francisco less affordable by the day for many seniors and people with disabilities. that's why it's imperative that we look at our revenues to help the most vulnerable, especially within the public transit system. so, the budget and legislative analyst requests, will call in the mta to approve a proposal for free muni for low and moderate income seniors and disabled people. we will ask the budget and legislative analyst to report on the cost of economic impacts. i'm proud to stand with seeneriers and disability action network and many senior and disabled transit riders were following in the footsteps of the grassroots campaign led but the youth commission and many others for social justice and transit equity for younger riders. now it's time to support older riders as well. the current mta budget right now plans for about a 10% increase in services. i think we can run a high quality transit system that's equitable. it's not an either or for

younger or older. also, i am introducing an important water conservation measure today with the puc. the current drought highlights the need for even stronger water conservation efforts in our city and also region wide and that's why these two resolutions i'm introducing mark an important moment in san francisco where we began groundwater supply project that will help expand and diversify our water supply and increase reliability for our water system. the first adopts c-e-q-a findings for the project and the second approves the construction of a first project facility in golden gate park which will create six deep groundwater wells and the treatment facilities on the west side. although the project has been in the works for sometime now, it is especially timely to break ground now as california continues to experience one of the most extreme droughts on record. also, the groundwater from these sick wells would be mixed with our hetch hetchy water in

two reservoirs and when this project is complete, it will diversify san francisco's water supply by an average of 4 million gallons a day. that's 4 million gallons a day more of water in san francisco. the water supply will still be of the highest quality and surpass all drinking water standards. the project will help reduce our dependence on imported water and ensure an emergency drinking water supply that is available in the event of an earthquake or major catastrophes. ensuring san franciscans have access to clean quality drifting water is a priority for me and i always promote our san francisco water, but this makes us even more self-reliant in that regard. and i'm happy to continue to work towards these goals with the puc and others by sponsoring these resolutions. and really quickly, as before we move on to the next item, i wanted to also say that i'm

really pleased to request a co-sponsor, supervisor katy tang's ordinance on vacant and commercial store front. thanks for her leadership on that measure. and to announce that my office has been working since november and december on helping to support tenants in the richmond district that are facing displacement. our next step is a tenants rights town hall this saturday, march 29th from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the richmond rec center. being done in coordination with the asian [speaker not understood] association of san francisco and the san francisco rent board. so, we look forward to a multi-lingual workshop with tenants in english, cantonese and [speaker not understood]. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor wiener. >> submit. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. supervisor avalos. >> thank you, madam clerk.

just a couple items for introduction. one is a hearing request on certification of tagalog language access ordinance. language access ordinance [speaker not understood] certify certain languages based on demand within our city departments to make sure that our city departments can provide linguistic capacity to meet the needs of various languages of residence here in the city. so, a hearing on that, hopefully we'll have that in april. then i have an in memoriam for a teacher at balboa high school who taught there over 15 years, [speaker not understood]. he has been really well liked teacher for a number of years. before he taught at balance bow he a high school he was an organizer at the hotel worker union, unite here at local 2. he is survived by his wife

edith, son edward who attends [speaker not understood] middle school, and daughter edith, a sophomore who attends balboa high school. so, this is passing, it's really close to home to the school communities at both balboa high school and james den man and district 11 residents in particular. he was instrumental in producing the annual celebration of nations events. he what a key figure in helping build the esteem of latino students, populations at balboa high school. he was a sponsor of the la ton owe club for many years and served as a mentor, ally and advocate ~ to many students, especially the young latino and latina students at balboa high. his classroom was considered a safe haven for many students and on any given day you will see students spend their lunchtime or after school time in his classroom. he is greatly missed. and as we speak, the balboa high school students are grieving his loss.

the rest i'll submit. >> thank you, supervisor avalos. mr. president. >> thank you. madam clerk, i just have one thing i wanted to mention. i want to thank supervisor avalos for introducing the hearing for tagalog certification which i'm happy to co-sponsor. in 2009 i authored our city's language access ordinance which requires the city to provide language services for emerging populations when we know their language is spoken more frequently. and i know supervisor avalos and a number of us have been monitoring these numbers with our filipino community and we all believe it is time for certification of tagalog. i also want to mention that we had called for a hearing on a review of other language access ordinance and i hope we can consider these items together to figure out how to move this forward. again, i want to thank supervisor avalos for introducing that hearing request. >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you. i wanted to mention the co-sponsors for the hearing request on certification of tagalog and the supervisors who

