it seemed to be a good blueprint for future projects where you have this tension between new construction and rent control. it seems to be a way around that. that is why i have been listening carefully to the arguments by some of the tenant advocates about the costa hawkins issues. whatever anyone's views are on the merits of the project, it does create thousands of new rental units and there is a very elaborate plan for accommodating the rent-controlled tenants while still creating the units. i just wanted to explain why it was that i was asking these questions, and the concern i have expressed over the apparent change between trinity and today. i just wanted to know that. thank you.

chairperson mar: any closing comments? i does want to thank everyone for testifying today, especially the planning department, about the vision you are promoting of the development and the community benefits associated with it, building more complete neighborhoods, as others mentioned. i also acknowledge the job center being created in sunset that will create a more livable community. i keep going back to catherine -- kathryn moore's statement about how common open space is a valued part of how people live. i visited michael's garden apartment. the value of a shared common backyard space with patios and other amenities is something i am not sure it is being acknowledged as people are being relocated into new towers. i also heard clearly from

visiting the garden apartments of the generations of people that have grown up and lived there, from ganed -- from grandkids to their kids -- commissioner marshall mentioned the loss of many of these families is a potential danger as well. but i realize it is a balance. my key concerns are on the enforceability of protecting rent control units and concerns about demolishing sound housing communities that have developed over generations. i will continue to look for the city attorney's memo and will be asking about the business lincoln place issue -- venice lincoln place issue and how we can prevent people from facing those fears. thank you so much. there are plenty of other opportunities where people will testify. coming up tomorrow is the appeals of the e r -- of the

eir. if there are no other questions, is there any other business before us? >> what action would you like to take with this? chairperson mar: this was a hearing. what do we call it? >> would you like to continue it to the call of the chair? chairperson mar: yes, without objection. >> there are no further items. chairperson mar: with that, meeting adjourned. thank you, everyone.

supervisor kim: good afternoon and welcome to rules committee, our special meeting for march 31. to my left, i have supervisor farrell and to my right, supervisor elsbernd. we only have one item we are considering today. >> the item on our agenda today is listed to go before the full board on tuesday april 12, unless otherwise stated. item one, hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending february 1, 2017, to the ethics commission. there is one seat and three applicants. supervisor kim: thank you. are all three applicants submitting their applications today?

did you hear from any of the applicants? has anybody withdrawn? >> i have not received any notification, but i can check with our office to see whether or not anybody has withdrawn. supervisor kim: that would be great. we heard two weeks ago from two of our applicants, dorothy liu and allen grossman. they have already presented, and we have had a chance and opportunity to ask questions. i wonder of my colleagues would like to ask questions of our candidates. seeing none, we will open up for public comment. if you have comments on applicants, please line up. please make clear if you are in support or opposition of an applicant. helps us when we draft our minutes. >> i am in support of allen

grossman. i am a resident of district 6. the reasons i support him are as follows -- when supervisor kim proposed three questions to each of the candidates, he answered them in a fashion that i think promotes good governance. he is for video recordings of the ethics commission's. he is for all office visits being documented, even in the calendars of government officials. when he was asked what the debate -- biggest issue ethics has, he talked about their need to enforce more open government because with open government, you have good government. i can tell you personally, working with him on different issues at city hall, with obstacles, but meetings, there are many times that i have gotten up the next morning, open my e-mail, and found a memo from him coming up with a solution to

the problem we experienced the previous night. basically, that is the work ethic he has asked a retired business lawyer. i think one of the values he has coming to this is that he is retired and he has time to spend on the issue. it is a very complicated role, and he has the time and knowledge and background to do it. he also cares deeply about these issues. he does not have to deal with the issues of full-time jobs that other applicants have to deal with. also, he does not have -- if he is working for a firm, the firm is not going to potentially receive benefits by the fact that he is a member of that firm. ultimately, the representative on ethics should represent people, and i think allen grossman is the best candidate.

>> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm here again to support mr. grossman. you probably remember my public comments from several weeks ago, so i will not repeat them, but in the interim, the city attorney has characterized the sunshine task force as a kangaroo court and out to get -- terminate city employees. those outrageous statements make it imperative that you support mr. grossman on the ethics committee so that he can attempt to enforce orders of determination. thank you.

