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it's what makes san francisco so amazing. this is a crisis that all of us have witnessed on a daily basis given what's been happening throughout the city. this phenomenon is relatively new and has made a tremendous impact on my office hearing the stories from people. the ordinance that we are voting on today will require landlords usage of able to evict for the market rate during that period. this ordinancen insures that relocation payment adequately represent and allows tennants to have an opportunity to have a fighting chance to stay in san francisco. the rental and purchase prices for san francisco homes have increased dramatically since 2005 and we last have the ordinance requiring relocation assistance payments to tennants at that time. currently landlords are required to pay relocation assistance in the amounts of $5265 per tenant and they must pay $2500 to displaced elderly. anyone who knows the market rate in san francisco has the highest rate in the country know it's not sufficient to allow to stay if evicted. the ci

francisco i have to say women hold up more than half the sky in san francisco so you thank you, very much for working with us explaining. >> thank you all for joining us this morning to celebrate women of extraordinary character and commitment and encourage and i want to thank the commission and the friends of our commission on the status of women for your generosity and our energy in having an women's human right in san francisco and certainly beyond our city. i'm sure you're aware of emily described in 1998 we became the first city in the nation to reflect our principles felt united nations on all description against wjs that's called sedot and given out of cities leadership the united nations has asked us to a city to lead the campaign and i take it correct even though anita was in new york last week she sent me a photo they're in a foot moose age particularly in some exotic city i get to only work harder. but she was there in new york i was proud of her a as she joined the department and the united nations convention commission on the status of women conventional in new york to c

francisco i'm happy to report to him we want to report this not only in san francisco but cross the country so residents as i enjoy our new home that receptors your dignity knows that you there the collaboration you gave us to do this right is going to serve other people across the country that enables to us do the same i join you mayor in expressing the sadness in susan value, of course, your respect is for them. seems like yesterday we were here from the groundbreaking and the developers deserve a great amount of credit it goes to show you what a sense of community can do and remember in that word community is the word unit. we come together and find our consensus our goals and respect for the people who we serve the unit i didn't have purpose is something that maximums san francisco great thanks to edge who's concerned here today (clapping.) thank you leader pelosi i'd like to bring to the stage who partnerships with all of us supervisor cowen >> good morning it's a beautiful spring day i want to share information not long ago we broke ground in 2010 at the site but earlier this

and on march 22nd, healthy san francisco had their enrollment event that san francisco city college to assist individuals with the enrollment and to health insurance. and 200, to 300 people were expected to attend and more than 223 individuals attended. and 72 applications were completed and 41 of those were for coverage california and 31 of those were for medical and 31 were initiated but not completed. this was made possible due to the partnerships with many organizations who provided the volunteers and staff time to support this event. and now that the coverage california enrollment period has come to an end, this city will be looking at ways to target medical population as a medical enrollment is year round. >> so, we are happy to answer any questions that you may have and i thought that it was probably worth mentioning the article that was in the paper today, about healthy san francisco, it is important to note that healthy san francisco eligibility has not changed since we started the program, healthy san francisco has always been available for the people who are not eligible for

it's the san francisco college of music. san francisco? that's right. san francisco, california. rebecca! but rebecca, this school is on the other side of the country. i know that, but if san francisco accepts me and gives me some financial aid, that's where i'm going. but you don't know a soul out there. yes, i do. my godmother lives out there. what, is she rich or something? she has such a big house. no, she's not rich, but she does have a room for me if i get accepted. you're really serious about this, aren't you? dead serious. ( knock at door ) come in. when do we eat? in five minutes. dinner's in the oven. dad's not eating. he went to bed. what's wrong? is he sick? no. he just said he was tired. so, did you hear anything about your applications? you know, to music school? i got three rejection letters. that's too bad. so, what're you going to do? i still have one last hope... a school in san francisco. san francisco... aw... rebecca: dad, what? are you o.k.? no! the red sox lost another game. dad, you make me crazy. is my purse out there? yeah. it's here. what's this? a coll

