. supervisor kim: thank you. is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. i know you have some amendments to it is, supervisor farrell -- to introduce, supervisor farrell. supervisor farrell: thank you. i appreciate all the public comment, but i have not spoken with any members of the public to spoke to my office before today, so i'm surprised that that, but i read it to everyone, as i always have, at my door is open to people what to think about changes possibly to this legislation. the one comment i will say to what mr. walsh was talking about, section four, that is something we put in. it is not something i am wedded to if there is strong feeling among community members. i'm happy to take thatit is somh in different departments. we want to make sure that it

captured and work through different apartments and whether it captured all things. -- that this was behind. this is not meant to be a cog in the will but to bring neighborhoods and neighborhood members into the planning process and to get their voice to be heard. even if you end up disagree with neighbors or members, to give them a voice early on it means a lot. it is something we should try to include here. if there is comments on that, that is fine. otherwise i would ask you have a motion here to accept these amendments. >supervisor kim: there is a measure to accept this. we can do this without opposition. supervisor campos: i appreciate supervisor farrell's thoughts.

i wonder if there's a specific change to that language that anyone has in mind that could clarify some of the concerns. i do not know if it is appropriate to ask mr. welch. >> i would urge it to be stricken. that phrase. 79-2 defines -- or approval, showing an action of a city officer, or department, sponsoring a city project, approval should not include decision to undertake a preliminary study or one or more potential sites. approval shall refer to the actions of the sponsoring officer, department, board, or commission. that seems sufficient to me. i have no idea why we're adding language to that that says in

addition, any decision to potentially fund directly or the project shall constitute a proposed project. supervisor campos: i get the point. >> this is language we worked with a number of different departments. there was no objection we talked through it. i express because the real intent here is not section 4. if that is something that is meaningful to people, i am saying i am willing to take it out. i had to reiterate mr. welch. i would have loved to have heard from you before hand tried to have my phone number and we could have done this before today. if that is something members want to do, no problem. supervisor campos: i would make a motion to strike that. one motion would be this can go to the board. if there is a need to add different language. and maybe that is an opportunity to do that. i would make a motion to strike

that. supervisor kim: we do have a motion to strike. supervisor campos: it would have -- it would be to strike the definition of proposed product -- project. to strike that. supervisor kim: we do have a motion to amend. i believe we can do that without opposition. are there any further discussions? supervisor campos: to move forward. supervisor kim: we can do that without opposition. thank you. madam clerk, can you please call item 4? >> appointing one member, term ending to the pedestrian safety advisory committee. supervisor kim: i believe that abigail evans is here today.

thank you for patients. we appreciate your application. pedestrian safety is one of the top priorities for my office. as you know, so many of the collisions between vehicles and pedestrians happened in district 6. i did appreciate your application and background and expertise. you can speak to your interest on serving on the pedestrian safety advisory committee. >> thank you for having me. i am currently a research associate at san francisco general hospital. we are one of 13 injury centers funded by the cdc. currently i managed and direct a handful of projects aimed at reducing the incidence or recurrence of injuries among people of all ages in san francisco. many experience this -- experiences says that this leads

to a sustainable results. we executed an economic analysis as a cost of auto verses pedestrian industries. -- entry. the cost is $80 million each year. we found 74% of those involved in a collision were san francisco residents and 75% of the cost was charged to public funds. that is medicare or mettetal. in 2010, 36% of art, patients were struck by cars, including people on bikes. in our cdc renewal submitted in the late fall, one of our proposals will aim to study pedestrian perceptions of violence. the goal is to establish a comprehensive database that reflects all potential variables representing risk and protective factors. our aim is to construct a

database to keep san francisco policymakers informed of all aspects. this database which will be housed at the department of public health will serve as the cornerstone of information necessary to create well- informed policy. today, the voice of injured -- the injured pedestrian is reaching the absence. our proposal will aim to address this piece by going to bedside and screening and interviewing patients that are struck by vehicles. we hope the analysis and recommendations will be provided through the proposal for collective and individual behavior changed your education, outrage, -- outrageach. i would look forward to meeting a wide array of pedestrian safety advocates and stakeholders. i tried to attend most of those

