the restaurant while we were having the meeting, making sure they were doing what they were supposed to do. vice chair joseph: technology is cool. >> exactly. our organization facilitates a new liquor licensing live entertainment permiting for nob hill and polk corner. we have had three meetings at the public library so far, none of which mr. king attended. i want to make it clear that although the folks who have been attending -- we have had 12 people attending regularly, along with the city attorney for our area. i want to make it clear that although some of those folks have chimed in with their support of this project, our organization's support is city- wide. we aspire to represent all city districts. our support is coming from our

organization as a whole, and not the committee for the area. i want to make that clear. at the conclusion of our meeting, we requested one condition, that the exterior surveillance technology -- which they agreed to. that was the one condition we wanted to see. having said that, we support this project. vice chair joseph: thank you very much. is there any other public comment? i am glad to see you back in the room. did you have something to say earlier? >> linda chapman. vice chair joseph: never mind. >> linda chapman, representing some individual members of the community. i am a member of that cac. our objective, as david villalobos said, was not to have

a meeting on this board, but to stop what is happening on polk street. it is out of control. the resident manager and his property owner cannot come, because it raises his blood pressure too much. he gave me what he took into the meeting that david villa lobos had in our neighborhood. his statement applies to all of these. he says absolutely and unequivocally and no to any further licenses. this includes permits, until the existing late night street mobs noise nuisance is eliminated. there needs to be a total moratorium on any further licenses or liquor sales licenses until the problem is fixed. that is in total his statement. he asked me to bring in his list. this is from five months, from one resident manager -- over 50

calls. this is at the corner. the intersection -- that are in the intersection of bush and pine. at the intersection of pine, i was contacted by some people who called me up there. i was told tonight by david the lobos -- villalobos that they would just be talking about conditions. so i did not encourage anybody to try to come. the complaint has been noise. in this neighborhood, people live in studios, one-bedroom apartments, and sro's. the cannot get away from the street. one man had to move his bed away from the kitchen. in the senior housing, they filed for the protests about one

that wanted to move in steps away from where they are. this is the center of activity at this intersection, where they have allowed fights every weekend. you heard the sound of the bush street side. that goes on from 11:30 until 2:30, or sometimes three in the morning. it is not just bar turnout. it is massive crowds of people. the state senator asked how a neighborhood can be so abandoned by city hall. they have got to do something about it, but it is going to take time. we do not need to add any more. vice chair joseph: thank you very much. >> here is a letter to your agency, asking for help. vice chair joseph: nicholas, grab it. ok. never mind.

>> about another 50 signatures have been filed. >> i will just add to the pile. our land use chair as well as our sick the chair has reviewed the safety plan. we got it yesterday. he was not about to write a letter. that is why we maintained a neutral on this. i just gave you a picture.

you have no overhead. i it is not working. >> that is why i gave it to you. vice chair joseph: there it went. doubt it is working. -- now it is working. >> at the end? and other people did not get the chance? i love the special treatment. vice chair joseph: just for you, michael. >> i always bring this kind of stuff. my brother took a picture of kimo's. they have had the liquor license since november. i have been told by the representatives -- do you have a hard time seeing? vice chair joseph: my screen is just bad. i got it. >> in the neighborhood, one tactic, and it grows to many tax. the whole wall is full.

it has been removed before this meeting. that is what i need a business owner to do, is respond to complaints. i think they need to understand what their responsibilities are. i was happy to hear that there responded to a neighborhood complaint. i was amazed nobody else had said it to them. they have been operating for two months. you have to do walk buys, and everything else. we would also like to see the no loitering signs go up. it is part of the security plan, and they are not up yet. they need to be part of the conditions. and i guess reminded that they need to keep clear the litter 50 feet from the door. the other thing is the happen to have a bus stop in front of

their business. my concern is if they are having 100 customers how they are going to deal with the bus stop. and the overflow capacity. vice chair joseph: thank you. any other public comment? >> hello, commissioners. i know everybody wants to get out of here. i was hired with garland mic to deal with outreach in the community -- i was hired with garland p.r. to deal with the community. the concerns about how to deal with crowd control outside the bayview -- initially, when they

file the application, they did not commit to a security company. we advised them to hire somebody that was more professional, who could keep the line moving and flowing. the company knows how to do that. in addition, if there are smoking issues or things of that issue, the happen to be on polk and pine. we are asking people to go to the corner if that becomes something else. we are keeping the sidewalks and streets safe. there has been a long tradition of having music. we want to maintain that. these people have stepped back to engage with this community. you know the organizations they talked to. they have people who look over their shoulders. they have watchdogs. they have to be good owners and operators, or you will hear about it.

