chufechufe good afternoon. welcome to the sprn board of supervisor miguel of tuesday, september 27,. call the roll. >> avalos present, campos present. chiu present. chu present. cohen present. elsbernd present. farrell present. kim present. mar present. mirkarimi present. wiener present. mr. president, all members are present. supervisor chiu: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, could you please join me in the pledge of allegiance?

supervisor chiu: madam clerk, are there any communications? >> there are no communications. supervisor chiu: let's go to our consent agenda. >> items 1 will have 22 come price the concept agenda. these items will be acted on by a single roll call vote. supervisor chiu: i understand our deputy city attorney would like us to receiver out item number one. are there any other items to receiver out? >> item 8, please. supervisor chiu: if we could take a roll call vote on its 1-2 without 1 and 8. >> campos, eye. chiu eye. chu eye. cohen eye. elsbernd eye. farrell aye. kim aye. mar aye.

mirkarimi aye. wiener aye. avalos aye. there are 11 ayes. supervisor chiu: those ordinances are finally passed. item 1. >> ordinance amending the strnls administrative code to create a recreation and parks gift fund. update the medicare emergency relief fund, changing thed administering agency. >> supervisor chiu: i under we have a small technical item we need to deal with from the deputy city attorney? do you have a mic? [inaudible]

supervisor chiu: let's try that one more time. >> there should be a codification note indicating that the new section being added is 10.100 -- 257 on the first page. supervisor chiu: supervisor elsbernd will make the motion to amend. seconded by mirkarimi. without objection, that amendment will take place. colleagues, can we take this item, same house, same call? >> as amended, mr. president. supervisor chiu: this ordinance is now back to a first read, right? deputy city attorney it is back to a first read. item 8, please. >> resolution approving the jurisdictional transfer of city hall located at 17th and folsom streets, to the mayor's office of housing and the parks department. supervisor kim: i am very excited to support the

jurisdictional change to build a park project here in the mission neighborhood today. i know some of the members that worked on this for the past several years are here to see the vote on this. i want to thank the families and organizers in the mission that have spent countless hours on bringing the community together to support the development of the park at the former san francisco p.u.c. parking lot site. this project has come out of almost a 10-year community planning process, and i want to thank in particular pmp odiar, and the anti-december placement coalition for putting families front and center. the park will bring recreation, education and housing opportunities as well to an under served area in the norton mission. as many as of you know, mission is one of the city's deniesest neighborhood. nearly 60,000 families with children and single households

make this this community their home. the mission has less than 1% of all park land for the city. surrounding housing area has the second largest number of single occupancy hotels, and the affordable housing crisis has forced families to live in 10 by 10 rooms without notice access to kitchen or yard space. i am excited to move forward on this. you would have thought this would have been an easy task, but a loft folks had to come together to work on this transfer. i want to recognize all the departments and commissions that are involved. inclineding planning, the public utility commission, mayor's office on housing, the staff. linda robertson, karen, jay, juliet, john updike and john

mcin mayora. supervisor chiu: can we take this house same house same call? supervisor wiener. sorry. didn't see you. supervisor wiener: thank you. i am very supportive of this, and i want to congratulate supervisor kim and the community for really moving an incredibly important project forward. this is not in my district but about three blocks outside my district. i know first hand how much open space we need in the greater mission area. if you look at delor parker, mission playground, and how crowded they get. there are two points i wanted to make, and they were both discussed at the land use committee. first, i know there were folks who were concerned about the loss of parking, including o.k.c. and some other -- o.d.c. and some other non-profits.

i know rec and park and o.t.a. are going to work closely to better manage the street parking in the area. the other issue that i just want to flag -- and it is not really specific to this project. this is just an example. we are dedicating public land to much needed affordable housing. i just really want to keep on the radar that we as a city have done a really poor job of providing moderate income housing. we have provided a fair amount of low income houses, which is very necessary, but we need to do more. we do a great job of market rate housing. but we provide almost no moderate income housing, and that is a problem in terms of keeping the diversity of our communities, making sure that we do not become a city of just rich and poor, that we keep our middle-class and, woulding class. i just -- as we are moving forward on these kinds of

