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mayor's office that he is also supportive of this path? >> i will defer to jason elliott to speak on behalf of the mayor. >> thank you, supervisor. mayor's office, through the president. we did receive a briefing and text of these amendments. while it is a fresh idea, the mayor is supportive of these amendments and looks forward to the board taking action as soon as possible. supervisor mirkarimi: back to the question on the 15th or the 22nd -- if we are trying to accommodate parties within the chamber and room 200, i still do not hear the answer as to why the 15th versus the 22nd. president chiu: there is a very simple answer. it takes 30 days for a piece of legislation to go into effect once it has been signed by the mayor. we all understand this needs to get done by the end of the year. if we don't have a final read by
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the end of this month, given the things given break, it will not give enough time to get -- given the thanksgiving break, it will not get enough time to get things done by january 1. supervisor elsbernd: the motion is to continue to the 15th and to sit as a committee as a whole. supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: nio. supervisor mirkarimi: no. supervisor mar: no. supervisor avalos: no. supervisor campos: no. president chiu: aye. supervisor chu: aye. supervisor cohen: aye supervisor elsbernd: aye. >> we have six ayes, five nos. president chiu: mr. clarke, why don't we go to item 16? >> impertinence to who provide
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reconstruction of buildings damaged by fire or acts of god. supervisor elsbernd: thank you for the board for giving me the two weeks with the planning department. i spoke to the zoning administrator, mr. sanchez. the concerns i had, he has allayed. i think we should move forward with this legislation. we are ready to go. president chiu: roll-call vote on this item. supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor mirkarimi: aye. supervisor weiner: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. supervisor chu: aye. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. >> mr. president, we have 11 aye. president chiu: i have been
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reminded with item 15 that after the vote on the motion to continue, the chair did not state that item 15 will be continued to november 15. with that, that is what will happen with item 15. we can move to items 17, 18, and 19. >> item 17 amends the administrative code to adopt the binding financial policy providing that selected non- recurring revenues may only be spent on nonrecurring expenditures. item 18, he adopts the certificates of participation and commercial paper. item 19 updates budget rock -- budget procedures to accommodate two year budget cycles and five- year financial planning requirements and eliminate duplicate of reporting requirements. president chiu: can we take this
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same house, same call? supervisor avalos: could we think about two more weeks on item 17? i am not saying i will vote against it, but i want to consider that separately, with a little more time. i would like to see if we can have that heard on 15 november -- on november 15. president chiu: a motion to continue this item to november 15 by supervisor avalos. any objection to the motion, seconded by supervisor campos? without objection. on items 18 and 19, same house, same call? without objection on the first read. >> item 20 who is an ordinance appropriating approximately $1.8 million of the children's fund contingency in the department of children, youth, and their families to fund subsidized
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child care for low-income families. president chiu: same house, same call, passed on the first raid. >> item 21 adopts and implements an amendment no. 4 to the 2007-2013 memorandum of understanding between the city and county of san francisco and the service employees international union of fire rescue paramedics, extending its turn to june 30, 2015. president chiu: same house, same call? passed on the first raid. can we take items 22 through 24, related to various airport concession leases? >> item 20 to retroactively approved an amendment to the newsstand place. item 23 approves amendment no. 42 boarding areas b and c.
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item 24 amends to the terminal bookstore lace. president chiu: these are adopted. >> item 25 is a resolution adopting a fixed to year budgetary cycle for the airport, port, and public utilities commission. president chiu: adopted. >> item 26 is a resolution authorizing the issuance from time to time, in one or more series, of not to exceed $1.3 million aggregate principal amount of the city and county of san francisco general obligation refunding bonds. president chiu: this resolution is adopted. >> item 27 is an ordinance amending the planning code to admit bowling alley and single screen theaters in the mission alcoholic
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i introduced this legislation along with the co-sponsor and the district encompasses on some of the special use district. this was heard at the planning committee and received approval. prior to the hearing, we heard from one of our movie theaters which is a nonprofit that they have been looking to sell beer and wine to offset some of their revenue. many of our movie theaters are struggling. we did amend the legislation to include single screen movie theaters. this was approved.