meetings on the second tuesday of each month to get a feel of what is going on. i would welcome the chance to work closely with the department of public health in this arena and also mta. advocates for an increase in the dess trace it -- pedestrian safety countermeasures. also most importantly, i would have the opportunity to share and -- committee findings with a pedestrian population. it is something i have been passionate about. i have not been born and raised in san francisco, but i love this city. i wish i have. we see a lot of individuals come to that general -- is becoming an economic problem, it is a public safety issue and something that can be avoided with proper measures. >> thank you. i am a big fan of the injury center and the immense amount of work to compile data, it is just

striking. it is a huge budgetary cost for the city in the state. the data of that was put out in district 6 you have to dedicate $13 million. whatever we can do to prevent collisions returning -- occurring, we can say city dollars and that is important. i think the data also showing this is a huge equity issue. this impacts our low-income residents and seniors disproportionately over other residents. it is important this is an issue we address. if you could talk more about the empowerment center to increase social capital amongst the victims of violent injury. that was interesting and i want to hear more about that. >> we visited supervisor campo'' office. this is a group of individuals

that go through our background program which is our violence prevention program that was spearheaded by dr. decker. she started this program seeing a lot of injury recidivism. she ended up hiring three case managers who go to bed side and help these individuals. we tend to believe that -- referred to anything we can, whenever they need. it is substance abuse, metal health. typically what we're trying to do now is instead of letting these guys and ladies go, we enrolled them back into the empowerment center. they can foster change within their communities. we hope giving them opportunities to me with city's supervisors, going to city

college, uc berkeley, a handful of other events will help them move in the right direction. it has been successful so far. we're starting our next round in the next month. supervisor kim: it is important for us to connect people that have been victims of violent injury to give them that type of support they need. it is part of the healing process. i appreciated that. if there are no further questions will open up for public comment. if there is public comment on this item, please step up. seeing none, public comment is now closed. supervisor campos: i make a motion to move this application forward with a recommendation. supervisor kim: thank you. i would like to support ms. evans as well. thank you for waiting and for work around pedestrian safety. i would like to support this motion to move for the

pedestrian safety advisory committee with recommendation to the full board. we can do that without opposition. supervisor campos: thank you for your great work and we look forward to seeing you. supervisor kim: thank you. can you please call item 5. >> hearing to consider appointing one member to the public utilities revenue board oversight committee. there is one seat and 3 applicants. supervisor kim: thank you. i believe that two of the three applicants are hopefully still here. we have jussive -- joseph sheehy and. it is the same format as before. if he could speak to your background in terms of how relates to this seat and maybe principles or values you would

like to bring in. >> i am a fourth generation san franciscan. "i left my heart in san francisco" was written by my cousin. i was educated at san francisco state. i have a degree in chemistry and biochemistry and i am also a dentist. as to my qualifications, i served on two previous boards, on the board of golden gate yacht club that is during the america's cup now. i also served on the board of the olympic club. i am very passionate about water issues. i spent my youth backpacking and camping in the area around the hetch hetchy, around cherry lake

and i know this area very well. i know the system -- i will not say i am an expert. i know the system from studying it just for fun. i used to know all the flows and the politics and i could get caught up with that as time goes on. if elected to this position, i would be -- bring out passion to this. i believe in water systems. i believe in what is going on with the city of san francisco, what they're doing with their water system. is magnificent. it was developed over 100 years ago. it still works fine and need some earthquake -- needs some earthquake refit. it is gregory driven. it does not cost a nickel a electricity. -- it is gravity driven.

thank you. supervisor kim: i was curious where your son teaches math. >> my son finished his master's degree at usf in digital learning. he taught at universal studies academy. he took off six months -- he was not able to get this certificate and a master's and everything down when he was working hard. he took some time off and he will be back at unified school district to do that. supervisor kim: i appreciate his service. >> my son -- other son is a policy director for the congresswoman on capitol hill. supervisor kim: thank you. next, karen donovan. she did let our office know that we would -- she would be here. we have a third applicant who could not be here today.

