followed in those jurisdictions. and we've also now seen the stories and know the stories of individuals that have chosen to participate in these existing programs. we know these upgrades can save money not only in repair costs to crucial home energy services, but also on monthly utility bills to the tune of thousands of dollars a year annually. from the beginning of the process, it was a priority for mayor lee and i to ensure this environmental policy and finance tool had a very strong work force component tied to it that put local residents to work in this emerging industry. we convened meetings with partners and laborers to discuss what the work force component would look like. training our workers for jobs in new and emerging industry is key to not only allowing them to get new jobs but also helping them find meaningful careers that can keep them in their families here in our city. we're going to continue working with [speaker not understood] that ensures local residents are working with local contractsers on local projects so we keep monday and i work flowing inside of san francisco and continue to boost our local economy.

i am particularly want to thank pat and josh for their strong work on this work force component perspective. and despite the federal housing finance agency's concerns, we are confident that san francisco's program now can move forward. again, we've seen other jurisdictions do this throughout the state of california. and because the fhfa concerns are doing all we can as a city to protect our owners and give them the comfort and certainty they need to participate in this program. governor brown recently passed in his budget a reserve fund for pace programs in the state of california that will address the fhfa's concerns and ensure that fannie mae and freddie mack will noting negatively impacted by these programs. san francisco will be participating in the state reserve fund so that our property owners here in san francisco are fully protected. in the end of the day green finance sf will further cement our city's national role as a leader in reducing the adverse effectses of climate change and make it easier for property owners in our neighborhoods to make energy efficient upgrades to their homes while creating

good local jobs on these local projects. we do have more work to do in rolling out the successful program and hope that you'll join me and many other city-wide in supporting our efforts to restart green finance sf in the upcoming months. lastly i want to thank the members that have been involved in this project, particularly my staff and particularly [speaker not understood], mayor lee and his staff, in particular roger kim, as well as the department of the environment, department of public finance, the commission on the environment, and all those other from our business and labor communities. colleagues, i hope to have your support. thank you. >> supervisor mar. >> i just wanted to add thank you so much to supervisor farrell and the mayor. i wanted to also point out rich chin from the san francisco department of the environment who has worked on this for about four years with johanna pardon our [speaker not understood]. even wade was i think involved with this in the years that before, and i wanted to thank roger kim as well. but i think it's a really great program. very proud to be a co-sponsor.

i think it really made clean energy more accessible to residential buildings and more san franciscans and i support this. i don't think it's a replacement for clean power sf, though, and i think in terms of environmental impact it may be relatively small, but i think we have to move with different innovative projects like this and others in our city. we also need to continue to work with the public utilities commission to honor the super majority of this board to move forward with clean power sf while still exploring other important projects like this as well, but i'm proud to be a co-sponsor of this. >> colleague, any further discussion? >> president chiu, just real quick again. thank you for reminding me to thank mr. chin from the department of the environment. he's played an integral role. also make sure i don't forget nadia from our office of public finance and her entire team as well. >> okay, colleagues, unless there is additional discussion, can we take this item same house same call? without objection this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> item 27.

>> item 27 is a resolution authorizing the office of community investment and infrastructure, operating as the successor agency to the redevelopment agency, to issue and expend bonds in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $70,000,000 for the purpose of financing a portion of enforceable obligations in the mission bay south redevelopment project area in the current or future budget years. >> same house same call? this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> item 28. >> item 28, ordinance accepting an irrevocable offer for a public sidewalk easement on the brighton avenue extension north of ocean avenue and accepting an easement for these purposes; accepting an irrevocable offer for improvements and real property related to lee avenue north of ocean avenue and accepting a grant deed for these purposes; authorizing the conditional acceptance of an irrevocable offer for sidewalk improvements for ocean avenue east of lee avenue; declaring such areas to be open public right-of-way and dedicating them for right-of-way and roadway purposes; accepting maintenance and liability for these areas subject to certain limitations; establishing public right-of-way width and sidewalk width for the lee avenue and the ocean avenue sidewalks; approving an interdepartmental transfer of property for a portion of lee avenue and for a sidewalk area fronting a portion of ocean avenue; approving and making findings, including environmental findings and general plan and priority policy findings; and authorizing official acts in connection with this ordinance. ~ for these purposes. >> same house same call? this ordinance is passed on the first reading. [gavel] >> any next item. >> item 29 is a resolution imposing interim zoning controls to require that, for a 12-month period, in the area bounded by market street from van ness street east to 5th street on the north side and east to 2nd street on the south side, 2nd street south to brannan street, brannan street

