taxis race against muni. they cut in and out. so, all these things have to be addressed. but please make downtown a priority. market street is dark. van ness is dark. and the embarcadaro is dark. thank you. >> thank you, ms. weiss. i agree, we need more street lighting. [speaker not understood] hernandez gill with the san francisco bicycle coalition. both personally and on behalf of our members i want to commend you, supervisors, for your concerted work in turning vision zero from an idea into a policy. we're tentatively encouraged by the commitments and progress made by the s.f.p.d. and the district attorney, but we are nonetheless concerned by the progress made on the third piece of this three-point plan engineering. we encourage the city to identify and commence work on the 24th priority projects by the end of this month. the current 26 theme delivery timeline is really just not [speaker not understood].

while hearings like this are very appreciated, the city must take action by empowering key city staff and committing unconstrained and sufficient funding to achieve the goals and visions here. thank you so much. >> thank you. hi, an gentlemen lin a [speaker not understood]. i'm an organizer. i work with a lot of transit dependent folks who live, walk, and breathe the streets, all experiencing very high traffic collisions, pedestrians -- pedestrian safety, something that is super important. i think having heard the three fold strategy of the three es, it's refreshing. i think the city has a really robust tool kit, but going forward with this road ma'am, what needs to be party is that timeliness for the city to be about working together. if i city family is going to do all these projects, they need to be talking to each other, have some sort of communication system for those that are able to streamline things because we

need pedestrian safety improvements do save lives. the other major piece missing from the proposal is the sufficient resources. i think the walk first plan has a lot of data. it shows where the high needs are, what's missing to make this a reality is those resources. that is the funding that needs to come from san francisco. thanks. >> thank you, ms. yu. good afternoon. i'm alice rogers from district 6 and first i want to thank you very much for your perseverance through the morning. it's been a very long time for you. i'm just here to encourage and support and applaud your vision zero program. and also as a resident and walker in district 6, to encourage a special focus on district 6 demonstrably statistically the ground zero, as it were, of traffic fatalities and accidents. there's a good reason for those members.

so, please give us a good look and a good portion of those funds. >> thank you, ms. rogers. and thank you for working with district 6 pedestrian safety work group as well. good afternoon, kimberly jones. thank you for this meeting. in the four years since i was hit, i've been watching out to see a change in the incidence of pedestrians getting hit by cars. slowly i see some measure of hope, but i still see on the whole a dispassionate voice from our leadership and we need you who have the focal point of our community to wake up reckless drivers. i see police officers not [speaker not understood] to countless people driving through intersections and reckless walking. so, please bring the passion. we've heard some here today. please match that. thank you. >> thank you, ms. jones. are there any other members that would like to speak at public comment? seeing none, we will close this item.

i really want to thank all of our members of the public and our staff who waited through a two-hour hearing to speak at this one. it's really unfortunate that we couldn't have a more robust discussion around some of the engineering pieces and how we can better realign some of those processes, a deeper dive into the funding and, of course, into both the enforcement and prosecution piece. but i do want to thank everyone for being here today to do that. you know, some of our morningseses were spent here, but there is a rules committee meeting that's going to be starting soon and both supervisor yee who is chairing that and supervisor mar will have more committee hearings to go through this afternoon. i want to thank [speaker not understood] for your resilience today. just closing comments that i will just make. i'm really looking forward to continuing to push this forward with supervisor yee and avalos and many other supervisors that are co-sponsoring this including supervisor mar and supervisor campos.

we know that this is our commitment to saving lives here in the city and it's not just fatalities that impact families. it's injuries as well and as people continue to live with injuries from what they've experienced in the street has a long-term impact on their health and economic well-being as well. so, we know how important that is. and, so, i do want to thank sfmta, s.f.p.d., the district attorney's office, and [speaker not understood] for their strong commitment of vision zero. we can make this a reality. it's going to take many more discussions, but it's great to know headway is being made today because we can't wait for months or for years to make this happen. and we know that we've already had more fatalities than we've already wanted in the past two months. and, so, i want to hand it over to supervisor yee and mar if they want to make any closing comments. supervisor yee. >> so, i'm also delighted that

the departments and the city government are not waiting around for us to pass this resolution -- this legislation. and you're taking this step forward to actually make this a reality. and because of that i believe this is an action item, so, i would like to make a recommendation, [speaker not understood] positive recommendation for both item 2 and 3. >> thank you. so, we have the motion and all three of us are now committee members. so, can we take items 2 and 3, a recommendation to support without objection on both items 2 and 3? [gavel] >> thank you. mr. evans, is there any other business before us? >> that concludes today's agenda. >> thank you, everyone, for coming out. the meeting is adjourned. the meeting is adjourned. [gavel]3

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>> >> colleagues, can we have a motion to forward this to the full board with recommendation? >> yes, so moved. >> okay. with no objection, motion passes. [gavel] >> madam clerk, can you please call item number 2? >> item number 2 is a hearing to consider appointing two members, term ending december 31, 2015, to the sro task force. there are two vacant seats and two applicants. >> okay. i will now call the applicants in the order listed on the agenda. is sam [speaker not understood] here? come on up. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is sam patel. i'm here to apply for seat

number 2 on the s-r-o task force. i have 30 years of experience in operating a s-r-o hotel. currently my company manages several s-r-o buildings, including two not for profit. i've been serving on the task force since its inception, back in 1992, i believe, and i would like to continue doing so. thank you. >> okay. any questions? supervisor tang. >> great, thank you, mr. patel. just wanted to -- i mean, given your long experience with the task force, any particular plans that you have moving forward in your continued role? >> just, you know, continue helping educate the task force and the owners and the tenants. i'm trying to get better living

conditions for the building. >> any other questions? thank you. >> thank you. >> next person is pratibha tekkey. sorry if i mispronounced your name. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is pratibha tekkey and i work as an organizing director at san francisco [speaker not understood] collaborative, [speaker not understood] clinic and i've been working with central city collaborative for the past four years and we solved the s-r-o tenants who live in [speaker not understood] south of market. and i have been part of s-r-o task force for the past two years and i think my experience and my exposure working with s-r-o tenants would help [speaker not understood] bring feedback from the tenants and also issues on the table that we can discuss. so, i'm actually requesting to be reappointed at the s-r-o task force. >> okay. any questions? supervisor tang.