>> good afternoon. i am chairman of the sunshine ordinance task force, speaking parley as chairman of the task force and partly as an individual. regarding the remarks made by the previous speaker, the city attorney has not issued any statement regarding the task force. those remarks came from the city attorney's press spokesman, and mr. dorsey has told me and told the sfbaycitcitizencolumnist.or that those remarks are coming from him as a city employee, said they are not to be reflected in any way of the city attorney's position. regarding the appointment to the ethics commission, i wish to reiterate my strong support for allen grossman. he has been immensely helpful to the task force in a couple of areas, one of them dealing with

the ethics commission, and i think he would be an outstanding member of the ethics commission. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am here to support allen grossman. i work for the ethics commission for over nine years. one of the commission's most important duties is protection, and during my time there, i was compelled to expose repeated violations by staff with limited by a license, the commission has not been receptive to such whistleblowing. since i have witnessed crimes being committed to the fulfillment of the agency's mandate, once i tell you today that it is imperative that the of what may be a dedicated, independent, demonstrated

advocate for good government, not a play along, get along political insider who's professional location consists of achieving positions of managers in employment hierarchy. dorothy liu is a friend of supervisor chiu and julius turman is a friend of supervisor wiener. only allen grossman is independent. i can think of no better or relevant examples than successfully suing ethics to compel it to comply with the very laws it is supposed to safeguard, such as mr. grossman has done. two candidates have both made campaign contributions to one or

more cities -- sitting supervisors. this choice presents an opportunity for each supervisor to proudly show the public that boded to appoint a truly independent watchdog who will hold even you accountable -- showed the public that you voted to appoint a truly independent watchdog. >> good afternoon, supervisors. district 6 resonant, north mission homeowner. i cannot think of a better way for a citizen to express their political -- can we [inaudible] it is difficult to concentrate year. it will be nice to know that before public comment, to see if we should address mr. turman or not. >> office did receive written notification from julius turman requesting that her application be withdrawn.

>> what we have is an individual who has put his money on the line to be sure that the laws in the city and county are faithfully executed. i understanding is the board president expressed concern about this, as if the third branch of the government is irrelevant, as if following the law is optional. in this case, the law was not followed. the city attorney was compelled to settle. i find it strange that my friend matt dorsey make comments to the press to this effect. actually referred to them as wallace, and he is acting as spokesperson for a member of the bar. that is problematic when both the city and county in pop -- in all its forms are its client. there should be a process where under sunshine, all of these claims are exposed. if someone is bringing forth a for claim, that should be heard in the body. that will send a signal back. that is how checks and balances were. but those checks and balances have been short circuit.

the ethics commission is a mess. it has systematically tried to alienated key political natural supporters who want to see open government, by bringing everybody for small amounts of finance. that is not what we want to see. we want to see the ethics commission actually supporting government that is open and honest. that is what we will see these contracts go to the right place. we saw a situation where a waiver was granted for tony hall to go to treasure island. one says political use was exhausted their, the commission decided to hit him with major finds right before he decided to run for mayor here the upshot was he was found to have not committed for what they said he did. perjury went down in those proceedings. yet the district attorney never prosecuted. we do not have a commission that is going to stand up and insist laws be followed, that integrity be respected, that tampering with evidence and perjury not be accepted in those

proceedings. i believe mr. grossman comes with those qualifications. ms. liu mentioned that she wanted to be a team player. we need a coach, not a team player. this will be a test for all of you all, to see where you stand on critical issues of go -- of open government. thank you. >> [inaudible] supervisor kim: excuse me. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. i want to thank our applicants for coming back again today. both mr. grossman and ms. liu. thank you for allowing rules committee to continue this item with there being a last-minute

applicants hear all the now, it seems he has withdrawn his application. so we are back to square one. colleagues, any comments or a motion? >> i'm sorry mr. turman withdrew his application. would have been interested on his thoughts. we had two solid candidates. we have one solid spots. i believe in reviewing those applications and thinking about the hearing and thinking about the next six years. i think our best candidate and the person who could best represent the ethics commission would be ms. liu, and i would like to put in a motion to send her name forward as our nominee.

, i agree with supervisor elsbernd. we have two amazing candidates, both of whom have contributed a lot to the city and have done a lot of amazing work. i want to thank you for your time because this is a commission that involves time commitment and dedication and does some very important work around local government, as many of the folks have said in public comment, and i think both of you will serve very well on our ethics commission. after having taken some time to consider to every zero weeks ago in the hearings and some of the letters of support we have gotten from our office and hearing from folks that have supported both candidates, i have also -- you know, given that we have one spot open, i am committed to supporting ms. dorothy liu as well. >> [inaudible]

this is a tough one for me as well. i had a chance to sit down with both candidates, speak for quite awhile, and i do think we are blessed that we have two really strong candidates today. [inaudible] he reminded me, a bump into him on the campaign trail [inaudible] that all being said, understanding the way [inaudible] what i would say is i want to support mrs. liu here today [inaudible] but i want to say, mr. grossman, i respect your desire to serve here, and if there is another committee [inaudible] with that, i would support the motion. supervisor kim: 90. we had a motion to move forward with dorothy liu for the ethics

