>> welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors for tuesday, may 1st. happy made it. could you please call the roll. supervisor avalos: supervisor campos:

supervisor elsbernd: supervisor kim: supervisor weiner: aye. all members are present. the correct thank you. could you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> [all together] i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> we have our 2012 board meeting minutes. could i have those motion and seconded. without objection, they are approved. are there any communications? >> there are 9. >> can we go to the agenda. >> items one through 10 comprised the agenda.

if there is discussion of a matter is shabby removed and considered separately. >> colleagues roll-call vote. >>supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. supervisor chu: aye. supervisor farrell: aye. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor olague: aye. supervisor weiner: aye. >> motion is adopted. >> item 11 is appropriating approximately 6.6 million in salaries in french benefits -- fringe benefits for the projected increases in overtime. >> can we do this same house, same call.

>> item 12 is a breeding 327,000 in it -- is 3-appropriating. grex this ordinance is passed. >> item 13, to increase the revolving cache of the apartment building pungent. it cracks -- >> next item. >> appropriating approximately two $0.7 million for nurses' salaries for the apartment of for fiscal year 2011-12. >> same house, same call. this ordinance is passed. >> item 15, the commercial paper program ordered to an amount not to exceed $300 million issue from time to time for the various capital projects benefiting waste water enterprise. >> the same house, col.

this ordinance is passed. >> item 16, issuing water bonds not to exceed $650 million to barry's finance projects under the water system improvement program. >> same house, same call. the resolution is adopted. cala items 17 and 18 together. >> item 17 is a breeding -- is appropriating $315 million and item 18 is appropriating $915 million for the development and infrastructure and mitigation projects for the america's cup. and paste -- placing $45 million on reserves pending per dispenser for it -- certification. -- participant certification. not to exceed $45 million for

certain improvements of port commission. >> same house, same call. these two measures are adopted. correct item 19 is an ordinance waiting the fee in the public works code for temporary street space occupancy designated for saturday, may 13th and may 19th. the cracks items -- >> items 20 and 21. >> public infrastructure improvements for the the cemetery gates pump station and for the 66 ssu were forced relocation. >> colleagues, same house, same call. these ordinances are passed on of the first read. >> item 22, remanding the police code for security for commercial parking garages and lots. correct colleagues, i bird -- >>

i first want to thank the public safety committee for their continued efforts toward containing violence in and around our entertainment venues. we have refocused efforts on the safety of nightclubs as well as party promoters. this is a piece of legislation dealing with another aspect of late night island having to do with parking lots. often unmanned, particularly after midnight, when patrons going to clubs they serve -- sometimes hang out in nearby parking lot. public safety and have been associated. i want to thank supervisor wiener for his close sponsorship of this legislation pipit this legislation does several things. it requires all commercial parking lots and garages to submit a security plan when applying permits, and when those honors for commercial parking lots at 100,000 -- at 1,000 ft. of the area, it requires

lighting and online security of individuals for safety. we made a number of amendments to just parking lots that have a good safety record by allowing the police chief to waive some of these requirements, and also amended the legislation to make it clear that we're focused on this. with that, i would by to ask for your support. president chiu: supervisor kim. supervisor kim: thank you. i want to thank president chiu and supervisor wiener for bringing this forward. we have worked very closely with our venue owners on making their security plans stronger. we have been finding that a lot of the issues, the public safety issues in the parking lots that often do not have any staffing after midnight. i'm glad to see that we are making it more consistent throughout the district.

supervisor avalos and i had concerns about whether employees of parking garages can have criminal records or not. that will be before the public safety committee in the future. again, i want to thank both offices for working diligently on this, and i want to thank the entertainment commissioner steven lee, who i know has been active on this issue. and at including our other partners as well president chiu: supervisor avalos. supervisor avalos: i voted to support this legislation as it was in committee. i do have concerns about -- and i will point them out, colleagues. on page 6, line 13. i will read out loud. "-- the list of things ian

operator needs to provide in terms of parking permit process. this will include hours of duty and employment and a declaration signed by the applicant and dependably -- under penalty of perjury certifying that the applicant has none of the individuals that have pled guilty for unemployment crime into the past 10 years. that part by a understand the need -- i understand the need why there is a rationale for bring out language in here. this was part of the underlying ordinance that was amended with this ordinance. but i think this plot -- applies in counter to our

