the insufficiency of the evidence and the rational that has been presented. and what i would say is that i wholeheartedly agree with what has been said about the issue of tech workers. we could not in anyway demonize tech workers. they are san francisco residents. what i have in perspective is this, is that i don't think that wanting to work with the tech industry means that you completely rollover and give them everything they want or even beyond what they are asking for. i think that working with the tech industry means precisely what had been said which is you treat them as san franciscans. but the problem with this pilot is that you are actually treating san franciscans unequally. you are saying that a group of san franciscans can get special treatment and that the laws are not going to be enforced against them. as much as we

want to say that it's okay to do that, i think fundamental problem with the way city hall has approached this issue is the same fundamental problem the way city hall has approached a lot of other issues whether it's america's cup, whether it's the twitter tax break, it's basically about a small group of people behind closed doors coming up with a deal and then presenting it to the public after the fact without any input from the public before the specifics of the deal are finalized. so as long as we keep doing that, we are only going to be exacerbating the tension that is between that is out there. i don't think this helps the tech industry and in fact i think the best thing we can do for the tech industry is to treat them the same way we treat all of san

franciscans. i think this is going to be a problem because it's only going to make things worse and i think it's a fundamental mistake and i think we are going to look back at this decision today not too long from today unfortunately and regret what we are doing because it's simply not the way that san francisco should be treating all of it's residents. >> supervisor yee? >>supervisor norman yee: thank you. hard to follow. i have the same conclusion as many of us of my colleagues here in regards to the configuration of the pilot project itself. it could have been to me a much better pilot project. and, i appreciate supervisor kim's remarks. to me this whole issue has been about

ceqa issue. i'm actually kind of glad we are going to have some kind of pilot project to start looking at many of the issues brought up today. it's going to be 18 months hopefully it won't be an eternity. one of these i'm going to emphasize is i'm in total agreement as regards to the size of the buses. they are humongous and when we look at the pilot project and come up with more permanent regulations that you look at the size of the buses and limit the weight or whatever it takes to have these companies that operate these buses to be much more manageable in terms of the size and how it would fit into san francisco. that's really the main point i want to make in that particular issue. when i see these buses parked in

the bus zones or they are double parked outside of the bus zones it does endanger our pedestrians and bikers and so forth. >> supervisor kim? >>supervisor jane kim: i apologize. i want to make a comment to maet that i hope to see some regulations and hope to take some of the feedback tonight and have the outcome we want to see. i hope i made that clear and i want to see that happen in the 18-month program. the last thing i want to say one last issue that has come up with the commuter shuttle buses that i hope employees are not just shuttling programmers, but also janitors and cafeteria workers. that's the equity

issue i hear often about those shuttle buses that it's just as important to make. >> any final comments? colleagues? it is 10:35 madam clerk. please call the role. >> city clerk: we have a motion to prove item 20, table 21, 22. [roll call vote taken] chiu, farrell, tang, aye, supervisor wiener, aye, yee, aye, avalos, no. supervisor breed, aye, campos, no. there are 8 ayes and 2 nos. >> motion passes. >> colleagues at this time, if i can ask members of the public to please leave

quietly. for the better or worst we still have a lot of about itself this tself -- business this evening. thank you for being here. why don't we proceed, are we ready to proceed back with item 15? i asked people to leave quietly. if i can ask whoever that is record division -- device to please turn it off. okay. why don't we proceed on colleagues are we prepared to recall item 15? no. okay. let's continue on to item 17. madam clerk.

>> city clerk: item 17 is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to designate the sheriff as the entity to assist county jail inmates with submitting an application for health insurance consistent with federal requirements. >> let's take a roll call vote. >> city clerk: chiu, aye, cohn, aye, farrell, aye, supervisor kim, aye, supervisor tang, aye, supervisors wiener. aye, yee, aye, supervisor avalos, aye. breed aye, supervisor campos, aye. there are 10 ayes. >> ordinance is passed in first reading. >> item 18. >> city clerk: to appoint ronalder heart to the treasury oversight committee. >> can we do this same house

same call? >> no. >> we need a roll call on this vote, or any discussion. roll call vote. >> city clerk: item 18. chiu, farrell, cohn, kim, aye, supervisor tang, aye, supervisor wiener, yee, breed, no; campos aye. 9 ayes, 1 no. can i rescind the vote. >> yeah. we are tired. vote is rescinded. without objection. roll call vote. >> on item 18. supervisor

chiu, aye, supervisor cohn, -- >> madam clerk. please continue the roll call. city clerk: mr. president it's inappropriate to skip the supervisor. [roll call vote taken] cohn, tang, wiener, yee, supervisor avalos, aye, supervisor breed, no. campos, no. there are 8 ayes and 2 nos. >> motion is approved. item 23: city clerk: land use economic development committee an ordinance recognizing small business month to retro actively wave the fees for certain facade and improvements and affirming

the planning department. >> [roll call vote taken] >> city clerk: chiu, cohn, aye, supervisor farrell, aye, supervisor kim, supervisor tang, aye, supervisor wiener, aye, yee, aye, avalos aye, breed, aye, campos aye. there are 10 ayes. >> the ordinance is passed in the first reading. colleagues are we prepared to go back to item 15? yes? supervisor breed do you want to continue this after roll call and public comment? >>supervisor london breed: yes. >> can we take a vote on that. i would like to guess this discussion over with. it's

