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 capital plan, a catalog of the capital needs of the city, a good plan in terms of how to finance it, when to send bonds out. it is a big improvement over the way we used to do it, which was a little less methodical. so i'm a huge support of the capital plan and capital planning committee and its step. with that said, there are going to be times we have disagreements and ultimately we at the board of supervisors or

the mayor, elected policy makers for this city, so, it is natural and appropriate for us to have these kinds of discussions which may at times mean that we have some disagreements. but those disagreements should never be interpreted as criticizing the process because i think that our capital planning process is a good one and i think it's going to be even better now because we're going to add in a full treatment for an additional important city asset. >> thank you, supervisor. colleague, any further initial comments? if not, let's open up public comment. if there are any members of the public that wish to comment on these items, this is specifically with regards to the earthquake safety and emergency response bond. please step up. ♪ and i thank you for lighting up our city lighting up our city lights

because you light up our city lights you make it bright in case there's an earthquake you light up our days and light up our nights with every flashlight because you make the city so bright ♪ >> any other members of the public want to speak on this item? this is not general public comment. thank you, mr. president. my name is christopher doll and this issue has come up several times for me before. i hope part of this bond is to deal with the hall of justice. i have been called to jury duty there next week. i don't know whether i'm going to have to physically show up yet, but that's a possibility. if there's any kind of seismic event, i will be traumatized. so, i hope there is something

in the bill -- the bond to deal with this issue. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. i'll address the general obligation safety, right? okay. i remember back in '89 -- excuse me -- the earthquake loma-prieta earthquake and, boy, there's something about an earthquake that really gets your attention. i remember the a's and the giants were playing and all of a sudden, you know, god magnified that and we instantly around the world realized we were having an earthquake. i was listening to barbara shim on kfo 560. if we have an earthquake, the new bay bridge is built -- the entire thing comes down. and i don't know if we can do anything about that. but back when we had the quake back in '89, we just had a section of the bay bridge fall

down. evidently because of the, you know, all the money involved [speaker not understood], they have their wicked for to bush and policy over there. there's a lot of money involved. it's difficult to stop a project, you know, when so many people are benefiting, you know, by it. i guess the new bridge is, according to barbara simpson on [speaker not understood], you can ask her about it if you think i'm giving you false information. hopefully we can go back to the other bay bridge because [inaudible]. you know, just go back to the other bay bridge because it seems a lot more securely than this. also briefly, in regards to emergency response, terrorism during the super bowl, that one guy got in. you know we had all these guys supposedly stopping terrorism.

one guy mentioned /11 was an inside job. ~ 9/11 he he failed to do the [speaker not understood]. he did a fine job, so, thanks a lot for listening to me. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in public comment on this item? please step up. good afternoon, my name is ernestine [speaker not understood] weiss. and yes, of course, this bond should go forward yesterday. i have been a volunteer for the neighborhood americans in sobs team for a long time when it first started. and of all places, certainly they should have earthquake seismic improvements done a long time ago. so, i don't understand why it took so long to get this done, but full speed ahead. >> next speaker. and the public -- >> this is not general public comment. this is earthquake safety and

emergency response. next speaker, please. sir? are there any other members of the public who wish to speak in public comment on this item? okay. if not, this hearing has been held and is closed. [gavel] >> i just want to add a quick comment. i want to thank supervisor wiener as well as city staff for their efforts to resolve this issue around street lights which i think we all greatly appreciate for many years that are important to our neighborhoods. i also want to again thank the capital planning committee for their efforts over the past year. and i do hope, colleagues, in the future we will all be able to engage with the capital planning committee so that we can make sure that all our important capital needs are dealt with. and with that, final comments from supervisor wiener? >> yes. first, [speaker not understood] from the puc is here. i want to call him up and make sure that i got it right when i described our agreement. >> yeah, i'd like to thank the supervisor. my name is todd [speaker not understood]. i'm the assistant general

manager [speaker not understood] for the public utilities commission. and i'd like to thank all the attention on street lights in particular. as noted here, that increase is roughly a 20-fold increase in the amount of investment. so, through the hard work of the supervisor's office and the mayor's office, we've figured out how to do that. there is a lot yet to do at hetch hetchy. you will hear much more from us in the capital planning process because there are many capital needs. and, so, much more discussion on our [speaker not understood]. >> thank you, mr. reid strom. ~ also i would like to just thank andres power in my office who really put a lot of energy into moving us toward this agreement. and then i'd like to move items 16 and 17 and move to table items 18 and 19. >> so, supervisor wiener has made the motion, and i believe that was seconded by supervisor mar. supervisor avalos. >> thank you. i just have a brief question

for mr. reedstrom. we're talking about new funding for street lights, [speaker not understood] fiscal year after. what is the source for funding? i didn't catch that. >> the proposed sources for those right now are primarily revenues and reserves. and, so, we'll be looking at that over the next several months. we are having some conditions and some concerns about precipitation as we read in the press. but at this point we feel confident that those numbers mentioned by supervisor look good. the needs are greater than that, though. and, so, it will be a balancing act as it always is with that proposed budget. and you'll hear more about that in the may hearing as well. >> great, thank you. could you speak just quickly about what the trade-offs would be in terms of what you perhaps will not be doing? because you mentioned reserves, the reserve would be less. other things you might be doing because we're looking at

