my honor to declare today, january 31, 2014 as bond yee day in san francisco. thank you bond. bond, before you speak, we do have another colleague who had come up with her own certificate of honor. >> bond, thank you. as you know, he is actually a resident of our sunset district, so prior to this position bond was someone who we could go to to solve problems and so when we had very angry community members, he could say with authority as someone who lives in the neighborhood really what he thought was best in terms of improvement. with that, i want to thank you, bond, and hope we will continue to see you in the sunset district. >> bond, the floor is yours. >> good afternoon president chiu, members of the board.

i am speechless. you know, public service is a privilege and it's especially so if you get to do it in your hometown so i feel fortunate in that regard. i'm honored to be able to serve you and the people of san francisco and really appreciate all the support and policy guidance you've given me and my colleagues at the sfmta through all these years and thank you very much for the opportunity. >> thank you. we look forward to seeing you on muni. [applause] >> i have a second commendation

for another public servant who will be departing with us very shortly who has helped to head up for almost four years, department of the environment. i'd like to invite up melanie nutter. she has an incredibly long list of accomplishments during her time and i'll just highlight a couple of her accomplishments. she helped to successfully implement or mandatory composting recycling policy to move our city to a city of zero waste. she helped advance us to be the electric vehicle capital. she's someone who helped to

encourage expansion of our city's outreach efforts to our immigrant populations when it comes to environmental public information. she helped to implement the existing commercial building ordinance with an 82 percent compliance rate. she initiated our city's first drug take back program which has collected over 16,000 pounds of unwanted medicine. helped to plan our 2012 green economy forum where we are making sure we're putting people to work and doing well by the economy. and she helped to support the city's bio initiative. we have known me melanie before she even joined. she has been a long time democratic activist and community leader. we know hopefully why you are leaving

the department. we know you will continue to be within our community and look forward to your next leadership role so with that i want to thank you melanie. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> floor is yours. >> thank you. president chiu, members of the board of supervisors, thank you so much for the recognition today for the sustainability progress we've been able to maintain here. i wanted to accept this cop men /tkaeugs on behalf of the department of environment staff. many of whom are here. the department of environment has one of the most hard working, committed, passion it

gnat groups you will ever meet. they come -- it's been a privilege and honor to be the director of department of environment and work with all the incredible staff. i want to thank them for the accomplishments you heard there. i wanted to thank this board. there are real champions on the board for sustainability who've helped with pushing forward our plastic bag ban, the pace residential program and how san francisco continues to stay at the forefront of sustainability locally and nationally. i wanted to thank the residents and businesses of san francisco. many of the policies and programings that we have at department of environment are not successful without participation. every resident who puts that can in the recycling bin, the banana peel in the compost, every business with their zero

waste program up and running helps us produce zero waste goals. i want to thank you for the opportunity to serve the city of san francisco. it has been a privilege and honor so thank you for this recommendation today. >> congratulations. [applause] >> our next commendation will be provided by our district two colleague, supervisor farrell. >> thank you president chiu. colleagues, so as we continue to struggle in san francisco with keeping our families in here in town and especially speaking as a parent of three children in town, our educational system in our city is a huge part of that and such

an important element of our city and i think we'd all agree that so many former members of our board of education here inside of our chambers today and my colleagues and we have a huge public and private school system that educates our children. today i am having the opportunity to honor the basic fund and their commitment here in san francisco to fight poverty within our families. the found er's vision was to provide education here for low income families and to make tuition more affordable. today rachel, the executive director is here and here with students who are the recipients

of the basic fund. please come on up. just to let everyone know more about the basic fund. it was founded in 1998 by jim mccarthy and others to make their vision of education a reality. the basic fund is doing an amazing job of filling those seats in a number of our private schools in san francisco that are currently going unused and i had the opportunity in the last summer and fall to visit a school they work with in the mission district and they do such an amazing job. the families are such amazing families that are recipients of these fund and scholarships and it's all about educating our children here in our city. 95 percent of the basic funds, 8th graders go on to graduate school and 65 percent of those

students get scholarships to. all of their donations go 100 percent to fund psychological scholarships and nothing else. i had the honor of witnessing firsthand what you do for families and his honor. i think -- children. as a parent you can't do anything more than educate children and it's so near and dear to my heart as well. i want to thank you for all the work you do and for being such an integral part of our city. congratulations and thank you for being here.