10:40 i'm losing it. can we get this vote through. relocation. >> okay, colleagues let's go back to item 15 and have some discussion about whether to continue this. >> i was going to motion to continue it to 1 week because it seemed like there were a lot of moving parts that hadn't got set tled yet and it could take another hour before voting and it would be good to have a fresh perspective on it next week. >> is there a second to that. second by supervisors breed. can we take a motion without objection. without objection this item is donated 1 week to april the 8th. >> now. why don't we go roll call. city clerk: mr. president, to introduce new business. >> colleagues, today i'm

introducing -- >> no. [ laughter ] >> colleagues, i'm introducing a hearing request about something that has been recentably brought to my attention about the remarkable proliferation about board of supervisors, there have been 110 request shockingly in the first 3 months of 2014 we have introduced 900 hearing request. a 225 percent increase. now i'm not yet saying that this pro lifrgs is bad. i think we need to hear this issue. april fools. the rest of my items i will submit. >> thank you mr. president. >> city clerk: supervisor cohn? supervisor malia cohen: i have a very quick in memoriam.

this is an i am memoriam that both supervisor wiener and i are offering. i ask that we adjourn this meeting in the most dedicated public parents that i have that had pleasure of working on the board. her name was ms. dina fisher. she lost her 17-month battle with cancer and was a crusader for public education and banned to the in 2005 to save daniel webster elementary school when it was proposed for closure. she and several other parents stepped in and created the potrero residents education fund which is a 501c 3 non-proport supporting education and operates bilingual on two sites serving over 100 students 20 percent of which receive tuition

assistance. dina was responsible for finding critical initial and follow-up on funding for two programs. play works and edge wood social services that provided portions of the most basic infrastructure needed to turn daniel webster around. today daniel webster has a waiting list of students seeking to attend and has a rising test score index. a huge change from prior years when it was ranked last in the san francisco unified school district. her efforts have helped reinvigorates the school in this neighborhood. dina was just 48 years years young behind and leaves two young boys and her husband. i had the pleasure of working with dina and been in office

and can a test to her wavering commitment to portrero hill and district 10. her spirit of fight will truly be missed but most certainly be lived on. city clerk: thank you supervisor cohn. supervisor tang? >>supervisor katy tang: our sidewalk sales in all of our districts to take place saturday march 10th, march 17th, and to support the castro merchants on sidewalk renovations on june 13th. we want to encourage those to shop year-round. with that i submit. city clerk: thank you, surprise tang. supervisor wiener? thank you. supervisor yee.

>> submit. >> supervisor avalos? >>supervisor john avalos: i have one item of introduction. it relates to today's hearing. colleagues if we seriously want to address the transit industry we need more than a pilot program. the tech industry is not merely a cottage industry. it is our express lane to the future and we must usher in forward with great transit investments. today i'm introducing and ordinance for tez. for the transit program is google rapid transit. the ordinance calls for the mta to identify at least 10 major thorough fares where google painted red stripes for google buses. by designating the tech zones to ensure fast transit but also

public safety for the little guys. we don't want our small high bribdz carrying little children and working class folks to we've around google buses. it will ensure safety for our maet community. my google lanes ordinance does not cost more but will ensure great more investment to subsidize more needs. and the disruption of old mom and pop shops. they have much needed overpriced housing which has given our city a much needed face lift. google colors will show pride for google and

other transplants. april fools. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor avalos. supervisor breed? breed bead -- >>supervisor london breed: we have a lot of pranksters on this board. i have something that is not a laughing matter. it's about affirmative action and the constitutional amendment 5 and asking the california assembly without delay to take out the passage of scea 5 introduced by hernandez over turn the ban on affirmative action on emissions and higher education imposed by proposition 209 in 1996. the value of diversity and higher education has been

established by numerous studies and personal experience of students both minorities alike. for my own personal experience as someone who benefited from affirmative action right before proposition 209 was passed, i immediately saw the decline of minorities at uc davis and it was really devastating on the campus. it changes the culture of the campus. their traditional cultural events began to not only decline in attendance, but they became, they soon rapidly disappeared including black family day was something that the uc davis campus was known for for many many years which attracted a number of fraternity and sorority organizations across the country. the passage of 209 led to a proportion at

design through the uc system and after it's passage enrollment of latino and african americans students dropped 30 percent at ucla. in 2012 although 50 percent of california's graduates were under represented and 39 were eligible for the uc campuses only 31 percent were admitted to the freshman class which also made up less than 10 percent of the overall uc population. the greatest drop in racial diversity has been in the sciences. although california colleges and universities can give admission preferences based on military service, athletic ability. legacy, none of these criterias have led to more diversity except in the case