west to division street, and south van ness street north to market street: certain building permits for any buildings with some commercial use shall require the posting of a notice and a 15-day delay in starting the work, and the re-establishment of a commercial use that has been converted to residential use shall require planning commission approval through either an authorization under planning code, section 320 et seq., or a conditional use authorization, and making environmental findings, and a determination of consistency with the eight priority policies of planning code, section 101.1. ~ south van ness streets. >> same house same call? this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> >> next item. >> item 30 is an ordinance amending the police code to update the list of city job classifications responsible for enforcement of litter laws and having the power to issue citations for that purpose. ~ for that purpose. >> same house same call? this ordinance is passed on the first reading. [gavel] >> next item. >> item 31, ordinance amending the administrative code to modify open data standards and set deadlines for releasing open data. >> supervisor farrell? >> thank you, president chiu. colleague, today on this item we're going to vote on an update to our city's groundbreaking open data ordinance that will help lead to further innovation and technology driven solutions here in san francisco. and the application of civic issues and problems that we face here as a city ~. across the nation we're seeing different cities, counties, states and the federal government take steps towards making appropriate government data available because open data has helped us spark innovation, drive efficiency in government, and fuel further economic development. open data has transformative potential and we're seeing the largest positive impacts happening at the city level. here at the local level we have

the opportunity that we must seize upon to use open data and reinvent and reimagine the relationship that we can have between our residents and our city government. we've already seen great examples of open data use and practice here in san francisco and how open data can help us as a city government accomplish a number of positive benefits. whether it's partnering with the city to post public health scores at their website for city restaurants to inform residents to make healthier choices, residents being able to use acclaim now rec and park app which helps residents and visitors find park and rec locations and make picnic table reservations or using smart phone to help you when the next muni bus is arriving. these are real examples of how open data can improve the lives of our city's residents and make services more efficient and timely and further fuel economic growth. the ordinance in front of us today will further establish san francisco's role as a national leader in the open data movement and want to specifically thank president chiu for his leadership in the initial ordinance that was crafted a number of months ago.

in terms of a few of the details, the city's chief data officer when hired will be responsible for drafting rules and common industry tech until any cal standards such as ensuring that data will be available for download and machine readable format and determining [speaker not understood] which data sets are appropriate for public disclosure. since the city is also a custodian of private data the city will be charged with creating a plan to release this data on a format and system so people can securely access data on themselves. for example digital data on their medical records and permit application. this new initiative follows the national movement growing to give residents access to their own data for their own use and san francisco will once again show our national leadership by becoming the first city in the nation to develop a strategy to give residents access to their own data. all these updates are key to unlocking the true potential and value the data sets we hold to the city which a recent study [speaker not understood] is creating a potential $3

trillion economy worldwide. by enumerating these data standard we're creating more accountability and certainty not only for public and entrepreneurs but city and staff agency that will be tasked with organizing, up loading and releasing these data sets. we've also inserted timelines regarding the release of the city's appropriate data sets. these timelines will ensure that city departments and agencies are making open data a priority for the respective departments. all these tire deadlines ensure we in city government remain accountable and accessible to the public so that they and the entrepreneur community in san francisco are made readily aware of any new guidelines or data that we release. with more certainty business in the public and better plan around ideas and implementation regarding our open data set so they can use open data as a base to create the next best new product service or application and we're going to be encouraging and creating an atmosphere that will spur discovery and growth. i want to thank a number of people who have worked on this legislation.

