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committee meeting for thursday, january 16, 2014. i'm norman you won't and i'll be chairing this meeting. i'm joined by supervisor xhoovm. the committee would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv yes, sir, i didn't larson and mark who record each of our meeting and i and make the transcripts madam clerk, are there any announcements? >> yes. please silence all electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be submitted to the clerk and clerk and may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda. >> okay i believe we have dr.
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johnson. >> mr. chair what you like me to call the item first. >>. it's an item for the tax related codes with - >> good afternoon, supervisors of the rules committee. i'm representing the department of public health oar i'm here to ask for a amendments for the miscellaneous section for requiring practitioners to register with dph it will require temporary body art
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facilities to obtain and renew their permit and finally, amendment the tax regulation code relating to body art. this legislation was first introduced late last year in 2013 but the public health depth needs to take into account. it will enable the city and county to adapt this to save body law that became effective fourth of july 2012. the art at the time citywide i statewide health standards for tattoos and branding and the application of permanent cosmetics. today, we want to ask for a
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continuance until february 16th a recording hearing to enable the clerk to post the fee and publishing the new foe schedule thank you >> okay, dr. i noticed in the new foe schedule that is proposed that all the amendments to this would be increasing but one is actually going to be decreasing is there a reason for that >> yeah. i think we did a complete review for other county of foe schedule and also as part of the annual automatic fee changes some of our foes were
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updated because of the previous fee open on the previous fiscal year and this ordinance was not passed at that time, so we readjusted the fees. >> i didn't quite said why you're fees are based on a survey of other no - >> what we do is survey other counties to be sure we're comfortable buy of the business if san francisco is different. for example, for reinspection of the facility for consumption used to be one hundred and 86
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but this year that went to one hundred 91 that's why we reviewed the ordinance. we made some adjustments in some areas by dropping some of the foes that were supposed to be charged for example, the body art fee we dropped that off and increased the body art practitioners register by another $24 with the saving of about $15 for the practitioners. >> so let me be specific then. the second item on the body art facility the fee was 8 hundred and now you're recommending seven hundred and 44 that's the only thing that went down what's itself logic
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>> we considered how many applications we get per year and how much hour we spending on doing such reviews. that 744 the accurate enough, however, what we do, too, we don't have the charge of 744 we spend money on depending on how many pieces to the new construction maybe two or three invest and if we charge an amount of 5 hundred we'll refund the difference >> any other questions for the supervisors. >> thank you very much. any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, we haven't can we have a motion to amend this
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ordinance as described >> so moved. >> without objection that motion it passed. can we have a motion to continue this to the rules committee schedule for february 6, 2014, >> i'm sorry, i said to the clarify when was the fee notice supposed to go out. >> the new amendments created the fees so, now we have to - >> item 2 is a hearing for appointing for indefinite terms for thought airport advisory committee. >> we'll hear from the applicants in the order listed in the agenda. sir, are you here? nancy haynes are you here?
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alex walker are you here. there you are. welcome nice to see you again >> good afternoon, supervisors and happy new year i'm alex walker i want to thank you all for having me back today. i'm a political and nonprofit consultant. i'm here in san francisco with clients including san francisco about how far i'm here at the microphone representing other. and so i want to thank you all i'm also a board member of the harvey milk democratic club. i want to talk about i've mentioned before harvey was someone who encouraged me and he is someone who role believed in
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making sure that everyone had a place at the table. i taking take this opportunity in welcoming people to san francisco. it's really it would be an honor to be involved if that process for some place who's been a touchstone in my experience were when it comes to naming a terminal avenue harvey milk and other figures in our history it's important to do the outreach in the community i have that experience going around to communities groups and it's a big part of the committee and i'm the work horse trailers i say who's important in our community and welcoming adversities to san francisco. who's part of our history that we share that we want to see and
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death people. i had an opportunity to fly in and out and to learner about our history in many, many facets. all the way of the my understanding through the early settlement and the gold rush and a more than day history. we have richardson who was the first people to own land here brown the pregold rush. you have a woman who was a pregold rush business women who grow crops and sold milk to people in russian square. this is an opportunity to look at our varied rich history and educate ourselves and other folks in the community and being
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ambassadors. so i if i'm named i look forward to work with the people in the community and at the airport to welcome visitor and educate people about our history >> thank you. are there any questions? supervisor tang. >> i'm going to ask this question you've touched on it but what are some of the factors you feel are important and making the collective decision on which terminal is appropriate. >> i think we all have things to bring to the table and i think we can look at especially, when it comes to what terminal we want to name after mr. milk
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we have to consider the signage and the infrastructure in the terminal and say i know and also i think the interpretation should be the tracking of terminals i want to see how people people are flying everyday and seeing honestly, i want to see a terminal being with high traffic this is a great opportunity for people all ownership over the world to learner about him people coming from countries where lgbt people are being per cutdown. so the ongoing process i definitely building especially people coming to san francisco from around the world it's important for people to know he
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brought people out of the showed and empowering them >> next applicant steven. >> not here. nick smith? >> good afternoon, supervisors. first, i'd like to thank the rules committee for me to express modifying. over the next few minutes i'll share with you some of my life experience that i believe make me the perfect campaign x candidate. my life is here because i was raised by a single mother a