projects where public land is involved, that we keep moderate income housing in mind. it is a key to our economy. i will be supporting this, thank you. supervisor kim: i left out a very important office involved in this prior to our office working it. supervisor david campos' office has been working with it and convening meetings along with our office. thank you. supervisor chiu: supervisor campos? supervisor campos: thank you, mr. president. i don't want to belabor the point and repeat what has been said. i want to thank supervisor kim and her staff and all the community members who have been working on this for quite some time. it has been a long time coming, and i know there's a lot of excitement around this, and i think this really shows how a community working closely with government can really move something very positive forward. i also want to thank my staff for their work in making this

happen and look forward to continuing to work with supervisor kim, supervisor wiener and his office. again, thank you to the community for coming together around this very important project. supervisor chiu: supervisor avalos? supervisor avalos: thank you. i would just like to echo the comments of all of our colleagues who have spoken. i want to reiterate a congratulations to the community for the work they have done on this. this is actually the second park that was established in the mission district. there was another on 23rd and folsom, which is a great addition. it gets well utilized because there are so many families there. there is also a garpped -- a garden there. congratulations. we are going to see wonderful things coming out of this public space and i am very grateful, and i would like to co-sponsor. supervisor chiu: we will add

supervisor avalos is added as a co-sponsor. and supervisor mirkarimi, and others. colleagues, any further discussion? if we could take this item without objection, same house, same call. this resolution is adopted. let's now move to item 23. >> item 23 is from the land use and economic develop committee. an ordinance to establish the city district. supervisor chiu: supervisor farrell? supervisor farrell: thank you. a reminder, on its last reading today, this is the legislation that will allow target to come into the old city center district. it is the site of the old toys r us, sears row buck and

mervyns. supervisor chiu: without objection this ordinance is passed. ilet 24? >> item 24, ordinance amending the administrative code, decreasing film fees for smaller budget productions pertaining to the film rebate program. supervisor chiu: supervisor farrell? supervisor farrell: thank you. colleagues, this legislation is going to bolster our current film rebate program by including documentaries and reality programs to the program. in the past, reality shows used to be fairly low budget productions. now we are seeing many more of these shows with more substantial budgets to work with,, and we would like to attract them here to have them spend their production dollars here in san francisco and hire local crews. this is going to apply to documentary films as well. since introducing this legislation over a month ago, my office, the film office and

the staff of the film commission has received numerous inquiries from different reality shows and documentaries that want to take advantage of this coming into san francisco. secondly, this legislation will also decrease the fees for low budget productions of under $500,000 from $300 a day to $100 a day here in san francisco. currently many small independent film makers bypass the permitting process here in san francisco because it is cost prohibitive for their low income productions. right now all feature films and stwnch series pay thrsh 300 a day for their permits, and that is higher than anywhere else in the country. new york city has a permit fee of $300 for a whole production no matter how many days they film for all budgets. in vancouver, permits cost $100 per day. new mexico, $25 per day. in louisiana they are free. these are states already

offering incentives we can't compete with. this legislation well make our permits more affordable and continue to make it as attractive as possible. this has always been and continues to be about jobs here in san francisco. our film rebate program has been successful, bringing in series such as milk and trauma. we have talked about a committee commanding this and looking at the stats of the film rebate program over the past few years. later in role call we will be introducing a request to make sure we analyze all competing jurisdictions throughout the country and in canada in terms of what they offer film production crews to come into town not just in the form of rebates, but other incentives that we will be able to provide here in san francisco to have a competitive environment. i would like to mention that if anyone has any questions, suzanna robbins is here to answer any questions you might have, and i would thank you for

your support. supervisor chiu: supervisor avalos? supervisor avalos: thank you, president chiu. i am actually curious about the extension of the rebate program to reality shows in san francisco. i think we have a pretty good reality show going on right now. it is the mayor's race with the voting. it is like a game of survivor. i am actually going to be supportive of this legislation, and i want to differentiate my vote on this compared to the vote against the twitter tax break. the twitter tax break, there wasn't actually a fund that we covered the rebate program in. it was more like deficit spending we did in providing that tax break. but with the rebate program having a fund we are tapping into to reimburse expenses for film productions gives me the ok to approve this legislation. so i will be voting in favor of it and want to congratulate you on your effort. supervisor chiu: supervisor farrell? supervisor farrell: and just to be clear, this is not increasing the amount of money that we have already allocated

