domain. the analysis of what is paid by the federal government looks at the market, and in this case we believe that consistent with the case law, if the objective is to do whatever we can to mitigate -- to mitigate displacements and how tenants stay in san francisco, it makes sense that the calculation of relocation costs be based on an analysis of the market. i am grateful to the controller's office for their help, their technical support in making sure that we get to the right calculation. i also want to thank the san francisco apartment association, which even though we have our differences of opinion, have provided input on this legislation. and we look forward to continuing to work with them as the legislation moves forward through committee. and i also want to thank my colleagues, supervisor jane

kim, supervisor john avalos, and supervisor eric mar for their co-sponsorship of this legislation. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor campos. president chiu. >> thank you, colleagues. first of all, i want to just take a moment and thank our colleagues who have been working on the big soda measure for all of your very productive work, and particularly in coming together. supervisor mar, wiener, cohen and avalos. i think it is so important that we come together in our efforts to turn around childhood obesity and diabetes and i'm happy to be a co-sponsor of that measure. i have one measure today i'm introducing in resolution to join to go to call opposing action, violence against women. next friday val untines day 1 billion rising for justice in our city. as we have done in past years, next friday we will come together in civic center plaza. the organizers this year have teamed up with the bar association of san francisco, rda's office and the department

on the status of women to put together the first ever free legal clinic targeting survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault to help those in need. and i do hope you might be able to join next weekationv events and do everything locally and end all forms of violence against women. the rest of my items i will submit. >> thank you, mr. president. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. >> thank you. i just want to add my co-sponsorship and support to supervisor campos's tenant relocation assistance payment legislation. i'm really excited this is moving forward and i just want to thank supervisor campos's office for working on this legislation. over the last year our office has been fielding so many calls and hearing from residents, many who grew up here in san francisco that are fearful of losing their home or have been served eviction notices. but are often most stunned when they see the relocation payment fee that they are offered under

our local ordinance. and realizing that it's barely enough to move and even find a comparable unit for even a month here in san francisco. and, so, it's great to see that out of many of discussions that have been coming out of the neighborhood tenant convention, most recently the one in the south of market and the tenderloin which we both attended, that this was a theme that often emerged from our tenants, which is landlords have the right to evict us. how can we find a comparable place to live given this is a relocation fee and it's so out of touch with what the current rental prices are and the current cost of moving? so, looking forward to the discussion on this. this is just another strategy amongst many in terms of how we look towards stabilizing our residents in our city. also wanted to chime in with supervisor avalos, really looking forward to the longer and greater discussion with supervisor yee on the re-authorization of the children's fund and pete the

public education enrichment fund which we may have going jointly to the ballot in november. these funds are so poderthv in supporting our public schools and after school programs and pre-k. it is amazing the city always supported this ~. as we look to expand and to really refine the details on that, looking forward to working with these two supervisors on that re-authorization. and finally, i just wanted to express my condolances to the family and partner for stu smith who is actually a district 6 resident. i actually had not had a chance to meet him until i door knocked on his door in south beach, and that was when i first came in touch with him. despite the fact that he had spent many years working on behalf of our community, volunteering for so many of our organizationses as a community leader, and as that super volunteer ~ he immediately brought me into his home, talked to me about so many of the important issues around health, hiv, and an aging in

place. and i learned so much from him during that time. when i joined the board, got the opportunity to continue to work with him on the issue that he is so passionate about, so sad about his loss, his great loss for our city and community, and again wanted to express my condolances and add my name to his in memoriam and the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor kim. supervisor mar asked to be re-referred. >> thank you. i just wanted to first say that i left out a few thank yous for the introduction of the unified soda tax measure by six of us on the board of supervisors. i wanted to thank our staff for spending so much time around the clock. i'm not only peter from my staff, but jeff from supervisor wiener's office who has been so wonderful to work with. jeremy from supervisor avalos's office that has been working on this for over a year, maybe a year and a half. and yoyo chen from supervisor ma lely a cohen's office. but we are fortunate to have