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veteran of the u.s. army and news writer and corresponded and a proud african-american gay man who shares his life with an academic wonderful participate. this is my first rock. i've called san francisco my home for the better part of 8 years and i've learned about harvey milk. his strong bloeflz in fairness were often met with challenge and controversy. over my 46 years i've lived around the world. one fundamental tenant i've carried with me since childlike as even as you can do good deeds. i have never met harvey milk but everyday i get to walk the
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streets he walked and live in the city that continues to benefit. this is my way of thanking him while being of service to any city. san francisco is a world-class city. the very things had harvey milk affectionate for sdoifrz to have a terminal named after him and the importance of his legacy not only to san francisco but foreto outline e all who traffic here to call this place home. again, thank you very much for this opportunity and if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. >> sure supervisor tang. >> in making collective decisions on what term be to be
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named after him. >> that has definitely changed in the few minutes alex got me excited about listening to people in the community he says hey, i'm a work hours and i'm willing to standing shoulder to shoulder and work on the diversity and the opportunity to work with someone who has the nonprofit experience he talked about. he clearly is into doing the grassroots work not unliquor i do. the opportunity to engage with people to - i think there's an opportunity to include people in the conversation and a opportunity to do a lot of listening. i this this is an opportunity to listen to the voices and carry
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it through to action >> any other questions. >> thank you very much. >> any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues do you have any thoughts >> yes. >> supervisor campos. thank you very much chairman thank you for hearing this item this exams before rules last year and i and i think it was important to take more time and do outreach so we have opportunity for other folks who are interested to apply. i want to thank my colleagues in making sure that we got a diverse and strong applicant as we could. i'm role expressed with the people from the two individuals
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that are here i think they're the kind of individuals we want to see doing this work. and so with that, i proudly would liquor to make to motion to move alex walker and nick smith forward with a positive recommendation want fully for seats 8 and 9. i think each one of them hit the could he points of the importance of doing community outreach and engaging a diverse group of people. mr. walker appeared before us before and i thank him for his patience and mr. smith did a great presentation not sure about the berkley thing but i
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can look the other way so i move forward we appoint alex walker and nick smith >> mr. smith it's okay berkley is if that (laughter). >> i agree with supervisor campos the two speakers are expressive and i support the suggestion. >> alex walker will be seat 8 and nick seat 9. this item is closed. thank you >> item 3 is a hearing to appoint members to the san francisco health authority. >> okay. so looks like ms. conway is no longer seeking a seat and the
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gentleman is unable to join us but the san francisco health plans policy development and coverage officer is here to i guess give us a few words. >> sure thank you, mr. chair and supervisors for taking our item. as you heard from supervisor yee the lady is not wanting to seek the reappointment. i am happy to answer any questions b you have about the authority we're the partners to the hubt u publicity in taking care of our low income and medicaid beneficiaries in san
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francisco >> supervisor tang. >> i did moot with the gentleman before the hearing and i'm happy to recommend his name for this body. >> any public comment on this item?. seeing none, public comment is closed. i believe we have a motion on the floor. any objection the motion passed >> madam clerk item 4. >> item 4 is a hearing pointing out one member term ending to the small business commission. >> all right. are you here ms. duly. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm here to reply for my seat on
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the small business commission. many of you are familiar where what i do. i'm currently working on making some positive changes to the ada structure. i am working with open the formula retail possible changes i've been notified to work with the city and i've worked on the commission about filling is that a for long-term vacancies which we haven't solved yet. i'm happy to go out and speak about merchant groups or people who are applying for pirates permits. i'm a strong believer in playing
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by the rules and sometimes not a friend to the lobbyists. >> thank you, mr. chair and ms. duly for serving the city and county of san francisco i'm supportive of our work and impressed and certainly look forward to supporting our reappointment thank you for continuing to want to do that or i know that serving on a commission can be a channeling and thank less task. i do have a question that i more than anything i wanted to know your thoughts on something i know we've been thinking about in how district and citywide and
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that's some of the changes that some small business owners are facing. because of the fact that we have a lot of prosperity and things are going well, and some neighborhoods like the mission it's becoming difficult for some long-term merchant and small business owners to be able to for the record to stay in some of those neighborhoods. i feel we annoyed to do whatever we can to help those businesses stay in the neighborhoods. just wondering if, you know, given our background and a experience if you have any ideas in terms of what we can do collectively >> we're trying to wrap up our heads around this we do have commercial rented control. we've had discussions around
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designating some long-term she valuable community businesses as legacy businesses and perhaps supporting some way to give some kind of break to the landlord to encourage them to give longer leases. it's tough because of rent control. i know we're in the process of discussing it its a challenge but we are going to be working on it, it's very important and we need to start thinking about in terms of housing because so many small business owners have come to me and say we can't for the record to live here we own businesses and work long hours. i'm afraid that the work force housing is an issue for the small business owners >> i certainly look forward to working with you and the rest of
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the commission. >> supervisor tang. >> i wanted to comment i too have had personal experience working with supervisor duly and i i know you've brought our expertise to the table and hopefully about continue to work with you. >> well, i guess i'm the only one who hadn't worked with you i'll send flowers (laughter). >> any public comment on this item? come on up. >> i'm john, i own a small business on gary street we've been there many, many years and a couple years ago we had a tremendous challenge with petco coming downw
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