children in san francisco and their families to reappoint angela chan to san francisco police commission. thank you very much. >> thank you. (applause) >> there are a bunch of people outside and probably in the other room. so, the way i want to proceed is that i've got lots of cards. so, i'm going to give each speaker from the public one minute and i'm going to call -- i will call the names on the cards. and the way i'm hoping to do this is that i will call the names of people that are supporting angela chan first. so, if i happen to -- >> [speaker not understood]. >> i was outvoted. this is democracy up here. i heard you. i okay. so, i will try to call people and if you happen to be in the other room, make your way over here and get in line. we're going to be lining up to your right on this side. so, joe whackverctiontion, you're up first if you're here. jim salinas. ~ wang win ho [speaker not understood]. (applause) >> is this translation being -- is this translation right now? i mean for the audience, do you know? [speaking through interpreter] (applause) [speaking through interpreter

that's what san francisco is doing today for the transit program. why should google shuttles be any different. >> if muni lines are coming every 45 minutes and decides to add more buses on that route and is more usable and easier for getting people around, that could trigger eir? >> it is doing that now. >> i'm talking about adding more buses on it, they have to do a full eir to do that and they have to take into account whether adding more buses on that muni line is going to displace people. >> ceqa is triggered to create a fair argument that there is going to be a significant impact. in your single line, i downtown that line would increase displacement -- or cancerous risk. however this one does. we have expert testimony showing that these little emissions from these buses alone is above the ceqa significance threshold for cancer. there is a cancer risk plume around the stops within hundreds of residential properties because these buses run on diesel. a ceqa or eir, would say can you run them on hybrid something that muni invested in that are hybr

francisco, work in san francisco, and have for 15 plus years, so they like working in san francisco. >> yeah. >> and living here and we really like manufacturing in san francisco so thank you. >> thank you. thank you for running such a great business. next speaker. >> hello. my name is autumn [inaudible] and i have dark garden [inaudible] in san francisco and [inaudible] who is our production manager. we have been manufacturing in san francisco since 1995, and have a production staff of 12 people. we also have a retail store in hayes valley where we sell and represent several san francisco based artists. we're interested in this because one of our -- one of the people that we represent has recently lost her space and wasn't able to find a suitable space to work in and now is moving her business to the other side of the country because it's easier place for her to work in the fashion industry. that's all i have to say. thank you. >> thank you. >> i am christian and have been working in textile manufacturing in san francisco for 30 years and i think we have lost a lot of our manufactur

gab members, the san francisco arts commissioners and staff and artists and san francisco beautiful and its members. thank you all for helping to craft this proposal. i want to give a little background about the reason why we came together to really address this particular issue. according to our knowledge and legislative analyst, it costs the city close to $20 million annually to abate graffiti on our buses and property and all throughout the city. and the city could use this money to use for other things. as former director and supervisor now, i see the huge cost of graffiti incur. and i hear from property owners that paint over offensive graffiti and to return the next day. i have seen people wait for the muni buses. many trying to remove graffiti, and needs solutions. i didn't want to use those who view crime as a harsher punishment. but yet to research best practices in jurisdictions all over the country, new york and chicago and san diego, and to create a nuance plan to reduce graffiti and provide better outcomes for offenders. most of our proposal is administrative, not just

san francisco sponsored by san francisco chamber of commerce, 891 575 ~. so, we just read all the names of the committees that fell in activity level 1 and according to the staff memo we're going to be selecting one committee from this level. so, without looking at the committees, i'd like a member of the public to select one committee. would you please read the name of that committee? >>> latino democratic club san francisco idn1 34 265 2, committee type, rcp, financial activity level 1. >> thank you. >>> you're more than welcome. >> so, we're going to move on to activity level 2. would you like to continue doing this? or would you like to switch places? okay, all right. dennis herrera for city attorney 2013. 1 355 7 81. ~ alice b. [speaker not understood] 842 0 18. san francisco apartment association political action committee, 84 30 2. san francisco police officers association issues p-a-c, 131 755 4. ~ committee on jobs government reform fund, 98 28 683 ~. now we will be selecting one committee from activity level 2. >>> san francisco apartment associa

