act and again a coalition of tenant groups have presented some of those ideas and some are being taken up and we read about them in the paper this morning. these ideas include the extended relocation payments, making it harder to convert because of requirements for code upgrades and plans the mayor mentioned today. supervisor avalos has a plan concerning where there is construction and plans to upgrade a home. what i want to say about all that is just that we need all hands on deck and we need to continue with the mayor and the board of supervisors, all of us in the community and all the tenant groups to make sure that we move forward with all of these great proposals and that we

keep the momentum steadily onward and don't stop until we get there, until we reduce significantly the number of ellis act evictions and all other type of evictions that are happening right now. thank you. >> thank you, miss short. i also want to call on marlo knight, i'm sorry. next speaker. >> good afternoon, members of the board, steve callier, tenderloin housing clinic as well as all the other housing groups are supporting this broad package of local legislation to limit the incentive to do he will ils act and speculative evictions. i want to talk a little bit to supervisor yee's question which is sort of what is driving this. one thing i always tell people is that i'm glad now the lexicon has become accepted by even the mayor, these are speculators. these aren't land lords who are doing this, these

are speculators and the speculation comes from a lot of money that's coming in to fund the speculators now that we have an era of relatively easy money. the fed window is at zero, you have a lot of wall street money, money throughout the country in that is coming in funding this speculation and it's cheap money so it can do a lot of damage. we find time and time again that the land lords who own these buildings are not the ones invoking the ellis act. when they sell or die or retire, whatever reason, the speculators come in like vultures and do their work. so unfortunately because of the nature of real estate holdings, they are llc's, they tend not to be transparent, they tend to be hidden, they are llc's owned

by other llc's so it's hard to know who is driving the particular speculation. but that's what it is, it's speculation coming from a lot of money coming into the city and you need to also target not just the funding of it but also the lending. there's been a development in real estate lending now that allows for fractional shared mortgages, which is where a bank will lend percentage ownership interest in a tic, not on the whole building. >> thank you very much. thank you for your work. next speaker. >> hello, my name is patricia kirkman and i came to san francisco in 1970 when i first set foot here i fell in love. when people asked me where i'm from, i tell them detroit by birth, san francisco by choice. i've been living in my flat in the mission since 1987 -- 86,

86. i am being ellis acted, i am a senior on disability. i have a very low fixed income, trying to find alternative housing i have been told i don't make enough for low income housing. i am looking at shopping carts and i am terrified. i haven't had a good night's sleep in i can't tell you how long. i wake up in the middle of the night and i hear everyone's story and my heart goes out to them because i know what they are feeling. that's why i wasn't going to speak, i figured this would happen. anyhow, you have to do something. it might not be enough for me right now but you can't do this to any more people. and i don't mean you personally. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon, i am

mitchell with the affordable housing alliance and i want to try to furtherance supervisor yee's question about why this is happening. i want to tell you a story, about 30 years ago there was a land lord in a rent controlled jurisdiction who wanted to empty his building out of all his tenants. so he went to the california supreme court, i'm shorting the story a little bit, and he said i need to empty my building from the tenants but they pay their rent on time, no one is creating a nuisance, there is no illegal activity, i don't have an approved condominium conversion, i don't have a just cause but i've come up on one on my own which is i think i have a constitutional right to go out of business and that involves kicking out all my tenants. the supreme court thought about it for a little while and said, yes, you have a right to go out of business and the way to accomplish that, the normal

way someone would do that is go out of business, sell the apartment building to someone else, they will continue to oopt it. now people like california state senator say the ellis act is being abused but another way is to say the ellis act is acting as intended. the business is going out of business, foertsing -- forcing out the tenants and changing its use. i applaud the ellis act, we need to do these things but we should repeal the ellis

act, we must amend it and change it as part of any package coming from this committee. thank you. >> thank you, sir. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, i am marla knight, a retired city college teacher and a fourth generation san franciscoan. i live down the street from teresa on lombard. we were bought by urban green investments in mid-november. a week later we got the letter of intent that they were going out of the land lord business which they had been in one week. on february 24 of this year we received our notice of ellis act eviction so we are due to vacate on the 4th, 2014. i support your proposal, especially the moratorium. i hope it will apply to us too.

i'm also a volunteer tutor at telegraph hill community center and i really would like to continue contributing it my community. as all of my co-tenants, we have a couple asian immigrants who are 89 and 92, respectively, and they are section 8 resip cipients and they are being evicted too. urban green chose not to do a value added and do market rate but just evict us all. anyway, i really really hope that this matter, these proposals go forward quickly. thank you very much. >> thank you, next speaker. >> hi, i've evan juisilary, it's me with the pictures. you

may need someone to get here and record. you know i been here 89 hours of dot com, then moved and took our private self off 829 ft. leafenworth where they were moving two people in with incomes from around the country. san francisco has a history of pacific heights with people moving from la and you got to think ellis act was voted from san francisco, remember george moscone and harvey milk was killed, aids was coming out in san francisco and people went in and voted for the ellis act and you took advantage of people at a horrible time. san francisco, you know it's amazing, knob hill and the mission all round this city you have taken all the people houses and i can't believe the young educated uppies are coming here with at the twitter and pushing people

out. it's time for someone with common sense. i have the first family on the back of me. the mayor should take history 49. the paepl who drive in want apartments in this city so they are coming in to take what they didn't realize the city would get transportation, they want to come live here now because they have put so much green gas out in those 9 big counties they are coming here and it's time for you to join the community housing partnership and find out why people's apartments are being taken. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker.

