need to ask a couple questions. to the vacant seat 22, that that seat was michael ferara's and that he was reappointed. but that is not the case? >> no, he would be replacing valente. that seat has been vacant for several years. i do not recall the name, but as i said, mr. tatarazuk and i have been in constant communication about the transportation see. that is one of his passions. supervisor kim: i no quorum has been an issue for the task force. is it of members appointed, or of the entire body? >> members appointed. if you give us another member, you have created a quorum problem. supervisor kim: out of the two you have spoken to, were you able to gauge on this commitment answer -- ability to serve at

all? >> i am totally convinced of his commitment to the process. i know he has a full-time day job working for one of the railroads, so i can understand how he might not be able to attend this. i have not heard from him in the last week or so. supervisor kim: thank you. i know our office did try to contact both applicants, and we were not able to reach them, but i know mr. tatarazuk had some difficult working hours that start early and go to the middle of the afternoon. >> that seat has been vacant for several years. make a motion to approve both and forward with recommendation. supervisor kim: ok, so, we will move for both applicants with

positive recommendation to the full board and just continue to keep us updated on our new task force members. all right, we will move them forward without objection. madam clerk, can you please call item eight. >> item 8, ordinance amending the campaign and governmental conduct code to allow a former appointed mayor to obtain a full-time city employment within one year after leaving office. supervisor kim: we have a representative from president chiu's office to speak about this ordinance. >> good afternoon. here to speak on behalf of this ordinance, which i believe many of you are familiar with. it was introduced earlier this year, and it is an amendment to the campaign and governmental conduct code to allow former appointed mayors to obtain city employment. currently, there is a post- employment restriction of one year after a major finishes

service, and this ordinance was crafted soon after mayor lee was appointed by the board of supervisors in order to allow him the opportunity to return to his role as city administrator after he finished his service this year to the city as mayor. the ordinance has gone through the ethics commission, as required, and received unanimous support. i did want to draw your attention to one modification of the ordinance that was made by the commission that is before this committee today. that was a modification designed to make sure that -- the original purpose of the legislation, i should say, according to a memo to the ethics commission from ethics staff, was to prevent elected officials from using their influence to create a golden parachutes as they leave office. there was some discussion about adding supervisors. that was not adopted, but the commission did consider two different paths.

one was to only allow former mayor to return to the specific job that he or she held before serving as mayor, and they did not adopt that. what they did adopt was a provision that would set the salary for one year at the same salary that the position had before, so that was adopted. the committee made modifications to the ordinance, it would need to go back to ethics, so we would respectfully request your support of the ordinance. thank you all the co-sponsors. supervisor kim: thank you. any questions or comments about this or that? seeing none, i will at this time open up for public comment. and i oppose this legislation at the ethics commission, so be -- to be consistent, i will oppose it at this committee, and i am aware that all three of you are sponsors of the legislation, so

i do not anticipate any of you changing your mind on this. but this ordinance, this charter was initiated by the voters. to me, this should go back to the voters and see if the voters approve of the special legislation for mayor lee. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i came here today expecting to see a lot more people dealing with this item. some of my friends in different parts of the country were telling me it was such a special interest item that they did not believe it was actually proposed in san francisco. i do notice that under the sponsors, there are three supervisors not listed. those three supervisors normally support almost everything, so

just by the fact that they are not listed as sponsors is noteworthy, and that is why i mention it. i would like to wonder how joe lynn, deceased, would feel about this item. i was surprised mayer brown was here for item one and as of right now is not here for item 8. so with that item to consider why he was here for one but not 8. i would also like to know why there, hopefully, are so few commager's on this item. i would expect a lot more advocates of open government to be here to say whatever they wish to say. also, i would like to know if we are going to pass items like this for each particular person

as we think deserve it, then i would like to propose something a little different for this committee to consider. can we please have a proposal so we can see the actual photos of bin lade? -- bin laden? i understand the president has chosen not to show them. i think it is important that we see them. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. any comments? i just want to say that i think this ordinance came forward out of an exceptional circumstance that we do not see often in the city of sanford cisco, which is when we have a mayor that is elected to another seat, and we are scrambling to find leadership and an interim mayor that has worked for the city of san francisco. i think some of the amendments made were very good, and i think

it is important to note that the interim mayor does decide to run, that he will no longer be eligible for this ordinance, will not be able to return to his employment. i think the amendments made around a salary were good recommendations as well. are there any further comments from my colleagues? motion to move forward with positive recommendation to the full board without objection. madam clerk, can you please call item 9? >> item nine, ordinance amending the business and tax regulation code to establish a citizens advisory committee for the central market street and tenderloin area. supervisor kim: thank you. colleagues, before we proceed, i would just like to submit to you some amendments to the whole i would like to integrate. some changes we have been working on with the mayor's office as well, and i just realized these copies -- do you

