all the great support for her, she is a wonderful community leader, rebecca delgado rottman ?oo ?a any other public comments on this matter? seeing none, supervisor campos, supervisor tang >> well, very impressive group of candidates and i want to thank both miss ross and miss rottman for their service, this is a very important entity that oversees what happens with graffiti which is a big problem in all neighborhoods. the only problem, miss rottman, i don't know if you had enough people testifying on your behalf today. that said, it is my pleasure to move that we move this forward to the committee. >> i have never seen a group

so excited to talk about graffiti before but i see jim castille from dpw as well as mr. stinger. i think all of the work you have been doing is so great at tackling the issues when they rise and also trying to foster a sense of responsibility and pride in our neighborhood so they can be prevented as well. with that, happy to support both candidates, thank you so much for your contribution to our city. >> thank you very much, there's a motion and i'm sure both candidates are well loved, so with no objection, then the motion passes and congratulations, miss rottman i want to take a note here to say i voted for you. thank you very much. madam clerk, item 6. >> item 6, hearing to consider appointing one member, term

ending february 1, 2015, and three members terms ending february 1, 2016, to the park recreation and open space advisory committee. there are 4 seats and 4 applicants. >> great. >> okay, oh are any of the --. >> three of them. >> okay, come on up, in the order i will call you. tom. >> he's not here. >> patricia delgado >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is patricia delgado and i'm here to ask for your support to my renomination that would conclude my second two-year term and hopefully it will

continue beyond that. i have been on the advisory board since 2009 and i am pretty much a community activist. i love my mission district. my husband and i bought property in 1988 and so we've been there ever since then. and i got involved with parks, open space, when we developed the park estados unidos and i have been interested in open space in the old industrial zones in san francisco as well as other parts of the city. so it's been a pleasure to serve at the pleasure of my supervisor. thank you, david campos. >> thank you. thank you. nicholas belloni. >> it's nick belloni, chairman

yee i am the covice president of the planning association of the richmond, i have been on this committee for a while now and i truly enjoy being part of it. i work with many relations within the park as well as within the west side of the city. supervisor tang of course is the nominating supervisor for me. i will be working for her district because i'm on the, what is it, the alternate list that you have for your second chair, for your second seat for the district. i truly just enjoy being part of it and i've done a lot of stuff. right now i'm just working on trying to make sure we have plenty of open space for everybody here in our city. any other questions? >> no. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is les hilger, i am seeking

reappointment for a seat i have had for the last 6 years. i have been a chair of this committee and also vice chair and i would really enjoy being appointed for the last two years, finishing up my 8 year service. thank you. >> thank you. so there's 4 designated seats and 4 people and one of them wasn't able to come, actually it's supervisor campos's appointment. i assume you are okay? >> yes. >> any public comments on this matter? seeing none, public comment is now closed. supervisor tang and campos. >> great, i am happy to forward all 4 candidates to the full board with recommendation, especially on the west side of town it's really important what is it that we do with our open

spaces and our parks. we have so many families and children in our neighborhood. i also had a legislative aide who served with you on prozac before so happy to send this forward with recommendation. >> supervisor campos. >> i'm happy to join that recommendation. i just want to make a couple points about my two nominees for district 9, pat delgado, from whom you've heard. she truly is an institution in that neighborhood and what she has done for her community goes beyond, you know, she really is incredible in terms of what she does not only for our parks, open space, but for the whole community. so i'm very grateful to pat that she is willing to serve yet again. tom valtin is not here today because he had a long-planned family vacation at spring break

for he and his family. i know tom takes this very seriously, does great work and i know he will continue to do a good job for district 9 and for the two other candidates, mr. nick belloni, i know you have done a lot of good work and have a good reputation in terms of your commitment and les hilger i have had the opportunity to work with, great to see you and have the opportunity to be involved and i know the city is better off because of that involvement. glad to see this going forward. >> no objection, the motion is passed. keep our space open. okay, madam clerk.