>> thank you very much for having this hearing. i was born and raised in the mission and we survived the dot com and i thought the dot com was bad, that was nothing. i mean you talk about, people have talked about a crisis, you have to treat it as a crisis and the way you treat it as a crisis is you have a state of emergency and san francisco needs to declare that. we have enough supervisors who are very intelligent that could declare an emergency, you got a mayor who today said he's signing on to get on board, so let's declare a state of emergency. you know when we started our mission no eviction two months ago, we have organized over 3,000 people already who have come out of everywhere and i was shocked. i thought it was the mission again under attack by these people moving in. growing up in the mission, nobody wanted to live in the mission. but now everybody wants to live in the mission

and now i'm finding out that it's not only happening in the mission, being here today and seeing seniors, white people, gay people, african people, asian people, and you talk about people from all over the city. that's we have a crisis, it's not only in the mission, it's the whole city. and you look at, we got 37 cranes up right now in downtown san francisco and if you look at the new cranes that will go up next year, why is it all this development is going on and why are we not having housing that's affordable for people who make under $40,000 a year being built? in the mission right now i ask you to investigate, we have 5 sites that the city could build immediately affordable housing and i'm sure if you go to every other neighborhood and do an inventory of possible sites

that affordable housing could be built immediately, let's get it done. gracias. >> thank you very much. are there any other member of the public who would like to speak in seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, i don't know if you want it add anything to what has been said but the one thing that i want to note is that what's remarkable about this hearing, and i'm trying to find, trying to find the positive, is the fact that we have had a pretty diverse and united group of people from all parts of the city, all neighborhoods, who have come together to talk about the need to act quickly and to act in unity and i think if there's a silver lining to this crisis, to this epidemic, is the fact that it is bringing people

together. the beauty of what i have seen in the last few weeks is that as we have gone to events, demonstrations, marches, you have people from chinatown, people from the mission, people from knob hill, people from you name it, going to different neighborhoods saying what happens in one neighborhood impacts me. and there is a poet who said that individually we are one drop, but together we are an ocean. and i think that this ocean of unity, this ocean of people, is going to make sure that we remain a city that works for everyone. so i want to thank all of you, i want to especially thank the people who had the courage to come out it this hearing and share their own individual stories. it's not easy to do that. it was

heart-breaking, it was very moving and the fact that people are themselves going through a very tough time and yet they are coming here not just because of their own experience but because they want to do the right thing for other people and help other people, that's san francisco at its best. and i think that san francisco has the ability to change the course of what's happening and i know that this is only the beginning and with that i will ask my colleagues that we continue this hearing to the call of the chair so that we can come back to this issue to see what progress has been made at the local and at the state level and i think that the idea that sarah short noted of all hands on deck, that's what

needs to happen. we have to have all hands on deck to change what's happening here. with that, if we can have a motion. so we have a motion by supervisor mar. again i want to thank everyone who came out, thank the budget and legislative analyst, i especially want to thank hillary ronan in my office who has spent many hours putting this together so the hearing is continued to the call of the chair. mr. clerk, do we have any other business before the committee. >> there are no other items before the chair. >> thank you very much, this meeting is adjourned. (meeting adjourned).

>> hello. welcome to "culturewire." we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. >> i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the

san francisco arts commission school and realized there was a pre-qualified school you had to apply to, so i applied to the. >> how long did it take you to develop this work for the plaza? >> this was a fast track project. design development was about a month. >> let's look at the beautiful mural. i have never seen a mural created on asphalt. >> the heat of the asphalt, a new layer of asphalt. then, these wire rope templates that were fabricated for the line work get laid down and literally stamped into the asphalt, and then everything was hand-painted. >> maybe you could talk about some of the symbolism, maybe

starting in the middle and working out. >> [inaudible] the flower of industry. >> it is like a compass. there's an arrow pointing north. >> within the great bear consolation, there are two pointed stars here. they typically lead one to the northstar, otherwise known as polaris. so i thought it has a layer of theme. >> let's talk about some of the other elements in the peace. we are walking along, and there is a weather vane. there's a sweet little bird hanging on the side. what kind of bird is that? >> [inaudible] the smallest of the gulf species, and it lives around the bay area. >> you want to talk about the types of flour patterns that you send? >> [inaudible]