effort around reentry to ensure that those who have criminal records have are for synergy for employment and ways of getting out of -- criminal records have an opportunity for employment and ways of getting out of their criminal past. i would like to divide the file. it i do not want to support this part of the file. i would like to have the upper charity to vote against this one section. it would be a vote against line 6, line 15. my motion would be to strike out on page 15 -- on line 15, including hours of employment, i would put a period right there and the rest of that section will vote out. but our right to vote for the

underlying ordinance. >> i want to thank supervisor avalos and to revise our camp for pointing out this issue. -- and supervisor kim for pointing out this issue. does this happen to be language that was placed in this section of the police code years ago. and to make it clear what it says is that individuals that have pled guilty or convicted of specific clients, mostly related to stolen property, and other crimes related to vehicles. for example, the breaking into and removing of parts from a vehicle, a modest shift -- illicit -- malicious mischief with a vehicle, or other use of alcohol, narcotics, or controlled substances while in connection with a vehicle

prepared -- vehicle. this was placed in the prior ordinance to make sure that those working in parking lots do not have that record. that being said, i think the requirement of a declaration stating that no employee that is convicted of this feels a bit of interest to me. we actually duplicated this file so that we could have a conversation with the san francisco police department. i have and i know supervisor avalos have -- has also contacted the police department to respond. i'm not prepared to strike is out, but i'm prepared in the next few weeks to see if there's other language that would address the desire that many of us have to see better employment opportunity for ex-felons and others with a record. but in the argonauts were you have cars that are very expensive, we want to make sure those cars -- but in the parking

lots where you have cars that are very expensive, we want to make sure those cars are safe. supervisor weiner: is this a motion to amend, or to duplicate the file? > the file has already been duplicated. a person sits in committee. -- a version sit in committee. supervisor weiner: to vote on that one sentence? >> yes. there is a motion on the floor. president chiu: supervisor campos? supervisor campos: i was not going to speak on this, but i want to follow up on what supervisor avalos noted. i do think it is important for us to address this issue and it is important to note that one of the individuals that this board recently appointed to the small business commission who is

precisely working in this industry is someone who had previously had a criminal past but completely turned his life around and has made a point in that business that he has created and has a stellar record of trying to provide employment to the very individuals that would be excluded from this position. i think that i do not feel comfortable voting for something that on its face seemed to exclude the appointment of these individuals and i hope that we recognize there is a need to recommend it, and if we cannot proceed, that we at least amend it. i think it sends the wrong message. i was not intending to speak to this, but what i have seen in business, and what came to was

in the rules committee was pretty exemplary. that kind of conduct is something that we want to see happen. when business goes out of its way to target a population that has been ignored, and provides an opportunity for these individuals while still holding them accountable, i think it is something we should support. president chiu: colleagues, i was not aware that we were going to be debating this issue today, particularly because i thought there was still a version in a public safety. i might suggest a different way of going at this. what is challenging for this provision for many of us, including myself, is that applicants are required to sign a declaration under penalty of perjury stating that none of the employees are guilty of or have been convicted of various crimes. in earlier sections of this

ordinance, it states that managers that control the operations are required to provide information about their conviction record, but it does not state that they cannot have a prior record. i think that is the appropriate standard. the criminal record of the employee still needs to be provided, but not creating an absolute bar. if that is an amendment that supervisor avalos and others are willing to accept, i am considering amending that today. but if it is to just strike this, i would prefer to have more of a conversation with the san francisco police department before that. i'm happy to have further discussion. supervisor campos: i'm done. supervisor avalos: president chiu, i was a bit distracted

when you were expressing we were willing to do right now. if you could reiterate. president chiu: sure thing. our deputy city attorney just reminded me that if we are trying to make changes to this, except for voting to divide the file, this would have to go back to committee because it is a substantive change. right now, it states that any applicant for a parking lot operation needs to sign a declaration stating that none of the employees have a criminal record with regard to the specific crimes enumerated here. in another portion of the ordinance it states that the managers are operators of that body that could have a record, but it just needs to be disclosed. i think that is the appropriate standard. but this would need to go back to committee in order to be resolved in that way. again, my suggestion is that