[gavel] >> good morning, everyone, welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee meeting for wednesday, january 29th, 2014. my name is supervisor mark farrell, i'll be chairing this committee joined by committee vice-chair supervisor eric mar as well as supervisor avalos. i want to thank the members of sfgov-tv covering this meeting nona smith and melkonian. and the clerk am i wouldtionv. do we have any announcements? >> yes. [speaker not understood], completed speaker cards and copies to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted on today will appear on the [speaker not understood] unless otherwise stated. >> okay, thank you very much. madam clerk, can you please call item number 1?

>> item number 1 is an resolution authorizing a 10-year lease of 37,289 square feet at 1145 market street, for office space for employees' retirement system from 1145 market street, lp, a california limited partnership, for $119,228.21 monthly for the period of july 1, 2014, through june 30, 2024. ~ monthly. >> ms. [speaker not understood]. >> good morning, chair farrell, [speaker not understood], updike. a quick update. since this is for retirement lease 1145 market street, we are continuing discussions with ownership, hearing concerns loud and clear from both this committee and as raised by the budget analyst, and working to repackage a slimmed down lease with lower fiscal impact and also hopefully a reduced foot print. we're in discussions with ownership as well as my client, the retirement system on that's correct working closely with the budget analyst's office. we'd like to return on 2-26 at which time we should have a renegotiated lease and an amended resolution for your

consideration. any questions, happy to entertain them at this point. >> thank you, mr. updike. i think we'll be able to entertain that. first we'll move to public comment. so, is there anybody in the public wish to comment on item number 1? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> can i have a motion to continue item number 1 to our meeting on february 26? so moved. can we take it without opposition? so moved. [gavel] >> madam clerk, can you please call item number 2? >> item number 2 is a resolution approving an agreement with the nonprofit owners' association for administration/management of the renewed and expanded property-based community benefit district known as the "central market community benefit district," pursuant to california streets and highways code, section 36651, to commence following board approval. ~ district. >> thank you very much. i believe ms. connor is here from owd to speak ton this item. thanks for being here. >> good morning, chair farrell, supervisor avalos and mar. today you have a resolution [speaker not understood] renewed recently expanded central market cbd. in order for the city to

transfer assessment funds collected by the city, we need to execute this management contract. the document is a template we use for all our cbds and is adjusted for each one. if approved by the full board, it will allow us to transfer the funds as early as next week. we anticipate it will bring approximately over a million dollars to the cbd over the period of fiscal 13-14. if you have any questions, i'd be happy to answer them. >> colleagues, any questions? okay, thank you very much. we do not have a budget analyst report for item number 2, so, i'll move now to public comment. anybody wish to comment on this item? good morning, supervisors. i just wanted to introduce myself. i'm phrase i ebber line, the central director for the [speaker not understood]. we are very eager to start delivering our services to the neighborhood. particularly, the sixth street

corridor which is new to our district. thank you very much. >> okay, thank you. any other members of the public wish to comment? seeing none public comment is closed. [gavel] >> colleagues, can i have a motion to send item number 2 forward with recommendation? we can take that without opposition. [gavel] >> madam clerk do we have any other business in front of us? >> no, mr. chair. >> thanks, everyone. we are adjourned. [gavel]

>> thank you for coming again on i think just another momentum occasion for our good friend jose (clapping) and i know this is the third time i believe that the city is - is it the fourth.

fourth swearing in that's right and the reason why lieutenant governor knows that because he appointed jose in 2004 so thank you. visionary. of course, besides lieutenant governor i want to thank members of our family board of supervisors our da and assessor record and department heads and chiefs all the other departments our controller and others are here and really a sincere appreciation for the work that jose has demonstrated. i want to say he's been such a great partner and i've had the privilege of working with him as a colleague but when i had the special chance of being the

mayor here and wonder how to brag about san francisco i want to talk about more than the warriors something beyond supportship. look at what jose doing. so when we starting bragging about our chirnd program boy did you get a lot of attention from the other mafrz in the city. we brought him to a time when there was signature interest generated from the hard work jose has put together. i know we were appointing someone who was going to go beyond the collection do side of that office. in those years as gavin will recall this city and a country faced itself down in horrible

financial times and coming out of those years we asked ourselves what can we do better for the residents and the diverse community in the arena of financial planning and a allotcy and a sense from day one. and so the very creative idea came out and certainly i want to thank lieutenant mayor gavin newsom we're noting now nationally renowned for our san francisco program our kindergarten to college program. i get to brag about that constantly and not 57 the burden of how that works and smart money and network and curtains in san francisco joining and leading cities on financial

