i can speak because i know kofi on the board and all of them years ago. avenue he came o

president brandon led to washington d.c. march 22 through 23 which included myself and brad benson. president brandon and staff had a series of really important meetings. i think it was a successful endeavor that we took on with the chamber of commerce, and byron will give us more detail. >> thank you, president brandon, commissioners. yes, i want to express our appreciation for the opportunity to participate again in this san francisco chamber visit -- annual visit to washington to meet the california delegation. we were also -- do want to mention we were also joined, one meeting in particular, by commissioner adams, who was there on port business and other business. so we -- this has been the -- i think the third and the most recent number of trips to washington d.c. where we've participated with san francisco chamber, and we really had a chance to take advantage of contacts and the efforts that they put forward, led by tali 5a hart, the president, and in particular, jim lazarus, the senior vice president. you'll see here, the meetings are visited by all of the delegation partici

coadministrator of the year, erin lynch, assistant principal, washington high school. thank you. [applause]. >> i'd like to add one more thing. since these award winners are nominated by their peers, it's like the academy awards. >> congratulations. >> all right. congratulations, and thank you. our next item is item five. it's a recognition of our -- of all valuable employees, our rave awards, and dr. matthews, you have a recognition for this item, as well. >> yes. tonight's recipient is rachel spilliard. she's a science teacher and department head at washington high school, and tonight, presenting the award will be washington high school principal, susan saunders. >> thank you. it's my pleasure to introduce this month's rave award recipient, rachel spilliard. her co-workers did not nominate her solely for her deep involvement in our school community. she was nominated because of her dedication to all students, her equity centered leadership and her efforts toic ma sure that our science department is at the forefront of sfusd's planning skpi planning and implementation. rachel is able to f

chair, we have one speaker card. ace washington. [ inaudible ] >> commissioner mondejar: mr. washington, before you speak, i just wanted to indicate that because of the length of the meeting this afternoon, we're going to limit our public comments to two minutes. thank you. >> thank you. i've been triained to do three two, one, minutes. starting in may, it's going to be aceonthecase.net,.org,.com. everybody's going to be saying where's ace at? efrk everybody's going to be following me. now i'm so happy to hear that your director's going to sit down with me, so everything else is taking a bat seat. and then the other big problem is i see my buddy here. how you doing, buddy? we go way back before all you all. we go way become before the white press, when i interviewed him. that's the good guy. i'm supporting him. so i'm going to take a back seat, back there. you ain't got to worry unless i hear something that's out of order. i'm going to sit back in the back and help myself because things are starting to happen now. my name is ace, and i am on the case. >> commissioner mondeja

washington d.c. you've got to build those relationships with the senators and congress people, and staff. president brandon is write. you treat them like gold, and i think the more that they see our face, and the more that we engage them and get them out here, and director foeshs and president brandon can give them a tour of our port -- i'm a visual people, and i think people like that in washington, they're away, but visually, they need to come out on our turf, on our soil here and walk around and see what we're trying to do. in a month, i am ache goi'm go back there for other reasons, i'm going to try to catch up with them for lunch. so many people, they go to these offices, and they don't remember you, but the most they see you, you build these relationships, and it's like anything, things get done, so i will continue to follow up. >> great. >> i will add one other surprising piece, i think. as president brandon described, the army corp. engineer meeting was especially important for us to be with some of the highest ranking leaders of the army corps from the d.c. office was critical,

, joanna ladd, and her mom and sister are here. i met you in washington, d.c. were you doing housing there? any way, joanna, she loves our residents. she -- i love you. [applause]. >> thank you, norman. i'm joanna. as he said, i've been the project manager at 227 bay since the project began in 2014, and we have so many to thank for how the project turned out. please take a look inside of your program for a full list of our partners. we would like to call some out by name. our general contractor, am1 construction, and our architects. so not only does this project look great, it actually came in under budget and returned money to the city, and that is -- [applause]. >> thank you. >> can we have it back? >> and that is a testament to the quality of the design work and the quality of am1's construction work. we have a host as you have heard of public and private financing partners who helped us build a budget big enough to do the important expensive things like install a full sprinkler system at this building. of course the u.s. department of housing and urban development created the rad

leader. but it just shows how different we are in san francisco than washington d.c. that seems like a given. isn't it a shame, we enjoyed eight years of an amazing president and we are now enduring four years of someone who is so different. when we're moving forward in san francisco this administration is moving the needle black wards on climate change in particular. the the head of our e.p.a. wants to spend dollars on phone booths, first class tickets for his employees instead of programs stemming the side of climate change in our country. i am here to say that san francisco, while washington d.c. sticks its head in the sand on climate change, we will continue to lead in san francisco. [applause] and thank you to our policies and debbie, i want to thank you for that tribute, many of which were championed by our late mayor ed lee. san francisco has greenhouse gas emissions by 29%. and is the equivalent, think about it, the equivalent of taking 400,000 cars off the roads of san francisco and when we want to really do that today given the congestion we face. but i think the important po

leadership on environmental issues right now coming out of washington, d.c. the head of our epa seems to be more concerned about flying first-class and the cole industry than pushing environmental policies forward that will have a positive impact if our communities. and while they continue to stick their heads in the sand in terms of climate change in washington, d.c., san francisco is once again stepping forward as a leader in our country for the environment. thanks to our innovatetive practices here in our city, we are on our way to meeting our goal of 50% renewable power goal by 2020 and 100% by 2050. in san francisco, we are proving our dpost wropg every single day. we have reduced greenhouse gases by 20%. at the same time our population has grown by 19%, and our gdp has grown by 75% in the city of san francisco. we are proving washington, d.c., we are proving the skeptics wrong. i am here to say that as mayor of the city of san francisco that i am convinced that not only the san francisco but our korld with coexist by having strong environmental policies and a strong economy at t