in particular, my staff again [speaker not understood], our clerk community entrepreneurial community here in san francisco and a number of national organizations as well that have been incredibly supportive. we do have in front us today an opportunity to once again push the ball forward and cement our standing at the national open data lead here in san francisco and colleagues i ask for your support. >> thank you, president chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. i first want to recognize supervisor farrell for this legislation. happy to be added as a co-sponsor. i want to add a come words of context where we are today. while san francisco has been a leader when it comes to open data movement, i think this legislation is an indication that we can do more. this is actually our third piece of legislation as a city in the last few years on this topic. the first was legislation that i worked on with mayor newsome to essentially establish as a city goal the fact that we should move forward open data. what we found, though, was that a lot of agencies only wanted to display those data sets that showed their agencies in a good light and i think what we need and what we want to focus on

are data sets to show us what we can work on, what we can improve and how to deal with and tackle our city's challenges. the second piece of open data legislation that i authored and was happy to work with mayor lee's administration on established a number of more proactive steps in moving in an open data movement. it called for the hiring of a chief data officer. it called for the establishment of open data standards. it called for data coordinators to be established in city agencies throughout city government. but none of these things after many, many months have occurred and this is why supervisor farrell has moved forward with his legislation. i do hope that all of the agencies throughout the city that have data can understand that we are serious about wanting to modify our open data standards. we are serious about releasing every open data set that we have. this is how we improve our government. this is how we make our government accountable and transparent and colleagues i also ask for your support. >> thank you, president chiu.

so, colleagues, can we take this same house same call? thank you. [gavel] >> >> item 32, madam clerk. >> item 32 is a -- >> i'm sorry. looks like there are a couple comments. >> i apologize. i actually wanted to go back to item 29 and rescind the vote. i apologize i need to make a minor amendment. >> okay. supervisor kim would like to make a motion to rescind, seconded by supervisor campos. without objection, the vote for item 29 is rescinded. [gavel] >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. my apologies. i thought this was coming later on the agenda. as many of you know, our office has been fielding a number of calls regarding evictions, particularly evictions for commercial use buildings throughout the south of market and mid-market. most notably as many of you read, we have the potential

eviction of about a hundred residents, many of whom are local artists that live between two buildings on mid-market between fifth and sixth street. i really want to recognize the tenant community and the mayor's office department of building inspection, and the planning department who work together to find a solution that would allow current tenants to stay in affordable residential units, many in commercial buildings that had been ill legally converted by property owners who previously couldn't find a commercial use for their building. i in particular wanted to recognize jeff buckley from the mayor's office, director john ram, and director tom [speaker not understood] from planning and dbi on the work to find a pathway for the owners of 10 49 market and 1067 market to legalize their already existing residential units. through this process came the interim control legislation

that is before us today and through this process we learned that there was one major gap in our noticing requirements which is that commercial buildings are not required to notice their building permits. this legislation would require the notice of permits through posted for 15 days, the day of permit issuance, and a conspicuous location on the ground floor of the building for the work specified. the noticing requirement would be applied to [speaker not understood] for structural and architectural work above ground in the interior of the commercial building that was built prior to 1979, is valued at $15,000 or more. and requires the submittal of floor plans. i do have one change. it actually -- it's a switching around of words and i wanted to ask the city attorney jon givner to read that into the record. >> mr. givner. >> deputy city attorney jon givner. in committee, the land use committee made an amendment to this ordinance that i think my

office did not accurately take down. so, in committee, the amendment was to page 4, the further resolve clause that begins online 4. that during the pendency of these interim controls, the reestablishment of any commercial use that has been converted to residential use shall require planning commission approval through a conditional use and a proposition m authorization if triggered by planning code section 322. so, that will be -- that would be the amended language. >> supervisor kim, i assume you'll be offering -- >> yes. i'd like to make a motion to that effect. >> okay. is there a second of the motion? seconded by supervisor breed. colleagues, unless there is any discussion, without objection, the motion amendment is made.

