disability insurance and therefrom not bound by the law. this leads to lost benefits and savings and almost 70 percent of women over the angel of '75 are witnessed or divorces and the rates could rise as much as 40 percent. i do hope you'll be able to join against gender discrepancy. straighten up and fly right >> supervisor cowen >> madam clerk i have to items first, i have a memoriam. i have with me supervisor wiener and supervisor chiu that are

honoring the life of ron smith. i'd like to make a motion that we close the board meeting out in the memory of ron smith who passed awe last time he was a senior vice chair of the central california where he coordinated grassroots activities with the hospital and worked closely with the community leaders and throughout california for the last 28 years. i personally have come to know ron in the past years as much of my colleagues have. he will be missed he was a joyful smiley man who we're a bow toy. i consider ron to be a dear friend and he will be sorely missed. the second item i'd like to

introduce is the hearing requester inform the transbay loop. this project is extremely important for sfmta to serve the growing neighborhood of the mission bay and essential part of the central subway alignment mta is getting ready to finalize their construction for the loop it will be done in june 2014 and i'm calling for a hearing request to get an update it will begin at the end of the 2014 and be completed at the end of 2016. madam clerk the rest i'll submit >> thank you supervisor cowen. supervisor farrell >> thank you, madam clerk. i want to thank you for your

work so colleagues i'm introducing a motion that will require all the legislation we've introduced here at the board of supervisors to be uploaded to the web and be consistent with the recent passed our clerk's office is one of the best and i've been posting our information. this motion simply directions them to add the additional information this is better to opening up our information to our public so they can interact with us. this motion will make our its legislation easy to use for outdoors who want to use the modern formats and tools. this policy mysteries what our itself congress has already done

in washington, d.c. promoted by people speaker john boehner and they've requested professional data on line so constituents can comment on bills and let their voices be heard and let the information funnel back to the congressional delegation i'm hoped to continue this we'll continue to have the third party developers we might develop it in house as well as the clerk's office where the san francisco residents can comment on legislation we introduce and continue to promote civic engagement in our legislation process. i'm proud to have worked with the sunlight coalition and the

nonprofit leaders and within government that advocate for more government transparency our we work with those organizations as well as the clerk's office again, i want to thank our city clerk and willingness to work that on this legislation to come to the final product introduced today. posting the city's legislation in those more than that data formats will allow the third party people to promote civic engagement. i hope we all utilize those tools on policies we plan to put for the record and breed civic engagement on the process. we talk a lot in city hall not only be representative of our constituent but seek new ways to engage the residents through this motion we can do that and

we will be the first city in the united states to enhance the information that will work better for them. i want to thank everyone all the people i mentioned as well as jess who put a great effort from my office the rest i'll submit >> thank you supervisor farrell. it's the good work the staff that deserves this praise >> supervisor kim. >> i want to submit a hearing request. on elevators in our single room occupancy hotels for you who are not familiar their multiple housing building that house multiple folks in one room and

share restroom facilities. as of 2009 that are over 5 hundred residential hotels and 1923 units with 8 thousand or more seniors living in those s r o they're in the tenderloin and sprirnld throughout chinatown and the mission. most of the unit were built in the 20th century earthquake and in need of great renovation. a little of a month ago i joined the seniors and disability folks on the steps of city hall to talk about the serious situation faced by seniors and the people in our s r o hotels when there's a need for out of service

elevator repair. an out of service elevator can make you not able to leave our place of residence for days along with extreme isolation with many of our tenants without an elevator to help them get up and down the stairs. in time have shared how costly it is and they've tried to alleviate the negative impacts of having the elevators out of service. as important as it is to have a conversation with those folks it's time to implement solutions

when and where possibly that's why i've introducing a hearing request to identify possible answers for incentives for property owners or local and elective interests to make sure this is a real option for seniors to protect themselves. we also understand much of our old elevators can only be repaired by folks out of state. i did learn today tom will be calling for a work group within the department of building inspectors to discuss this matter we hope our office can't be included in the discussion and look forward to working with them on this issue. i'm submitting a memoriam a

