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>> >> good afternoon, welcome to our rules committees meeting for thursday february 6, 2014. i'm supervisor yee and i will be chairing this meeting. to my left is supervisor campos and katie tang who will join us. lisa miller is our clerk. and we would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, jessie larson and joshua alexander and record eefrp of our meetings and make the transcripts available online. are there any announcements? >> yes. please turn off electronic devices. if you wish to speak, please fill

out a card. >> >>supervisor norman yee: madam clerk, please call item 1. agenda[health, business and tax regulations codes - safe body art]1304021.ordinance amending the health code by repealing miscellaneous sections relating to tattooing and adding article 40 to require body art practitioners to register with the department of public health dphh and to annually renew registration, and to require permanent and temporary body art facilities to obtain and annually renew permits with dph; amending the business and tax regulations code by adding fees relating to body art permits and licenses; and making environmental findings. public health departmentt5/2/13; >>supervisor norman yee: madam clerk, please call item 1. sf 11234 >>supervisor norman yee: i believe dr. johnson, from the department of public health is here to present. >> good afternoon supervisors, my name is dr. johnson. i'm representing department of public health branch. the rules committee meeting of january 16th of 2014. the department of public health reintroduced the body art ordinance for adoption. however at that time the department also requests for a continuance for time to post

publicizing the new proposed fee schedule for feedback from the general public. i'm here to answer any questions from the rules committee regarding this new fee schedule. thank you. >>supervisor norman yee: as mentioned this has come before us. are there any questions? okay. is there, thank you. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues can we have a motion to forward this item to the full board for recommendation? so moved. with no objection, motion passes. madam clerk, item no. 2.

>> the clerk: item no. 2. item 2: [appointments, san francisco local agency formation commission]1400872.motion appointing supervisor john avalos, as a member, and supervisor eric mar, as an alternate member, terms ending february 4, 2018, to the san francisco local agency formation commission. clerk >> the clerk: item no. 2. sf 21234 >>supervisor norman yee: okay. let's see, i believe, is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. we have a motion for this item to be brought to the full board for recommendation. so moved. motion is passed. item no. 3. the clerk: item 3: appointment, developmental disabilities area board v] hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending december 31, 2016, to the developmental disabilities area board v. clerk of the boardd vacant seat 2, succeeding donna adkins, term expired, must have a demonstrated interest and leadership in human services, for the unexpired portion of a three-year term ending the clerk: sf 31234 >>supervisor norman yee: okay. ms. atkins will not be here

but i understand there might be someone here to speak on her behalf. please come up and state your name. >> gabriel rog an. i'm here if you have any questions. >>supervisor norman yee: okay. any questions? >>supervisor david campos: just a quick question. what's the reason the applicant can't be here today. is there a scheduling conflict? >> yes, she's working today. jooe #6 >>supervisor norman yee: is there a problem with her attending the meetings? >> no. she's a consistent attendee. >>supervisor norman yee: is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we have a motion to

forward this to the full board. >>supervisor katy tang: i wanted to clarify this with the city attorney. >> you don't need a requirement for the seat. state law is one of the requirements that 60 percent of the members of the body, i think there are 10 appointed members. 60 percent of those have to be consumers or relatives of consumers or i believe care takers. and so, that requirement doesn't follow any particular seat. right now san francisco has two seats. you are filling one of them today with a member of the general public that will fill in the 40 percent category. the next opening on

this board we would recommend that you fill someone who fits the 5th category. >>supervisor norman yee: recommendation? >> so moved. >>supervisor norman yee: recommendation passes. so that brings us to item no. 4. the clerk: item 4: [appointments, workforce investment community advisory committee] hearing to consider appointing three members, terms ending february 19, 2017, to the workforce investment community advisory committee. clerk of the boardd vacant seat 1, succeeding liz jackson-simpson, term expiring on february 19, 2014, must be staff and/or board member of a 5011ccc33 organization, preferrably committee members should be providing workforce development services or serving low-income residents and other with barriers to employment, for a two-year term ending february 19, 2017. vacant seat 2, succeeding winnie yu, term expiring on february 19, 2014, must be staff and/or board member of a 5011ccc33 organization, preferrably committee members should be providing workforce development services or serving low-income residents and other with barriers to employment, for a two-year term ending february 19, 2017. vacant seat 4, succeeding dion-jay brookter, term expiring on february 19, 2014, must be staff and/or board member of a 5011ccc33 organization, preferrably committee members should be providing workforce development services or serving low-income residents