capitalizing our street lights which i find important. >> over the next couple of years it will be a matter of how much we invest our reserves in capital needs. and, so, longer term we do have some very large transmission and generation work to do up country. but over the next two years in particular, it's really a matter of choosing to invest reserves as well as current revenues and something that is very much needed. >> supervisor wiener. >> again, i just want to stress how important it is for us here at city hall to support the puc in addressing its structural funding challenges. has a lot of capital needs, including street light capital needs and other capital needs in the power enterprise. and getting the puc power enterprise more customers, which we have the power to do

at this board, will help in that effort, will help generate revenue to support capital needs for street lights and elsewhere. so, there are a lot of projects that come through this board that -- a few of them. we've required as part of the agreement purchase energy from the puc and i think that needs to be more common. we need to make sure the power enterprise is viable and sustainable for the long run and can take care of all of its capital needs including street lights. >> colleagues, on the motion in front of us to move forward items 16 and 17 and table item 18 and 19, can we have a roll call vote. >> supervisor mar? >> aye. >> mar aye. supervisor tang? >> aye. >> tang aye. supervisor wiener? >> aye. >> wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? >> aye. >> avalos aye. supervisor breed? >> aye. >> breed aye. supervisor campos?

>> aye. >> campos aye. supervisor chiu? >> aye. >> chiu aye. supervisor cohen? aye. supervisor farrell? aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. the there are 11 ayes. >> the ordinance is passed on first reading and the ordinance is adopted. [gavel] >> why don't we now go to general public comment, madam clerk. >> at this time the public may comment generally for up to two minutes on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board including those items on the adoption without reference to committee calendar. please note that public comment is not allowed on items which have already been subject to public comment by a board committee and pursuant to board rule 4.22, please direct your remarks to the board as a whole and not to individual supervisors nor to the audience. speakers using translation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time. and if you would like a document to be displayed on the overhead projector, please clearly state such to sfgov-tv and then remove the document when the screen should return to live coverage of the meeting.

>> let's hear from our first speaker. i would love to say [speaker not understood]. [speaking in native language] madam clerk, ladies and gentlemen, as you know, my name abdul [speaker not understood]. for the last 3, 4 years, i would like to present my friend, my family, supervisor, to the tourists. its was one idea i work with now and [speaker not understood] pretty soon.

as t-shirt, each one coming to our city, going to have t-shirt have big shirt for every one of you. as example, i tried to put john avalos and david campos like mariachi and our supervisor going to play piano and [speaker not understood]. what that mean? mean everyone coming to the 50 going to have t-shirt and they're going to give their own friend big [speaker not understood] for our grateful family and the friend with me. second one, i would like to end the corruption of the homeless people, the stop the people work in the shelter who steal the donation and get it. we give the homeless.

ladies and gentlemen, again, happy new year for all of you. i hope that you comings was good idea and i appreciate it. and my supervisor jane kim, fiona ma, including the governor of california for supporting me to make my dream come true [speaker not understood]. thank you, god bless all of you. my name is ernestine [speaker not understood] weiss and i'm here specifically to talk about the effects of lighting and not having good lights in this city. yesterday we had a crime committed and two stabbings on the embarcadaro, drumm street and sacramento. that is right in my backyard. i live a block away from sacramento and the embarcadaro.

years ago when the embarcadaro was being restylized, i said, put white sodium lights up on the embarcadaro. light it up like daylight so people would be able to come out and be safe. nothing was ever done. here it is years and years later and finally i hear about street lighting. now, the fact is when you light up the streets, it's a crime stopper. criminals don't like the light. they like the dark. pedestrian safety, we wouldn't have so many people killed at night because muni doesn't save them. the cars don't save them. it is disgraceful. number three, economics. it's economics, stupid, as they say. people don't spend money if they stay at home and don't come out at night to spend money at restaurants, bars, theaters, and so forth.

so, it's about time we did this. it isn't enough. we need much more. david chiu, it's in your district. how about a community benefit district all over the city? we don't have that where they could help with the lighting. 5 to 7 million is inadequate. we need to light up the whole city and priority one is the embarcadaro, market street and van ness. please keep those in mind and do something. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. thank you, ladies and gentlemen of the board of supervisors. i'm here to make a statement regarding the naming of the san francisco oakland bay bridge. i quote, from the california toll bridge authority headed by then california governor frank miriam. resolved that the san francisco oakland bay bridge be dedicated as a lasting memorial to james

rolph, jr. this declaration was reaffirmed in 186 at the time of the 50th anniversary of the bay bridge ~ as follows. ~ 1986 it's on a plaque monument here in san francisco at fifth and harrison street. san francisco-oakland bay bridge, a lasting memorial to james rolph, jr., mayor of san francisco 1912 to 31, governor of california 1931 to '34. tireless leader in the city and the state, sunny jim worked throughout his career, crossing the world's largest landmark harbor so the east bay and the cities could be linked together with san francisco as one community. the momentum [speaker not understood]. california toll bridge authority, september 7, 1934, rededicated by the citizens of california on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the bridge. november 12, 1986. ladies and gentlemen, what have we done?

what are we doing? how can we redress this outrageous dishonor to our late governor? thank you. good afternoon. i'm adrian bosian public affairs planned parenthood at shads that pacific. we're the fourth largest in the country. we serve [speaker not understood] at 25 health centers in 17 northern california counties. we are very proud to be here in san francisco ~. we serve 13,000 clients at two health centers in san francisco. and i want to thank supervisor campos and the co-sponsors of today's resolution. i hope i get them all. supervisors chiu, farrell, wiener, mar, avalos, and tang for