we've received to take advantage of that and the water statement was certainly a success loose time that was our recent experience. so we're looking to do & that and putting forth everything to watch things carefully and make sure we can act and encourage customers to do what they can to save in the future so. just one thing i continue to talk to any agencies and told memo committee last week the situation is continuing to change you heard steve talk about it. it will change in april their prepared and we've been talking about that and want to let you

know their anticipating it and hoping it's not necessary. that's actually all i have to say today. thank you >> thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> is there any public comment? on item seeing none, public comment is closed. madam secretary >> item 9 is the consent calendar and we only have one item improve modification and increasing the contract by 2 million plus with thirty consequence calendar days and it's been moved and seconded any any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> all in favor, say i. opposed? the motion carries.

madam secretary >> for the contract cost for dw 2666. commissioners >> i have a question. >> commissioner moran. >> it struck me as iconic we'll have to be drilling wells to water vegetation that i assumed would be native to california and part of that native to california is we have drought. i'm hoping just because we need for them to take root but the type of mrnz in the years to come they'll be able to withstand those drought >> yes. those are narrative plants and it's just for to get them started everything suffers

in the drought but they should be able to come back from the drought that's the expectation. we'll see about the climate involved >> thank you for that. >> commissioners any other questions or comments. >> i'd like to make a motion. >> okay been moved forward. >> >> any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. i'll californl for a vote madam secretary >> item 11 any public comment? for closed session >> any public comment on closed session. seeing none, public comment is closed >> item 12 we need a motion. >> i'll move. >> it's been moved. you threw me and seconded any

public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. i'll call for 0 vote all in favor, say i. we will now into go into closed session >> item 13 for the existing claim and 14 claim for others. item 15 is the existing code for the city of san francisco and item 16 the property vs. city and county of san francisco and do so one through one hundred and the city and county of san francisco litigation vs. pacific gas and electric company and item 19 existing litigation for the gas company vs. city and county of san francisco and the agency chief of security >> good afternoon counselor.

>> good afternoon. >> no, no, no. >> maybe not sogood. >> thank you very much we've returned from our closed session and i'm happy to report that the commission has adapted recommendations on item 13, 14 and 15 and 16 as long as that's sufficient we can poach to the mexico - next item. >> to disclose the items. >> i'll call for a vote not to disclose the i's have it madam other items. >> new business item 23.

>> know there have been discussions about the joint agency that came along after the department of the environment i know we're working on the scheduling of that i asked for information back on items that we're going to discuss in in addition to that i asked for a report related to some projects out in the southeast sector and i'm eager to hear back on any outstanding items commissioners. hearing none - i'll go ahead and call for any public comment? >> you're having any public comment on item 23. >> yeah. other commission business. i'm sure you may have committed

before i came into the room ems on monday there's a joint puc hearing about clean power sfusd and i'll encourage you to attend and i'll be supportive. i know this commission and mr. particular some of the commissioners have received some hash comments from advocates but i know that really we all want the same goal to get a large escape of new energy be it further resolved built rapidly in san francisco. and even though the san francisco public utilities commission staff are working telephone number on this we released on rfp last friday to punish finish the planning for

the local installation work for clean pour u s f even though your staff is not working on this i'm sure mell come will finish the getting paid and it will be helpful to come to the joint meeting on monday and you can help us geoget to the goal we need to be able to have this program by dedicating our staff on the local planning plan outbuilding >> i'll be out of town. the critics will be happy to hear that >> i know that supervisor

avalos has been doing good work they were applying some pressure to get it down so with respect to monday, i know we have 3 commissioners that were agriculture to attend in the morning and 3 in the afternoon i'm not one of the expirations that can attend so you you're getting the 3 that are available i think this was appropriate to say. >> the advocates were completely surprised by this as well and hopefully, they'll be another joint meeting but consider the issue of putting staff on that. >> any other items commissioners. the meeting is now adjourned

>> thank you all for joining us we're going to get going i know a few people are on their way i want to introduce a couple of

folks we have an affordable housing crisis in san francisco and i'll be sharing with you the approach to address the crisis. we have mayor ed lee who is co- sponsoring our bill and pleased to recognize commissioner wu and supervisor campos and supervisor wiener and assemblyman phil king is on his way and from tom's office is here as well. we're pleased to welcome founder sf dot city and we're expect others. i also want to thank dean from tenants together and from the tenderloin housing clinic and a couple of tenants who will speak an evicted tenant.