the hud data, we tooked a look at how many beds -- we look a look at beds. washington d.c. which is a little behind us, we by far have the most amount of permanent supportive housing beds per residents which is a policy choice the city has made. are there any questions? >> supervisor cohen: thank you. supervisor fewer. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, so when we were looking at our definition of homeless and we're looking at peers, so are we using same definition of homeless, what is a homeless individual as our peers? >> yes, hud does have standards what they define as homeless. that is

into some of these houses, with no rent. thank you very much. >> ace washington. >> i just want to say i'm very appreciative i got word i'll be speaking to your director, hopefully i'll be able to come may 1 with my presentation about what i call is the state of the fillmore. now you know, it's not, nothing about fillmore, none of the -- none of those restaurants is blank. so y'all have to, don't have to tell me what that mean. now, bottom line, i'm not going to get my blood pressure up. y'all know and commissioner, and these two commissioners know before y'all came with the o.c.i.i. i've been coming here for years, 20 years, i think i go past 20 years. right now i think what i'm going to do with this agency is set a precedence for all the rest of them. sit down with the director, i'm going to call it all hands on deck. no middle management. i want all department heads and commissioners, 5, 6 departments. i'm going to roll out case, ace on the case, no, case means something. c as in community, a as in assistance, service, s as in service, and e as enterprise. i'm going to start mak

with washington d.c. when we are under attack, our immigrant brothers and sisters, by our own leader of this country, we know there is work to do. when people in our communities are suffering and we propose to spend money on building a wall rather than a bridge between communities, we know that there is work to do. [applause] when we see what's happening on our streets every single day with substance abuse challenges, and mental health challenges, and we are not willing to take bold creative new steps to address that challenge, we know that we have work to do. here in san francisco we have come a long way. i think about the days when i grew up in the 1970s and the 1980s in public housing and how during that time we didn't even have conversations with the police department. and the work that we did to bridge the gap between the police department and folks in the western addition, it was hard work, it was necessary work but has been effective. we have officers who have great relationships with our community, and when we see what's happening all over our country with the tension and the vi

speaker, please? >> i'm ace washington, ace on the case, fillmore corridor ambassad ambassador, anything else you want to call me. i'm appalled and i will try to keep it to a where my blood pressure don't go up. i was here about the street cleaning, had issues with d.p.w. what made my blood pressure overboil is when you asked about the cbd, dbd and the other organizations that you give funds to. but in the fillmore, what i call the feel-no-more, haven't started the pac, cbd, and all that's left is ace, in front of you. i'm appalled. and i haven't had a chance to talk to the caretaker mayor here yet because there's an issue going on and i will bring that up. but i'm going to be at every meeting on the financing and budgeting this year because it does not show where blacks are in the budget nowhere. the $10.1 or 2 billion. i'm appalled of the department heads down here talking about some money. i'm appalled. i'm appalled here. in district 5, we don't have after cbd. we don't have a cad. but you have an ace. and i'm the fillmore corridor ambassador. i should have been called up he

emanating from washington, d.c. which has lead to increased acts of intolerance against immigrant communities, there has been an increased effort from communities to remove names from public statues in places which honor figures who espouse racism. there has also been an increased movement both nationally and globally to recognize women's historical contributions and the role in current professional and public settings. we have successfully -- we have been successful at the local level in doing many of these things. for example, supervisor cohen's legislation to rename columbus day to indigenous people's day. supervisor peskin's legislation to remove herman's name from the plaza. students from the university of san francisco renamed the campus building from hall to toler; after a an african-american. not only have they removed the names, we must know our history in order to not repeat the mistakes of our past. this is why i am introducing a resolution to name phelan to frida way and remove the other name. james dphelan served as a mayor and senator. he supported the chinese exclus

taking place in washington because millions of people's data was compromised. our seniors and people in wheelchairs are inconvenienced because they are having to navigate around scooters and bikes not only blocking entryways or left in the middle of the sidewalk but people are riding these motorized devices on the sidewalk. the item also -- also be aware that often technology, technological advices out pace current regulations but it's not practical for a legislature or for emerging technology companies to create piecemail all the time. there needs to be a process that anticipating emerging technologies and that broadly accommodates instances and variations we know are coming down the road. we have a great record of priortizing our resident's health and safety amongst competing interests of corporate profits, tax considerations, use of municipal resources and so forth. in 2003 the city adopted the precautionary principal as a general city policy. the principal was later identified as chapter 1 -- if you would like to sit down it's okay. >> okay. >> commissioner yee: it will be a coup

and 1037 washington street. the appeal concerned protesting issuance on december 15th, 2017, to 1033/1037 washington street l.l.c. of the site permit and this permit was a fourth floor residential unit addition to the building, renovation of third floor entry, renovation of the basement, repair of the existing egress stair at rear of the property, seismic and foundation upgrades for 2016-02018496f. so the public hearing was held and closed march 7th, 2018. at that time the board voted 4-1 to grant the appeal and deny the permit on the basis of the building as non-conforming and out of character with the neighborhood. at the direction of the president this matter is returning to consider whether to direct the preparation of written findings to support the board's decision in accordance with section 8 of the board's rules. so each party will have 7 minutes to respond to this item. and we can start with lidia woytak. the appellant. >> i'm glad you are going to look into this to right justification for your vote and this is what we are talking about. this is edwardian neighborhood, hand-