such great staff ~ to help with crafting a very tricky measure to hopefully place on the november ballot. i also wanted to say that the advice from the number of nonprofits has been really instrumental not only the shape up s.f. coalition both supervisor wiener and i recently visited and they had their kickoff last week for their bill board and bus campaign on sugary drinks, but also the department of public health staff, university of california san francisco, ucsf, san francisco health improvement partnership, especially arial vargas who has been a great community asset in building broader alliances, especially in low-income communities. and i also just wanted to say on the national level besides ucsf the center for science and the public interest, the california center for public health advocacy, harold goldstein and others, and roberta friedman and kelly from

the yale rec center for food policy and obesity have been really great advisors. i also wanted to say on supervisor avalos's introduction to hearing on the children's fund i hope i can be added as a co-sponsor as well. and i know that from your work with coleman and margaret's efforts over now 23 years ago with the original prop j which i was strongly supported in the richmond district from 1991 when norman yee led the campaign for the re-authorization, i believe in 2000, right, norman? that it's been a community-based effort. so, my hope is that dcyf, the school district, the mayor's office really join together with the grassroots community coalition that's been working on that. and for the prop h or the public enrichment public education enrichment fund or piece propses to tom ammiano for his vision on that one ten years ago and that also needs

more transparencies as the community coalition around schools and children and families organizationses need to be centrally involved. so, i'm looking forward to that dialogue as well. >> thank you, supervisor yee. supervisor mar. before we go to supervisor cohen, we'll go to supervisor yee. >> thank you, madam -- thank you, madam clerk, for allowing me to speak again. i also would like to co-sponsor with supervisor avalos the hearing on the children's [speaker not understood] piece. like supervisor kim and supervisor mar, we all have been working on these issues for a very long, long time. and for myself, it's been decades of working around these issues. and i'm very passionate about these issues. there's been several efforts and many discussions around

these two initiatives in the last year or so, and if we're going to consolidate or start having one point of view, we need to pull the discussions together as soon as possible in a very transparent way. so, i'm very happy to be able to, if i can, co-sponsor with supervisor avalos to do this hearing. at this point, it's -- will be crucial that whatever decisions we make not everybody is going to be fully behind this because it's too big of an issue to -- for us to not have a thorough discussion. the other thing i wanted to mention, i've been notified and also supervisor tang with both

of us, we were discussing this earlier that once again another pedestrian was killed today. so, it happens to be actually in district 4 and one block from my district. at some point supervisor tang and i will be asking for a hearing to discuss that intersection. thank you very much. >> thank you, supervisor yee. supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. first, everyone, i just want to say happy black history month to you. it's a wonderful time of the year and we get together and we celebrate the art and the culture and the richness of the african-american community. i recently read an article in the chronicle that really gave me a heavy heart. it talked about how here in save some time black history month isn't as celebrated as it should be. so, i just wanted to take a moment and acknowledge that supervisor breed is going to be leading the board meeting in a

few weeks acknowledging black history month. a great many activities that are free and open to the public, and if you're interested you can contact my office or supervisor breed's office and we're happy to share information with you. there are many things to discuss today. first, i also want to acknowledge supervisor mar and scott, supervisor wiener and supervisor avalos and just collectively the amount of time and energy that we have put into bringing a critical ballot measure to you, to the people of san francisco for consideration. and, you know, it's going to be a lot of discussion around it for many months and i hope that you will listen with a open ear and more importantly an open heart and begin to ask yourselves some critical questions because from my perspective, the reason i'm supporting this initiative, it gets down -- it's a life or death decision. when you look at the numbers as to who is being adversely affected by the target or