also with us folks from the chinatown area and executive director vincent and caramel who's with sales force and with that we'll get started. so with this affordable housing crisis we need to not only continue to invest in the creation of new affordable units but really must protect our xoif housing stoke our rent control units that will close a loophole in the ellis act who are currently not loorntdz it authorizes legislation to let

san francisco decide whether or not to require a 5 year ownership of the property before a landlord can use the ellis act. it was created as a result of a states supreme court decision in the 45 that says landlords don't have the right to evict all folks the cowered said you could sell your building the legislature respond to create a statutory right to leave the business of affordable housing. but it's been abuseed but those who are not landlord and don't intend to be landlords. we've seen american people increased of the ellis act in the past year and 3 hundred units of affordable housing have

been lost. and many more, of course, have left their homes as a result of treat of the use of the ellis act. as a result entire neighborhoods and community are commanding forever and as well as the families impacted. so i have a copy of the ellis act right here and if you read it carefully you'll notice no where in it is spectacular what's the difference the business of the landlord a hundred percentage occupancy the business of a speech last year a hundred percent vacancy that's the difference in the business motto. and what our bill side is to

restore the original intent of the ellis act. and that is for landlords not speak larts those half of last year were properties owned in lass less than a half years time and fewer than 6 months. this is an idea who's time is come. it's not the first time we've tried to amend the ellis act it's been amended in 2003 i was pleased to work with the tenderloin clinic to exempt single room occupancies. this is a time a that's come it's the very first time that this bill has been co- sponsored by the mayor of san francisco. with the support of major business leaders in san

francisco joining lash leaders. this is a very different time and a very different coalition of folks who recognize that san francisco is changing and at risk of being changed further if we don't differentiate between the practices from aspect larts who don't have any intention of working with their tenants as we do so. i'm going to close by quoting mark ceo of sales force who was interviewed in the wall street journal he said the following with regard to the question of intrackable problems facing and

challenging san francisco. he said the first time you can't be throwing throwing all those folks out of their homes they're using the ellis act during this boom time to toss folks out of their home it's unfair and has to challenge quote/unquote. it's my job in the coming months to meet one-on-one with my colleagues in the states loufrg to explain to them the unique situation we're facing and to make the fact the ellis act didn't serve the entire state it does ♪ baker's field one size does not fit all. i'm going to ask them to address it as i would work with them to address a unique problem in in your district with that, i want

to again not only introduce but sincerely thank mayor ed lee for stepping up to the plate and recognizing that this ooshlt crisis is a top priority for his administration go working to get this bill in print and to say that his support and assistance i believe will make the difference in getting this bill to jerry brown desk but signed by jerry brown that i mayor ed lee thank you (clapping.) >> thank you senator but thank you for championship so many of our issues. good morning everyone and thanks for coming for the steep slope indicts going to get worse. we've been patient but we

understand now that the abuses that have occurred ended up over 3 hundred evictions and half of those have been developers that are flipping property they're not interested in being landlords as the senator explained. we're toward on i think a very narrow corporate interest in the property we're standing in front of of once more 2 units have that think r been occupied by seniors and sdabtd and this is the kind of residence that we've also wanted to protect not only from rent control but the loopholes we've seen particularly when times are good. when real estate it hot in this city clearly we supported the beau and selling of property but

when you buy to or it to flip the property that's the wrong message and not where the ellis act was critiqued r create for. so i. so glad to see our supervisors come together with me along with state leg last year's including senator assemblyman who has a representative here but also your business community ron from sf city citizens extension innovation along with mr. benny hoff are here to support our effort to reform the ellis act we're not eliminating it but reforming it it will allow us to have additional protections for

omits. the city should be for the one hundred percent i believe as many others the character city is represented by everybody being valued and everybody who wants to live here stay here. had i see the new economy i'm excited we're about creating jobs in the city but there are excess thatnesss that occur we want to take care of long term residents. i used to be an attorney representing residents of this area and fought for the international hotel that represented citizens and we lost the battle but we got people who were beginning to create our