and other with barriers to employment, for a two-year term ending february 19, 2017. the clerk: sf 41234 >>supervisor norman yee: we'll call the applicants in the order of the agenda. lily wong. >> hello, my name is lily wong. i'm one of the applicants. good afternoon supervisors and thank you for considering my application for the advisory committee. just a little brief summary about myself. i grew up in san francisco. my family came here in 1987. i have been here ever since. my family has worked hard to live here and my interest is in this. i have worked to improve the living conditions for city san franciscans. i worked at community educational services for the mayor's education employment program for low income youth in san francisco. i currently work at coleman advocates and where they have a unique perspective on adult work force. i get to provide work force direct services and i get to advocate on a stronger policy or a more citywide level. i try to

identify gaps in the neighborhood and try to see what we can do to support san franciscans. i know that my experience and current work more than qualifies me for the wic act and i appreciate your time and prepared to answer any questions you might have. >>supervisor norman yee: any questions? okay. i have a quick question. work force investment for our board is many members on the board of supervisors is an important issue. what voice do you think you will be bringing to the table? >> you mean like in terms of population or? >>supervisor norman yee: you can answer anyway you like. >> okay, i think for me i worked in immigrant and low income families. that's kind of my background and both my

own living experiences as well as the jobs that i have held in the past and i currently do hold. i think that in terms of disadvantaged individuals in san francisco, those would probably be the strongest areas that i know. >>supervisor norman yee: okay. thank you very much. >> thank you. >>supervisor norman yee: next applicant is james fountain. >> my name is james fountain. i work with the employment youth services. i have been there for over 6 years now. prior to that i was at ll hutch and worked with people coming out of prisons. i have worked with the professionals and do a lot of national advocacy for what's happening and i want to get involved at

the local level and i'm involved with the california workers association and work force development and moving on their education as well. >>supervisor norman yee: okay. any questions? seeing none, thank you. next applicant is winnie yu. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors, thank you for the opportunity to speak before you and your consideration for the work force committee advisory committee. i have been working as a center manager for one of the neighborhood access points formally one stop career centers? san francisco since july 2010 and have seen thousands of visitors looking for work. our approach has been looking at the strengths of many of the job seekers to marketing skills to employers and looking for opportunities to do the right matching. so

my voice that i would lend is my experience in operating a one stop center, now neighborhood access points in san francisco but also working with job seekers who really have skills gaps in their resumes and being able to work with them and market their skills and strengths to employers. there is a low unemployment rate according to the edd report, 4.6 percent. however the remaining are the hardest to employee. we would need to really utilize strategies and skill building and training to ensure that they are not left out while the rest of the more higher skilled workers are now employed. i would appreciate the opportunity to serve again and utilize experience that i have experienced in the past with more innovative job seekers to come to the work force and ensure there is no gaps or opportunities lost to

ensure all workers have an opportunity. thank you for your consideration. >>supervisor norman yee: thank you, supervisor campos? >>supervisor david campos: yes. thank you very much. just a quick question, we have more applicants that we have seats. i'm just wondering and i'm going to ask this of anyone seeking reappointment. can you tell us about your attendance to meetings. did you miss any meetings? >> yes, i have attended most of the meetings other than the family emergencies and/or situations or if i was ill i was not able to attend. >>supervisor david campos: thank you. >>supervisor norman yee: next applicant is dion jay brookter. i believe you are speaking? okay. state your name. >> good afternoon

supervisors, jamal walters. i'm here to speak on behalf of mr. dion jay brookter. he was out on a visit with the san francisco unified school district in clovis california. he's out there on assignment right now working of course for our children. but mr. brookter was appointed by this committee last year and is really looking forward for the opportunity to serving the city and residents very well. he's been the deputy director for community developers over the years where we provide education services to one of san francisco's most disenfranchised population. mr. brookter is very innovative and has high level planning and education experience. he has a tremendous amount of work ethic and ready to work

