get afternoon. my name is rose, part of the jordan park apartment association. what this is really about is about checks and balances. instead of having my face on the video, i will put a little picture up. it is about checks and balances. i would really like people do understand that. i understand we have to try to get rid of some of these, what they call, cumbersome little things in government. but since we do not know exactly which ones and we will not be told, we also will not know the actual true cost. the cost of some of these, what is considered savings in government, trying to fix the process and everything. so if we have this on the ballot for the voters to decide, we will not really know the true cost of the savings, because we d which ones are going to be effective. that is my concern. thank you very much. supervisor kim: thank you. is there any other public

comment on this item? supervisor, welcome back. >> thank you very much. citizen at large. [laughter] i have gotten a little larger. about 5 pounds larger. [laughter] it is tough to get to the gym these days. supervisors, please reject this. do not send this out of this committee. do not reject the fundamental principle of our culture. the consent of the government. i do not care whether it is prospective. i just heard it might be perspective. or whether it is retrospective. i do not care whether it is in speci -- inspective. this is an assault on our democratic process. if there's anything sacred in our culture, it is the will of the voters. when i was a supervisor, there

was something i opposed the past. when it came time for implementation, i said even though i opposed it at the ballot, the voters voted for it, voted for the implementation. i said, that is what the voters voted for, so i will not reject it. much like today. i may have a disagreement with an item as a citizen, is a person who lives in san francisco. i think the will of the voters is sucker said. and to -- whether it is six, eight, three years, 99 years, it contradicts the very heart of what it means to live in a democracy. i think what you do is take this and put it in the trash bin of ideas that should be set aside. i think it is an idea that does not belong in a city like san francisco. i do not care if 99 or 100 jurisdictions, 20 states, web -- whatever mistakes they are making about what is going on in

terms of our position in this culture of america in the city of san francisco, they need to say when the voters to vote for, if you do not like it, what do you do? go back to the voters. supervisor kim: thank you very much. >> thank you very much. supervisor kim: supervisor wiener has a question. supervisor wiener: if i recall correctly, the ban on tic's that the voters rejected and then the board adopted that ban, overriding the mayor's veto. do you recall? >> i do not recall passing that same ban. on my tombstone, it will say mctic forever. it is something that was a piece of legislation. it was a different piece of legislation. it had to do with reduced

equities and kinds of ownership. it opened up the possibilities of certain kinds of ownership and that is a different piece of legislation. we can look at that with more detail. i will come to your office and we will dig up the legislation. supervisor wiener: i invite you to do that. they may not have been identical to an american election is that the voters explicitly rejected a ban -- my recollection is that the voters explicitly rejected a ban. >> are you saying that the board was then empowered to take something that did not pass by the voters and then be able to do something or not do something? i think you are saying legislation, and i had the list of everything going back to 1968, legislation was actually adopted by the voters. you could call it miner or small

or ancillary, whatever language you want to use. isn't that what you're talking about? >> -- supervisor wiener: i was just responding to your statement about the will of the voters. what i am trying to say is it is always a little more gray around that and less peer -- less pure than it might be portrayed. i look forward to talking to you about it more. >> thank you. i will come to your office and we will look at the list. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you for being here. >> thank you for being here, too. supervisor kim: thank you. is there in the other public comment on this? ok, seeing none, public comment is now closed. we have a motion -- >> [inaudible]

supervisor kim: second. without opposition. we will be continuing this item. supervisor winner, thank you for attending our rules meeting -- supervisor wiener, thank you for attending the meeting. we want to encourage members of the public more interested in this issue to please contact supervisor wiener and discuss it at his office before this comes to the committee next thursday on june 23. thank you. before we entertain a motion to convene closed session, is there any member of the public who wish to speak on items six through eight? seeing none, public comment is now closed. colleagues, may we have a motion to convene into closed session? seconded, without opposition. we will be convening in closed

session. we ask that you leave the committee room while we do so.

supervisor kim: thank you. we're now back -- 0h, sorry. supervisor kim: -- >> we met in

closed session. i understand the committee will move items 6, 7, and eight forward with recommendations. supervisor kim: thank you. without opposition. question disclosed. madam clerk, is there anything else on the agenda? >> no, madam chair. supervisor kim: if there is nothing further, this meeting is now adjourned.

>> to address these concerns, i have made a series of amendments to the resolution that capture

the spirit of the policy but would allow continued conversation with the task force and other stakeholders about how we do metering. i believe strongly that the city needs to start developing toes to help create affordable housing. in our housing element alone, we talk about building a 60% affordable, but we are currently not doing that. it is important to start the discussion about creating tools of measuring our affordable housing and creating tools to enforce that. i grew up in new york city, one to my parents who had immigrated here to the u.s. actually, i started really becoming active in working with the community when i was in high school. came out to california for college, went to stanford. i was always politically involved. when i was a college student, i worked on the initiative to get rid of affirmative action in our

public government system. currently, we have 3 legislative items that are pending. the first is going to be coming to a final vote on tuesday, our mid-market uptown tenderloin task exemption legislation. it is basically an incentive to encourage businesses to come to mid-market. in particular, where we have the highest commercial vacancy. and then when i graduated, moved out to san francisco about 12 years ago. i always loved sanford cisco in college, and i just wanted to try it out. i started working in economic development policy. i was a community organizer for six years. i worked with young people, parents, and families around issues that concern our neighborhoods, whether it was improving muni lines, affordable housing, public schools, or just planning issues in

neighborhoods. we just had a hearing last week, and we are trying to do some work around bedbug enforcement, which is a major issue in the tenderloin and of hill and 63. a hearing will actually be on thursday, april 7, 10:30. we're doing our first hearing on pedestrian safety. i think public safety is a huge concern. it ranges from both low-level crimes to pedestrian safety, and so that is a really important issue to me. we are probably more than double what every other district has. and that are preventable. and we can do better. district 6 is one -- home to one of the most diverse constituencies. we have the poorest residents in san francisco. we have lgbt. we have immigrants, people of color, youth, and a high proportion of seniors in the city as well. we heard that people want to see more jobs, want to see access to

more jobs for our residents. we want to see more preventive instead of just reactive. we want to see after-school programs versus the police picking them up because they are out on the street, which i think our chief agrees with. i actually ran for the board of education in san francisco and got to serve a term on our school board. what really surprised me was how much i enjoyed it. i loved it. i love meeting with families, meeting with youth, meeting with teachers, visiting schools, and getting a deeper understanding of what it means to make our system work better. the one thing i really enjoyed was i got to run within a district instead of citywide, was that i really got to know voters and residents. i actually enjoy campaigning more because i had time to knock on doors and the voters individually. i'd love it. i actually really enjoyed being

out on the field. so i spent a lot of time doing it because i got to really get a deeper understanding of what people care about and what people's concerns are and also what people loved about the district and the city. i was talking with the mayor yesterday. he was very interested in seeing how the good work with our office -- how he could work with our office. i would love to see how we could support small businesses because they are the heart at san francisco. they provide 60% 07% of the jobs in sanford cisco, and they provide it locally, and they are not going to offshore their jobs any time. i am not an opponent of cleaning up the tenderloin. i love the tenderloin. i love what is right now. i recognize we have a diversity of books that live there and people do not want to see open drug dealing. i do not have a problem with people lit think -- people out on the street socializing. i think that is good. that to me is more -- you know, it is part of the character of

the neighborhood. i get to represent one of the most exciting and dynamic districts in the city. it is where change is happening, so i think it is exciting in terms of how we can model what it means to be a smart growth neighborhood, how we can use transit and housing effectively to serve our city and also to do a lot of the new green policies that we have developed over the last 10 years.