committee meeting joseph flanagan i ask that the entire board adjourn in his memory. we searched. . any surviving family members unfortunately, we couldn't find any. we find this for our most active colleagues they've made us and our community and neighborhoods their family instead through their telling them and participation. i first met joseph on my 2010 campaign and he was eager to serve and volunteer. he was a favorite on any team

and everyone enjoyed seeing i am he was reliable and generally cared about those in the disabled community and particularly those who had mobility problems he was a resident since 2003 and lived a block from city hall. and i think many of my colleagues will agree that was one of the most engaged community members and he religiously came to our offenders office for every program community as well as the transportation board meeting on tuesday to provide his input and opinion and served as the chair of the committee of this committee. before that he worked for the panama and worked and volunteered after she was elected to the state assembly.

he was a former member of the state advisory council he represented both seniors with mental disabilities. he built up an incredible list of friends and health insurance company that depended on on him. jim glover himself had a disability known as as processor he was who ever bound and in the last year of his life he went into knee surgery that put through a strain on his heart and took a leave of absence. he was sad about. he was formerly a patient transport work and cared passionately about improving the life of our community. he got an award for the support

for the center and he assisted persons with mental disability he was on the board of directors and served on the pcc committee and executive committee. we'll all miss joseph tremendously i don't that we understood how important he was until he was gone >> the arts of san francisco which provides job training and services to the physically disabled will be cooperating a enemy for joseph on next workers' compensation wednesday on 15 hundred howard and your you'll invited the rest i'll submit. >> supervisor kim. >> actually before we do that i would want to be added to the

memoriam. >> could you please add me as well. could we do it on behalf of the whole board without objection that will be the case >> thank you president chiu. >> today, i'm introducing a number of items and one in memoriam. the first is with supervisor malia cowen we're introducing a hearing on expanding the opportunities for girls and low income youth. i don't know if any of you saw the amazing kickoff of yes, we code a new program that reclaim america and then jones our senior advisory to president obama. we have the different gathering of people of color and low

income youth are making strides in getting youth the chance to develop new ideas for the new information economy with san francisco being a technical stre center we have to help others to get a job in the well paying tech jobs. i want those to go towards our linebackers and our community in san francisco. also i'm proud to introduce a resolution from supervisor john avalos supporting the bill with the substance reduced 181743 will remove the number of scrimmages to folks and in past laws the policies have been

created to allow people it access clean and sterile swierjz and this helps to reduce that with people with sub abuse. the first is hepatitis b and the cost to treat one case is $600,000. the debris control and intrerjs have found allowing the deputies to buy the syringes are a key to preventing the diseases. the pharmacists will have to show the treatment option to treat hepatitis b and c.

i'd like to thank the aifdz founded and for the 182740 and ask for your support. this monday supervisor wiener and i will be joined with experts in district one at the st. mary's medical center on fulton. with the diseases rising this tax proposal we'll talk about will limit the accumulation of harmful beverage and help to promote healthy things in our community. dr. lawrence chung and others will, at the mayor's office center it's on monday march 24

this coming monday at the 6:00 p.m. on 2258 street in san francisco. i wanted to alert everyone and ask if he could end the meeting of business owner and chief and one or more of the popular rock and roll restaurants in the responding district it's a japanese restaurants i enjoyed seeing the gentleman and his wife and had many home cooked meals many loved his food. it was a unique place but the gentleman and his wife were avid rock and roll fans and had an

original beatles set that was given to them it's a one of a kind place. the jae gentleman and his wife were part of the surf rock band and he placed with john len no one's plastic abandon in the past. the fans of his band and the countless others it will remain optional and have a cup of south korea can he sometime. in 2008, he opened the restaurants in the richmond district and promoted a different kind of japanese restaurants and in ail sorts of rock and roll paraphernalia. the restaurants is one of the kind place and the food is very down home.