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i'm looking forward to the support of the full board on this legislation. boleyn alleys and simple screen theaters are the kind of businesses that want to encourage here in san francisco. the bowling club is two women owners that on a mini bar on this is a hero and they are excited to open up a smaller bowling alley bar and restaurant. we approved 8 transferred to open and build a new park. we are excited about the elements happening in this part of the mission. excited to support our small businesses. we did make sure that they did to outreach to the community.
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they reach out to be organizations to make sure that this was in line with a lot of people's vision for the neighborhood. we would like to allow the bowling alley lanes to be used after school for free. we are excited about this partnership. thank you for your consideration. >> i support this legislation. i would like to use the think supervisor came for her leadership.
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i do want to state through this process that although this is a good first step that the mission alcohol special use tissue it has outlived its usefulness. this is a hindrance on entertainment, on creating new businesses, and it should be repealed in its entirety. this was put in place in 1990's to address alcohol light in the mission. it was a very well-intentioned ordinance. over time, because it makes it impossible to transfer liquor licenses, what it does is friezes in place some very bad uses like package liquor stores
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while preventing new businesses from coming into the neighborhood. the valencia wholefoods cannot sell beer or wine. we should address this one problem. this will be coming up over and over again as new businesses want to come in and be able to offer all all. i hope as this conversation continues that we will get to the point where we address the root problem. >> of like to echo my support. the mission bowling alley, i cannot tell you how much i try to get them to stay in my district. the owners of mini bar were
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part of our renaissance. this is unrecognizable when it was 8 years ago thanks to a lot of the proprietors, liked proprietor of the bar which opened the bowling alley. i think this will be a huge success i think it is unforgivable that japan town bowling alley was shut down for market rate on doucondos. this should be well supported by legislation that does not look to the past but looks to the future. in terms of the entertainment and night life industry. but it needs to be supported. with the limited live performance, it goes hand in
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hand with giving credence with a special use district. my house off to supervisor kim. >> we wanted to look at a more comprehensive reform district but normally we would not have picked off a tapering approach to this. small businesses are moving forward and they cannot wait for the community outreach to take place to look at the overall district. we do support looking at it. this came into being for a reason and we want to do the purpose it out reached before we do any whites killed changes. i am excited about the bowling alley. i want to remind supervisor mirkarimi when your a huge advocate for bowling, there was
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one of the saddest closures. this is a place for young people and old to go. it is sad that we don't have that. i'm looking forward to seeing more bowling alleys. >> i am not in any way criticizing the approach. this is the right way to proceed. we can strike while the iron is hot but i want to make sure that the broader issues stay firmly on the agenda. >> can we take this item same house, call? this is passed on the first reading, let's go bowling. >> item 28 is an ordinance amending the transportation code to authorize the administrative and misdemeanor penalties for submitting false, misleading, or fraudulent information. >> same house, called? this is adopted on the first
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reading. >> item 29, ordinance amending the police code to prohibit public nudity. >> i know the car could not read the rest of the description. fowe are addressing it discreet issues that are primarily affecting the castro it could be elsewhere as well. there has been allowed discussion about this and the press has been upset about it. when we had a hearing, no one came out to oppose it.
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we did hear from one person in the neighborhood that this is a tangible issue happening in the castro. colleagues, i respectfully ask for your vote. >> can we take this same house, same call? without objection. this ordinance has passed. >> why don't we go to item 30? >> item 30 and 31 work is diverted by a.d. neighborhood as the services ready item 30 supports the occupy wall street movement and the people's right to peacefully. >> i called the committee report, item number 30.
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>> first off, i would like to thank the co-sponsors for this resolution. that would like to thank supervisor wiener for his amendments. this is all the language which i included, the peace of language that supervisor wiener will mention in a moment. this is discussing a shared responsibility between the mayor and the board of supervisors and being more specific with the language.
