i want to tell you something i went out to my neighborhood friends in the outer mission and asked them if this would say anything they would be interested in. but universally everyone was grateful the possibility they may have been to go back to work where now they've had to compromise to raise children and they don't have enough money to hire childcare they actually want to make money. so this will make them very, very pleased. thank you >> thank you. let's hear from our next speaker. >> i'm with the equal rights advocates. we're nearly a 40 year-old

nonprofit company that advocates and promotes equal opportunity for education for women and girls. we're proud to be a co-sponsor of the coalition that's helping president chiu getting this ordinance introduced and i'm happy to be here today. it's a really important issue for our city that. we run a hotline and receive calls from dozens or women and we see results both negative and positive policies can have for opportunities for women and for men as well as who are struggling to take on the obligations. we really would like to applaud the approach this this legislation takes to opening up

dialog between employers and employees. we've seen and heard from others this is about shifting the culture of the with that. i think we can look to our experience with encouraging the interact active process with the discrimination law and we've seen how that law has come into being it's encouraged the integrate active process to look at our underlying assumption. we're talking about a lot of stereotypes. but they go beyond gender. it encourages us a society to look at what we can tribal and a

good afternoon president chiu and supervisor wiener and a kim. i'm the co-founder of the san francisco parents political action committee. our oxygen's it happy to officially support this legislation. we think it's a very good step in the right direction for, you know, some more familiar friendly san francisco. i want to acknowledge something that president chiu said earlier. i think it's amazing we leave in a city with the business leadership of san francisco has not opposed this it's not officially in the supportive column it speaks to the real special plays that san francisco is that we can have people like jim lazarus and others not being

opposed to this ordinance. you know, i think this is something that's in a larger context of keeping families in san francisco and it's a good beginning to a conversation and i know you've all been huge supporters of the folks in san francisco. there are any pieces we need to work on so thank you >> thank you for your work and a next speaker. >> hi. i work with the next generation and work with the statewide family coalition. we work on with that policy in the state. i really want to express in my appreciation especially for

president chu's leadership on this issue. there so many benefits and our work group really seeing our group is workers and parents so we can be both things. and one of the things i love about our laws we have in california is the recognize that providing recognition and care when your and caregiver your family needs you there and that makes such a difference. i'm in a flexible workplace and i love this challenging job but four days a week i walk my between you daughters to school. so i appreciate this beginning with conversation and we're going to be involved >> thank you any other members

of the public that wishes to speak line up on the left-hand side. whoever wants to come up >> i'm charley an view point. >> i'm the co-founder and continued member of the need not. i'm going to read a brief statement which was recently published in the colonial. families represent the fundamental unit of a society. yet san francisco is experiencing children that fact or facts impacts the different. in this urban environment in which families struggle every year the board of supervisors

president chiu could not be more welcome. month nonprofit organizations have these proposals in plays. the expectation is articulated for family strength. the stadiums underscored that paying attention to the needs of staff is just as important for the quality it's our firm belief it employers who demonstrate understanding and flexibility for the appreciation that supports moral. san francisco families are needed and we the general public need to join together in this issue >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon.

i work with parents with young children mostly. i belong to the sandwich generation. i live with my mother and two teenage children's. i work in an organizations that allows for flextime i work with the parents and this make sense but many of the parents and the parents don't have this flexible time in their workplace. this would help families in dramatic ways or ways that just makes work more productive and workers more efficient. for example, being able to drive pie mom to a doctor's appointment or come in a lot later to work. i heard a crash and i saw my mom

was on the floor. we able at the e.r. for 5 hours until the wee hours of the morning so having the flexion time allowed me to come in a little bit later. families are fatiguing extreme pressure from work from raising young children and this flextime would help workers. it shouldn't require legislation for this common sense policy but if that's what it takes to protect the employees from barbara backlash so be it. workers can adjust their time and i applaud your support and

