needed to confirm. i'm happy to see bruce oka has applied in the third round now for this seat. i have tremendous, tremendous respect and admiration for you, bruce, and i am very sad that you are no longer serving on the mta board of directors. and that you are not reappointed by our mayor. i think that you served a fabulous job. you were very outspoken. you always spoke your mind whether you agreed or disagreed either with the mayors or the board of supervisors, frankly, and i really appreciate that fierce independence. and i actually think that that is what this committee needs and is looking for. i'm happy that you were interested in serving this committee. as you said, this was not of your priority interest. transit is really where your heart lies. but it really speaks, i think, of your dedication to the city and county and your willingness to always serve, that you after spoken to by several colleagues that you were willing to apply and you were willing to commit to the vast number of hours that this committee requires. and, so, i'm happy to support

you with recommendation to the board as well. i did just want to make another note that you did fully submit your form 700, that you had already checked that you had no reportable interest on any schedule and therefore you don't have to complete any of the following schedule summaries. seeing no further comment, we do have a motion to move forward mr. bruce oka for the seat with recommendation and can do that without opposition. thank you. mr. clerk, can you please call item number 7? >> item number 7 is a hearing on the six month report of the citizen's advisory committee for the central market street and tenderloin area. >> thank you. and we do have the chair of the citizen's advisory committee for the central market and tenderloin area, dina hilliard. and as required in the legislation for the cac, we did ask for a hearing on this expense report of the activities of the citizens have iery committee.

a lot of things going on in the market. we're looking forward to hearing this report. >> thank you. so, my name is dina hilliard, i'm the chair of the community advisory committee [speaker not understood] legislation zone. this committee has actually been meeting for about a year now. as you'll remember,edth legislation creating the cac was passed in june of 2011 and our first meeting of the cac was in september * . and between september and december of last year we met about six times. the majority of our meetings initially were to create a framework of priorities that we wanted to submit to the city administrator and to companies to use as a reference of what are the priorities and most important to the committee and

to the community. and actually, there were only two main points on that. the first was we felt it was a really important priority to stabilize the surrounding at-risk community. and the second was that we wanted to make sure that the companies who signed the cbas had ongoing engagement with the community. and recently i know that the city administrator, they developed a fact sheet. it's basically a way to guide community groups or community organizations to provide feedback and requests to the city administrator. so, last year the first applicant was [speaker not understood]. we learned a lot through the process as did they. the very, very first meeting with them i think got off on a great start. it was actually they hosted the committee in the public in their offices at 6th and mission. and, you know, they kind of

just said here are some ideas we have. you tell us if you think this would work or what are some of your ideas around how we could have mutual benefit to the community. so, that was actually a really, really welcome first step by san dusk. the city administrator did negotiate a cba that was brought to the cac in january, and it was approved by the city administrator at the end of january. and this past year san dusk actually negotiated their second round, the second cba. september 20th was the final public hearing on that cba. i'm not sure if the city has signed off on it yet. >> could you talk a little bit, could you summarize the first cba with sandusk what was finally agreed upon? and also the value of the exclusion.

>> sure. so, my understanding is that the value -- well, the cba's intention is that 30% of their benefit goes toward providing community benefits. i think the first year san dusk said their benefit amount was $75,000 and their cba actually went above and beyond that amount. but they mainly -- the major thing is they committed to is to host tours and panels for their employees and for the public on things relating to the tenderloin, such as tours, sro tours. they did a lot of work around food justice. they sponsored an improve sf challenge for the neighborhood. they provided volunteer days in the neighborhood, and they also worked with the tenderloin tech

lab, which is a collaboration between st. anthony's and network ministries where they helped staff and work in their tech lab, which is one of the areas of expertise. they did in their cba, they did agree to donating some of their equipment. what they found was that they didn't have the turn over of their equipment. this is a fairly new company, that their equipment wasn't expired yet. >> you don't have to go over -- i'm sorry, just actually what was agreed upon. you don't have to go over the kind of back and forth prior to that. basically wanted to clarify their exclusion was around $30,000 last year. >> and i know this year they said it was around 200,000. so, they did have more employees this year. that's basically the gist of what that agreement was. this year they did expand on that. some of the things that they agreed in the first cba, they

weren't able to complete and so we continued that to this year. and they did increase -- they were going to give a monetary contribution to a community garden which they doubled from what they're wanting to contribute last year. i think some of the things that we learned through the process and what the experience of the cac was that it was very helpful to have san dusk be open and welcoming of the process, to have -- to host us at their company at the first meeting. they were very willing and eager to engage and i think it's part thev culture of their -- part of their culture to be community minded. it was an expectation of what amount we were looking at in terms of benefits. and i know that san dusk did state to us that the first cba was a little too specific at