>> i'm just asking the same question of all canned deputy mayor atkinsv. so ~ candidates. so, in your continued role is there anything you would like to continue working on? >> currently we're work on safety issues. we're trying to figure out how we can make -- different ways [speaker not understood] provide safety for tenants who live in s-r-o hotels. we are currently starting to work on that. so, i hope i will be able to bring tenants [speaker not understood]. so, that's what i'm hoping to work on. >> okay. are there any public comments on this item? you have two minutes. good afternoon, board members. rosemary [speaker not understood], chief housing inspector and chair of the s-r-o task force. i am happy to report that the two candidates before you regularly attend and participate in and offer great expertise to the s-r-o task force and have regularly done

so within their tenure on the task force. as pratibha did indicate, we've taken on the bed bug issue, large and many fast ted issue of safety in s-r-os, which right now we are in the rather general aspect of doing a tremendous amount of data, data gathering from various groups. in fact, at our next meeting we're going to be hearing more about the elevator situation with respect to seniors and people with disabilities and elevators and how -- inoperable elevators are affecting those individuals ~. so, this is a very broad topic, but the two individuals before you have lent very good expertise to this issue. >> thank you. any other public comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [gavel] >> first of all, i want to thank mr. patel and ms. tekkey for their willingness to

continue serving on this committee. and the issue of the elevators is near and dear to me, so, i'm really glad you guys are going to be looking at this issue. it's a big issue for anybody. but for our seniors and disabled to not have a functioning elevator and they're living on a third floor or something, you're pretty much saying, stay in your room and be left out of the public presence. so, please, when you do work on this, i would love to hear your progress on that. so, is there a motion, colleague? motion to -- >> motion to recommend both mr. sam patel and pratibha tekkey to the s-r-o task force to the full board. >> thank you. mr. patel for seat 2 and ms.

tekkey for seat 6. >> ms. tekkey, [speaker not understood]. >> correct. before we do that -- thank you -- we will need a motion to, to provide a residency waiver for ms. tekkey. >> so moved. >> okay. no objection, the waiver is passed, that motion. [gavel] >> taking supervisor tang's to move with positive recommendation, seat 2 mr. patel, seat 6 ms. tekkey, any objections? motion is passed. [gavel] >> thank you very much. okay. madam clerk, item 3? >> item number 3 is a hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending march 31, 2015, to the commission on the aging advisory council. there is one vacant seat and one applicant. >> okay.

is margie ramirez here? >> good afternoon, my name is margie ramirez and i am the applicant for seat 11 on the aging advisory council. i live at bethany center with about 125 seniors. so, if i can be of help to any of them, it would be my pleasure. and i have appended for the last five months as a guest to this advisory council and i hope to be an asset to this council. >> okay. any questions? seeing none, thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >> any public comments on this item? seeing none, public comment for this item is now closed. [gavel] >> is there a recommendation?

>> so, i'll move ms. ramirez for seat 11. >> for seat 11 to the commission on aging advisory council. >> any objection? most motion passes. [gavel] >> congratulations. item number 4, madam clerk? >> item number 4 is an ordinance amending the health code to prohibit the use of electronic cigarettes where smoking is other wii prohibited; requiring a tobacco permit for the sale of electronic cigarettes; prohibit the sale of electronic cigarettes where the sale of tobacco products is otherwise prohibited; and making environmental findings. >> okay, thank you very much. supervisor mar is the sponsor of this legislation. so, i would like to turn it over for supervisor mar to preside over this item. supervisor mar? >> thank you. i wanted to first acknowledge that we have a roomful of public health advocates and fighters for healthier communities from [inaudible] professor stanton [speaker not understood] who gives all of us

100-page documents to review of the most recent research really compiled in the most efficient way. we have grassroots activists from our san francisco tobacco free coalition that has been such a pleasure to work with to make sure san francisco remains the leader [speaker not understood] protecting the public from secondhand smoke and other impacts of smoking. also a new growing coalition from young people at the youth leadership institute and vietnamese development center and other youth-lead organizations that are fighting for a healthier, cleaner air and a better future for all of our youth. i'm going to do something that's totally legal right now in the city and county of san francisco, most other places, though i'm sure it's going to shock and horrify some of the health people here. yea! [cheering and applauding] >> the ordinance that we will be hearing today comes out of an introduction in december,

and we've been building for many months now. this ordinance will amend our current health code in san francisco to prohibit the use of electronic cigarettes where smoking is otherwise prohibited. it will require a tobacco permit -- >> supervisor mar, stop blowing that in front of my face. >> for supervisor yee's health, i will stop and will be explaining the science behind why it's harmful, what i've just been doing. so, number two, it will require a tobacco permit for the sale of electronic cigarettes. and number three, prohibit the sale of electronic cigarettes where the sale of tobacco products is currently prohibited. in the past several months my office, and especially the hard work of victor lim from my staff and i have been working closely with the department of public health, the youth leadership institute, ucsf researchers,