of sport. the supreme court ruling has allowed the use of race and admission and asked to the quality of the educational experience for all students. i can tell you from personal experience that it does. proposition 209 went far beyond the judicial requirements and ban the use of race and ethnicity altogether and public institutions. hernandez amendment would revisit the issue and make the state constitution consisting with the ruling of the u.s. supreme court. during sca 5 hearing, the amendment reached support from 28 organizations from medical associations, student unions and other educational organizations and in fact it passed in the senate overwhelmingly with a 27-9

vote in january. yet, since that time. sca 5 has been stalled in the assembly and a task force has been installed to investigate this issue. there have been studies done and it is clear that there is significant decline in our state universities throughout the state of california and it's important that we look at rectifying the situation. it's time for the senate to vote which after complaints they decided to shelf the issue. it should be in the hands of the california voters to decide. and what this resolution is doing is it's urging the assembly to take action in order to allow the voters to make that decision. i think this is a really really important issue. it's an important issue because i was qualified. this doesn't mean that you are not qualified to

attend these universities. i was qualified to go to uc davis. i had a lot of challenges coming from san francisco, from my community. i got a lot of support and got tutoring services and yet i continue to have a few challenges, but i would not be here as a member of the board of supervisors if it wasn't for affirmative action opening the door to give me the opportunity to attend one of the top universities in our state. i only think it's fair that every individual who has the skills, who has the desire, who that is mind-set have that same opportunity. i think that we are better for it. we are better for diversity. we are better for tolerance, we are better for opening the doors to make sure that when you clearly look at the statistics of what we face as a state and you look at

the application pool of where these folks are coming from, the minority application pool as it relates to african americans and latinos considerably small compared to other groups which makes it really challenging to be able to develop a true diverse pool when making the selection. so, i want to thank supervisor campos for cosponsoring this with me. i know he truly cares about this issue. i also want to thank some of my repeat cosponsors supervisors cohn and scott wiener. i know this is only an urging resolution but i think it's important that this body take a real critical action and making sure that our state representative understand how important it is to us and that we are going to continue to be watching and be actively

engaged in the fight to make sure that folks from our especially disadvantaged community, the ones that we talk about the most have a real shot at attended these universities. the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor campos. >>supervisor david campos: thank you. i want to thank supervisor breed and her staff for the resolution that they have introduced on affirmative action in prop 209. i'm very proud to be a cosponsor. what i want to say is this, that i think that what's happening around this issue is very unfortunate. what we have seen is that some individuals have tried to use this issue as a way of dividing communities. those of us that have benefited from affirmative

action and i would not be here were it not for affirmative action, this would allow people who would otherwise not get opportunities but who have qualifications to get a shot to be in the mix. i think that all of us have benefited from affirmative action and i think it's unfortunate that a way of propose from this measure have talked about the issue of quotas. quite frankly it's really unfortunate that some of these folks including people who should know better are regurgitating the language and the rhetoric of the right wing which has always used quotas as an excuse to oppose affirmative action. i have why it to meet anyone whos for affirmative action and who supports quotas and the idea to use language to talking about this is quite disappointing and i think that we in san francisco and we in

the state of california are better than that. we are not talking about quotas, we are simply talking about giving people in the african american community and latino community an equal chance to actually enroll in these educational institutions. it's what we see throughout this country is not going to end unless people in every community have the opportunity to attend these institutions. that's why this resolution is so important and i'm proud to take a stand with supervisors breed on it. the last tim that i have is an item that is a long time coming and i want to begin by thanking hilary rowan in from my office who i believe is watching even as she's trying to put her little girl to sleep. as you know yesterday was the first open enrollment period for covered california

which marked the end of the beginning of a historic transformation in our health care industry in this country. thanks for the affordable care act millions of americans will have health insurance, many for the first time in their lives. while i'm great ateful for this positive change in our health care system coming from the federal level, i am equally grateful here in san francisco that tom am yann oh created the local law of health care city ordinance because in fact that many of the best aspects of the affordable care act are modeled after local law that created universal health coverage for our residents. san francisco has been paving the way for the rest of country. we are grateful because we have this in order

and affordable care act has more chances to be more successful in san francisco than anywhere else in the country. that is despite the fact that we are living in one of the most expensive if not the most expensive city in the country. the legislation that i'm introducing today and i want to thank supervisor avalos, supervisor mar and kim for their cosponsorship is legislation that is essentially at it's core maximizes the benefits of how the the affordable care act and housing security ordinance interact so we maximize the number of san franciscans that are actually insured. since the mayor release temperature final report from the universal health council that met over the course of 4 months from september to december of last year, we have

been working with health care experts to >> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, well, to the tuesday, april 1, 2014, board of supervisors and san francisco municipal transportation agency please call roll. >> commissioner singh. director lee. director nolan. director ramos. describing. platform you have a quorum and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room meeting room responsible for the ringing