affected by the targeted advertisement from the sugar beverage, it is largely the african-american community and there are many, many studies here, the study right here, sugar sweetened beverages and incidents of type 2 diabetes in african-american women. the studies go on and on. with that said, i also want to acknowledge that supervisor campos introduced a piece, a resolution acknowledging -- what is it, february as women's health month. and this is really interesting. at first i have to be honest you with, i took offense to it because i thought my goodness february is black history month and now this is exactly what people are talking about when they live in san francisco of african-american descent and still constantly under attack, under appreciated and just not acknowledged. and that was my initial -- my initial response. the second thing that i thought about was, here's an

opportunity to bridge two very, very important and critical topics together and talk about the health about women. so, i'm happy to be a part of women's history and health month. i also would like to make an announcement that black hiv and aids awareness day is going to be february 7th. for more information please contact my office. it's going to be at 6:00 p.m. in front of city hall. there is going to be a public address. if you're able and around and interested please come out and hear about the advocacy and more importantly the work that needs to continue to be done. i also learned about stu's untimely death this morning. ironically on facebook. and i got to know stu on the campaign trail. this was an incredible man. this was just a giant. my heart goes out to dave, his partner. with that said, i also like to submit one more in memoriam for a gentleman who was also a giant here in san francisco.

his name was willie payne. willie hunter pain was born december 19, 1924, he passed away january 29th of this year at the tender age of 89. he he was surrounded by loving family. he was the husband of the late ruby lee payne and the father of janet thomas beverly [speaker not understood]. he was the loving grandfather of five and the great grandfather of two. and he's survived by the large extended family filled with grandchildren, nieces and nephews. but more importantly willie served his country in united states air force during world war ii and worked with the city and county of san francisco as a municipal railway bus operator for over 25 years, 25 years he dedicated his life. so, his going home service is going to be thursday, february 6th from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. at

duke and sarah mortuary. the address is 500 westlake avenue. he will be having a funeral on friday, february 7th at 11:00 a.m. at providence baptist church in the bayview. that address is 1601 mckennan. madam clerk and mr. president, the rest i submit. thank you for your time. >> thank you, supervisor cohen. supervisor campos. >> thank you, madam clerk. briefly, i forgot to mention something about the ordinance regarding tenant relocation assistance. and it's something actually that supervisor kim alluded to and talked about in her presentation. as you know, tenants advocates and the tenant community in san francisco has been holding a number of conventions throughout the city in different neighborhoods which conventions will be culminating with a city-wide convention that will take place this saturday, february 8th. and what i want to note is that one of the ideas that has been

a recurring theme at each one of these neighborhood conventions is the issue of enhancing increasing tenant relocation. i know supervisor kim talked about the south of market tenderloin convention. i know, for instance, we were both [speaker not understood] and i know in the castro tenant convention there were dozens of ideas that were put forward. the most popular was actually the idea of increasing relocation costs. and i think the reason for its popularity is the fact that it is really the most immediate thing. [speaker not understood] we need to change the ellis act. in the meantime unless we make it so that relocation costs are sufficient for people to live in san francisco, you're not going to have a lot of people remain in san francisco who are being evicted. and i forgot to thank the tenant advocates who have been working with my office on this piece of legislation, including

the tenants shallv union, casa justa and the housing rights committee and there are so many others. and the rest i submit. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor campos. supervisor wiener. >> thank you, madam clerk, for rereferring me. i did neglect to thank a couple people. i agree with supervisor mar that this would not have been possible getting us this far without our legislative aides and jeff kreton in my office has been a yeoman's work in helping to move us forward with peter lauderborn and yoyo chen. our aides make us look good and do just incredible work so i'm very grateful to jeff in my office. i also want to thank the deputy city attorney, carol brewer who did phenomenal work putting this legislation together. we have done some very innovative things in this legislation, including language to make sure that the money generated for health and

nutrition, physical activity programs funds new additional programs and isn't used to backfill existing money. and, so, carol and her colleagues -- my former colleagues in the city attorney's office -- did some very creative thinking around this legislation. i'm very appreciative for that. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. all of those items will be appropriately referred and, mr. president, that concludes roll call for introductions. >> thank you. colleagues, we have one 2:30 special commendation i'd like to acknowledge supervisor kim and thank you for your patience as well as the patience of your honoree. >> i'd like to thank the patience of our honoree today. our office was brainstorming. we thought it's really good as i mentioned before to put a face behind the legislation. and when i mentioned individuals that were going to benefit from the passage of fair chance act, i thought it was good to honor folks that already before this legislation passed [speaker not understood], already put in place and employment practices here in our city.

