>> good afternoon. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, march the fifth, 2013.

madam collect, could you please call the roll? >> yes. supervisor avalos? avalos present. supervisor breed? breed present. supervisor campos? campos present. supervisor chiu? chiu present. supervisor cohen? cohen present. supervisor farrell? farrell present. supervisor kim? kim present. supervisor mar? mar absent. supervisor katy tang? tang present. supervisor wiener? wiener present. supervisor yee? yee present. mr. president, you have a quorum. >> thank you. i want to welcome our newest supervisor, supervisor katy tang to [speaker not understood]. (applause) >> and with that, ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of allegiance.

[inaudible] >> colleagues, we have our january 29th, 2013 board meeting minutes. can i have a motion to approve those minutes? motion by supervisor farrell, seconded by supervisor kim. without objection, those meeting minutes will be approved. madam clerk, are there any communications? >> there are no communications, mr. president. >> and could you read the consent agenda? >> items 1 through 8 comprise the consent calendar. these items are considered routine. if a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately. >> colleagues, would anyone like to sever any of these items? seeing none, roll call vote on items 1 through 8. >> on items 1 through 8, supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar absent. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee?

yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. there are 10 ayes. >> this ordinance is finally passed and resolutions adopted and motions approved. next item, please. >> item 9 is an ordinance amending the administrative code, by adding sections 16.704 and 16.29-7.6, to mandate payments to city employees to offset federal income taxation on health insurance premiums for their same-sex spouses or same-sex domestic partners and to exclude such payments from the computation of compensation under the san francisco employees' retirement system. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. i just thought i would add myself to the list of co-sponsors. >> any other comments? colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? >> mr. president, we have a new house. >> oh, we have a new house. roll call vote and i understand supervisor cohen would like to be added as a co-sponsor as well.

roll call ret. >> on item 9, supervisor fair ill? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the ordinance is finally passed. >> item 10. >> item 10 is a resolution approving the contract modification with the children's council of san francisco to manage preschool subsidies to eligible hail den of the city for an amount not to exceed approximately 40.7 million for the period of july 1st, 2012 through june 30th, 2015. >> supervisor farrell. >> thank you, president chiu. colleagues, this came out of our budget and finance committee last week. this is a contract modification regarding the administration of our preschool for all program which first five is

administered since 2004. this increases down to one to provide retroactive payments to restore seek funding cuts but also to protect against what we happily are projecting as increased enrollment in preschool for all. there's less than 1% goes to admin. this is really reimbursement pass through from the state and i hope we would all support this. >> colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? without objection this resolution is adopted. item 11. >> item 11 is a resolution authorizing the department of public health, laguna honda hospital rehabilitation center to retroactively accept and expend a gift of $500,000 to the laguna honda gift fund from the period july 1 2012 through june 30, 20 32. >> supervisor yee. >> [speaker not understood] 500,000 from the knight living trust fund to the laguna honda hospital's patient gift fund toward a general benefit of

laguna honda's patients. this donation will be used for enhancing residents activities and outings to make the life of residents of laguna honda complete. >> colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? without objection this resolution is adopted. item 12. >> item 2 is a resolution authorizing the children and families commission to retroactively accept and extend i grant in the amount of approximately 1.2 million from the u.s. department of education supporting an early learning quality improvement system for the period of july 1st, 2012 through december 2015. >> same house same call? this resolution is adopted. next item. >> item 13 is a resolution correcting the not to exceed amount in resolution number 384-12, a retroactively authorizing the office of the district attorney to accept a grant from the california victim compensation and government claims board for a project entitled joint powers agreement for approximately

714,000 growing to approximately 1.2 million for the period july 1, 2012 through june 30, 2015. >> same house same call? this resolution is a doddthv. next item. >> item 14 is a resolution amending 5 29-1 is 1 to retroactively increase the fiscal year 2009 buffer zone protection fund grant program from approximately 199,000 to approximately 2 82,000 for the period of april 1st, 2009 through march 31st, 2013. >> colleagues, same house same call? this resolution is adopted. next item. >> item 15 is an ordinance amending the police code to require firearms dealers to report to the police chief a sale of 500 or more round of ammunition in a single transaction. >> supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. good afternoon, everyone. i first want to thank my colleagues in the public safety committee who heard these two items both 15 and 16 a few weeks ago and i want to thank you for your unanimous support.