empowerment all over this country. those are some of the programs jose has put together gone beyond what we perceive he's helping us to educate the public and a businesses l about financial responsibility. it's sounds boring to everyone outside the room it's financial stuff but i'll tell you if the cities don't do this and cities dodo this they'll be in trouble trouble. jose thank you and now you're going to work closely with me and many in the city and a entertain our businesses as and transform from a payroll tax to another tax system and low

encourage job creation. he will be asked to step out of the traditional you've got to get it done and how do we help you do get under and city maintain and create jobs in the city. i'm here to say thank you jose to really let everybody you know how appreciative i've been 0 o and lucky to have you as a leader in our financial literacy captain. ooip i've been lucky to inherit a movement gavin was there before me and a visionary and i still get his council as he goes across california doing great things in education. gavin i say thank you that f in

your new really as lieutenant governor everything we've accomplished we get a national and state audience because of the work you've done. with that our visiony and former mayor now lieutenant governor gavin newsom. >> (clapping.) >> thank you. obviously, we have the same speech writer i have nothing else to say about jose wonderful work and thank you for covering the base is. i ran over to college and wondered what happened to terminate limits that's been 10 damn years you're not over this yet, huh? . i was thinking what was the

world would it be like. but it is remarkable to go back in time as the mayor was reflecting on some of the great work. i was thinking jose the other day when jaevent got sworn in how much time we spent that jeanette and she was celebrating at the time the only local no objection create that was initiated by jose and his team and the great work that was being done that was ahead of of its time. resay respectfully they have a role to play but we could counter balance some of the work they remember doing with regards to those businesses.

the mayor is not exaggerating i was at a meeting and bank of d.c. all coming out of the work from jose. success leaves clues and this is a successful city that leaves an remarkable amount of clues. we don't intimate because we're a model and mayor you should be proud of the leadership and everyone here. it's an honor to be welcomed back to the extent i was weekday waiting for the opportunity to swear jose in i haven't done this in a long time. but payroll a carmen forgot about me i didn't know she was

sworn in i'm okay about this this is only on tv this is okay we'll talk later. so jose he lets get you sworn back in for four more years. everybody ready. anybody have any reservation >> all right. i'll say i you state your name. >> do solemnly prestige to defend the sfuks is go and the institution of the state of california against all enemies for an and domestic that i bear true faith and alliance to the same and i will well and a faifl discharge the duties upon which

i'm about to enter and during some time as i hold the position as treasurer for the city and county of san francisco. >> so easy (clapping.) thank you (clapping.) let's hope you remembered that right. close enough; right? thank you for being here i'm privileged and proud to you to be here the fourth time around and gavin it's an honor to have you here. the first time we did this in september 8th of 2004, i was

very appreciative of the trust you put in me to take this position to lead this office and to handle this important 0 responsibility for the city and county of san francisco. i hope you and everyone feels we've done a great job. before i go too far i want to recognize my partner mark for being here (clapping) you all know how partner of an elected official needs to be so i want to put that out there. mayor ed lee thank you for being here and our kind kind words to continue to grow the words 0 both from the clerkors office. i believe it's important work we're doing for the city and county and we're creating a model for many places around the

country and with our support we're able to do that. thank you. again. i want to thank ail the elected officials i see a number of the board of supervisors thank you all of you for believing in us and supporting us i'm not going to name names. george thank you. carmen chiu the newly sworn in assessor and recorders. thank you. again my partner in so much important work we do for the city. i want to call ben roman fold for the hard work between the three of us we handle the lions share for the city and we're proud what we're able to do for the city it's important work

but, you know, i don't stand here alone and do the job alone i do it with over 2 hundred folks in the tax collectors office. i want to run detain the great seconds of our office. i want to recognize florence mar who is going to be implementing our gross receipts tax. our bureaucracy of tax she is incredible she's bringing in over $100 million a major to make sure everybody pace what they on the other hand, and sonya thank you for your work. we process numerous transactions through the mail on line and

over the phone and it's our cashiers that bring in the money. our office of financial empowerment mayor we're doing great work. our gross receipts project is led by jenny and that's an exciting project the biggest change to our tax system in the city and we're stepping up. our it groping group is led by richard. our investment portfolio is managed by michelle the average daily processing is round $1100 million. our project group is lead by