diligently and ready to provide some real thoughtful input to provide services to deal with the gaps in the work force system that we have here in san francisco. he's already involved in many high level conversations about bringing more seamless services to the work force services in san francisco and how to work to provide better opportunities for disfranchised population. he's already been appointed and he would like the opportunity to complete a full term. you the. >>supervisor norman yee: thank you. supervisor campos. >>supervisor david campos: do you know what his attendance was. >> he did not have an opportunity to go to a meeting. he was appointed late. >>supervisor norman yee: i guess he had a lot of impact

so far. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. okay. my colleagues on the committee, we have four great candidates for three seats. any thoughts. supervisor tang? >>supervisor katy tang: yes, i after looking at some of the materials i would be interested in allowing applicants winnie yu and dion jay brookter to continuing the term especially mr. brookter to fulfill a full term and i'm familiar with ms. yu's work in the community. i know we have three seats and four applicants. i at least want to move those two forward and would love to hear from the community members on the third applicant. >>supervisor norman yee: supervisor campos? >>supervisor david campos: thank you mr. chair and supervisor tang. i will support that motion. i think

that it's good to have continuity and in the case of mr. brookter, he was just appointed. i think that we need to make sure that he has an opportunity to serve out a full term. i don't know, i think it's a really hard choice because i think that every one of the two remaining applicants is really strong and i was very impressed with the presentation. i have to say that it's one of those things whenever you have more applicants than you have vacancies that you ask which ever one doesn't get the appointment today or the recommendation today to please continue to be involved because the thing with these bodies you have a lot of busy people and schedules change and personal circumstances change so vacancies come up.

i see it as more of a long term. my hope is that at some point both ms. wong and mr. fountain would be able to serve on this body. that said, based on the presentation today and the experience, i'm inclined to move forward mr. fountain at this point, but again that's not anything against ms. wong because i think she has a great deal of experience and a lot of passion and expertise that she brings. >>supervisor norman yee: thank you. i also would support your motion to reappoint mr. book ter and ms. yu. it boils down

to two candidates. i have had the opportunity to listen to ms. wong another time when she applied. and i also know of her work on the -- the presentation from both of you was very good. the background was very good. at this point i also received quite a few e-mails to support ms. wong. i'm going to and there is no insult to the one i'm not favoring, but i would say i favor ms. wong. >>supervisor katy tang: i would say i have to second supervisor yee's choice here. i think both candidates have a great background that they are presenting to us. for me i like and identify with bringing the immigrant

community voice to the table as well as someone who again can help serve as well the monolingual; community. with that, i would move to also support ms. lily wong. >>supervisor norman yee: so the motion is to, let me be specific. the motion would be to nominate lily wong to seat one, winnie yu to seat 2, dion jay book ter to seat 4. supervisor campos? >>supervisor david campos: thank you. i don't think you can go wrong with either choice. i would be happy to support ms. wong as well. i want to do it without objection. >>supervisor norman yee: okay. the motion is passed. mr. fountain, please, we mean it,

reapply. >> i'm here all the time. don't worry. >>supervisor norman yee: thank you very much. okay, let's move on to item no. 5. the clerk: item 5: agenda[appointments, sro task force]1400255.hearing to consider appointing seven members, terms ending december 31, 2015, to the sro task force. clerk of the boarddvacant seat 1, succeeding charles siron, term expired, must be an sro tenant, for the unexpired portion of a three-year term ending december 31, 2015.vacant seat 2, succeeding suresh patel, term expired, must be a private sro owner/operator, for the unexpired portion of a three-year term ending december 31, 2015. vacant seat 4, succeeding seth katzman, resigned, must be a non-profit sro operator/owner, for the unexpired portion of a three-year term ending december 31, 2015. vacant seat 5, succeeding joshua vining, term expired, must be a representative of the mission sro collaborative, for the unexpired portion of a three-year term ending december 31, 2015.vacant seat 7, succeeding angela chu, term expired, must be a representative of the chinatown sro collaborative, for the unexpired portion of a three-year term ending december 31, 2015. vacant seat 8, succeeding joyce lam, resigned, must be a representative of the families sro collaborative, for the unexpired portion of a three-year term ending december 31, 2105.vacant seat 9, succeeding victor nelson, term expired, must be a sro tenant, for the unexpired portion of a three-year term ending december 31, 2015.1/3/14; received and assigned to the rules committee. the clerk: sf 51234 >>supervisor norman yee: okay. now we'll hear from the applicants in the order listed. first person is dan jordan.