supervisor chu for taking a lead-in this and i also - >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm jane bernard powers i'm with the democratic women in action. i support in what i believe is a really important issue and ordinance. and i want to talk about two things. first, the change in workplace culture. when i did my dissertation it was called for the rest of education in the young women in the progressive era. i stepped down into the workplace in the turn of the century. you all know that the employer employee relationship was found

you could specialize and we thought this was wonderful by as a culture that effected much of the way we thought about the workplace in the last century. this change this family friendly suggests it's time for us to really rethink the way we position employees and employers that since then if you're an employee you have an investment to what happens in the workplace and you have the need to ask for flexible time for your kids being sick my nephews had two children and if she gets sick that's bad news in the workplace. i've spent a lot of times in

school listening to taverns who bemoaned their parents couldn't come in. as a parents you want to come in and mothers especially, if they have something to attend to, they have - >> thank you very much. >> are there other members of the public who wish to speak on this issue. >> seeing none. >> public comment is closed. >> i have a couple of concluding comments. i want to address this letter they want to rental the support

sf w pc recognitions the issue and we lend our full support we hope its passage is smooth and hope it's implemented soon. i'll provide this to those the clerk. i want to mention in the first draft to the legislation when we introduced this in the late string there were some provisions to address issues we've heard about work ability from many schedules. there ought to be at least one or two weeks for individuals working tight shifts. there has not been a result we want to nouns i'll be convening

a working group between others who are interested to see 23 we can't move that conversation forward. as i alluded to earlier i want to make one amendment to the ordinance that was an issue raise by advocates and city staff as well as by business community about the importance to doing outreach and education around the law. so i want to read going into the right add a new section that reads the dependent on the statutes of women and the office of enforcement should have a workplace program to educate employees about their programs and it will make the materials assessable to employers and

employees and we'll take appropriate technical changd changes to add this as well as on page 189 of the ordinance. the last thing again, i want to thank everyone who's been part of this journey. i know this is a relatively new conversation for our city and state and country by all of you who are championing those issues we i think my colleagues have lead to make sure we're addressing other issues to address caregiver needs whether it comes to increasing more money for our schools and supervisor wiener's issues we supported work around housing but this is one important piece of the puzzles how we help our

caregivers take care of the early generations and i want to thank you all to move this forward and colleagues, i hope we'll be able to move this out of the committee. >> thank you, president chiu as moved to adopt certain amendments. their adopted >> i wanted to thank president chu's office and the many advocates. as a woman myself in a field that's dominated by me up i work with staff with two women and their managing family both seniors and children. it has been a huge i guess you don't say lifeguard movement. we have one mom who has 3 kids

who has to leave in the middle of the day and so many issues around after school. in our office we have a flexible work schedule. he understand that working mothers and fathers we need to help them while they're off doing an incredible job. i'm certainly happy to see this go through and all private employers should be adopting. i'm hoping this will create more dialog amongst our businesses. i also look forward to working with some of you i know have long been involved in proportion h and it's still important to be

incredibly responsible. this the one piece of this where president chiu has stated after schools processes is important and i look forward to working on that. i want to make a representations to move forward >> i'm happy to support this legislation. i also want to thank president chiu for the work you and your staff did to moving us to this point or i know this was first introduced and a ballot measure i know there was a fair amount of dialog and i do not like listing in the newspapers and so forth. i want to commend you and your staff for instead of just either - those who agreed and disagreed for coming up with a

conversation that has positive impacts on our residents and is a piece of legislation we can all be proud of so thank you. with that we have a motion to forward to the board that that with a positive recommendation we'll take to out observation >> madam clerk do we have any more business for today? >> that concludes our business. >> that concludes our business. >> the meeting is