longmore institute on disability at san francisco state. just to give you a brief overview, i know not a lot of you knew paul and worked with paul. he was in this room many times. and the longmore institute of san francisco state university is kind of a -- it brings together advocacy, academics, culture, and the whole point of it is to get people in conversation that might not otherwise be in conversation and to change attitudes about disability. so, through cultural initiatives, through academic programs, through basically changing people's minds. and the idea here is that you take something like culture and you get people to think about disability as a form of experience on a par with race, gender, social class, all the things we care about. if you can get people to think about disability differently and disabled people differently, then they will change their attitudes about employment, employing people with disabilities, or with service provision, all of these things. so, all of our programs with designed to do that, kind of that work.

>> good afternoon again, supervisors, eric brooks, san francisco green party and our city, san francisco. i just want to just tag my comments on the previous applicant and just encourage you that if you approve these applicants, which it appears you probably will and you may have very good reasons for doing that, i would appreciate you pursuing their tenure on the board and the rest of the board's decisions at treasure island with diligence as you just did with this boat insurance issue so that these matters of the radioactive and other contamination on the island are properly veted so that we're protecting the citizens that currently live on that island and the citizens that may live there in the future. thank you. >> any other public comments on this matter? seeing none, supervisors, colleagues? >> through the chair, i am happy to give miss tsen an opportunity to continue serving since she just started in november. >> motion is passed for your willingness to serve, get out there and clean it up. okay, madam clerk, item no. 3. >> item no. 3 is a hearing to consider appointing two member

bat kid forever in san francisco >> san francisco is unique in this way and it's part of our compassion and we have a civic duty to be involved and people are stepping forward if in huge way. it's about san francisco and it's inspired by miles and about every child who has a severe >> we're here to raise awareness and money and fork for a good accuse. we have this incredible gift probably the widest range of restaurant and count ii destines in any district in the city right here in the mission intricate why don't we capture that to support the mission youths going to college that's for the food for thought. we didn't have a signature font for our orientation that's a 40-year-old organization. mission graduates have helped me to develop special as an individual they've helped me figure out and provide the tools for me that i need i feel successful in life >> their core above emission and goal is in line with our values. the ferraris yes, we made 48 thousand >> they were on top of that it's a no-brainer for us. >> we're in and fifth year and be able to expand out and tonight is your ungra

is a priority for san francisco. and but we can't really ignore and i am also glad to hear that there is so much support, that mental health services and drug rehabilitation are working and that they are saving us more than they are costing us both in tax payer money and human life and i do want to continue that forward thinking mentality as we continue to deal with homelessness, and because it is a multifaceted problem, and i think that you have mentioned that several times that we need to look at the short and the long run, providing legal representation for the people facing eviction and fixing some of the vacant problems under the housing authority, you know there are people on the streets and they are vacant in the housing authority and fixing those is a great to do it and we need to look at the long term problems. you can't address homelessness without also addressing affordable housing, the crisis that is going on right now. whether that is shelters or apartments and not enough housing for people with lower in

now san francisco don't have one. so, i see what is going on, most black people don't see it, but i'm saying to you. we are tax payers. we live in america. i'm a disabled american. when i come before you y'all act like you can't hear good. but hear me, you promised us you'd put off-street parking. now you're gonna say you don't remember. well, i have the notes from the meeting and you haven't done nothing about it and i've been here five different times over the last five years. this is not fair to us. now you're going to take something else. this is crazy. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> chris bowman. [speaker not understood]. barbara [speaker not understood]. tony robles. [speaker not understood]. >>> chris bowman. i walked here. i came from the performing arts garage two blocks away. the problem with sunday meters is that muni will not get you to your churches directly. if you have to walk one or two blocks and you have to be disabled or senior, you're out of luck. i would argue that unfortunately a lot of t

