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 presentations. >> the public may comment members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda please direct our remarks to the committee as a whole not to the audience. and speakers will be allowed twice the time to testify if you

need an interpreter. >> thank you ladies and gentlemen, why don't we start our public comment first speaker two minutes. >> good afternoon, members of the board i'm the director of the libraries users association we're concerned about what's coming at you in a short time which being a library spaces and services destruction funding that's a $3.2 million for a teen center and a library learning literacy learning center. of course, we certainly falsify and does not oppose teens or literacy but those are unproven programs and will have a harmful and negative effect which the library has not discussed in its

document yesterday nor to the library commission and those include the access to the fifth floor and the magazines to the brooks hall are in brief what we as far know is the teen center project and the teen literacy learning center are a library destruction project there's 0 no mention of what happens to the fifth floor magazines and that orally when we press them they finally said that thousands of bounds of magazines would be moved and that means no browsing by patrons and no access and a twenty-four hours wait for the material >> yesterday capital planning committee they said they were

coming to the budget approval but they've started demolition. we certainly oppose this because it displaces and destroys access to the public and the there are so many unanswered questions. >> thank you. thank you. next speaker. >> i'm lewis roberts. >> i hold a credential in teaching. >> i'm a graduate of san jose state and hold a lifetime credential and i came to san francisco in 87. i've been a student at state and federal city college off and on and now a student. i came friday to the meeting

here at the supervisors. the intent of the students and myself was to have the board of education reinstated at which time we were promised by 3 supervisors to forward the resolution so i came today to see the resolution i'm looking forward to seeing that. when i vote for anyone i don't except them to be eliminated unless they're dead or committed a felony in which case neither has happened with the san francisco city college board of education so i'm looking forward to seeing the san francisco bvks run stated

>> thank you. >> next speaker. >> god blaes i peripheries sea god bless the city and county of san francisco of san francisco. this past sunday i have the opportunity to i'm keith dennis. i'm going to talk about is assisted living for females. now this past city i went to the guide memorial church with my brother right there and the pastor let us know that this is women's history month. so and it made me think about four women who were in my life who at this time as far as i know they have no place to stay. one lady is 21 years old and has

two kids a has a problem with crystal meth she could use assisted living. another person is a young lady who is 24 years old that's from afghan her old roommate tried to have his way with her and her boyfriend would often buys her, she was my caregiver. she lived with me for two months which was a no no, but they did she couldn't afford to live in san francisco so she moved to arizona. the last person was a mom who

was recently paroled from prison and has a problems are crystal meth. i haven't seen her in months i call her cell phone she didn't answer - >> thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >> thank you. >> hi, madeline folks for publicly our on behalf of the many organizations to come to san francisco to support zero for san francisco i'd like to thank all the board members of the unanimous support. >> excuse me. we have a rile in the board chamber if we've

rectified that that being said you can't speak about the stem specifically. >> there was already comment so we have this public comment for future items or general topic. >> you can discuss what you hope to see in pedestrian safety. as someone who was hit by someone who was guilty of driving while on a human being that was a cycle path in name only i'd like to advocate for supervisor wiener's support for the mung component in the city. it's extremely important that we provide safety for all citizens regardless of mode of transit they choose and weld as commissioner chiu mentioned to have the city put where that's

money is in the ta. and funding for the mission zero. thank you >> thank you very much. let's hear from our next speaker ms. jackson. >> i'm going to go as fast say, i, you all know i'm dr. espanola jackson. in 1960 the that believes was past and i'd like to see which one of you will have an audit done on the mayor's office of housing and workforce, hope those are the programs that we in the community brought into the city but not getting the funds i'd like to knows who and which those funds were transferred from the housing authority to the mayor's office.