in particular in district 6. i wanted to bring up two businesses that have been role models that we would get advice and support from throughout this process that have been banning the box previously already because they believe in giving a fair chance to all individuals who want to work and are qualified to work. first i want to bring up brian king who represents the winery on treasure island. and [speaker not understood]. ~ from target. i wanted to showcase two examples of businesses that are doing this, small and large, small business, the winery s.f. on treasure island is one of our local san francisco wineries. if you're a wine lover, you don't need to go far to get some of the best tasting and delicious wines. you can just come to treasure island. the winery is 20,000 square foot wine making facility allows [speaker not understood] experience wine making and wine tasting that is literally minutes away and just off the 108. [speaker not understood] is the wine maker in local small

business owner who has managed to make his business of bringing the wine making experience of san francisco a reality and he's managed to win accolades for not only 9 wines he creates but also the way he operates his business ~. brian talks a lot about his wines but what he does president trumpet is how he quietly adopted fair hiring policies that [speaker not understood] skills and qualifications first and opens the door to individuals who have conviction records and who want to work. he has actively hired island residents, especially those who are reentering the work force and face the challenge that comes with having a conviction history. so, the full board of supervisors is here today to commend you, brian, and the winery for simply identifying the way that small businesses and can do combine social responsibility with sound byness practices and. and you can check them out at 200 california avenue, building 180 north. they're open every day and by appointment. and i should also mention he is an award winning wine maker

[speaker not understood] as well. and he was recognized by [speaker not understood] magazine as the next generation of cart wine maker. again showcasing responsibility and business can go hand in hand. a major business many of us know, one of our largest retail employers and one of our largest employers nationally and that is target. we have tiffany, the store manager for the masonic location here today who is accepting with commendation on behalf of target. as i mentioned, they are the second-largest retailer in the u.s. and weeks before supervisor cohen and i announced the fair chance act, target announced nationally they will ban the box as well. as soon as the state of minnesota decided to adopt it statewide. they wanted to give people the opportunity to be evaluated for their skills and qualifications first. [speaker not understood] and that good policy can embody

both. i also want to recognize martha miller who couldn't make it today. she actually sat through many of our meetings with our office to help craft this legislation in a way that could work for employers while achieving our goal. and i just wanted to recognize both of you for really being an exemplary businesses here in the city and county of san francisco and give you a moment to say something to address the board. >> i just want to say thank you very much. target was pleased to work with supervisor kim and her office. we appreciate your efforts reaching out to our business for input. thank you. >> and as part of the local s.f. bay movement, part of what we do to give back to the community is to embrace some initiatives and we've worked very closely with the treasure island homeless development initiative and some of its partners, job core and tour works. and we currently provide jobs for about one-8th of all of our

employees to move these programs. thank you. (applause) >> thank you, supervisor kim. colleagues, why don't we now go to our 3:00 p.m. special order. madam clerk, could you call item 15 through 19? >> pursuant to actions taken at the january 28th board of supervisors meeting, the board approved a motion to sit as a committee as a whole for items 15 through 19, hearing of persons interested in the ordinances and resolutions

relating to the general obligation bond to fund the acquisition improvement retrofitting for earthquake safety for emergency response facilities and the construction, acquisition, and improvement of street lights on public rights-of-way. >> thank you. this is a hearing to consider some amendments that were made last week to this ordinance that were offered by supervisor wiener. to kickoff the hearing, if i could ask supervisor wiener if he has any opening comments. >> thank you very much, mr. president, colleagues. first of all, i want to thank you for allowing us to divide the file and make an amendment to add $25 million for street light capital needs into one of the versions and continue the item a week to give us opportunity for dialogue with the mayor's office, the controller, the public utilities commission, about how we can address the very serious deficiencies in our street light system. we have a split street light system. the public utilities commission