again, he was called to jury duty. i do know that supervisor farrell wants to hear the applicants as well. being that we have one of three, i'm not sure if we could continue this to the call of the chair. we will not ask you to come back again because you were able to come today. i would feel more comfortable hearing all the applicants before making a decision. at this time will open up for public comment. >> i came to speak in support of karen donovan cornell a little bit served for two years on the public utilities commission citizens advisory committee where i was appointed to serve. she also has experience as a deputy city attorney on the public utility team and is an eternity -- an attorney at east

bay mud. she has a range of experience that is appropriate. i did not know mr. sheehy. we should find some way to find -- involve him in the puc. the more people who are paying attention to the big important work at puc, the better. i wanted to see those comments. i have no problem with continuing this item. supervisor kim: thank you. is there any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you for being here. i was really impressed by what you had written in your application. it seems like you do know about the water system and it is not something our average denizen knows that much about. i appreciate your interest and for your experience. also great to have a fourth generation san franciscan applied. that would make supervisor

farrell quite happy. being that we could not hear from the other applicants, i would feel comfortable continuing trade or on the record and we have heard you speak. -- comfortable continuing. you're on the record and we have heard you speak. supervisor kim: i understand the desire to hear the other applicants. i am happy to make a motion to continue the call the chair so we have an opportunity to hear the rest of the applicants and i was impressed with mr. sheehy. i make a motion to continue at the call of the chair. supervisor kim: we will try to get this done as soon as possible. thank you again. madam clerk, could you please call item seven which is our last item today. >> ordinance amending the campaign conduct code to delay

the certification of 2012 supervisor early -- the supervisorial candidate seeking public financing. supervisor kim: we had someone from supervisor cohen's office who is author of the legislation. >> to have had a long committee hearing in his -- hearing this item. -- you have had a long committee hearing in hearing this item. this would make sure that for a candidate seeking election in 2012 we will not certify their eligibility to receive public financing until the redistricting task force has redrawn the city's boundaries which i know we have been involved in. we expect to have this completed

by april 15. candidates will be able to apply. there will not be certified until the boundaries are completed. this is something the ethics commission has considered and recommended. i know the executive director is here. happy to answer any questions. supervisor kim: thank you. do you have anything to add? i appreciate you waiting this entire time. >> thank you. that is it in a nutshell. this will help us to avoid some problems. it is a proactive peace. it also gives us some breathing room. it also makes some breathing room for that effort that you are conducting right now. supervisor campos: thank you. we will open up for public comment. -- supervisor kim:. -- supervisor campos: thank you. we will open up for public

comment. it seemed that redistricting the important effort we're going through my result in -- might result in members are candidates running for seats that get reconfigured. they might either not be in the district at pearl -- after april 15 or the district contours' may be different. they may choose not to run or others may choose to run. it may change to some extent the landscape and it seems to me that delaying certification until after our work is completed was a common-sense approach to this sort of thing. i would urge you to support and enact this ordinance. i would also note in the future when there is legislation like this that has to go to the ethics commission, there was an item in the legislative digest that indicated the ethics commission had adopted or approved or recommended the proposed a legislation. it would be good to have a

separate letter in the file from the ethics commission stating that so it is not coming from the city attorney but the ethics commission staff reflecting the work of the ethics commission. thank you. until next time. supervisor kim:. -- supervisor kim: thank you and i appreciate the work on this ordinance. >> thank you. supervisor kim: is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. i wanted to state that we do have a public financing ordinance coming before rules committee next week. hopefully that can address these issues as well. i think this is an important amendment to make as the redistricting task force is considering major changes to our district lines. that will be important to delay

certification of any candidate to determine where folks live and which districts that can run for. i do support this ordinance. any thoughts? supervisor campos: i would make a motion to move this forward with positive recommendation supervisor kim: we can do that without opposition. -- positive recommendation. supervisor kim: we can do that without opposition. is there any other announcements? >> no, ma'am. supervisor kim: meeting is adjourned.