rebecca thank you for your hard work here doing a grow job. our property tax group led by phil and thank you for your work. our tax paper group the first line of defense is led by grace and our banking group that's handling the transactions is led by janet. that's the team of managers that run the incredibly important jobs and i sincerely want to thank those folks for they're hard work. i want to recognize my senior management team let me introduce our tax collector david arguing steno thank you for being here (clapping) our cohesive assistant treasurer

pauline (clapping.) our policy and ledge manager greg thank you for your great work. and our deputy director i t and about half of everything we did thank you. (clapping.) i get to stand in front of all of you and get some praise and a attention but honestly, i want to share all of that with this incredible team. many work on the first floor of the city hall that means the world to me. i want to take a minute to help the folks that helped me with my re-election campaign it was tough thank you folks for sticking with me the guy who

(clapping) third time around didn't have an on the but still you put together a great race. i'll bring this to an end but i thank you each and everyone for your energy mr. mayor and a lieutenant governor thank you. i want to invite everyone to stick around and have a bit and thanks to everyonee and thanks to everyonemeeting of th

commission on the environment. today is tuesday, january 28th. it is 5:10 p.m. first item on the agenda is roll call. commission president joshua arce? >> here. >> commission vice president [speaker not understood] is excused. commissioner ruth gravanis? >> here. >> commissioner [speaker not understood]? >> here. >> commissioner heather stephenson? >> here. >> commissioner heather wall? >> here. >> [speaker not understood]? >> here. >> next item on the agenda is

the approval of minutes of the november 12, 2013 commission on the environment special meeting retreat and december 3, 2013 rescheduled meeting. commissioners, in your packet you have november 12 and december 3rd draft minutes. this is a discussion and action item. ~ >> colleagues, unless there is any discussion, can i get a motion to approve the minutes? >> motion. >> so moved. >> seconded. >> . by commissioner wan [speaker not understood]. all those in favor say aye 2a aye. >> it is approved. >> [speaker not understood]. next item on the agenda -- >> there is [speaker not understood]. >> on the meeting minutes? >> [speaker not understood] public comment? >> very soon. >> that's the next item. >> my apologies for the confusion. >> okay. >> next item is public comment. members of the public may address the commission on items not on today's agenda. >> all right. we have one card, and that is

from rupa bose. thank you for giving me the opportunity to comment. and thank you for all that you do for the environment, in particular the reduction of pesticide [speaker not understood]. i'm here today representing the san francisco forest alliance and we'd like to make three comments. the first is on the natural areas pesticide use. natural areas has been using a great amount of herbicides by whatever measure n. 2013 it used more tier 1 herbicides than san francisco rec and park put together excluding the golf course which is a special case. also is treating [speaker not understood] golf course, not all the other golf courses. and that's a special case because of the contract that harding is under. ~ i'm going to try and show you

two graphs. 2011 to 2013 are derived from the original [speaker not understood] documents. we know the department of the environment has been working very hard to track pesticide use with its new database that was installed in 2010. we have spent a lot of hours trying to reconcile them and we found that the database still has significant data problems with months of missing data and we wanted to work with chris geiger and his team to improve the accuracy. but [speaker not understood] are the most accurate representation of herbicide use for the natural areas. people are particularly sensitive about the use of toxic herbicides in natural

areas which are wetlands and our gardens. people are shocked when they realize what's happening. we ask for no tier 1 or tier 2 pesticides to be used in natural areas. our second comment is about plant mixes in general. in tracking the use of herbicides in san francisco, we found that the original source documents show no way to identify [speaker not understood] mixes of chemicals. we're not talking about adjuvants, but [speaker not understood]. little results exist about synergistic effects. so, we ask all departments start to identify mixes and s.f. department of environment consider plants with special case and automatically tier 1. our third comment is about second generation [speaker not understood]. i don't know if you're aware, but another owl has been found dead in the glenn canyon area. last year there was a great owl killed. this year it's [speaker not understood].

the neighbors got proxy results. those owls have died of rat poison eating rodents with second generation [speaker not understood]. we under the department of san francisco environment [speaker not understood] against the use of [speaker not understood]. the san francisco -- >> if you can give us a concluding statement. he yes, the san francisco forest alliance supports this campaign and would like to throw its weight behind it. ~ >> thank you very much. any other speakers? it's not necessary to do a card. you can please come up to the microphone. thank you, commissioners. my name is rufus watkins with midtown park apartments. in district 5. the reason why i'm here is that we need your help to -- with the mayor's office of housing as well as with our district 5 supervisor as well as the