these two ordinances which i have worked with the mayor's office prohibits the possession of especially lethal forms of ammunition such as anything sold under the brad name winchester black talon which is an ammunition that was designed with sharp prongs or talons which cause -- which can cause significant injury upon impact. ~ also, the second ordinance expands on the city's existing record which requires any persons selling 500 or more rounds of ammunition to san francisco residents in a single transaction to report it to the chief of police within 24 hours. while this is not a, you know, a tendency to fix and solve our gun violence, i think we can all agree we need to do everything in our power as a city to use every tool we have to address the impact of senseless gun violence. and i also would like to thank the police department, mayor ed lee and his staff as well as

dr. andrei campbell who is the head of trauma surgery at san francisco general hospital. i'd like to thank my staff who put in countless hours in crafting this legislation as well as doing the due diligence and tracking gun legislation, not just happening here in san francisco, but what is happening on the state level and what's happening on the national level. i'm also excited to announce that this particular piece of legislation is also going to be picked up and carried on a state level by one of our members of the assembly down in the south bay. thank you. the rest -- i turn it back to you. >> colleagues, any further discussion? can we take this ordinance same house same call? without objection, this ordinance has passed on the first read. item 16. >> item 16 is an ordinance amending the police code to prohibit the possession or sale of certain ammunition including black talon ammunition and ammunition intended exclusively for law enforcement and military purposes. >> colleagues, can we do this same house same call? this ordinance is also passed

on the first read. item 17. >> item 17 is a resolution determining that the issuance of a type 42 on sale beer wine and line premises license folsom street foundry located at 1425 folsom street would serve the public convenience. >> colleagues, same house same call? this resolution is adopted. item 18. >> item 18 is a resolution determining that the transfer of a type 21 off-sale general license from 345 eddy street to 135 powell street for walgreens company will serve the public convenience. >> president chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. first i want to thank colleagues from the city operations and services neighborhood committee for hearing this item. i have circulate today all of you a number of amendments that simply reflect the agreement that we had discussed in cons for some reason it wasant worked into the resolution that you have in front of you. and so i'd like to ask for that motion to amend and take a moment to explain what they are. this particular liquor license

was requested by walgreens and there have been a number of questions raised by the community and also the planning commission about whether drugstores like walgreens or cvs ought to have liquor licenses. this is an issue that has been rising up with increaseving intensity in my district where we have a high concentration of liquor licenses. i also know in supervisor kim's district, in district 6, and other parts of the city. now, there has been a discussion about whether drugstores ought to have liquor licenses at all, and i think that is an appropriate discussion. but at a time when we have not yet prohibited that, my constituents and neighborhood folks wanted to make sure that we not only saw the transfer of one liquor license to this walgreens store, but actually two. so that there is a net positive impact on a very overly concentrated and saturated area for liquor licenses. and, so, the amendment reflects the agreement that the community and my office have with walgreens that is going to

be proposed in union square. at this time ask first that we adopt the amendment and then hopefully, colleagues, ask for your support with this liquor license. >> so, we have a motion to amend by president chiu, seconded by supervisor farrell. can we take that motion to amend without objection? without objection. colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? >> as amended, chair. >> same house same call as amended. >> next item. >> item 19 is a resolution authorizing the department of public works to retroactively accept and expend a federal grant in the amount of 797,000 fromerth federal highway administration so farth slow boulevard pedestrian safety improvements project from january 2013 to december 2016. >> supervisor yee. ~ >> yes, as you know, i made the pedestrian safety a key issue in my office and all of you know that for the tragedy that happened saturday evening when 17-year-old student was hit and

killed on the slope boulevard. this tragedy really continues to strengthen my commitment to this issue and my dedication to working as hard as i can to never have to be in this situation again. today i am sponsoring this resolution to start addressing the pedestrian safety needs in district 7. this grant will provide pedestrian [speaker not understood] and enhance pedestrian crossings at three of the most hazardous intersections along slope boulevard which is really highway 35. this grant is for $797,000 for improvements to the slope boulevard at the intersections of ever glade drive, [speaker not understood] drive and 23rd avenue which together with the 130,357 dollars that the transportation authority will be considering at the march 19th plans and program committee totals up to $9 27,000 plus. this money will be used to

install curb ~ -- curb ramps and median improvements at these three corners. these three intersections are responsible for almost three collisions in the last five years. colleagues, i ask for your support. >> colleagues, any further discussion? can we take this item same house same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted. item 20. >> item 20 is a motion appointing supervisor london breed, term ending january 31st, 2015, to the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district. >> colleague, could we have a motion to excuse supervisor breed? motion by supervisor campos, seconded by supervisor wiener. without objection, supervisor breed is excused. and can we take a roll call vote. >> on item 20, supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye.

supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. there are 10 ayes. >> that motion is approved. item 21. >> item 21 is a motion confirming the mayor's re-appointment of tom nolan, term ending march 1st, 2017 to the municipal transportation agency board of directors. >> roll call vote? >> on item 21, supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. there are 11 ayes. >> this motion is approved.