francisco remain in san francisco. i want to also not there will be a press conference at 9:00 a.m. to discuss this issue we'll be discussing a recent 0 report by the budget analyst report we have a lot of work to do in the area of insuring proper representation to tenants. as we're phasing the housing crisis where the rent in san francisco is hire than any other city we have a report from the budget analyst report this shows in calendar years 2013-2014 tenant were only represented 12.9 percent and 17 percent of the time. we know that tenants who are facing eviction he procedures are likely to stay in their homes with legalese representation. it's only provide in 13 percent and 2012 and 17 percent in 2013 shows there's a huge gap that needs to be addressed. we believe that legal representation should be provide for tenants phasing eviction with their financial status and look forward to having that communication at the budget committee meeting tomorrow the rest i'll submit >> thank you. i'm introducing legislation to i

and i am a parent of a student at san francisco flex. my son gram has attended daily, the school there for the past three years. and so he is a junior and he has one more year to go. we live in san rafeil and so gram finds himself to the ferry and he takes the ferry, and he finds himself away to get up the hill, and does the same, you know, the other way around, and it is a challenge. it takes him over an hour, you know, to do that. he is not alone, there are kids at our school that come from east in the south, and in the north, and pittsburgh in the east. and we would have people from hawaii, if we could get them there, the school is targeting, towards a unique set of children. and the children that work, better, with a unique delivery. and a blended learning style, rather than the traditional teacher and 30 children learning style. it is very important and i know this is a part of your policy. so, it is very important to embrace this school. the fear is that we will lose this school, and in so doing we will lose the 60 kids that live a

if san francisco wants to reroute the commuter buses, it did you tell does an eir. why should google buses we preferentially treated to our system. >> we are including data to inform the best policy that we have. >> over an 18-month period is a long time and before the government takes a year 1/2 and starts moving things around without knowing what kind of impacts we are going to have, it's important to do the ceqa review now upfront and that's what the law requires. we are not talking about, we are talking about two things, policy and law. the law is meaningful and ceqa says before government takes action you have to be fully informed. you have to analyze the environmental impacts and alternatives before you take action. ceqa says look before you leap. >> i appreciate that. >> thank you for the presentation, mr. drurey and for the very helpful submissions. i have a number of questions for you about some different contensions that you've raised. so, the first is you made a couple comments today and also rethinking your brief. in your presentation today you talked ab

a big toast to the air lingus in san francisco welcome san francisco. cheers (clapping.) this means good height and good look. thank you >> so what brought you out here for the bike ride today? >> i grew up in san francisco but i have been living in new york. i wanted to see what san francisco is doing with infrastructure. >> cities are where people are living these days. the bay area is doing a lot with construction and the way to change the world starts here. >> we are about to take a bike ride. we have 30 cyclist. i'm really excited to hit the road and see what the city has in store. >> i definitely recommend it to people. it's a fun afternoon and you learn so many things. >> this is so much fun. i go to parts of the city that i don't come to. this will make the city a more susta leaders. >> hi everyone i'm patrick the director of earthquake safety forever for the stoifbl and we have the ryan white fair to teach people about the made sure soft story ordinance and connect them with the services they need you can save thousands of lives and if those buildings are rooiftd

it's a big accomplishment for san francisco. we want to be very clear that the sfpuc likes go solar s.f., we think there is a lot of value added to diversifying the production of renewable power and locally generating those in our city. and we're very proud of what we, with your support as the board appropriations, have been able to accomplish in san francisco. as a second point, as you consider future funding for this program -- and i know you do deliberations on an $8 billion budget of which ours is a smaller 13% or so of the total, but nevertheless every dollar is important and we want to provide a broader context for you as you look at specifically our budget in the coming weeks, in may as well in particular. let me provide a bit of background to put it into context. hetch hetchy power has provided many benefits to the city, and we've been generating power since 1918. nearly 100 years we've been generating greenhouse gas free energy for the city central services. this saves the general fund $50 million a year. i think that's