around 1926 or so by the dahlia society. >> what is this bird here? >> that is the california quail. >> coming up here, we had a little blustery theme. what is this area here? >> this is supposed to be the side view, the expense of the golden gate bridge. >> there it is. >> there are really beautiful elements of architecture still around, i would say that it gives that feeling over to the work. >> what are your hopes for it? >> that in a way it just becomes part of the area. i think it is starting to have that feeling. people utilize it. they sit and, and have their lunch and play on -- they sit

and, and have their lunch and play on that -- they sit and come and have their lunch and play on it. just for it to be part of the neighborhood. that is my hope. >> is such a beautiful addition to our public art in san francisco. thank you for joining us. it was nice to meet you. and thank you for telling us about your beautiful mural. thanks for watching "culturewire." when a resident of san francisco is looking for health care, you look in your neighborhood first. what is closest to you?

if you come to a neighborhood health center or a clinic, you then have access it a system of care in the community health network. we are a system of care that was probably based on the family practice model, but it was really clear that there are special populations with special needs. the cole street clinic is a youth clinic in the heart of the haight ashbury and they target youth. tom woodell takes care of many of the central city residents and they have great expertise in providing services for many of the homeless. potrero hill and southeast health centers are health centers in those particular communities that are family health centers, so they provide health care to patients across the age span. . >> many of our clients are working poor. they pay their taxes.

they may run into a rough patch now and then and what we're able to provide is a bridge towards getting them back on their feet. the center averages about 14,000 visits a year in the health clinic alone. one of the areas that we specialize in is family medicine, but the additional focus of that is is to provide care to women and children. women find out they're pregnant, we talk to them about the importance of getting good prenatal care which takes many visits. we initially will see them for their full physical to determine their base line health, and then enroll them in prenatal care which occurs over the next 9 months. group prenatal care is designed to give women the opportunity to bond during their pregnancy with other women that have similar due dates. our doctors here are family doctors. they are able to help these women deliver their babies at

the hospital, at general hospital. we also have the wic program, which is a program that provides food vouchers for our families after they have their children, up to age 5 they are able to receive food vouchers to get milk and cereal for their children. >> it's for the city, not only our clinic, but the city. we have all our children in san francisco should have insurance now because if they are low income enough, they get medical. if they actually have a little more assets, a little more income, they can get happy family. we do have family who come outside of our neighborhood to come on our clinic. one thing i learn from our clients, no matter how old they are, no matter how little english they know, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is

bilingual because we are serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do parents tell their kids they may not be here? what we do is provide a place and the material and support and then they figure out their own truth, what it means to them. i see the behavior change in front of my eyes. maybe they have never been able to go out of boundaries, their lives have been so rigid to sort of expressing that makes tremendous changes. because we did what we did, it is now sort of a nationwide

model. >> i think you would be surprised if you come to these clinics. many of them i think would be your neighbors if you knew that. often times we just don't discuss that. we treat husband and wife and they bring in their kids or we treat the grandparents and then the next generation. there are people who come in who need treatment for their heart disease or for their diabetes or their high blood pressure or their cholesterol or their hepatitis b. we actually provide group medical visits and group education classes and meeting people who have similar chronic illnesses as you do really helps you understand that you are not alone in dealing with this. and it validates the experiences that you have and so you learn from each other. >> i think it's very important to try to be in tune with the needs of the community and a

lot of our patients have -- a lot of our patients are actually immigrants who have a lot of competing priorities, family issues, child care issues, maybe not being able to find work or finding work and not being insured and health care sometimes isn't the top priority for them. we need to understand that so that we can help them take care of themselves physically and emotionally to deal with all these other things. they also have to be working through with people living longer and living with more chronic conditions i think we're going to see more patients coming through. >> starting next year, every day 10,000 people will hit the age of 60 until 2020. . >> the needs of the patients that we see at kerr senior center often have to do with the consequences of long

standing substance abuse and mental illness, linked to their chronic diseases. heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, stroke, those kinds of chronic illnesses. when you get them in your 30's and 40's and you have them into your aging process, you are not going to have a comfortable old age. you are also seeing in terms of epidemics, an increase in alzheimer's and it is going to increase as the population increases. there are quite a few seniors who have mental health problems but they are also, the majority of seniors, who are hard-working, who had minimum wage jobs their whole lives, who paid social security. think about living on $889 a month in the city of san francisco needing to buy medication, one meal a day,

hopefully, and health care. if we could provide health care early on we might prevent (inaudible) and people would be less likely to end up in the emergency room with a drastic outcome. we could actually provide prevention and health care to people who had no other way of getting health care, those without insurance, it might be more cost effectiveout. >> hi, i'm japanese with the san francisco public utilities combination sometime people call

me sewer girl our systems has served the area for 1 hundred and 50 years we're planning you understand public health and our environment don't think that so come in down and see how >> good morning, everyone. welcome to the board of supervisors budget and finance meeting for wednesday november 13, 2013, i'm supervisor mark farrell. i'm joined by other supervisors. i want to thank the members of sftv.