crazy whether in business or nonprofits or end up being members of the board of supervisors or the mayor that we would also try to take care of everybody and this reform is an effort to do that. yes, we have to go to the state my i'm really glad our former supervisor and a board president but someone who has remained all the promises that they can help us to reform the ellis act. it's a coalition of businesses and a coalition of government officials of nonprofits like randy shaw and dean and others and it's going to be a large coalition of longer resident in the city that come together and say we need to be here and part of the success of the city. having said that, i'm also got an aggressive agenda to build

thirty thousand opts of housing it's an aggressive agenda i know we've accomplish this with the same people who is we can build as well as protect our housing. while we build our housing and get jobs for more people we ought to make sure we're protecting those who are less fortunate to make sure they have a place in san francisco. i'm glad we join with labor they have helped me build the housing and helped to create jobs and are going to be here to protect the residents as well. we're forming a strong coalition and strong indication it's not one voicing voice but many voices to unit around keeping

san francisco affordable. thank you (clapping.) thank you, mr. mayor. you're not my so secret weapon when we are joined by supervisor yee. thank you, supervisor tang and fold by damon's and is a kill. assemblyman >> well, thank you senator it's an honor to be here joined by yourself and the mayor and salmon people in the city. we're here today to close a giant loophole in the ellis act. it was never meant to be used for people to throw families on the street to make a few more bucks. we're saying here today, we want to make sure we're doing

everything we can to preserve your protection and neighborhoods that people have the right to continue to stay here. what we see here, no chinatown i reflect on what the mayor said in all the fights that have begun her to make sure this neighborhood is perceived and continued to be a neighborhood that attracted immigrant from all over the world that attracted people with the industry point to san francisco. we continue to allow the will that loophole to exist anytime someone wants to run tenants around and throw people on the street to change the fabric of that neighborhood and we're saying this has to stop.

the mayor is right we have to tackle our affordable housing crisis this is just one single i single tool this is nodded the end all solution as well as really looublth building affordable housing and increasing our funding for affordable housing. those are the tools we're coming together on to really tackle this crisis. but again focusing on this one issue this is a egregious loophole. we've seen in the last year owners are buying the property and evicting people to make a few bucks and that's what t is wrong with the situation. it's only happening in half of san francisco but we're seeing this situation that isn't

happening in fresno or san diego that's why san francisco is special. we want to make sure we send a strong signal to everybody we are not going to allow folks to use the ellis act to skirt the protections we've fought for so people can make money so throw people out of their units on the streets. again, i want to thank you senator leno and members of the board to continue to fight for this. thank you very much (clapping.) good morning. i want to thank all the members of the community that have come out today. and to say that we need to stand together to stand for our san franciscans and our seniors our families and low income family

because of this loophole are being kicked out of the city. i want to tell you about the history of what we're come from. for many, many years we've had thousands of tenants that are fighting the ellis act. he can tell you years before we we have thousands of tenants that know the defendant station of this lay who worked with my office in 2010 to shut down the ellis act ventilations that of condos who had large garages. last year ms. lee has become a symbol of this fight we continue to stand with with our tenants. he want to thank the diversity and support who labor and business leaders and our mayor and board of supervisors come together when san franciscans

representing all of us coming together we need help from sacramento. i want to thank senator leo this will preserve the ellis act but we have an incredibly unanticipated loophole it's allowed landlord to buy and evict and flip properties. a 5 year requirement is the purpose of ellis act was to allow loans to get into the business that's not what the folks are about i look forward to move forward this forward and january 7th our board of supervisors unanimously supported a resolution that i sponsored along with supervisor campos and mayor ed lee and others to make sure this kind of legislation move forward we need

help from sacramento and stand united for our city thank you very much >> (clapping) >> thank you, president chiu and senator leno to the assembly members and the board of supervisors as well as our labor parents and business community. we have differences of opinion but the fact we have a united front representing the spectrum telling you what's happening here in with the legislation there's something different. i want to commend mayor ed lee it's important to recognize it's the first time we've had a mayor of san francisco to come out to say we need to reform the ellis act. i wanted to thank you for the opportunity to