are co-sponsoring supervisor campos, supervisor kim, supervisor mar, supervisor chiu, and supervisor yee. thank you for co-sponsorship and sorry i neglected to tell you that. thanks. >> thank you, mr. president. and thank you, supervisor avalos. supervisor tang, thank you for waiting. >> thank you. i'll be very quick. today i'm introducing a piece of legislation that really seeks to address the issue of commercial vacancies here in san francisco and it really builds upon the work of the vacant abandoned building ordinance that is currently in existence that was passed by this board in 2009 by introduced by supervisor david chiu. we found that there have been issues when we're trying to address the issue of vacancies when there are buildings where there are commercial spaces below and residential spaces above. so, we've been working very hard with dbi and stakeholders to make sure that we address this in our current existing ordinance and so, i do want to thank the stakeholders and look forward to working with our city departments to ensure that we cannot only better track these vacancies, but also

provide them these businesses or property owners with better city resources to help them either for vacancies or attract new businesses to their commercial corridors. so, with that, i submit. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor tang. supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. i have a request, a hearing request that follows up on a motion adopted by our very own youth commission, and it will focus on the city's efforts to address the needs of young people with incarcerated parents. in 2011, a dcyf needs assessment found 17,933 youth and children in san francisco have a parent -- had a parent who has spent time in either county jail or state prison in 2010. 17,933 children. however, there is no

comprehensive data available about the number of youth who have experienced parental incarceration or the support services that they may need. now, the board -- as this board recently took historic action to end discrimination against formerly incarcerated people with the passage of the fair chance ordinance, this hearing request is pretty timely. it's forced to consider the impacts of parental incarceration on the well-being and life outcomes of young people in our city. this hearing will be an opportunity to invest the following issues. i have four of them. efforts to collect data on needs and outcomes of youth with incarcerated parents, additional support services needed to support the mental health, housing stability, and educational success of youth with incarcerated parents. visiting policies affecting the ability of youth to see and speak to their incarcerated parents. and finally, considerations of

family impact at the time of sentencing and placement in out-of-home detention. i am pleased to introduce this hearing request with the support of supervisor avalos, supervisor breed, and supervisor kim. the rest i submit. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor cohen. supervisor kim. >> thank you for re-referring me. difficult want to make some comments about the hearing that supervisor avalos had just mentioned. ~ i did want really excited to support this hearing. i think the office of i am grant affairs finally to certify tagalog as one of our languages, district 6 and district 11 does have the highest population of filipino and filipino-american residents and i think there is often a misconception that filipinos fully and clearly understand all aspects of the english language and that while many of them do come to the u.s. speaking english, that they often feel more comfortable in their native language, in tagalog. so, we would like to push the

office to keep this going. we know that department and organizations can track data based on this language need once this language is certified and looking forward to this hearing and also to president chiu's overall updates on our language access ordinance. >> thank you, supervisor kim. supervisor campos. >> thank you. thank you very much, madam clerk. and i have a couple of items. and the first one is an introduction of a resolution to add the honorary name rescue row to alabama street between 15th and 16th streets. and this is in recognition of the animal services organizations that are located on that block, including the san francisco spca, the mutt world senior dog rescue. and the northern california family dog rescue, as well as, of course, our very own s.f.

animal care and control. the san francisco spca was founded in 1868 which was the first humane society west of the mississippi and remains a community supported nonprofit organization that is dedicated to saving, protecting, and caring for cats and dogs. the spca provides immediate care of animals that are homeless, ill, or in need of an advocate. additionally, the sfpca works to educate the community and improve the kalt quality of life for animals and their companions. mutt ville senior dog rescue is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 2007 that is dedicate today improving the lives of senior dogs in need of care by finding them immediate homes or providing hospice care. northern california family dog rescue is a nonprofit organization that provide proper care and socialization

of rescued animals. additionally, it strives to make a great connection between dogs and humans, urban shelter network of foster homes. the san francisco animal care and control is responsible for san francisco stray, injured, abandoned, neglected and mistreated animals, and it also additionally enforces all state and local animal care laws. together these nonprofit organizations work to improve the lives of animals in need. the care of these organizations provide that these organizations provide make the difference between ~ neglect and nurturing for these animals. this honorary rescue row title will help these agencies and their co-marketing and the individual efforts to adopt more animals, and it also recognizes the valuable contribution that they're making to the welfare of these

animals in the city and county of san francisco. you know, ghandi said you can tell a lot about a society about how it treats its animals. i think by that measure we are proud -- we should be proud of what san francisco has done and this is something that recognizes that, that effort and, so, i ask for your support. and the second item is a hearing request that recognizes that here in san francisco we are facing an affordability and housing crisis. as we know, the median home price in san francisco is a million dollars and city-wide the median rental cost for a unit is more than $3,000 a month. hundreds of tenants are evicted each year and thousands of rent control apartments have been lost in the last decade.