>> items no. 7 through 14 are settlement of lawsuits. >> before we entertain a motion to convene in closed session, is there any member of the public who wishes to speak on items no. 7 through 14? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, is there a motion to convene in closed session? >> so moved. >> no during the meeting the committee voted unanimously to forward items 7 through 14 to the fupl board with recommendation. >> can i have a motion to not

disclose? >> so moved. >> madam clerk, is there anything else on the agenda. >> for item no. 3 i would ask that we rescind that vote so we can duplicate the file and separate the motions out when it goes before the board. >> say that again. >> i would ask that you rescind the vote first and then duplicate the hearing file so that we can create two separate motions so that when it goes to the full board we have two separate votes. >> okay, for item no. 3, is there a motion to rescind? >> so moved. >> no objection, so the vote has been rescinded. >> and then a duplication. duplicate the file, a motion to

duplicate? >> is there a motion? >> make a motion to duplicate file 140300, one with appointment of eddie ahn and the second with the appointment of miguel penn. >> on the first file i will take a roll call vote on seat no. 3 for eddie ahn >> cam poes, no. tang, aye. yee, aye. mr. chair, we have two ayes and one no. and for the duplicated file? >> uh-huh. >> all ayes. >> no objection, motion passes. >> anything else? >> no, that concludes our business for the day. >> the meeting is now adjourned. thank you very much. (meeting adjourned).you.

>> (clapping.) i'm kate i'm the cork of the event for homeless connect. >> i'm and i any i want to take a few seconds before kate announcements news. this is our first event for 2014 this is the tenth year for project homeless connect (clapping) a project that started it's

humble beginning in community efforts love and passion has grown into what it is today, we can't say enough this would not be enough without you coming to the event and giving your time and your ideas. this event wouldn't be what it is today, we started with 5 times a year and now we have a model people can come into the office in between our events. we're existing and we hope your excited and thank you. again so very much for coming out. as >> as amy said we're having a new shirt if are for the whole year on the fronted it has our log do and on the back all the services we've offend through the years and all the hair cuts

and medical services and washing and pedestriany and lunch we've served so thank you. (clapping.) also in thanks we're giving a shirt to all our speakers today so they can represent as well. >> good morning it's great to see everybody here how's it going. i had the privilege of working with mayor ed lee aaron homeless we partner with project homeless connect i want to share a couple of positive things it's intooirg to see san franciscans coming out everyday and giving of them. i'm equally desired how you make that experience happen.

there have been changes this past month we shifted in how the city alternates shelter beds we have one hundred and the 8 in san francisco. some of you may have seen at the 3 and 4 in the morning people line up because you don't know how many 7090 daybeds there are it's not safe for men and women to be out in the street. i'm glad to say we've shifted that we're moving toward a lottery people can call 311 and make a recreation for a bed now we're going to see that people don't have to be out in the middle of the night people can go and get a meal and go to

their appointment and those beds are by lottery. we looked at the long-term beds users people are afraid to have a seizures or episode in a small hotel room so we're making changes inform did system interest the amazing thing i think the way our world is changing the people that have made 311 restoration people can get a text message and know where you're going to have a bed that might. there the leadership we've opened two other shelters one hundred and 20 beds for chronically bed also between folsom we're opening 374, fifth

street there are homeless people between the ages of 16 and 24 and this facility came about and people are moving into this building to have housing. so i want to take a moment and acknowledge people from houston steve and judy harris stand up and wave (clapping) we love the mayor houston not because thoes the lesbian mayor. in the a first time that we have this sponsor and it's inspiring to us that google is our sponsor for pa c for this event we're

really, really pleased. lastly i'm wondering in any friends in hand dot can i see a waiver from hand dot. if you get a chance stop and see the amazing organization we've been supporting. hand dot uss pretty much a sponsor of homeless someone who was approaching his forgetting reunion he was homeless. it's a principal to work for a mayor that's you should in an area not only of growth and prosper it in the morning where your problems are big or small mayor ed lee >> thank you good afternoon,

everybody. happy 53 and tenth this is where the beautiful people have come in morning i've been laborer looking for. those are the times when people need help and us. they need us with good hearts and smiles and a good connection this is what project homeless has been about for 10 years i've been happy to work with barbara garcia and supervisor farrell and the a other supervisors and new partners that are helping us improve our services. it's not just keeping the cycle that bev vin talked about how about in connection with people

giving them a warm smile talking about how to get into long-term support and services. we also help build thirty thousand more unit in san francisco. how about that you how about we race the minimum wage yeah. help people get a descendent job and work with people like sdoolg so people on the streets can use them launching sf late the other day how about thanking you for the impact grants and all those wonderful things that are happening in san francisco. ? the greatest city in the world but i and everyday now are proving it to be the greatest city people want to be looking