there is a dynamite security plan. i just ask that you approve the project and welcome them to the community. vice chair joseph: thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. i have another question really quickly. you made a comment about dealing with noise. would you say that again? >> we have been working with no. station. is that what you are talking about? vice chair joseph: i just wanted you to repeat that for this lady who left the room when you said that. they are working on it. i just want you to know it is not falling on deaf ears. i entertain a motion.

i will get a motion and a second. mr. king? >> commissioners? vice chair joseph: next item on the agenda, commissioners comments and questions. anybody? moving on, new business or requests for future agenda items? i move to adjourn.

good morning, everyone. thank you for joining us at the under construction site. thank you to the developers and call their supporters and certainly the people that i had met last year, including dennis rogers. we're all here on that rainy day last year when we kick started this project with the developers and housing advocates. your story here also with supervisor and board president david chiu with supervisor kim and our newest supervisor, christina olague.

thank you for all being here. [applause] first, let me begin by saying that during the campaign for mayor and certainly post- campaign, there has been a very strong effort on our part to make sure that job creation and economic development, as i said in my speech and inauguration -- that that becomes a priority for me and my administration. i have a lot of support that the board for this as well. part of that not only is when we talk about jobs and talk about the training and getting people involved that the early level of their education to get into the work force and making sure that they see san francisco as full of hope for them, but also, we have got to take care of some of the other important elements of having a good, strong work force, and that is housing. not just for low-income, although here, that is what this

is focused on. that is why we have so many advocates here today, but they will agree that work force and middle-class housing is just as important in this town. as we see a lot of expensive housing going up -- and that is good, too, but middle-class housing, housing for folks that are working and taking care of families is as important. that is why today, i wanted to use this site and use the opportunity to bring all of our housing advocates together with developers, with financial people, with people representing real estate association, property owners, and so forth, to come together and talk about the need to fill the void, as we have been talking about, where redevelopment is thought to be eliminated on february 1, and where there are constant challenges. in my opinion, have to use the word of abandonment. but the end of state-funded programs. the curtailment at the federal

level of programs that we could use to create an ongoing source for funding housing in the creation of housing. i know that our housing authority commissioners who are here -- director henry alvarez is here as well -- they will immediately agree. we are not going to take this lying down. we will not become victims, as i said earlier. even if they eliminate redevelopment, we are coming back. we are bringing people together and coming back with private enterprises, developers, people who have worked together with us. they know that delivery of promises has never been about a reliance on government programs, that we would fail ourselves and fail our community if we are so inclined to allow ourselves to lie down. that is why i have helped to assemble this group of people behind me. also people in front of me that are represented in the private sector. people who have been very

successful in producing housing. we need everybody to work together. today, i am announcing that in light of the idea that we had about forming the housing trust fund, that we begin forming a housing trust fund working group. a working group of people reflective of all the talent in our city, from advocates to developers to producers to people who maintain housing stock in the city well. that is the private housing developers, the real estate association, to the business mines and the city, and that i would like a trust fund working group to help me help our whole city come up with the best ideas possible and afford ourselves with an opportunity to work with our borders supervisors, leadership of the board to amass the best ideas we can and bring it if need be to the ballot in november.

i want this working group to welcome all the best ideas and then to struggle, if you will, with those ideas to make sure that we come out with the most agreeable schedule of ideas that we can present to the voters and residents that we are not going to abandon our commitment to this city to build housing for everybody. we are not going to allow ourselves to lie down and say that just because the state and defense do not find this to be their highest priority, in san francisco, we do. as we build training programs for our employees, as we build the technology and the grain industry to complement our tourism industry for good jobs, that we also are talking about the housing that we need to support our local industry and our local workers. i think that we need a press, a

thrust at this housing trust to bring everybody together and say that we could challenge ourselves to come up with the best ideas and to forge alliances that maybe have been in the past only at the affordable housing level for only at the luxury housing level or the market rate housing level, that we can forge an alliance together to build middle-class housing that the city desperately needs. so i am announcing today this forging. i am asking the director of our mayor's office of housing to take the leadership up on this and ask everybody to come to gather on an agenda. some of the people that we have asked today to come together here, both in front and behind me, include the housing advocates, the council on community housing organizations, enterprise community partners, the non- profit housing association,

mercy, bridge, chinatown community development, tabernacle, who is part of this effort here. the community housing partnerships. tenderloin housing. i know randy is here today. mission housing. south of market. community action. enterprise community partners. and then, of course, the developer family. san francisco planning and urban research, the housing action coalition. lennar is here today. thank you for being here. jackson. pacific. hei capital. bank of america. tenants union. coming together to join all of us to make this effort genuinely open for dialogue and for hopefully reaching an agreement again so that we can house our middle-class families and make sure that we represent everybody can have housing for everyone in the city.