>> good afternoon supervisors, my name is dan jordan, a resident here in an sro hotel in san francisco and i work as a collaborative as a housing peer counselor. in my position we work with people in these hotels on a daily basis. we help them solve their problems if it means to call in city agencies to do so. like the department of building inspection, department of public health, adult protection services and the likes. sometimes we have to go to their hotels and and try to solve the problem there. usually we can get away with writing a letter or making a phone call. sometimes we have to work with these people four or five weeks at a time to get the problem solved. i often go to my supervisors and say this is a situation i have and can you help me come up with a solution. we always try to get the solution. there have been numerous times that i have

helped other peer counselors as well to come up with solution to get the problem solved. i think i would be good for this position because i do have experience in working with the sro tennants. also i was on the campaigns for the grab bars to be installed in all the hotels and in the campaign for the elderly and disabled people several times. i believe i would be the right person for this position. thank you. >>supervisor norman yee: thank you. any questions? thank you very much. national -- enact next applicant is charles pitts. >> thank you, feel free to

ask me any questions. i have been on this for five or six years. for me, my history and goal was to be able to understand policy and procedure and be able to speak out regarding issues of homelessness and that led into sro's. for me i believe i'm connected with several people/agencies. i know people in the department of human services and with people with the mental health association and i'm with the homeless board and the committee. i think that's part of a start. i have an understanding of these things. i have attended the sro task

force meetings off and on for the past maybe 2-3 years. so, i know them, they know me. i have been very vocal about ideas and philosophy about how we can make sro's better. i do want to show you some of the pictures that i took when i was standing with sro's. i feel we have a dire need to be a little bit more aggressive and just having these buildings cleaned, up to code and free of illegal activities. so i just feel like we need to do more. we are moving in that step. the

city and county of san francisco hired seven new inspectors and i understand there was a protest on which idea to tend, the elevators. i'm support of elevators in the building and i think we need to understand like what's going to be needed with that. i feel like we are going to need specialize inspectors for that. and i have just been in the mix because we've had a problem with bed bugs and they worked on policy and procedure regarding that, senior action network. part of what i wanted to do is start to pull all of these organizations together to interact with each other. i believe now there is a major

disconnect between these different agencies and different bodies. i think we need to come together to share information and two, create policy and procedure. part of the sro's mandate is regarding homelessness. i think we need to have the local homeless coordinating board, the monitoring committee and these different organizations to help people transition into sro's and transition to a higher in a better life. so we are creating so people don't get stuck in sro's forever. if you want, i can show you, i have about 4-5 images of some of the sro's, one of the sro's that i was in and it was problematic. >>supervisor norman yee: i don't think that's necessary. the point is for you to just

let us know about yourself so we can make some decisions. okay. any questions? seeing none, thank you. next applicant is nicollette alexander? >> that's right. thank you. i'm interested in the position as an sro tenant representative. i think that my experience recently as a six month intern volunteer as a collaborative gave me a lot of experience and exposure to people from all different sro's in the mission area who i have built relationships with and see pretty much daily on the street and i'm able to of course speak with them as well as the fact that i live in one, privately one 1 on

16th street, maybe in the eye of the storm. near the police station, near 16th and mission where there is so much going on with gentrification and it's given me a lot of exposure to different backgrounds and needs. in my hotel, for example, we have people that are elderly and disabled on fixed incomes and people in transition with their lives and as well as people coming back from incarceration and i work with people with all different concerns. i think i have the ability and passion to represent their concerns. >>supervisor norman yee: okay, thank you. any questions? thank you very much. next applicant is thomas picarello. >> good afternoon,

supervisors, thomas picarello. there is a threshold issue here before i present myself and that is the clerk's qualifications say you have to be a current sro tenant. i'm a former sro tenant. not a current sro tenant. i'm now in senior housing district 5. i looked at the original legislation creating the sro task force and the amendments there too, the bylaws of the task force and i didn't see a requirement that one has to be a current sro tenant. i deferred to the city attorneys whether or not i'm qualified. if you have to be a current sro tenant, i don't qualify for the seat nor do i want to pursue it. >>supervisor norman yee: thank