as a parent you can't do anything more than educate children and it's so near and dear to my heart as well. i want to thank you for all the work you do and for being such an integral part of our city. congratulations and thank you for being here. >> the -- what a lot of people don't realize is right in their backyard there's families of 100,000 children who are living in poverty and they're trapped in neighborhoods with schools that are sometimes violent and often don't meet their needs and they don't have any option to move to a different district or find a safe alternative for their children. what we do is try to provide that opportunity by helping parents find the best option for their children. in san francisco we celebrate diversity. we respect people's choices. that's why it's such a great city and why we're so proud to be here. we really think that here, especially, you know, parents

-- it's imperative they have that opportunity to be able to see their children thrive and be successful in life. the basic fund does this by providing opportunities by partnering with over 300 schools throughout the bay area who work tirelessly by providing the person /alized attention that these children need. as a result of our program, by graduating out of our program, 95 percent of our children graduate through high school, which is a huge step up. i'm joined here today by our founder, jim mccarthy and june mccarthy, who didn't want to get up. and also students from saint peters, which is the school you visited in the mission. we had 159 students there, and we are honored to open this door for over 18,000 students

since 1998 with scholarships. we have supported 4100 students this year. we are so honored to be here today on behalf of our founder, and our cofounder, our very generous board and donors, our wonderful network of schools and most importantly the thousands of families we support each with year. we can't thank you enough for this recognition and support. >> congratulations. [applause]

>> our final commendation of the afternoon goes to our district six supervisor, supervisor kim. >> thank you. i was trying to think of all the commendations we were hearing today and there's a clear theme of public service. i'm excited to end by acknowledging a type of public service, which is a partnership of our city public service and our private citizens and i wanted to thank -- please come up.

thank you supervisor mar for bringing this issue to us last year and this is bicycle theft. bike theft is up by 70 percent since 2006 with 1817 reported thefts since 2012 and it actually rises to 4000 in one year. district six which includes the tenderloin had the highest number of thefts at 285 followed by the mission district at 157. last july officer matthew decided to raise awareness of the this issue and started a twitter handle to allow the public to directly communicate with afpd. he had 2350 followers and

created a faq post that goes over best practices for protecting your bikes. i don't think anything like this had been done before which allowed citizens to communicate with sfpd. since then, sfpd has had several high profile arrests which brings us to the other critical component in this operation, our private citizens. we depend on them to set up sting operations and yes, it is as exciting as it sounds so we're hoping more people will want to get involved with this. i got update messages from one of our district residents as this was ongoing. this has netted in recovering stolen bikes, but other merchandise as well. we want to highlight two

particular incidences . the first, is actually one with officer freedman and district six small business public bikes. public bikes makes customized bikes for san francisco for tourist hotel residents to use. one of their bikes got stolen. some of you know this gentleman who works at public bikes. he knew what this bike looked like and found it with duct tape wrapped over the logo. he reported this via a direct /tweutder message to officer freedman and freedman called him back within the hour. over the course of their discussion they planned a sting operation that ultimate lyly resulted in officer freedman

obtaining a search warrant for the suspect's home. dan, who could not be here today, matt was my contact and his efforts is a model example of policing. we at public truly appreciate officer freedman's diligence and follow through. we wanted to highlight also something chronicled by the san francisco chronicle, which included our former d 6 residents. after david's bike was stolen here in the neighborhood, he went online and spotted his tire again online, along with markings of his that he recognized. he text /-td the sell /-r asking to purchase the tire, not saying it was hissed, called sfpd and reached sergeant anderson. they posed as decoys on market street to get the seller to come to san francisco and they

then apprehended him. sergeant anderson then stayed on duty eight hours past his shift and searching the home of the berkley suspect to complete the sting. they retrieved many other bikes and other items as well. he is a 15 year veteran of sfpd. he was promoted to sergeant in 2009 and has been a member of southern station investigative team since march of 2013. we're proud to have you as a part of district six family. and i know commander joe garrity and our commander for southern station, captain mike redman, who has been an astounding officer. these partnerships, amongst other have led to the closure of a chop shop at 13th and mission.

also shut down a recent bay area bike shift attempt in the mission. in addition, officer freedman, for those of you who would like more information on how to get involved, go to -- he is an avid cyclist who actually believes that a bike friendly city has to prioritize a high level of theft enforcement. if you're going to support a transit first policy for residents. for crimes in progress, call 9-1-1. this is actually worthy of that attention. and for others, chop shops and others, call the emergency number because calls of service help determine future operation. always include the bike's serial number. i wanted to have these officers come up to be recognized for modelling

what stellar policing can be and to say a few words. thank you so much. i know this takes additional time. you really have to be per /ses tussis persistent to do this type of work. thank you. [applause]. >> i appreciate awe all the hard work. i appreciate all the comments and thank you for your support. [applause] >> thank you supervisor kim and the board. again, i think it's a great example of a public private partnership. couldn't have made the arrests without them, wouldn't have get them without us. it was a great example of us working together to try to

accomplish a goal, which is a safer city. >> quite an honor to be here. thank you to the mayor, supervisor kim, the entire board of supervisors, chief of police, captain redman and captain anderson and others involved in this operation. we have many issues in the city, and bike theft is a big one. district six has the highest rate of bike thefts in the entire city. what happened very briefly, my wife eight months pregnant was at a star bucks on town send and eighth. in the five minutes she was getting a $3 late the bike was stolen.