of leaving san francisco. if we have some part of our housing program that addresses that issue, we are doing something positive. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor avalos. supervisor mar. >> thank you. i wanted to acknowledge the grassroots and housing justice groups that have been with us today. also thank jeff hadachi, our public defender, sheriff mirkarimi, dean [speaker not understood] from usf and many others that have testified. i think the legal service organizationses and the community-based counseling organizations ~ really identify the critical need and the budget analyst report that supervisor campos called for is going to be really valuable as we evaluate the different budget item that will come forward. and i wanted to thank jennie friedenbach and the coalition for keeping san franciscans housed, san francisco funding proposal, which we'll look at carefully. i did want to say i think the eviction antimapping project has done a good job identifying the 12 cereal evicters, the dirty dozen, how unf

francisco healthcare plan and we work closely with the san francisco health plan on making those criteria as evidence based and sensible as they could be. we have developed guidelines and trainings that we have been rolling out across the healthcare centers both the dph and the health centers and the jail health service and to help and providers understand what our criteria are and how do we access those services. and we are currently developing a and we will start this week, our first series of education and preparation sessions for the patients who are planning on under going transgender surgery within our system and specifically four, three-hour sessions that we have developed in collaboration with the center to make sure that the special challenges that are faced by our public health patients, who are resource poor, that they are getting the same education and preparation in fact, we would like to think that i... and more effective and education and preparation, than patients who might have the means to pay for these surgeries on their own. and so we are very excited about that progra

they could not compete in the market in san francisco. we also have 7,637 applicants on our public housing waiting list. and over 2,000 of those households are single. about 5,500 are two plus persons households. this is after we have done a clean-up of our wait list. these are people that are actively seeking public housing at this time. and the applicants were asked to self-certify their preferences. over half of the applicants did self-certify their preferences. we take applicants in based on their preferences. and over 1500 of those applicants are actually homeless, single individuals, elderly and families. very high

for additional units in san francisco. but we will be behind the rest of the people who have applied today. the other thing about this where we are, san francisco portfolio, though we are not the largest to apply. we were the largest portfolio to apply and be accepted. the chicago portfolio is awaiting. they are behind us. so again the central component of this is preservation. the $312 tenant rent is not sufficient by itself to even cover operating expenses. clearly there has to be an operating subsidy some place to cover operating expenses. to run the buildings in a manner that renters and investors would like, that level of support has to be higher. we talked about how we are converting this from section 9 funding to section 8 funding. it provides a more stable, long-term subsidy and provide for that leveraging. again this is a combination of two different programs we are doing. we are doing rad, which we applied for and the house authority has applied for which they have received authorization. the housing authority is

francisco for so many years since 2006 when they were created it's served many people in san francisco and this is a celebration day it's the 8th annual immigrant day where the st. island comes to city hall to raise awareness about the immigrant community. sf island is realizing the immigration project the multiple community based project done in accumulation with san francisco and capturing the low income immigrants in san francisco that have been touched by the services by sf island we have a well-informed understanding of what true immigration means it's more than welcoming immigrants. it is a means to supporting immigrant communities and leading a dig if i did lives without fear of culture or linguistic barriers. finally today is the day i've noted earlier we'll be voting on this april as immigrant month in san francisco. i want to thank in advance my supervisors and before i close i want to give you a background of sf island it began in 2006 and because of growing concerns that the immigrant in san francisco had regarding the debate on immigration around the bill. those organizati

but the ones that have suffered there the delays are the kids in san francisco. i urge you to vote and moved this project and i i want to take the opportunity to speak >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi i'm jill i've been coaching her not city for 25 years youth 25 years adults and have been coming before the committees for every year in that time the sport has bloomed and because of that during practice time we're allocated one hour of practice per week for a 90 minute game that's 4 teams on one field you get a half of a goal may not. my girls get to play in the field where no goals are. so far as what's been happening with the ones it's been beautiful what's going on at crocker. we'll get a full year of fields and in the night time just think the people are coach the kids don't have anywhere to play they don't get to play because there's no lit field and on top of we're coming with drought you don't have to water of the turf. an amazing project when crocker was slated to go we had games there and night fights would break out but now no fights no bad elem