mind bringing the copies forward? does everyone have copies? ok, great. the mayor actually had some proposals for amendments, so we worked with his office and have incorporated them in the copies that are in front of you today. as you know, this was a lengthy process for us. the discussion around the market tax exclusion for companies that create new jobs in our city. some of the concerns, of course, is to ensure that we brought in companies that were able to partner with our neighborhood groups and community advocates and residents to ensure that we were able to create jobs without creating any type of displacement, but also bringing in jobs that were sensitive to the neighborhood and had an average standing of the issues there. so we introduced this trailing legislation to create a community advisory council to work in partnership with the city administrator and the mayor's office as they move forward in negotiating community benefits agreements with companies that have a payroll of over $1 million.

so this is the proposal that our office has put forward. colleagues, i do not know if there are any questions. we will open up for public comment first. if you would like to speak on this item, please come forward. we will give two minutes per speaker. hopefully, members of the public have copies of the amendments as well. if you have any feedback for us. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am a resident of tenderloin. we support the cac because it

will facilitate partnership, and will help us emphasize community preservation and anti- displacement strategy for existing residence. it will help advise the citizens on economic strategy for mid- market. please support the creation of citizen advisory committee for the center market and tenderloin area. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am a resident of soma. i support the legislation of the citizens advisory committee for central market, tenderloin, and nearby areas. please support us by voting to

approve the creation of a citizens advisory committee for the central market street and tenderloin area. thank you. >> good afternoon. i represent tndc, tenderloin neighborhood development corporation. we support the amendment to create this advisory committee. our thoughts on this are that we feel that revitalization on mid- market is very important, but it should also balance the needs of residents -- city and business interests collectively. we feel that the citizens' advisory committee could help do that. from the perspective of residents, we house thousands of low-income residents in the tenderloin and across the city, so from the residence perspective, bringing resources and revitalization is very important, but it should be to the benefit of the existing residents as well.

as well as businesses and the city. the way we look at it is that our neighborhood, the tenderloin, has a lot to offer the city. we are a very diverse neighborhood. we have folks from all over the world living in the tenderloin. lots of diversity. longtime residents, folks you will talk to have lived in the neighborhood for 30, 40 years. and we have one of the fastest- growing populations of youth in the city. we feel like we contribute a lot to the city. and the future of san francisco, but we need the opportunity to do so. through this advisory committee, advising on revitalization efforts, we feel that we can have a voice in the opportunities that would come through companies being brought into the payroll tax exemptions on, through economic strategies,

mid-market, etc. i just also want to thank the district supervisor for following up with this legislation, and please, we support this legislation here at the full board. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. in a member of the mta and a resident of tenderloin for the past three years. i support the legislation forming the citizens' advisory committee. please support us by voting to approve it and thank you, supervisor kim, for introducing it. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am a resident of south of market, and is extremely

important to residents that the government sponsors revitalization. it is it benefit for it can meel stakeholders, including a -- the support of the creation of the citizen's advisory committee and tenderloin area. think you very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i represent the community association. like to thank supervisor kim for introducing this legislation that is important to us. we will strongly support the legislation.

we believe that this revitalization effort with the government should benefit everyone, not only corporate business. it only happens when those stakeholders are addressed. that is why our organization is supporting this legislation. this will create the mechanism in which we can afford the partnership in revitalizing the community. of like to ask the support of the supervisors to please vote and approve this legislation.

>> supervisors, the leadership council that is a grassroots non-partisan organization that was formed in 2001 that voted unanimously to support this legislation. there has been talk about the mid market project area committee fulfilling this role. let me point out it was last elected in 1997. vacancies since then have been filled by the project area committee itself and it is dominated the downtown development interests. the community has been noticeably absent in the dialogue are around the twitter deal until now. support the formation of this committee to give everyone a chance to participate in this process. supervisor kim: thank you.