[gavel] >> and if we could take this underlying item same house same call as amended? without objection, that should be the case. [gavel] >> madam clerk, why don't we now go to item 32. >> item 32 is a motion confirming the mayor's appointment of vivian fei tsen, term ending february 26, 2014, to the treasure island development authority board of directors. >> supervisor yee. >> thank you, president chiu. colleague, i want to express my full support of vivian tsen appointed to the treasure island development authority. and vivian is a credible [speaker not understood] accomplished with her experience in urban planning and development. her guidance was instrumental in the final design of the yerba buena gardens revitalization of pier 1, and the ferry building. vivian's dedication to the community is also apparent in her service on many nonprofit boards that advocate for

affordable housing, smart design, and sustainable growth. i am fully confident that vivian's dedication, vision, and expertise will be an asset to the treasure island development authority. thank you very much. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. i also wanted to share my words of support for fei tsen who i've known for many years, has been a really incredible affordable housing and also just community planning advocate, and comes with a wealth and depth of knowledge. look forward to working with her on the treasure island development authority and thank the rules committee for their support. >> thank you, colleagues. i'm happy to associate myself with the previous comments. can we take this same house same call? without objection, this item is approved. [gavel] >> item 33. >> item 33 was considered by the rules committee at a regular meeting december 5th and was sent to the board as a committee report. it's a motion appointing charles perl, term ending june 5, 2017, to the treasury oversight committee.

>> supervisor yee. did you want to -- okay. colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? without objection, this motion is approved. [gavel] >> let's call items -- pass over the next items? >> items 34 through 39 were considered by the land use and economic development committee at a regular meeting on december 9th. from those items, item 37 through 39 were not forwarded to the board. item 34 was forwarded without recommendation. it's an ordinance amending the planning code to revise the criteria for residential demolition, merger and conversion, and to standardize those definitions across the use districts and prohibit residential mergers where certain evictions of tenants have occurred; establish a strong presumption in favor of preserving dwelling units in enforcement of code requirements; and making environmental findings, and findings of consistency with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of planning code, section 101.1. ~ uses. >> and why don't we also call item 35. >> item 35 was also sent to the board without a recommendation. it's an ordinance amending the planning code to permit the enlargement, alteration or reconstruction of a dwelling or other housing structure that exceeds the permitted density of the district if dwelling units are principally permitted in the district and the enlargement, alteration or reconstruction does not extend beyond the building envelope as it existed on january 1, 2013, and if no tenants were evicted under certain provisions of the

rent ordinance; and making environmental findings, and findings of consistency with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of planning code, section 101.1. ~ or reconstruction. >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you, president chiu. i would like to actually postpone these items till after roll call. [speaker not understood] was ready, but there is one question that remains. so, we can hear them after roll call. >> okay. without objection that shall be the case. why don't we handle item 36. >> item 36 is an ordinance amending the planning code, by adding section 102.37 and amending section 204.1, to allow cottage food operation as an accessory use for dwelling units and increase the allowable area for accessory uses in dwelling units; and making environmental findings, and findings of consistency with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of planning code, section 101.1. ~ and increase the allowable area for accessible units within dwelling units. >> colleagues, with can we take this item same house same call? without objection this ordinance is passed on the first read. [gavel] >> why don't we go to roll call. >> supervisor campos, you are first to introduce new items. >> thank you very much, madam clerk. i'm simply introducing one item today. it's a hearing request on the report, the final report from the wage theft task force which was created in june 2012 and has been looking at different ways in which the city can prevent wage theft and make

sure that we are using all the necessary tools to make sure that wage theft is a thing of the past in san francisco. so, i'm calling a hearing on the wage theft task force, final report, so that we can hear the various recommendations. and we also want to hear from various city departments that are mentioned in the report just to hear directly from them on how they intend to implement the recommendations. so, the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor campos. mr. president. >> thank you, colleagues. i have three items for today. first of all, an in memoriam for rhonda bizan. rhonda was a san francisco resident who passed away tragically and very suddenly a week ago today. she worked at the punch cup, was a regular attendee of the sabot agnes catholic church and was the life partner of guardian editor stephen t. jones. rhonda died at the all too young age of 45. ~ she touched many people from many walks of life during her many years in san francisco.