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this supports the occupy wall street movement overall and the goals of the occupiey sf moveme. i can see the consciousness that is changed across the country. this is a very welcome thing occurring create meaningful change in our society about how we can restructure our society and our government's relationship to the economy to promote the welfare of the people. that is the goal. we need to have a government that is truly accountable to the 99% so i wholeheartedly support the movement. this resolution does about support for the movement. this is also about free speech and the right to assembly and their recognition that the
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occupy wall street movement consists of 24/7 assemblies that happen in public spaces and in some cases private spaces around the country and currently here in san francisco, on market street. i have been at the site and number of times. i've been called to intervene against the police action against the occupation, the first time was about a month ago when the police were about to move on the occupiers and separate their belongings from them. i went to market street and try to intervene but i did not get the support from the police department as i had hoped. there was some confrontation on the street that led to one person getting hurt and one person getting arrested and my concern for the police intervening was that it would create tensions that would be an
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unmanageable use of public space and it would be difficult to negotiate how the public space could be used. the movement itself would probably grow as there's police used against it. sunday, police action occurred and we saw that the occupiers increased in number and that made it difficult to action negotiate the use of space again. then we saw what happened in oakland. this was something that was horrendous in terms of how the police department in oakland had used teargas, reports of more bullets or protect those that cause the damage to people's bodies including bruises, cuts, and one member was hit by a projectile and suffered a skull fracture and was in critical condition for a couple of days.
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after the police force and oakland use force against the occupation, the occupation only grew in number and this created a very difficult way for the city of oakland to negotiate how the public's base could be used in the time to come. shortly after that, we have the threat of imminent use of police forces are not last wednesday, thursday morning and luckily we move from that and the refuse of force that was quick to happen to the mayor sitting down and talking with members of the movement and people who are part of the movement and also supporters like the san francisco labor council, the interfaith coalition, the teachers' union, the nurses
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association, a number of other organizations around the city. i want to commend the mayor for doing what this resolution urges which is that we have a discussion about how we can use the space and minimize the health and safety concerns and not use any kind of force to dislodge the occupation because that will only lead to tensions that would make it difficult. i think the mayor for coming. i think it is significant that
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the mayor has made these that an it is worth mentioning. thank you. i also want to thank the promise of a been going above board and working around the clock and make sure that this area is safe. supervisor kim has played a large role. there are a number of members that were there and is prevented any real action from happening. the presence of ourselves with the interface organization, all work together to prevent what happened and i want to thank the mayor for not moving forward with the rate.
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-- the raid. thank you for your consideration. [applause] >> we have a role within the chamber of not expressing applause or opposition to statements so that we can move with our proceedings in an efficient way but if you want to make a silent hand gesture, but that is absolutely appreciated. thank you. >> this is to make an amendment as a whole, correct? course correct.
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-- july >> correct. any discussion on the amendment? the motion passes. >> thank you. >> i would like to thank supervisor avalos for being open and collaborative. i did suggest a number of changes to the resolution which i think make a better resolution. i would like to thank supervisor avalos to -- for agreeing. i am very supportive of occupy sf. i went to the general assembly. what it stands for is incredibly important and i will not go into those details.
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the times i have been down there has been peaceful and people have been friendly and passionate. what happened in oakland was abhorrent and unacceptable. there will be ramifications and repercussions for a long time. the last clause says that the mayor should instruct the police department not to use force at all. what happened in oakland was terrible and was completely
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inappropriate use of force as far as i can tell, i don't think that it is appropriate for us to tell the police department no matter what happens, come on a matter how anything changes between the peaceful state and what could happen in a week or in a month or three months or a year, that no matter what happens, you cannot use force. although none of us want forced to be used, we all know that things can change and so i think that we need to take that into account and i don't think that we should hamstring our police department's ability to ensure public safety. i have distributed an amendment that at a frieze of the very end.
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but ed, unless there is a move that amendment. >> supervisor amendment has made the motion, is there second? any discussion? >> i understand the reasoning why this of the puzzle but to include the language and i feel that was performed in a clinic was on the pretext of a result of safety concerns so i don't think it means what they need. i do believe that the line is we have without it is adequate because we're talking about the use of force to dislodge the occupation, that is what this
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whole clause is about an hour think that if we were to do that, we would see a return of people the next day or the death after -- or the day after. that is how people respond to the use of force and i think that what happened as well. i prefer to keep it as it is. >> just a question to my colleagues, i understand what supervisor wiener is saying. it seems to me that that is already given. there are paternities to do different things. i'm wondering about the
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