>> my name is jesus perez. i also work with [unintelligible] i am here to hope that you guys support this. i am just asking for you to support this. thank you. >> my name is manuel, i'm a resident of south of market. i believe this city must help low-income residents and the small businesses. please support us. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors.

before i speak, i wanted the coalition on homelessness -- in support of this resolution. i used to say in the stabilization fund committee, the different impact of justification and the south of market, we feel that the area will also ensure that there is going to be mitigation for the impact on the small businesses and nonprofits in the area, along with the city voices and the vision of how the central market should be revitalized. we wanted to make sure that

residents have the opportunity to really speak and also have control over how the future of the city will look. we hope you will consider this resolution. please vote yes. >> the afternoon. i am the executive director of the north of market committee benefit district. i'm also a 12-year residence. any government sponsored revitalization effort will raise concerns about displacement of residents and small businesses. when our organization was forming, we saw a lot of the same concerns from the community. he felt the best way to address the concerns was to invite the community to guide us with their advice. it wasn't always pretty or easy.

but in the end, the organization is better for it and the services reflect the needs of the community. in the same way the citizen's advisory committee allows the community to give guidance and help with strategies that would address their specific concerns, for this reason, i ask the support the creation of a citizens advisory committee for the south of market tenderloin area. >> and the executive director of the american development foundation. thank you, supervisor for introducing this legislation to provide the citizen's advisory committee are around government sponsored revitalization efforts. any time that the other speakers have mentioned government sponsored efforts such as this,

the community should always be included. there should be balanced. we have been working there, representing in supporting the south of market residence and the situations are challenging situations. i am here solely to support them. they are here, and the other reason why the community center exists. i think you for introducing it ha, and i hope that the others will also support it. supervisor kim: public comment is now closed. i wanted to thank some many members of the neighborhoods for coming out today, speaking on this item. it was a challenging process as we try to figure out how to

address a job creation, making sure that we don't have consequences like displacement. and also that these benefits come to our neighborhoods and residents as well. our office has been working with many of the advocates. the also want to thank the office for spending time with the attorney's office to put together an advisory council that will work with the city administrator on the community benefits agreements. they would also come and give advice and recommendations to the board in terms of what policies to continue to pass to protect residents in the fabric of our neighborhood. thank you so much for coming out. some of the amendments that were suggested to us that we have incorporated is that we want to have more members on the committee that could also represent small business.

folks that work in jobs for creation, as well as expertise on commercial leasing, who have incorporated that along with members of the senior and disabled family homeless communities. and the 2nd the more significant amendment is that all members would not benefit from any of the benefits. those are probably the more significant amendments in this ordinance. are there any questions? supervisor farrell: i am just curious about the genesis of this year. my understanding was that it was around the mid market and tenderloin debate. there were negotiations around that. is there anything more than that? gosh the body would advise the administrator's office that

would be leading the negotiations with companies that want to come to mid market. they also wanted to host a public hearing to get feedback from members of the community. the others is a policy focus for potential legislation or policies that we may want to an act to ensure that we don't have displacement with job growth and creation. supervisor farrell: creating a body to provide policy guidance to the board of supervisors, the mayor's office, it sounds like you work with them. i am questioning -- i get the cba. that was part of the discussion. with regard to advising the

board of supervisors on policy, other district supervisor's having this appointment authority on this. i guess i have questions around that. i am creating a body that has that authority. supervisor kim: about the number of task force committees that we have in the city, i was careful to process that this committee would sense that with the legislation. we would be around the body of the actual exclusion. their role would be to advise us during this time. the board would take under consideration, as we move forward with the legislative priorities. supervisor elsbernd: the one

question i have in-house, this would be the first committee taskforce commission. where respectfully, one supervisor nominates everybody. if you look at all the others, we don't have another one. this is so much stabilization. those folks have to come to the board of supervisors. the treasure island, everybody has to come to the board. we have district 6 appointing three, but 20 of them are appointed through the rules process or eastern neighborhood. there are some district appointees. not everybody. the other kind of neighborhood focus is split up. and even the power plant taskforce, that is largely 0 split up. i am very concerned about the

notion of creating taskforce is where an additional supervisor nominates everybody. if you look at the planning task force, that is a perfect example of the tremendous difference that is shown. that is the standard that is in place, let's say we created a task force there, i would not be comfortable with them making all the appointments. the issues they are talking about, this is a citywide issue. it is a city wide concern. you have very good parameters for the seats. you will get people from district 6 on the committee. i think that initial step of being adjusted district 6 frankly put a little too much.

i think it is going too far. i would be much more comfortable if these folks had to come through rules committee and get approved in this way. >> would you feel comfortable if the office was able to nominate and it will come through rules committee. >> that is the way you have it set up now. it is an open the application process. the rules committee and the board approves. supervisor kim: of pay. supervisor farrell: i am sure his concerns -- in regard to my prior comments, did not understand that this was potentially to advise the board of supervisors on economic policy positions. policy positions. that is something i am