depressed, i combed craigslist for two weeks and found my ad. for a variety of reasons, including some unique markings from an accident i had on the bike, i assumed it was mine. i called the police station afterwards. i assumed i'd get a voicemail and in fact i got sergeant anderson. maybe i was lucky, maybe the police department's incredible, as i now believe it is. i think it was a combination of both. sergeant anderson took my call and couldn't have been more helpful. it was a saturday. he told me if i could get the san francisco here that he would give me the resources for what was effecttively a sting operation. i couldn't believe my luck. a normal citizen like me could engage the sf police department like this. i was truly amazed. fast forward 12 hours, sting operation happened, my friend

jerry jerry and i had sat at a subway with police interrogating them, trying to get answers on where other items might have been, and eventually the police officers raiding their house in the east bay. recovering not only my bike but other stolen items. the district charged them with grand theft that day. in conclusion, this is a great example of real police citizen partnership, working together to make this city a better place. i have a newfound respect for the sfpd, something i don't think most folks understand. they're incredible individuals who want to make this city a great place. i want to thank you all for

this honor and we'd like to dedicate our honor to the entire sf police department. thank you. >> as supervisor kim is gathering her folks, i've had four-and-a-half bikes stolen in san francisco and last week i had a portion of my public bike stolen in district six so i'd like to ask the bike team to go to work.

all right? >> thank you supervisor kim, congratulations. with that, that concludes our special commendations. let's move to item 17. >> it's a resolution to authorize the sale of rights at the memorial complex at 301 van ness avenue. >> roll call vote. >> supervisor kim. >> kim absent, mar i, tang i,

wiener i, yee i, avalos i, breed i, campos i, chiu i, cohen i, farrell i. there are 10 i's. >> resolution's adopted. item 1. >> it's a resolution to to accept and expend a grant of up to $670,000 for the design and construction for landscape design for -- >> same call? this resolution is adopted. >> item 19 is a resolution to authorize the department of public health to accept an expand a $250,000 grant for a recovery program for october 21, through september 30, 2012. >> same house, same call.

item is adopted. >> authorizes the $133,000 grant for safe havens. >> same house same call? this resolution's adopted. >> item 21 is the resolution to accept and expand a grant up to $1 million for a renovated playground in mountain lake park. >> same house same call. this resolution's adopted. >> item 22 and 23 are resolutions to approve two real property port leases, both with affordable self storage. item 23 is an initial monthly rent of approximately $48,000 for a 31 month term. >> same house same call. these items are approved.

>> item 24 is a resolution to approve the 2013 grant application for the united states department of housing and urban development continuum care program with an amount not to exceed $24 million and fulfilling the board of supervisors review process for all grants of $5 million or more. >> same house same call. this resolution is adopted. >> item 25 is for the airport capital promotion and event fund from the boeing company and the united airlines incorporated. >> same house same call, this resolution's adopted. >> item 24 is for the da to accept and expends $996,000 for a project called the safer together program. >> same house same call. this resolution's adopted.

>> item 27 is an ordinance designating 1712 through 1716 fill more street as a lard mark under planning code article ten. >> same house same call this ordinance is passed -- supervisor breed. >> thank you. colleagues, this is the first reading and i just wanted to say a few words. i'm really very appreciative to, not just the land use committee for moving this to the full board, but for all the advocates in the community who worked to make this a historic landmark. i have here a statement with a number of details that i went over with the planning department and i won't go through that process at this time, but this is truly wonderful that we've arrived at this particular stage in this process and i know there'll be

a second reading next week to hopefully make this a reality. right now, the bookstore is still not saved through the ground breaking legislation. the advocates are currently doing all they can to raise money to try and buy back the building. this building is more than just a bookstore, it's a part of our history and a part of the fact that as african americans continue to leave san francisco, it reminds us that we were here, we're still here and we'll continue to be a part of the community and by retaining a landmark status from marcus bookstore, it just really sends a message that we'll continue to work to do everything we can to support and maintain our existing african american communities. colleagues, i ask for your support and i thank you