colleagues, we will go to roll call for introductions. >> supervisor farrell, you are first. >> thank you, madam clerk. two items, first quickly i'm introducing hearing regarding federal sequestration on the impacts it will have on our city and county of san francisco. this federal sequestration as we've all read is a series of automatic trigger cuts totaling 1.2 trillion over 10 years, 85 billion of which will be cut alone this year. the initial reports for the city and county of san francisco are between 10 and $25 million, but the exact costs truly are undetermined. and these cuts are going to affect our city's most vulnerable first. i really want san franciscans to bet on the cuts for [speaker not understood] and we will be having the upcoming weeks in the budget and finance committee. more importantly, colleagues, i'd ask your indulgence regarding roll call procedures

that president chiu and supervisor campos also be able to ask -- be allowed to speak here in the beginning. but as many of you know, today, i'm very proud to announce we have come to an agreement with cpmc to build two brand-new hospitals here in our city and county of san francisco and both of their existing facilities in our city. after a, what was a failed attempt last summer to approve cpmc's plans, i joined supervisor campos and president chiu for what turned out to be approximately five months of very intense negotiations with cpmc, all of which culminate actually last night. and i'm very proud to announce, along with supervisors chiu and campos, that we have reached an agreement that i hope we will now be able to talk about a lot more publicly, the details of which we will be introducing through a resolution today, a more detailed term sheet.

i do think today is a great day for the city of san francisco. this not only will create two brand-new hospitals, but incorporates the needs and the concerns of the local neighborhoods which perhaps were not as reflected as possible last summer. ensures world class health care for all san franciscans. i really want to thank my colleagues, supervisor campos and board president chiu for their hard work on this item. we spent i think it's over 100 hours, clocked 40 different meetings. we've been in multiple meetings every single week for the last few months, and it's a real testament. and i want to thank them for working so well together. i think we did a great job as a team. maybe representing different political spectrums here in san francisco, but the fact that we did it together really speaks volumes. as we mentioned in the press conference earlier today, i think it speaks a lot about how we can work together as a board of supervisors going forward. i'm excited for that. i do want to also thank as we mentioned earlier today the

mayor's team in particular ken rich for his extremely valuable involvement. it wouldn't have gotten done without ken, the cpmc, to their managers, especially dr. brown, mike co-hill and in particular, hopefully we'll find a time to honor him more appropriately, lou girard owe who was officially our mediator but really was the glue that kept everything together. ~ without him this deal simply would not have gotten done. in terms of a few specifics, i think supervisor campos and president chiu will talk about a few specifics of the deal. i want to go over a few. first of all, cathedral hill campus, this is now right outside of district 2 at the four corners of where district 2, 3, 5 and 6 meet. originally planned as a 555 bed hospital last summer, today we reached an agreement on a 2 74-bed hospital at cathedral hill. while smaller, this does reflect a lot of the concerns of the community coalitions and neighborhood groups about

traffic and congestion in the area. more importantly, though, it still creates a brand-new hospital in the middle of our city of san francisco. cathedral hill will be cpmc's flagship hospital and combine with a much larger st. luke's. i know supervisor campos will talk about. i am very excited for the future of health care delivery here in our city. for our neighborhoods i think the unique part about cpv mc all of their hospitals are truly located in all of our different neighborhoods across our city. and i'm proud to say the california and pacific campuses in district 2 as well as the st. luke's and david's campuses all are going to see significant improvements in connection with this agreement. and pedestrian safety improvements are going to happen throughout those areas as well as the new cathedral hill campus are going to see significant improvements throughout the neighborhoods surrounding them. and lastly, to touch on the issue of long-term health care financial issues, now as the chair of our budget committee i think this is an incredibly important issue. this year alone we're spending

about $790 million on health care as a city and county of san francisco. it's a huge part of our budget. and as we start to attack the issue of our $4.4 billion unfunded health care liability as a city, i think keeping the reigns on the financial impact to the city of any health care related field, in particular this one was very important. and proud to announce that we did deliver protections for city of san francisco. and i think even more important, though, i think we have all learned a ton throughout this process and i would daresay a danger somehow. i think going forward we we are all going to have our eye on the ball on this issue and make sure the the financial health of our city continues to, to be a top priority and that our health care costs do not balloon out of control. so, at this point again, colleagues, i'd like to ask your deference to allow supervisor campos and president chiu to speak on this issue as well. >> thank you, supervisor farrell. supervisor campos. >> thank you, madam clerk, and