francisco to continue renting here in san francisco. and so that is something that definitely does concern me. the other thing is that i'm not sure -- i want to appreciate the controllers office and making sure they come up with a neutral and the most clear way they possibly could, i think, formula for determining this, however, it is based on a two year period and what happens after a tenant receives this relocation payment and after two years, they cannot have the income to sustain themselves in another unit that is higher rent than what they were paying previously. there's a host of other questions i have and not sure about the impact on this legislation, our goal is to make sure that tenants are stay here and live in san francisco. i'm not sure that this will achieve this. so that's why i'm uncomfortable with supporting the underlining ordinance today. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. president. so i will support the legislation. and i appreciate all of the dialogue that we've had in committee and also here at the board. i kn

at 57 and 57 in hayward and san carlos and 53 in san francisco and to the north, san rafael to half moon bay, here is what the east bay hills look like: clear and now the sun is on the northern side of mount diabolo and today is two minutes longer than yesterday. we are mostly sunny with cooler conditions at the coast into san francisco and coolings across the neighbor tomorrow through saturday and the next chance of rain is 10 to 14 days out. this is just on fire the picture from mount tamalpais. >> today is our warmest day inland although we are undercut by the localized sea breeze in san francisco. we have 87 in los gatos, and santa cruz is cooler at 77 and 79 in millbrae and low-to-mid 80's elsewhere, and mid-70's in downtown south san francisco and sausalito and low-to-mid 80's through the north bay valley and 15 degrees cooler at the beaches and upper 70's to low 80's along the east bay shore and castro valley is 83 and through the dublin grade you will hit made 80's through the east bay valley and tonight, open up the ones if you can handle the pollen, around santa rosa and n

francisco footprint using a different model but this looks at our consumption so while san francisco is recycling and compost more than ever before we're generating more waste we've done a great job at compost but every year we're producing more than ever before. in addition >> how it is possible can you give us a professional. >> certainly we're beau for products and maybe sorting better but our increase in the weight of the blue benefit and the green bin is going up and not necessarily at the expense of the black bin so we're doing an excellent job at dissipating out waste into our various streams we're consuming more as san franciscans. in addition even though our miles per gallon fuel average san franciscans are driving more. so again, we have more efficient cars we have more efficient fuel but with your driving more and even though our energy portfolio in san francisco is good we're using for energy we have to think about this context. the biggest change to using the consumption methodology that food is the biggest part of the pie and energy is consumed in the process. taken int

a big toast to the air lingus in san francisco welcome san francisco. cheers (clapping.) this means good height and good look. thank you >> good morning. today is wednesday, april 16th, 2014, and this is a regular meeting of the building inspection commission and i would like to remind everyone to turn off all electronic devices the first item is roll call. >> president mccarthy? >> here. >> vice president mar. >> here. >> clinch. >> here. >> lee. >> here. >> commissioner mccray. >> present. >> commissioner walker. >> here. >> and commissioner melgar is excused and we have a quorum and the next

he fully supports the san francisco soda tax. as the representative of the assembly district 17 he fears a vast number of our sfuts e constituents surf from diabetes. the study proves the direct linkage between the surey befrm and type two diabetes. if passed in san francisco a sugar sweelgd beverage tax would provide physical education and food access in the schools and the low income community in our community. the assembly tom supports this funding to be earmarked for the san francisco school district sf rec and park department and the public health department for spotting those educational program and for supporting this. research from the ucf f and columbus demonstrate is the customers have a price tolerance and we've made significant gains the best ways to reduce consumption is for it to cost more so assembly tom joins the fight for the health issues for consuming the sugary beverages such as soda >> thank you i'm sorry, i didn't call you up sooner and thank you to assemblyman and leadership on the public physical fitness a