and during that time, we've seen luxury condos spring up in every neighborhood. because there is no vacancy rent control in san francisco, when a san franciscan is evicted from his or her home, this city lose he one of the most significant source he of price control housing that is not vulnerable to the market. more over, because of the enormous cost of housing, when tenants are evicted today, many if not most of those tenants are forced to leave the city ~. finally, studies show that tenants in eviction proceedings are far more likely to remain in their homes if they actually have legal representation throughout those eviction proceedings. for these reasons, legal representation for tenants facing eviction is more important than ever. so, in light of that, i request a hearing on the availability of legal assistance and representation for tenants facing eviction in san francisco. i specifically want to know how

many housing attorneys are supported by city funding and how many attorneys would be needed so that every tenant in san francisco who is facing eviction will have access to legal representation. i'm asking that this hearing be referred to the budget and finance committee, and i also request that the clerk of the board refer this request to the mayor's office of housing. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor campos. all of those items will be appropriately referred. mr. president, that concludes roll call for introduction of new business. >> thank you, madam clerk. before we november to our 3:00 p.m. special order, colleagues, supervisor mar would like to rescind the consent agenda vote so that he can vote. with that's correct supervisor mar has made a motion to rescind, seconded by supervisor farrell. without objection, that vote will be rescinded. [gavel] >> and madam clerk, could you call the roll on the consent agenda? >> on items 1 through 8, supervisor campos? campos aye. president chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye.

supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. there are 11 ayes. >> colleagues, those items are passed. [gavel] >> >> and with that, could we go to our 3:00 p.m. special order, madam clerk. if you could call items 19 through 22 ~. >> item 19 through 22 comprise the special order -- >> supervisor campos? >> thank you, mr. president. i was wondering if we could go back to item 18. my apologies. >> okay. before we do the appeal. >> mr. president, that item has already been approved by the board. it is a resolution that was adopted. >> are you looking to rescind that vote? >> yes. >> okay, supervisor campos has made a motion to rescind item

18, seconded by supervisor farrell. without objection, that item is rescinded. [gavel] >> supervisor campos. >> thank you. and my apologies, colleagues. this item was voted on right after the special recognition, but i want to take this opportunity to simply acknowledge that there are a number of people who are here because of the city college resolution, and this is a very important issue for many people, not only in my district, but throughout the city. and i want to thank the co-sponsors of that resolution, supervisors mar, avalos, wiener, yee, kim, chiu. and the resolution, i think, sent a very clear message about the importance of restoring democratic decision making at city college. it's one of the most treasured and important institutions we have here in san francisco. the resolution urges the state community college chancellor brice harris to restore the voice of san francisco voters and to bring back transparency

and public accountability to city college by immediately reinstating the duly elected board of trustees and by removing the special trustees as soon as possible, but no later than july 2014. at a time when san francisco's leaders are coming together to support preserving state funding for city college, if we are able to maintain access to quality education in san francisco, we he need to ensure that we do not lose sight of the importance of transparency and open government. as we know, back in july of 2013 the california community colleges board of governors changed state law to take away the board of trustees power to put in place a special trustee. since this individual was given this role, what we have seen is sole decision making for the college without any transparency or democratic process. we cannot allow this to continue. the lack of transparency has

now reached, i think, proportions that raise questions including ethical questions. recently the san francisco chronicle reported that pay increases were quietly given to administrators without any oversight or meetings public knowledge. these pay increases were given to administrators while faculty have suffered a 4% wage cut and many staff have been laid off and, in fact, students have seen classes and student services eliminated. this could not have happened under board of trustees that has to meet on a regular basis and that is ultimately accountable to the public. as an elected member of the board of supervisors, i think that i have a responsibility and we all have a responsibility to allow the will of san francisco voters to be respected and to not be swept away by an elected body. i would like to thank city college students, faculty, labor, and community members for all the work that they have

done to preserve city college and for engaging all throughout this work. i especially want to thank the members of save city college coalition, to move city college forward coalition, the work of aft 21 21 and so many others that dedicated their time and energy to make sure city college stays open, democratic and inclusive. thank you. >> thank you. and with that, the last vote being unanimous, colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? without objection this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> now, madam clerk, let's go to the 3:00 p.m. special order, items 19 through 22. >> items 19 through 22 comprise the special order 3:00 p.m. public hearing of persons interested in the negative declaration and project approval of january 23rd, 2014 for the recreation and park department's proposed sharp park pumphouse safety and infrastructure improvement project. item 20 is the motion affirming the approval of a final mitigated negative declaration under the california environmental quality act by the planning commission for the

