president chiu: welcome to the board of supervisors meeting, can you please call the roll? >> [roll call]

casmr. president, all members ae present. president chiu: can you join me in the pledge of allegiance? we have the june 5, 2012 meeting minutes. can we approve those minutes? without objection, those minutes are approved. >> i have a communication, in receipt of a notice of transfer function dated june 29, 2012 result.

it provides notice of approximately 29 positions and classifications to be transferred from the human rights commission to the city administrator. president chiu: can you read the consent agenda? >> an ordinance authorizing settlement of the lawsuit filed by waterfront watch against the city for $225,000, establishing a process for review. how to reduce emissions at pier 27 and agreement not to place a jumbo screen on the water. on item one. [roll call vote]

there are a 111 aye's. amending the tax cut to -- [unintelligible] supervisor farrell: this is an item we continued a couple weeks ago while budget negotiations were going on in committee. we will do the thanks later, and we will be hearing it in a little bit. as part of the contemplated a budget, it is an extension for small businesses that applies

citywide. the goal here is for hundreds of jobs a year, to really send a signal as we continue to debate the gross receipts transition that we support our small business community. i want to thank my co-sponsors who worked very closely with me on that. we hope to have your support to their again. >> colleagues, i want to thank you for your consideration of this ordinance over the past few weeks. i want to thank you for your patience. while we have this discussion, i thought was important that we consider the tax break in relation to our decisions on the budget, that is exactly what we did. i am probably one of 10 to vote against this.

i think the best thing we can do is support small businesses, looking at fees and how they rise every year. our exercise on small businesses. i will be voting no, but thank you for your consideration the past three weeks. supervisor campos: i want to thank supervisor farrell for his work and i thought it was appropriate for us to consider this once we had taken preliminary action on the budget. i will be supporting this. i don't believe that what we do it exists in a vacuum. at some point, this board decided to provide a payroll tax exemption on stock options for millionaires who, because of that, were able to save millions

of dollars that would otherwise go to the city. if we had not done that, i would not be supporting this. but i think it makes sense to make sure that we send a clear message that we value our small businesses. there are a minority on to businesses that would like to expand and this provides an opportunity to do that. i think that we have an obligation to do the same for small businesses, keeping the

local economy going. i will be supporting this. supervisor olague: to be brief, i will be supporting it, this tax exclusion. what i hear from members of the public and small-business owners is that they go through a lot during the permit process, so there is a lot of process they have to go through, it is a very convoluted process could get started in business here in the city. in addition to fees, i hope we can look the other things to expedite the process so they can move forward with their attempts to establish things here in the city. supervisor kim: i also wanted to appreciate the additional time that we took to evaluate this budget process.

since this appropriation came after the mayor's budget had been introduced, i thought it was a good discussion. it forced a larger question of how we reform how we tax businesses, and i wanted to take a moment to appreciate something that was included that have not been in other tax exclusions. for violating some of the labor standards and labor laws in san francisco, would not be eligible for a tax exclusion. i wanted to appreciate that this was part of the discourse. supervisor campos: i forgot to note that on that point, i wanted to think the progressive workers alliance for working with us on that, because it was important that we be consistent. if we are going to provide a tax benefit, we need to make

sure there is willful compliance with all the laws that govern. president chiu: with that, roll call vote. [roll call vote] >> there are 10 aye's, one no. item three is an ordinance amending the building code to record -- reduce the square footage requirement for dwelling units. supervisor wiener: colleagues,

you recall that this item was continued from several weeks ago to provide some more time for collaboration and dialogue that would reduce the minimum living area square footage for efficiencies from 220 square feet to 150 square feet exclusive of kitchen, bathroom, and closet. it would conform with the statement from other cities -- a couple things have happened.

they were extremely positive. as i indicated at the last meeting, i am offering an amendment that would limit this building code amendment to new construction only. there was a concern that was re is that some landlords might be tempted to chop up apartments to create smaller units, having rent control implications that was never the intent of this legislation. the amendment i am offering today to limit this to new construction only to help that concern. there is another amendment that reinstates a sentence that had been stricken previously clarify that the two occupant limit of the smaller efficiency and it only applies to the smaller efficiency unit in does

not apply to a larger efficiency and it. we don't want to reduce the number of people that can live in already illegal efficiency and it. i am offering an amendment today that i have and distributed to you. the planning department has had to make a technical adjustment to clearance for the legislation that was done last week and requires 20-day noticing. i am asking the board to continue this item for two weeks. my motion is to adopt the amendment and continue the item for july 24. president chiu: supervisor wiener has made a motion, is there a second? colleagues, and the objection? why don't we have a discussion on that. supervisor campos: i welcome the amendment and i look forward to learning about how the amendment addresses some of the concerns

that have been raised. i am not sure this is enough for me to support this legislation, but i appreciate having the time between now and when it comes back to the board to look into it further. president chiu: can we take the motion to amend and to continue this whole two weeks from today, the twenty fourth? without objection, that will be the case. can you please call an item for? >> amending the a ministry of code to establish an urban and agricultural program to oversee all of the urban and agricultural activities and adopt goals related to urban agriculture. president chiu: a few weeks ago, we have a little bit of discussion on this legislation. i want to thank the supervisor for her amendments to this

legislation. let me briefly describe what those amendments are. they are to the goals established in the legislation, the first listed in subsection 5, to change the date at which he 10 locations for urban agriculture. in neighborhoods across the city, garden resource locations. in subsection 7 of that goal, it would read that the city would adopt a goal of analyzing and

developing by january of 2013 to reduce the weightless for san francisco residents seeking access to a community garden plot. the first of these amendments are to make sure that they are eminently achievable. i support them and ask for your support for the amendments as well. supervisor chu: i will second of those amendments and think the president for working with us to get to this language. >> can we take the motion to amend without objection? can lead to roll call? >> you will need a roll call, mr. chairman. on the item as amended. [roll call vote]