she is described by all as a luminous joyful spirit and loving friend. she radiated life brilliantly and her sudden passing has left many of in her community including steve jones as well as my aid catherine and many others in this city deeply mourning her untimely loss. a memorial gathering will be held at 1:00 p.m. on december 15th at the bently reserve preceded by service and reception at saint agnes beginning with the regular 10:30 a.m. mass ~ and the funeral will be on december 21st in los angeles. today i am joining the mayor, am proud to join the mayor in introducing the earthquake safety and emergency response bond 2014, otherwise known as esr2 which is a 400 million dollars general obligation bond for the june 2014 ballot to fund critical repairs and improvements to our fire station, our police stations,

our emergency fire fighting water system, and other core assets that our first responders rely on to safeguard san francisco when a disaster strikes. in 2010 i was happy to champion the last earthquake safety and emergency response bond which passed our city by 79%. as we all know, we live in earthquake country and experts believe there is a 63% chance of a major earthquake in the san francisco bay area over the next 25 years. we must be prepared. esr 2014 works to ensure our public safety service functions are effective in responding to a major earthquake or another disaster. the funding will make important earthquake safety upgrades to neighborhood fire stations and police stations across our city. in short, more of our aging fire fighting was term system. the bond will also relocate the police department's traffic company and forensic service facilities and the medical examiner from the hall of justice which we all know is a

1950s old building that isn't expected to remain functional after a major earthquake. our public safety services are critical in responding quickly to an emergency and will have a direct impact on how well we recover after the next big earthquake or disaster. this bond will help to reduce the number of injuries and deaths and speed up our city's economic recovery. as a member of the capital planning committee representing this board, we have analyzed this in the context of our city's 10 year capital plan and well planned this measure with solutions early analyze today ensure that funded projects that are critical to the public safety of residents, businesses and first responders are dealt with and that they'll be delivered with strong oversite and transparency. and there is one more piece of good news about easter 2. it is expected to create more than 3500 jobs for san franciscan and it complies with our capital plans policy by issuing new bonds as old ones retire and meaning there will be no increase in property tax rates. colleagues, i do hope that you will join us in supporting this

essential earthquake safety emergency response bond for the june ballot at its core, this bond measure is about protecting san francisco's future. ~. i do have one other item, which is a resolution on the topic of fracking. colleagues, you've probably known there has been a national and state debate about hydraulic fracturing, which is known as fracking. fracking is used to tract gas and oil resources by drilling wells deep into the earth and injecting water and chemicals with high pressure. this is known to produce toxic wastewater, pollutev ants and is therefore a likely threat to environmental health. fracking is happening in calf but it's not adequately regulated. the precise locations and the number of wells in our state are not recorded. the exact mix of chemicals used are not required to be disclosed among numerous regulatory deficiencies. because there has not been adequate regulatory action at

the state level, numerous localities have been asked to formally weigh in and ask the state to impose a moratorium or outright ban on fracking. santa cruise county, ventura county, city of loss, and [speaker not understood]. while there is no fracking that happens in our city, we regularly weigh in on policies that impact climate change and our city has been on the forefront of environmental leider ship. across the bay in oakland today the california state division of oil gas and geo thermal resources is holding a public meeting on environmental impact of the effects of fracking. and a broad coalition of environmental organizations will be calling on our state to place a moratorium on fracking. in conjunction with the events in oakland, i am introducing the resolution today on behalf of our city calling for a moratorium until the completion of further studies of the environment -- environmental impact of fracking. the rest of my items i will submit. >> thank you, mr. president. supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. thank you.