times. they specifically -- they named specific organizations to work with and in some instances those organizations were not quite ready to work with san dusk in the capacity that they had envisioned. so, this year that was a little less specific. >> could you kind of go over the upcoming cbas that you have? >> sure. we are looking at approximately 5 to 7 companies that are applying for the payroll tax exclusion this year, twitter being a big one. [speaker not understood] lane, zoosk, and i can't remember any of the others off the top of my head. but i know that the cac members have been engaging with executives at twitter at 1 king's lane. i'm p sure they are with the process of the negotiating with the city's administrator. they have increased meetings

from once a month to twice a month to accommodate, you know -- we expect a flurry of companies that are going to be applying. and the cbas have to be signed by january 31st. so, it's going to be kind of a busy time of year. but as far as i know, you know, i don't have the latest up to date information, but i don't think any other companies have officially applied for the payroll tax exclusion. i might be wrong on that, but we are looking at about 5 to 7 that will apply. that's basically all i had. do you have any questions? >> no further questions. it would be great to get the lists of the companies that you think would be applying this year. i also understand it's twitter is 1 kings lane and [speaker not understood] is the other company. we have a few companies that did move into the market, but they moved to the excluded properties of mid-market because they didn't have

historical vacancies. i know, for example, dolby moved into i believe the former state compensation building which we had excluded from the tax exclusion. my understanding also, we have the small businesses apply. of course, they don't come before the cac, or businesses like pearls and burger, for example, that applied for the tax exclusion. they don't gross over 1 million in payroll so don't have to form a cba with the city and county. i don't have any further questions. seeing no further questions from colleagues, i do want to thank you, ms. hilliard, for all of your work. not only do you do this, but you also serve as the director of our north of market cbd and you're doing tremendous work in the tenderloin neighborhood. i know that all the cba -- all the cac members are incredibly involved in the neighborhood. i know very dedicated and devoted. it's great to have your perspective and advising counsel when working with these companies on how they can come into a neighborhood with

pre-existing communities, but can also develop partnerships with them. and i actually happened to meet the two youth that grew up in the tenderloin actually live in glide affordable housing and that got the two summer internships with san dusk and are hoping to get hired after they finally graduate. i know they really, really enjoyed the summer internship. it was great to see some of the actual outcomes of the cba in the neighborhood. it is something i'm very passionate about in the tenderloin. glad to see that is the issue they picked with your help and the committee's help. so, thank you. >> great, thank you. >> so, at this time we will open up for public comment on this item. seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. seeing no other comments, colleagues, can we just motion to file the hearing?

>> move to file. >> we have a motion to file. and we can do that without opposition. thank you. mr. clerk, can you please call item number 8? >> item number 8, ordinance amending the san francisco business and tax regulations code section 906.3-1 to clarify how members of the citizen's advisory committee for the central market street and tenderloin area shall be appointed for their initial terms. >> thank you. this is actually a minor amendment that i wanted to introduce on the business and tax regulation code clarifying how many members of the citizens have iery committee for the central market street and tenderloin area shall be appointed for their initial term. when we initially passed this ordinance, we did make a mistake when describing the staggering of the terms. this amendment simply addresses the issue requiring that the terms be staggered for all members. so, i i'd just like to offer one amendment on page 4 line 7 to read, "prior to november

1st, 2012." and also we had, as i said, we only had nine of the members have staggered terms instead of the full 11-member body. seeing no further questions, at this time we will open up for public comment on this item. seeing none, public comment is now closed. colleagues, we have a motion to move this forward to the board with recommendation? >> make a motion to move this forward with recommendation. >> and we can do that without opposition. thank you. before we entertain a motion to convene in closed session, is there any member of the public who wishes to speak on either items 9 or item number 1? seeing none, we do ask members of the public to please exit the room. colleagues, can we have a notion to move into closed session? >> so moved. >> we do that without objection. -- we have a motion. we can do that without objection. thank you. so, at this time we will convene in closed session.

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>> committee in closed session decided to continue item 9 to the call of the chair and move item 10 to the full board with recommendation. >> thank you. colleagues, do we have a motion

to not disclose what happened in closed session? >> move. >> we have a motion and we can do that without opposition. mr. clerk, is there anything else on the agenda? >> there are no more items, madam chair. >> the meeting is adjourned. [adjourned]

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