with that, i would like to ask members of our board of supervisors to join with me on this. president chiu. [applause] supervisor chiu: thank you, mayor lee. i am really happy that we have represented to a really a wonderful spectrum of folks that care about a topic of folks that i think we all have been talking about for quite some time. mayor lee referred to the proposals he put out last year on the campaign trail. i can tell you that every candidate last year was talking about the importance of affordable housing. it is time to move beyond talk, though, to figure out what the solutions are, but something on the ballot, and get it done. i want to thank all my colleagues who are here. i know supervisor wiener has been leading in making sure we remember the importance of workforce housing. our newest colleagues supervisor olague has been making sure to work with tenants. we all have a real commitment to making sure that we're bringing

together all the diverse voices, and i know that every constituency who is here wants to make sure that we see housing built at different segments and different parts of the housing need that we have. we have to figure out how we get it all done. i know that the mayor is committed to this and i am committed to making sure we're figuring out how everyone can be at the table, how we can all craft solutions that will represent a good stepping board in building was san francisco is going to look like in the 21st century. thank you for being here. we look forward to getting this work done. [applause] supervisor olague: hello. most of you know me because we have worked together on all sides of the housing issue. i wrote a very brief note that i want to put out there to confirm my commitment to this dialogue

and to this working group. i want to say that i am very excited to be coming to the board as these conversations begin. i look forward to working in collaboration with tenant activists and developers and others who have worked with in the past over the past several years to find ways to address the overwhelming need the city has for low and middle-income housing. the need is great and immediate, but we cannot begin to find solutions without dialogue. please feel free to stop by my office if you want to have individual conversations so we can go and have a little bit more in-depth talk about this because sometimes when you get into the working group, it is, you know, that format is a little bit constrained. i would like to have conversations with those of you here who are open to that. again, i am excited to be part of this. [applause]

>> thank you again to all of the variety of members and advocates and developers that are here today. many of you know that affordable housing has long been one of my top priorities. i knew this year that housing would be a big issue. it was not just low-income families and individuals coming to our offices. it was writing e-mails about how hard it was to continue to live here in san francisco when middle income and even middle upper income tenants and residents in the south of market in the mission were e-mail in our office and telling us how tremendously hard it was for them to remain in the city. i knew this was an issue we would have to begin to tackle. last year ended on a down note with the abolishment of redevelopment where we lost our only permanent stream for affordable housing in the state of california. it is great to be part of a city

that is taking a proactive step only a week later to state that we are all going to work together to build housing for everyone in san francisco. i look forward to this work as well. working my colleagues, i know the ones who are standing behind me have also said housing is a priority for them. we need to make sure we continue to keep the city diverse and livable for everyone. thank you. [applause] >> reverence --rev. fong and reverend mckay were here when we started this. we will need your prayers as we continue forward. rev. fong, i know you have been such a committed person. we ask you to bless us here and encourage us to do well on these efforts. of course, supervisor scott

wiener. thank you for being here. supervisor wiener: thank you. i am really excited about what we are doing. what i want to really stress is the critical importance of focusing on moderate and middle- income housing and making sure it does not get lost in the shuffle. we do a lot in this city on affordable housing, and we talk about workforce housing, moderate income housing, middle- income housing a lot. to be perfectly honest, we do not always put our money where our mouth is, and of course, we need to do more and more on low- income housing, but we have, i think, in the past, sort of but moderate middle-income housing to the side and not really move forward in a substantive way on that. it going through this process, i

intend to hold our city accountable to making sure we are actually taking care of our middle income residents and families in this city because we are in danger of falling out our middle-class in this city, and indeed to prevent that from happening. i intend to work closely with the mayor, my colleagues, and the mayor's office of housing to make sure that we are having a hell looked -- housing policy that is inclusive of everyone and that we continue have a thriving middle class in san francisco. thank you. [applause] mayor lee: thank you, supervisor. i know there would be other supervisors that would show up, but for the conflict of interest. i think with this large number of supervisors, there will be others that will be release supportive of this effort. thank you for being here. i may have been in haste, but i will ask olson lead to come up, who was a designated person to head this effort to.

-- effort. >> this is a great day. i think my emotions on this day are so different than december 29. as a former redevelopment deploy e -- employee and going to that website and seeing the supreme court decision and wondering what we will do in san francisco, and coming to this even when the mayor is taking the lead and solving the problem and taking the initiative is just a great, great event. i cannot tell you how much my colleagues in the state of california are envious. unfortunately, through the governor's decision, there was chaos in the affordable housing community throughout california.

this project is a redevelopment project which will not be funded without tax increment, and that tax increment provided $40 million a year towards affordable housing. one of his questions to me was, "what are you going to do now?" i think we have the answer. thank you, for taking the leadership on this. we now are going forward and trying to create this housing trust fund. we do not have a lot of specifics at this point. that is why we have a working group. we will look at all the possible resources that may