at the views and riding great cable cars up to the stars and walk the block but we want to touch people's hearts like that kid did. everyday we're doing our best. sth past year we've learned more youth that on the streets then we thought before more less obedience and gaze a population of 50 percent we reduce chronic homelessness by 38 percent that's good but we have more to do we always have more to do we invite the challenges and create new perspires that's why good looking is here we need the best

of our city government workers and the best of our community to help folks. we want to be astronomer active for them so when google said they're to come in a volunteer i smiled because they started with the affordability how about free muni for youth for the next 23 years how about wifiing our parks so monoanyone can use this afternoon how about the rally for life how about all the wonderful grants give to impact people's lives in a positive way and to join the volunteers. those are the wonderful things and supervisor farrell is going

to talk about how hocking to improve project homeless connect is just the beginning of tropics it was never both going to be the end when you touch people's lives and they start opening up their lives that's about the engagement how to grab the challenges and work with them that so thank you people from houston. one of the security staff said how did howe house the road i don't in houston we don't have that here we have tech rodeos; right? >> (laughter). >> right. but this is all my way of saying with outline sincerity you have a great deal mayor we're going

to work hard with you to make people astronomer their lives i want to start the foundation and please continue to help and get our employees and employers involved and your family and friends and let's make tropics a real vision and thank you. let's celebrate project homeless connect (clapping.) thank you so i just want to mention as i bring up the next speaker many of the key staff out here providing services are in from our department of public health we couldn't do this without them let's give them a shout out. now i have the opportunity to bring up our rock star of public

health. barbara garcia has been in the front when it seemed like we couldn't have health care there's things about the affordable health care it's going to cover health services and without coverage no better partner than our health advocate barbara garcia >> good morning how many are first time advocates. all right. so i see workday workday folks raise our hands. we hope you'll have 10 more years and hopefully by that time we'll have the opportunity to house many more people. one of the things we are going

to be doing as you see the incredible amount of services but daily connect it wouldn't look like this it will be our staff going to into the shelter for signing up people for my glasses and homes. we have the advantage of getting people into one hundred percent homes. it's going back going to be beneficial as mayor ed lee talked about also being able to get them housed and the department of public health i think we find it's worst a hand in order to complete somebody's health care and be in the best health they need a home. i want to thank you you you're

going to have tired feet from walking in the concrete so make sure you come back and we're going to look for you in the next 10 years thank you very much (clapping.) so it's been mentioned this the the tenth anniversary of project connect and also the tenth anniversary mayor newsom partnered with another colleague and pulled a plan together to end chronic homelessness. as the mayor indicated we've cut that in half 63 one hundred and others are chronically homeless. one of the main goals was to develop 3 thousand new units of

permanent permanent howard's now we've got to 28 hundred and i think that demonstrates we can be successful and i also want to say that was 40 percent of our jail population was homeless now we're down to 20 percent. i bring those issues up because supervisor farrell give him a round of applause. supervisor farrell is our last speaker a great friend to the mayor and myself and others i'm glad to say he's held one meeting already and laid a road map for many hearings we talk about homelessness and reflect over and over on our services a 20 percent drop for veterans and

so we're happy to have our supervisor supervisor farrell >> thanks how about a big round of applause for mayor ed lee and all the department heads. so i want to first of all, thank for being here today. what you're doing is what we're all about in san francisco volunteering our time and taking time out of your workday no pun intended for the work folks. the magnitude we have 35 hundred people every night sleeping on our streets. we have mothers and fathered and sons and daughters those are people we need to care about this is a human issue and to be part of our city's effort we can't do it as a city government

alone we do things together and all our cooperate sponsor to google who contributions not only their money but your efforts this is what we do together in san francisco. please know how important it is that you come here today and we keep cowboy her in the city of san francisco. we're going to have more meetings like this we've introduced legislation to double our outreach team to pasture we have important workers reaching out to the street folks. so thank you and please come back and wear those stlirts today and other it days with pride so you're being san franciscans and thank you very much for being hebeing here

. >> this is a meeting of the commission of the environment, today is tuesday, march 25, it is 4.05pm first item on the agenda is roll call. commission president arce is expected shortly. (roll call). >> next item is approval of the minutes of the january 28 commission of the environment regular meeting. in your pact today is a copy of the minutes, it's a discussion