for the rebate program. this is not going to cost a cent more for the city of san francisco, just attract additional productions that could avail themselves of the existing rebate programs and the dollars we have left from the original inactment a number of years ago. we are going to be asking for a study to be done in advance of the rebate program expiring in june of next year, whether it makes sense in terms of investment dollars from san francisco and city hall to continue this program, expand it, drop it or what have you. that is what we will be doing. supervisor chiu: can we take this item same house symptom saug? pass on the first reading. >> item 25, ordinance amending environment code to update the green building requirement of design, construction and operation of city buildings. supervisor chiu: supervisor mar? supervisor mar: thank you, president chiu. colleagues on your desks are a minor amendment to the green

building requirements for city buildings ordinance. i want to thank joe anna from the mayor's office and others for bringing this ordinance forward with my office. the minor amendment i believe is non-substantive. at page 16, line 21, the legislation provide that the new lead gold certification projects will apply to projects where the initial appropriation request is submitted to the board of supervisors after september 1st, 2011. i am nearly changing the date to november 1st, 2011 so that the ordinance is not retroactive. thank you, and i encourage your support of this important measure. supervisor chiu: supervisor mar has made a motion as he has suggested. seconded. it passes. colleagues, can we do this same house. >> as amended mr. president. supervisor chiu: this is passed

on first reading as amended. >> item 26. ordinance aed mending the administrative company regarding the adult probations department and their post release supervision program. supervisor chiu: supermirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: thank you, mr. president. colleagues, for months we have been hearing about state prisoner realignment. the committee from the board of supervisors and this body has advanced pieces of legislation in installments that presents france for what will be an unprecedented event october 1. every county in california will be severing back state prisoners to its jurisdiction. 42,000 prisoners are being returned from the state. san francisco's allotment per-capita will be one of the smallest. the number we are receiving is approximately 650. it starts october 1st. san francisco is in a better

position than most counties because of the realignment plans and steps for preparation that have been underway. we are one of the few counties in the state that is experiencing under crowding. so that gives us a leg up compared to many counsel. we are in a position that we must advocate vociferously and vigorously for more funding because the money coming with the prisoners is about half of what we need. it is the point of this legislation that we assign the adult probation department to take lead with the sheriff's department taking second in the receiving and process of those prisoners that are returning. the criteria for the prisoners that are returning are those that are low-level offenders, felons, non-violent and non-several offenders. there has to be a case by case risk assessment for every prisoner that takes place. also what is accompanied in

this ordinance is greater discretion approved because of prisoner realignment in allowing the sheriff's department and adult probation to exercise versions of home monitoring, discretions they have not had before. there is a pecking order of cost. incarceration is the highest of that cost, versus diversion or home electronic monitoring or a hybrid there of. many months have gone into the preparation for this. i don't think many counties are quite prepared or braced in the way we are trying to. but since october 1 is just a few days away, the first installment of prisoners coming for san francisco is approximately 30 for october. then they will be staggered in different amounts, and there will be a significant ebb and flow. while we seem to have our ducks in order for the coming year, it is undetermined what it will look like in years after. we have to stay vigilant. if our rehabilitation or

realignment is not on top of its game, that will create blow-back in a public safety kind of way, forcing more of a police response instead of the kind of response we hope is satisfied through adult probation through the sheriff's department and the fleet of non-profits, who are assigned for re-entry and rehabilitation. many of these factors are intertwined, and they all campos down to economics. while we are hoping that everything goes according to plan on the front end, we must be prepared for what could go wrong on the back. that is important, especially to any one of us who represent areas that have been highly distressed in public safety. in typical, those populations in our neighborhoods are the host to the greatest amount of probationers and parolees. this some -- something we need to be on stand by and work together with juvenile adult probation, police department,

board of supervisors, sheriff and others involved as well. this is the final piece of legislation in five astatements of ordinances that officiate san francisco beginning of realignment. we are not sure when it ends, but we know this is now the way things are going to be with the state. that puts city government and our county jail system in a place where it has never been before. this is a task that has yet to have been challenged. with that, your support is appreciated and thanks to supervisor cohen for her co-sponsorship. supervisor chiu: without objection this ordinance is passed on the first reading. item 27. >> ordinance amending the police code requiring a handgun to be kept in a locked container or disabled with a trigger lock and prohibiting the sale of enhanced am nation. supervisor chiu: supermirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: this is timely because yesterday the federal court hear