i don't have anything formally to submit, but i wanted to just acknowledge since i'm on the role before supervisor kim, but i want to acknowledge a piece of legislation that we are very excited to be working on together. this is a, what i would consider a landmark piece of legislation. it's called fair chance ordinance. it's also known as the band of blocks ordinance. and it's critical because when you consider that one in four residents in our state has an arrest [speaker not understood] history, that nets out thousands of individuals living in san francisco. and here we are in a time and era post ab 109, we've did got a disproportionate number of folks that are leaving the -- leaving incarceration and reentering into our city. so, today i am co-sponsoring with supervisor kim an opportunity to begin to relax the barriers to fair housing and access to fair jobs and i

will leave the rest to supervisor kim. thank you. >> supervisor farrell? supervisor kim? >> supervisor kim? >> i am also going to speak about the same legislation which supervisor cohen and i are co-sponsoring today. really, really excited to finally introduce this legislation. it has been on the docket since january of this year. so, our offices have been working on this for the last 12 months. many of you are already familiar with band the box because the city and county has instituted similar legislation for employment opportunities within the city ask county back in 2007. this is an opportunity to expand leg asian that's worked for our city to private

employers, contractors who have a contract with the city and county of san francisco, and affordable housing developer providers that have a contract with the city and county of san francisco. as supervisor cohen has importantly mentioned, one out of three to one out of four individuals in this country have an arrest or conviction record. in many parts of the country and here in san francisco, decision makers in the business and housing world can ask about your conviction history at the very first application. this is what we normally call the box. today, any business or housing provider can say, if you have a conviction record, you need not apply. the bureau of justice statistics and the office of the u.s. attorney, one in three adults in the u.s. has had contact with the criminal justice system, whether it is a dui when you are in college or an arrest that didn't lead to a conviction. but these frequently show up on your criminal back ground

check. we know that having a job and home are the two most important factors predicting whether one will commit a crime in the future or not. at the same time, employers and housing providers are concerned about opening the door to [speaker not understood] who might commit a future crime that might hurt a customer, a coworker, another tenant, and even if the decision maker believes in second chances, there may be an unconscious bias towards someone with a conviction in their past. i have met and heard stories of many returning citizens along with supervisor cohen as well, one, mary who survived a severe domestic violence situation. finally left her abuser and made the mistake of stealing in order to survive. even after she had served her time, went back to school and got a job, mary couldn't find stable housing which impacted her ability to regain custody of her children. peter, another individual, got into a fight with a neighbor when he was 18 years old and for years after could not get his foot in the door to explain

his past and how he had changed his life after paying his debt to society. after finally expunging his criminal conviction record when he was in his 20s, he he still ran into closed doors because many commercial background checks were still showing his expunged conviction. all of these men and women want to own their past and make no excuses for the mistakes that they may have made, but they do all want the opportunity, a fair chance to be able to apply for a job and housing and be able to get their foot in the door, an opportunity to work, a place to call home is something that we should all have a fair chance to pursue. and we all want that whether you are an employer or a job seeker, a landlord, or a tenant. ~ looking for that chance. with this ordinance, we are both proud to introduce a law that is designed in collaboration of many stakeholders, from members of the business community through san francisco chamber of commerce, the civil rights advocate such as all of us

[speaker not understood] and lawyers committee for civil rights. we are also able to work with members of the small business commission, the apartment owners association and nonprofit affordable housing providers. even more miraculously, everyone is on board and in support. and even a couple of months ag i'm not sure i could have predicted such consensus around legislation that i expected to be much more controversial, but i really believe we were able to work together because we all believed in the final objective, which is that if you want an opportunity to work, you should be able to get your foot in the door and at least be able to explain yourself and have an opportunity to interview. and talk about how you have either rehabilitated or how your skill set is applicable to the job that you are applying for. ultimately, the question was mainly around the process. employers wanted something that wasn't overly burdensome, but allowed them to review candidates that may have had a conviction history, and those with the conviction history wanted an opportunity to be able to