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>> good afternoon. welcome to our rules committee meeting for thursday, september 19, 2013. i am supervisor norman yee and i will be chairing this meeting. and to my left is supervisor cohen. and to my right is supervisor breed. the clerk is linda wong today. actually every meeting is linda work. the committee would also like to acknowledge the staff at s.f.g. tv, charles kriminak and jennifer low who record each of our meetings and make the

transcripts available to the public online. ~ madam clerk, are there any announcements? >> yes, mr. chair. please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. [speaker not understood] should be included as part of the file submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the october 1st board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay, great. let's move on to items, let's put them together, items 1 and 2. >> item number 1, ordinance declaring that future appointments done by the city and county of san francisco for road commissioner shall be enacted by resolution. item number 2, ordinance appointing mohammed nuru, director of the department of public works, as road commissioner for the city and county of san francisco; repealing ordinance no. 160-10. >> [speaker not understood] from the department of public works. >> good afternoon, supervisors. douglass [speaker not understood] from the department of public works. i'm here on behalf of my

director, mohammed nuru. it is under state law every county in the state of california is required to have a road commissioner. in san francisco that person has always been the director of public works and, so, before you is legislation appointing him as the road commissioner. also before you is a short ordinance which changes how this appointment is made from ordinance to resolution. this was recommended by the city attorney's office as a way to save time and paperwork, as it's a pretty routine matter every year. the road commissioner's duties are proscribed in the california streets and highways code. essentially they're the same as the duties of the director of public works. the road commissioner is

supposed to expend all of the state gas tax monies that come to the county in accordance with what appropriationses and direction by the board of supervisors ~. so, i'm here to answer any questions and otherwise thank you for your time. >> okay. supervisors, any questions? seeing none, okay. is there any public comments on items 1 and 2? seeing no public comments, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> can we have a motion to forward these items two item to the full board? >> moved. >> moved, okay. by consensus passed. [gavel] >> madam clerk, item 3. >> item number 3, hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending october 21, 2014, to the local homeless coordinating board. there is one seat and three applicants. >> okay.

so, on this item, we will now hear from the applicants in the order listed in the agenda. are you here? great. so, is it dan bowersox? good afternoon, supervisors. i am dan bowersox and i applied for the open seat on the local homeless planning board. i live in the haight and i work at the homeless prenatal program. we're one of san francisco's leading nonprofit family service agencies. and at the homeless prenatal i'm manager of the housing program and as manager of that program i assisted over 1,000 homeless families to move into permanent housing. i dedicated my career to doing everything i can to eradicate san francisco's homeless problem and all of the human suffering it entails.

right now it's a crucial time at the homeless coordinating board. the federal funding that comes to san francisco's homeless programs, via that board and [speaker not understood] by the sequester. we recently found out in fact there will not be enough money for all of the renewals next year. so, there will be some type of [speaker not understood] to the made. that's starting this fall for the process for next year. now, i've volunteered on the [speaker not understood] committee last year that reviews applications for federal funding. i've been faithfully attending the homeless board meetings as well as funding meetings where i've been an active participant in determining the rules and procedures for allocating that funding. so, i'm ready to step in and make a contribution, help the board to make some difficult decisions. and then going longer term, i want to be working with local community leaders, business leaders, government leaders to

identify new sources of funding so that we're not beholden to the whims of washington. so, i'm ready to serve and i proudly accept your appointment. >> any questions? skew me? ~ excuse me? dan. supervisor breed? >> thank you. i just had a question. i know that there is a lot of money that we spend both locally and federal funds as it relates to supporting many nonprofit organizations to help with the homeless situation here in san francisco, but i was wondering if you believe that there are some new pieces of some of that money. also, if that's the case, what do you believe the best steps are to make sure that each and every dollar is accounted for and spent properly on the purpose intended? we looked at that in the committees, in the funding

committee meetings and there are some programs that are not spending their total allocations. so, that's basically being lost by the continual care here. there are other applications that have just scored very low in terms of their efficacy, the number of people that they're reaching with their programs. and, so, we need to take a look at those programs, help them real toy raise their level of effectiveness. and then, you know, kind of revisit and make sure that this funding is being used appropriately by this program. i think also that it's important to reach out to the business community, the high tech boom is one of the things that's contributing to our homeless problem. i think they need to be part of the solution. so, that would be my, my initiative which would be to kind of engage on that level with the community. >> so, just a follow-up question. do you think that an application alone is an