sharp park safety, infrastructure improvement, and habitat enhancement project. ~ project. item 21 is the motion reversing the approval of a final mitigated negative declaration under the california environmental quality act by the planning commission for the sharp park safety, infrastructure improvement, and habitat enhancement project. item 22 is the motion to direct the preparation of finding reversion of the commission's approval. >> colleagues, today we have an appeal of the final mitigated negative declaration for the sharp park safety infrastructure improvement and habitat enhancement project. ~ our consideration for this appeal involves our analysis of the adequacy, [speaker not understood] sufficiency and com policeness of the negative declaration. as we took a good [speaker not understood]. first the appellant will have up to 10 minutes to present their case for this appeal of the final mitigated negative declaration. next, members of the public that support the appeal will each be able to speak for up to two minutes, followed by the planning department who will have up to 10 minutes to present its findings for certifying the negative declaration. followed then by the real party in interest, the recreation and park department will have 10

minutes to present their case for certification. that will then be followed by members of the public that support the issuance of the negative declaration who may speak for up to two minutes. and then finally the town will have up to three minute for rebuttal in support of this appeal. unless there are any questions to proceed in this way, why don't we start with the herebition? with that i'd like to ask [speaker not understood], if he could please step up. you have up to 10 minutes for your presentation. if colleagues have questions, they can ask them and we will hold the time during those answers. mr. porter.

>> [inaudible]. >> if you could speak into -- >> s.f.g. tv, please. >> just wanted to make sure the presentation is ready to go for the board. >> should be ready to go in 10 seconds. ~ sfgov-tv sfgov-tv? there you go. >> i'll put it on the other computer here.

thank you very much.

[speaker not understood]. i'll put a copy of my presentation in for the record and i can do the presentation over here. members of the board, my name is brent slater. i'm the executive director of wylie institute and we're leer to ask you today to order a full environmental impact report for the sharp house pumphouse project. this is required under c-e-q-a because there is significant environmental effects that have not been addressed or mitigated through the environmental analysis that has been conducted to date. the [speaker not understood] decision for to you make because there are cheaper more environmental benign tournaments for the city to implement and these are all turntives that have not been presented either the commission that has reviewed the project or to this board because the department has taken the position that there are not

enough significant effects out there for them to either bother looking at these alternatives. only if you look at a full alternative report will this be considered by any member of the city and county of san francisco. now, we're talking about an area called sharp park and sharp park is, without question, the most ecologically important unit of land that the rec and park department manageses. the most ecologically important for a number of reasons, because there are a very rare wetland complex in this area called the [speaker not understood]. these complexes have been destroyed up and down the coast because of agricultural urban development. the rec and park department is [speaker not understood] one of the last units, very last within system like this anywhere along the coast ~. i'm sure you all remember there have been several votes here at the board of supervisors regarding the golf course at sharp park over the years. you have voted on five

different occasions with a simple majority or better to consider different uses for sharp park. that is not the issue before you today. it may come before you later this year. it is not before you today. what is before you today is a specific question about a project called the pumphouse project. and what the rec and park department is proposing to do, what they are proposing to do with this project is to scrape out or suck out a large amount of aquatic vegetation from an area called horse stable pond in a connecting channel that connects horse stable pond to a larger water body called laguna salada. there are several issues about this project that have not been addressed by the rec and park department to date. one of them is when you disturb the sediment, the bottom of horse stable pond for this project. acids will be formed. there are several compounds that are in those sediments that will be transformed into a type of acid that would be harmful to life in that aquatic environment.

dr. peter bay who is an expert -- he's an expert coastal aloe kohl gist, he's written plans for the [speaker not understood]. he submitted comments on this proposal and he said he has provided direct observation of both of iron sulfide and hydrogen sulfide components that create these mere [speaker not understood] sediment and expose life to these condition if these sediment are in fact dredged. [speaker not understood] the rec and park department has created a different mitigation measure. it's called mitigation measure m bio2b, 2b. and this mitigation measure imposes several duties on a third-party. the united states fish and wildlife service to mitigate for those significant effects. they don't contradict that this is a significant concern. in fact, they actively and affirmatively mitigate for this concern. they claim their mitigation is

good enough to reduce the [speaker not understood]. what it requires is for them to establish, review and approve site specific toxicity standards for the acid soul fights that are going to be released into the environment. it requires the fish and wildlife service to review and approve a remediation and monitoring plan to address those issues. and it also requires the fish and wildlife service to review and improve specific remediation measures when they select a particular mitigation option out there for these acid condition. now, the fish and wildlife service has been consulted about some aspects of this project. mitigation measure m bio-2a, 2a has been submitted to the fish and wildlife service. and we've all known this for a long time. but that does not address the acid issues that are of concern to the appellants here. dr. bay looked at that mitigation measure several months ago in october and submitted comments