has nearly 25,000 street lights under its ownership and for which it is responsible. and we know, and anyone who lives in the san francisco neighborhood knows that the condition of our street lights is not acceptable. the system is old. it is deteriorating. it has huge deferred capital needs. these street lights fail all too frequently. although there have been improvements by both the puc and pg&e in addressing failed lights, it still takes longer than we would like. and, frankly, these lights should not be failing in the first place. for many, many years, the city has -- we have neglected our street lights and allowed them to deteriorate to this state. over the last year and a half i have called for two different hearings on street lights. and at those hearings we learned, among other things, that the public utilities commission spends approximately

$250,000 a year to maintain almost 25,000 street lights. street lights have been unfortunately a low priority in our -- on our budget and that needs to change. after several years of trying to address this issue, we weren't making a whole lot of progress. and, so, when the bond came up last week, a bond that focuses on rehabilitation and improvement, earthquake safety, infrastructure needs for our public safety assets, i thought it would be appropriate to include some funding for the capital needs of our street lights which are critical public safety assets. i also made clear that there was an opportunity for discussion to see if we had an alternative path. and i want to thank the mayor's office and public utilities commission, the controller as well for engaging in that discussion. and we have reached an

agreement that will allow me to be able to support the bond without the additional $25 million for street lights. and i want to just state what the agreement is, and i think it's a very positive first step. as i noted, the puc has been spending about $250,000 a year to maintain the street lights. the mayor's office and the puc have agreed to include in our upcoming budget for fiscal year 14-15 approximately $5 million for various street light replacement and repair projects for various street lighting area improvement projects, for replacement of so-called series loops which connect multiple street lights together like the christmas light. so, when one fails they all fail. and these are in major need of rehabilitation. there have been an idea of

using led conversion money to pay for this. a number of us objected to that, and, so, the led conversion fund will stay intact and will not be diverted to pay for this increase in street light capital needs. for fiscal year 15-16, $4 million will be budgeted for street light capital needs. so, a total of $9 million over a two-year period, that is a very strong down payment for the capital needs of our street light system. that's just a start. we also reached an agreement that between now and april there will be an assessment of the global capital needs of our street light system with at least the beginnings of a plan and a long run to address those needs, that will be done by april and will then be fed into our capital plan. so, the capital plan will fully account for our street light systems capital needs. this is obviously not a problem that we're going to be able to solve in a year or two.

the needs are very, very large, but we will be on track to address it in the long run. so, again, i want to thank everyone who was involved in these discussions. so, as a result it would be -- i think we'll need to open the hearing, but at the appropriate time i would make a motion to move items 16 and 17 and to table item 18 and 19. in other words, to move the $400 million user bond and to table the $425 million eser bonds. >> thank you. supervisor mar? >> i'll second that motion. i want to say i'm appreciative the earthquake safety and emergency response bond can move forward. i'm glad that supervisor chiu and supervisor wiener and others have gotten together to come up with a compromise that addresses the street light issue. i did want to say that as supervisor wiener and avalos

looked closely at this, i want to be involved because getting street lights maintained and replaced in my neighborhood has been like a nightmare at times and it's my understanding that pg&e is responsible for the large majority kind of in my neighborhood. but some kind of comprehensive strategy so residents like those even on my street who had to wait for many, many months, that there's a clearer way, more transparent and we can address the different issues in all of our neighborhoods. but thank you to supervisor chiu and supervisor wiener. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you. and i also just neglected to mention in my initial remarks, and i said this last week and i really meant it, i'll say it again. that we have a terrific capital planning process. it's i think one of the best things that's happened to san francisco fiscally over the last decade in terms of having a ten-year