thank you, supervisor farrell, for your words. and thank you, colleagues, for your -- for allowing us the opportunity to speak at this point. i don't want to repeat what has been said, but i honestly don't think that you can say enough how unique this process was. and as a member of the board, i had just an honor and it was a privilege for me to be able to work with president chiu and supervisor farrell in this process. as i noted earlier at the press conference, i guess the three amigos, the new voting block at the board of supervisors, i guess. [laughter] >> but it really -- i think it's a process that worked because even though we individually brought different issues and concerns, at the end of the day we worked collectively. and you cannot say enough about lou jirado, this won be done, this could not be possible

without his unique set of skills. and, you know, i think it was president chiu who earlier said that -- and i think supervisor farrell as well -- that this is the most that each one of us have ictionvly has spent on any project since we were elected to the board of supervisors. and i think it underscores the importance of this issue. and thank you again to the mayor's office, to mayor lee for his words today, and for the tremendous work that ken rich did to make this possible, and to cpmc. the reality is that many of us who have been looking at this project for quite sometime over the years have had issues and concerns. and i think that a lot of credit goes to cpmc and sutter health for coming to the table and negotiating in good faith. we thank dr. browner and i especially want to thank mike co-hill as well who played a very key role. i want to talk about a couple

of key components of this project. ~ -- of this agreement, this tentative agreement. and i want to say that i look forward to having this process and going through the process of explaining the agreement to my colleagues. and, you know, took us awhile to get to a level of comfort where we can get behind this agreement and we know that it's going to take sometime for you to learn the specifics of the deal and i look forward to engaging in that discussion. a big priority for me has been the liability of st. luke's and i think that we collectively as a board and as a city and with the mayor included have said that we cannot approve a project unless we ensure the long-term viability of st. luke's. i really believe that this deal as it currently stands ensures that. and not only does it ensure the long-term viability, i think it creates and it provides the southeastern part of san

francisco a world class hospital for many years to come. we're talking about a hospital at st. luke's that is 50% larger than originally proposed and is larger relative to cathedral hill which has -- is now half of 50% smaller than originally proposed. by definition it means that st. luke's is an integral part of the cpmc system, and that the cpmc system by virtue of the percentage of beds that will be placed at st. luke's cannot survive unless st. luke's is successful. and not only is that based on the number of beds, but also based on the services that are going to be created and placed at st. luke's. st. luke's will be a full service hospital following the very clear definition that state law provides. it will include all the services that one would expect this that kind of hospital and it will be a center of

excellence that will provide specialties so that the hospital is successful and can attract the right mix of patients for purposes of profitability. so, i am confident that this hospital will be successful. and to ensure that success, one of the things that is also included in the deal is the possibility and, in fact, the very real -- the reality of building a medical office building. under the agreement, cpmc has the option of developing a medical office building or using the existing facility for a medical office building purpose. if they fail to exercise that, the city and county of san francisco can step in and actually build the medical office building. you cannot have a successful hospital unless you have a place where doctors can go and practice and have offices, and that's the point of this agreement. a very important component of this deal is also the issue of

affordable housing. and i know that this is something that all of my colleagues care deeply about, and not only does the current deal maintain the level of affordable housing that was created under the prior agreement, but it actually increases the amount from 29 million to 36.5 million that cpmc will pay to the mayor's office of housing to ensure that we do have affordable housing created as a result of this project. i also want to talk about health. you know, at the end of the day, we're talking about the long-term health of the city. and one of the things that this deal does is that it provides for cpmc to actually invest in the health care needs of our residents. it actually creates a health innovation fund of $9 million that will be able -- that we will be able to use to address some of the health needs of the various neighborhoods that we represent, including the health

needs of neighborhoods surrounding st. luke's. again, i look forward to engaging in a more in-depth discussion with my colleagues about the specifics of this deal. i am proud to recommend this deal to the board. i am proud of the work that we have done. and now the next phase of this process begins, which is the process of discussion, public input. the last point i will add, and it's something that is very important, is just recognize the work of the coalition. the san franciscans for health care, housing, jobs and justice. the coalition that has been working on this for so many years and ultimately made it possible for us to get to this point, and i just want to -- if you forgive my taking time to do this, but i'd like to list the various organizations. ~ that did that work. aides housing alliance, american federation of

teachers, local 21 21, the bernal heights democratic club, bernal heights neighborhood center, california faculty association, california nurses association, california reinvest committee, [speaker not understood] neighborhood association, cathedral hill tower association, [speaker not understood], central city hospitality house, central city s-r-o collaborative, the chinese progressive association, the coalition for health planning, coleman advocates, community housing partnership, council of community housing organizations, democratic ccc, the dolores street community services, the filipino community center, god neighbor coalition, grassroots democratic [speaker not understood] panthers, harvey milk democratic rights committee, jobs for justice and [speaker not understood]. thank you for your work. now i'll turn it over to president chiu. >> thank you again, colleague. appreciate your indulgence in allowing us to present this collectively. today is a great day for the future of health care in san