anyone on webex? >> i have a comment from commissioner hallisy, please. >> i thought it would be fitting since we start march madness today, this is a little addendum for general manager ginsburg that kezar pavilion was the home court of the usf dons when they won back to back national championships! [applause] with bill russell and kc jones. >> i'll work that into my talkic points. >> please do. >> thank you, i appreciate that. other famous nba legends to have played include jason kid and steph curry. >> any other commission comments? mubing on to the consent calendar, item 5, right? >> we are on item 4, general public comment which is 15 minutes. so, i have a few speaker cards for item number 4 and as a reminder you do not need to fill out a blue card so if anyone is here for public comment i'll call for other folks. that would be the time for people on webex to raise your hand pressing star 3. this is for items not on today's agenda. lastly, you have two minutes, but there is no timer at the podium

public comment is also available via the webex client application. use the webex link on the agenda to connect and press the raise hand button to be added to the public comment line for detailed instructions about how to interact with the telephone system or webex client, please refer to the public comment section of the agenda document for this meeting. public comment may also be submitted in writing and will be shared with the commission after the meeting has concluded and will be included as part of the official meeting file. written comments should be sent to ethics commission at sfgovtv. org members of the public to attend commission meetings, including remote attendance, are also expected to behave responsibly and respectfully during the public comment. please address your comments to the commission as a whole and not to individual members. persons who engage in name calling, shouting, interruptions or other distracting behavior may be excluded from participation. thank you, mr. clerk, and i'll call the meeting to order. clerk, will you please

you may also use the q & a feature in webex webinars to make a comment. it is located in the top part of the video after touching the screen. if you are using a laptop or desktop, you can click on the raise your hand icon and q & a icons are located at the bottom of your video screen. if you are joining by phone, dial * 3 to indicate you like to make a comment. we will prompt you when it is your turn. so, at this time just to check with anybody joining us in person, if you like to make a comment you can come line up at the podium in the front or have comment cards located at the front of the room. debbie, have you received any comment cards? >> [indiscernible] [unable to hear speaker because microphone isn't on] >> so, we'll start by checking with the audience present. is there anyone in the room who would like to make a public comment or filled out a comment card? seeing none, and is there anyone online who wishes to make a comment? alright. >> [indiscernible] >> i return the meeting to you cochair albers. >> thank you very much. thank you clerk. okay. w

provide remote public comment on this item should dial star three on the phone or click raise hand in webex. please note that you will have three minutes. moderator do we have any remote public comments? okay, it seems that we have one caller, moderator could you please, unmute the caller who'd wish to comment? hear me now? okay. your time starts now. can you hear me? okay. yes great. good afternoon. david pilpel. so i'm not there in person, but hopefully you can all hear me. i submitted a letter to the board just over an hour ago. hopefully. and i understand it was distributed to most of you in the room or everyone, and there should be a couple of additional copies available on the table. thanks very much to staff, particularly jay and ben, for receiving and distributing it. i would encourage everyone there to read it and perhaps we'll find a way to post it later in case anyone else is interested, the one thing i did not include in the letter that i recall now is that there is a budget proposal to reduce 311, hours in the event that that budget proposal is implemented. and, it seems to me

and also the remote meeting access (webex) to watch via webex application on your desktop/laptop: https://bit.ly/3t2orob. >> like to read for the record and people 1924 are in attendance the department will present itself case first and then oh - i was reading this we're not going to call the case sorry. >> (unintelligible). >> the department will present itself case first and each side has 7 minutes and public comment and members have three minutes to speak and lastly, three minutes for the department. and i was reading that information for everyone edification we have our agenda items to speaker. >> >> b. election of the aab president and vice president serving during the 2024 calendar year: (discussion and action) abatement appeals board required the board to elect a president and vice president in each year or the first meeting held therefore. >> any public comment on the tomb of the election of the president and vice president? >> none remotely and um, then commissioners we have any - >> i'd like to propose that um, vice president chavez be president. >> i'll simulate second that.

i don't believe you're muted via webex. okay. maggie i still show you as muted and. we may have to come back. take it out of order. yeah we may have to take this out of order. one second. i'm getting. yeah. let me just try one other thing. give me a second. maggie, we'll try one more time. are you there? are you there? maggie. okay, let's. let's take this out of order and move to the next agenda item and try and come back. great. that's a very important item. so we'll come back to it, but let's move on to items seven and eight. okay. next, agenda items are items seven and eight. we'll be calling these two items together, so item seven is a presentation on the climate action plan building operations chapter. the sponsor, cindy comerford, climate program manager. the speakers are nick kesner, senior building decarbonization coordinator, and barry hooper, senior green built environment coordinator. this item is for discussion and item eight is a presentation on policy proposal on all electric major renovations. the sponsor is cindy comerford. climate program manager. th

for those watching on webex, click on raise hand icon. the raise hand will appear next to your name. when you are unmuted in the system request to unmute will appear on the screen. select unmute to speak. once i welcome you on the call you begin speaking. when your time is expired you will be muted, click on raise hand icon to lower your hand. members of the public are encouraged to state name clearly but may remain anonymous. i'll thank you for your comment and placed on mute. thank you to sf govern and media service. we'll begin with in person public comment. no one approached the podium. our moderator will notify of callers in the public comment queue as we move to remote public comment. >> board secretary, we have one caller on the phone line, zero callers entering the queue at this time. >> thank you moderator. hearing no callers, public comment is now closed. >> thank you. we'll move to item 4. >> thank you. item 4 is approval with possible modifications of the minutes of the meetings set forth below which were the march 5, 2024 hea

we have one more on the webex i assume association. i as you can tell, we're having a little bit of difficulty parsing the actual use of this. it's called a non life science laboratory. but we hear a lot about life science investors, biotech, clinical trials, vaccines, oncology, things that sound like life science. that's a planning issue, but not an issue with you. but that's one of the things that's animating our concern about this project. and when we get to the issue of the public use and we look at or the public benefit, and we look at the 1989 memo talking about it being a needed use or building that has an urban form that's conducive to the public benefit. we're not seeing those public benefits. these are private benefits. they're not they're not even unique to the building. they're the sort of things that any building would have to do. the sidewalk design is being mandated by statute. the 19 19ft, any anyone building in there would have very, very similar sidewalks. this this building isn't a mixed use building in a mixed use z

i understand some are technical limitations due to changing webex instead of using zoom, and disheartening and troubling to see that especially when public comment is greatly hendered by the fact the meetings are not advertised and displayed widely to our community. comments one or two people from the public using a comment for the entire duration of the meetings which only happens every couple months if not canceled. these are useful meetings with lots of useful information and should extend to the public. there should be fliers and outreach and much more efforts put towards letting the public know the meetings exist and more effort put towards making sure we are include said in the government that supposedly represents us. i also just want to comment on the charging station thing one other small point. while i do appreciate the library are common hubs of people, they already have wall outlets that provide power and for myself personally i carry a wheelchair charging with me so i can charge at the library as i do frequently. what i cannot access is power, a wall outlet anywhere else in th