commission to the full board. without objection. >> excuse me, supervisor, would you like to send this to the full board as committee report? dorothy liu -- supervisor kim: yes, i would. i believe the next ethics commission meeting is coming up soon in april, and i know that ms. hanson, who has been a wonderful commissioner, was only able to serve through the end of february, so they have one vacancy. if we could move it forward as the committee report, that would be great. supervisor kim: great. motion forward with positive recommendation for ms. dorothy liu. this item is now closed. thank you to the members of the public for coming today. this meeting is now adjourn. before that, quickly, i want to thank sfgovtv for taping the session today with

transcriptions available for members of the public. thank you. meeting adjourned. >> good morning, volunteers. good morning. can everyone hear me? yes, good, good. this is really exciting for me. this is my very first project connect, and i and the new director, so i look forward to getting to know each of you. just today, we want to thank you for your help. there's no way this project would exist without you guys. you are the lifeblood for this

program, and that just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. we had a couple of speakers who are here to support the program today, so the first one i'm going to introduce -- i'm not the world's greatest public speaker, so bear with me. first of all, let me start by giving thanks to a few different organizations that have helped out. one is trader joe's. they have given us bags throughout the years. next is san francisco food bank, one of the greatest assets that we have as well, so thanks to them. [applause] walden house and also a big thanks to our event sponsor, who i will be introducing in a second. not only did a financially sponsor the event, they bring many doctors and volunteers here today, which make the event happened. today, warren browner is the ceo of the largest hospital here in

san francisco. he is part of better health. he has lived in san francisco since 1975, so he is still pretty young, right? he has two children who were born and raised here. he is trained in internal medicine. you can find him in his gym clothes moths that is around 1:00, buying produce at the farmers' markets in early rally, which is exactly where i am at the same time, just not-jim close, so welcome, dr. browner. [applause] >> thanks so much for that introduction, which was a little bit too revealing, perhaps. anyway, welcome, everybody. i am delighted that we have the chance to sponsor this event. again, we have been here almost from the inception, and i think we're going to have about 100 of our folks here. in fact, do the wave if you are from cpmc.

great. thanks, everybody, for coming. this is a really important thing that everybody in the city has a chance to do. it is kind of a yucky day, so i'm sure that people waiting outside are in a hurry to get in here and get the services we are providing today. this is a meaningful opportunity to do things we do not often get to do, but to go with those of us working in more administrative or non-clinical roles, so roll up your sleeves, and thanks so much for turning out. thank you. [applause] >> the next person i get to introduce has become one of my favorite people, having just moved to san francisco. she is a visionary who believes in what we are doing and really believes in making services client-based, and that is the director of the department of public health, barbara garcia. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. this is number 38.

[applause] how many of you are first- timers? all right. i want to thank all of you. it is a great honor for me today to present to you our new mayor, ed lee. he is new to some of you, but he has been very much involved since the beginning. mayor lee. [applause] >> good morning. look at all of you. it is wonderful. in 2004, when dad and newsom -- when gavin newsom became mayor, he had a heart to heart talk with all of us about homelessness, and he wanted to something different, something that would touch the lives of people on the street, and -- because there were so many of them, and they were all

hopeless. he gathered a lot of us together and talked very seriously about what really can we do. there has been a lot of things in his life that he appreciated, as well as mine and others that worked with him, and that is, of course, the way we have been able to gather volunteers. volunteers -- for you today to do what you are going to be doing all day today is something that i think is part of the history of this great city. we have always found a different way to do things. back in 2004 when we started project homeless, and now, this is the 38th time -- you are making and continuing a piece of history that over 220 other cities in this country are trying to copy. 220 other cities. we helped out over 31 dallas -- 31,000 homeless people.

we had over 20,000 volunteers like yourself today, and i want you to take a moment and looked at each other, look at yourselves. this is the duty of san francisco and the bay area right here in this room. i love you all for doing this. a large part of my life has really been to work with volunteers. you get the greatest things done when you do it from the heart. not doing it for money. not for fame or politics. today, what you are going to be doing is offering probably one of the few smiles that people on the streets get. a genuine look directly into the eye. an offer of assistance of how i can help you. what do you need? what can we do today to make their life a little easier? and then, hopefully, with all of this great service that we have today sponsored by cpmc, and i think all the volunteers here

today, but i also want to note that there will be a moment today, hopefully, that you will be able to talk to somebody who is on the streets and maybe suggest that there is a way out in the long term. that is what these opportunities have suggested to us. there is always a way out. you do not have to be stopped, and you can get the services here today, but you can also get them every day. a life can be changed. you are part of that great opportunity. you are going to be part of that direct opportunity to talk with someone, to give them resourced, f, hopefully, they will receive that with the amount of care and the amount of compassion that you have. so i want to just say to the bottom of my heart, thank you very much for volunteering to give. thank you for being part of this historic event, and i know that one of these days, our lieutenant governor is going to come back and see us