when he and his wife yes, ma'am congratulated here they wanted to be unique and wanted their own love of rock and roll and music in the restaurants. so we have our pick of japanese restaurants around time i hope i'll come to the europe responding where we have this nuclear restaurants so help me adjourn the meeting in the memory of this gentleman and the rest i'll submit >> thank you supervisor mar and supervisor wiener. >> excuse me. thank you, madam clerk. a couple of things frail last week, i along with supervisor yee we traveled to washington, d.c. with a joint trip seeing

the muni to meet with the staff to understand how important it is to have fund for transmission in the bay area as anyone who lobbies on capital hill it's socially to be in washington given the gridlock we see there and we really impressed on the members of congress how important our transit systems are to the economy not only in our region but to many regions in the west. we looked at our regions and 70 percent of the gp e of our country as those areas grow and 0 more and more cars added on the freeways it's hard to get

around and undermines the job growth and having strong transit systems is critical to making sure that economic growth continues so i look forward to work on those issues to make sure that at all levels another sacramento and in washington we perspire intents the funding. i'm also introducing legislation to close a long-standing will that 40 to the ordinance of ballot argument in san francisco. colleagues i'm sure you're aware of we as a board are able to appoint ourselves the proponent of any ballot measure and no person steps up but no lottery is taken but we've seen over the

years some people will submit 10 or 20 into infinity a large number of ballet argument to gain the system and get appointed as the official proponent. it's one of the problematic things but in the past at least the people who were doing that were actual proponent of the measure. recently as people have read in the news the campaign co-chair of the prop b campaign submitted 25 arguments almost identical to be appointed the official proponent of the measure and was appoint so we have a campaign cultural of west side stealing the opposition argument and

getting lending. this doesn't serve democracy and the needs of the voters and the process on consciousness on the ballots to make an informed decision. this is time to close that because an opponent got appointed i could see this becoming the norm where in every election everyone is trying to steel the official proponent argument that p so this will limit one person to submit one ballot argument as the official argument for any given ballot measure. this doesn't completely eliminate the problem but one major loophole. i'm not asking for a vote today but asking the city attorney for

other ethics code to be sure with the official ballots in the handbook serve the purpose to allow the voters to hear both sides and the rest i'll submit >> supervisor wiener. >> supervisor yee. >> adding a few more words on the trip to d.c. on which supervisor wiener and myself joined many people to advocate for the water funding that's left on the federal level. it's interesting i know we've read about gridlock but to hear first-hand was sad but i think there was optimistic e optimism

so we'll keep our fingers crossed. i want to submit a enemy for mr. dennis sadly he passed away suddenly on march 12 he is survived by his wife and two sons. he also their family was a former longer resident of district 7 but i knew dennis during the time he was working with the san francisco disgust for 35 years and retired as the director of transportation. during the time i was on the school board i got to know dennis for his skill level a great person to be around. when you're the head of transportation and we're scaling

down on what we would be able to offer to students he would have to - the 7 of us would demand different things at meetings and times aftertime he would accept the challenge with a smile and come back with the information we needed. i've enjoyed working with him many of his friends and colleagues will solely miss him. the memorial service is on march 22nd at the 11:00 a.m. at the doug i think so sarah mortgage - mortuary the rest i'll submit

>> thank you supervisor campos. >> i wanted to add a couple of words it's sad when you have to do a memoriam mormon there are 3 people i wanted to say something about beginning with ron smith thank you. i had the pleasure of working with him drafting legislation the master plan and ron was a class act in every sense of the word and very smart and thoughtful and the sweetest person you picture him with his boo tie and also looking as sharp as ever. i want to thank supervisor kim for the memoriam for jim glover

flanagan who was another kind solely soul who was dedicated to the city and transportation in particular. i was really impressed when i first met i am he would get on muni and ride the muni lines throughout the city to get a first-hand knowledge of the experience of other riders especially seniors and folks with disabilities. and, you know, mr. flanagan your service was greatly appreciated we'll certainly miss you and lastly thank you supervisor yee. the memoriam for dennis i met him he was the director of the transportation for the unified

school district. he made that system run with very little money and made sure that every kid had the opportunity to get to school. it is my duty it's hard to imagine dennis garden not being around but the children from san francisco benefited from his decades of public service. i appreciated his knowledge but more than imagine i appreciated his kind spirit and sense of humor. rest in peace dennis >> thank you supervisor campos all those items and mr. president, that concludes our