the asian pacific islander community. my co-sponsors are here supervisor cowen and supervisor avalos and supervisor wiener and others for co-sponsoring the hearing. i'm calling for a hearing on increasing the access to drinking water in the unified school district. i think healthy constrain and communities require access to healthy drinks especially drinking water. freshwater at the schools gives children healthier choices everyday. one school peabody recently installed drink tap stations with facilities money it was wise in how they did it to have visible access i'd like to see that model replicated especially in low income neighborhoods in

our city. so today, i'm introducing the acceptability for the tap stations in the san francisco unified school district. i know that in this case within the unified school district have been implementing many approaches but wild to coordinate with our city. many don't have drinking foundation in a couple of middle schools they're drinking fountains were not working. so i think facilities maintenance is critical. and the city can work with the commissions to have a better access within the school district. a hearing i had last year with supervisor chiu and others helped to identify the parks and the lack of accessibility.

we want to focus on schools and i want to acknowledge supervisor chiu's legislation about water waste. so thank you to my co-sponsors supervisor chiu and supervisor campos for helping to co-sponsor this hearing request as well. i'm sure you're aware of from our vision zero hearing this week there was a terrible collision that was harming a 3-year-old on a bicycle on fulton this with or week the child was hit crossing the street and is in critical condition i've reached out to the family. this follows a recent collision at the golden gate park senior

center. i little on fulton street people speed at the 50 to 60 miles per hour i see that everyday when i'm driving any child to school. we're working with a new police chief today, i'm announcing i'm working with the transportation authority to help to slow down traffic only fulton. we're working with the senior center and the playgrounds to come up with ideas to make sure we're doing short-term improvements to make fulton safer for families and seniors. and lastly one community leader that's also an artist and a spobz melissa anderson is having

an important session with photograph. she owns a business call foggy notation. there's a exhibit and session for people from 6 to 8:00 p.m. on the park gallery it includes many bands and will have historic shots from various relays and the anti addiction parties and so we hope you'll come out and support our small merchants today. i also want to thank green apple

books to partner with the inner sunset to make sure that la bid can stay open on the avenue. and it's one example of a small merchant that reaches out across the park to promote reading and culture in the richmond district as well the rest i'll submit >> thank you madam clerk, yesterday at the land use committee we held an interesting and frankly overdue hearing on the state of late night transportation in san francisco. we're a night time have you ever known we know it's critical to our economy haits that's a

$4.2 billion sector that employes people and contributions $55 million in tax revenue yet when it comes to transportation we treat what we call the other 9 to 5 as an after thought. late night transportation are not ground water great in the city. muni subway and bart and shortly after midnight those systems start not as early as one might think in the morning particularly on the weekend and bus service becomes sporadic at night. this is not just an issue of late night people getting home from bars that's important we don't want people to drive

whether coming in to the east bay peninsula. this is a worker issue. there are many people who work in the industry and people are commuting from one end of the city to another because of the cost of housing there are many night life workers who can't live here but live for example, in the east bay they have to drive their car or take a cab that's expensive. to this is a very, very important discussion. we've been talking about getting twenty-four hour bart service forever. so it's an forgotten hearing and next week's hearing i'll be introducing a resolution for the traerpgs on the office of economic workforce development to convene a worker group to

come up with a late night transportation plan to move forward for people to get around at night the rest i'll submit. >> thank you supervisor wiener. supervisor avalos. >> couple of items for introduction first, the city attorney to draft an ordinance to help san francisco form a joint powers authority with the city attorney's office richmond for underwater loans in the city. several years ago in the late 2011 the nation was racked by change of consciousness in the city how the winded disparity in wealthier were effecting people and the middle-class we continue

to have a call on real reform to wall street and the banking industry under the cry they got bailed out we got sold-out and here in san francisco as well. in san francisco besides having demonstrates p at plaza that were attended by many of the members of the board of supervisors and the mayor at this point there were demonstrates in parts of san francisco that were suffering from the loan countries in bayview hunters point as well as the xoifr neighborhood there was one relay there was actually 4 of the banks that are mostly

responsible for the mortgage countries city core and bank of america where we targeted also in the bayview district there were several homes 5 were preoccupied or under water or in foreclosure that was a moment her in san francisco we actually were able to raise the experience of worker people that were losing homes. as a city government we've not responded. i've talked about this and talked about this with the mayor's office of housing to we're not doing enough to look at the house in the southeast part of san francisco we don't have a program to help people stay in hair homes and help underwater homes and people in

foreclosure. we talk about the immigration of african-americans in san francisco but we have not implemented a strong program to address that. the local mroshth reduction can help to support of the african-americans and help to stop the immigration and in bayview hunters point and in the excelsior district we have many, many african-american households that are desperately trying to cling on to what property weight they have and i think we owe it to them to not negligent them but people will be able to keep up with their mortgages. richard has an answer through the mortgage principle reduction program they want to focus on there water mortgages. richard agreed to buy those

loans and refinance them at the current interest rates that are lower. this will pope keep people in their homes and protect the city of richard and if the banks won't coordinate we can use the city of richmond and use the treaty of eminent domain. once we reform the resistance to the banks across different cities across the state of california that the banks will come to the table and we'll have an effort to their allowing to make if possible for people to refinance their houses and you lower their principle for people to own their homes and set us on a pathway to sustainability.

i'm asking the city attorney to draft an ordinance there are many questions we have to raise but if we're waiting for more information we'll never get things done and people will be leaving san francisco because they can no longer afford the sub prime mortgages they have. we need the political will to move forward. i look forward to working with the city attorney to make that happen i know we, make a huge difference to make the banks work with us. there is also part of an organization called local progress including others on the board supervisor kim's and supervisor campos and others they're elected officials from around the country that's a

local campaign to establish the local principle reductions i'm looking forward to seeing places like new york city and philadelphia and san diego and others to help with the program that will enable working class people to stay in hair homes. this is also a memoriam for a long time organizer and leader of the people in action. she was a great advocate in the neighborhood for decades and brings a lot of safety and security to make sure we have eye contact from the police department and resources that come from different parts of san francisco. she's been part of the occupy efforts that's gone on in the

lakeview neighborhoods there's been an attempt to prevent evictions and she's been part of this to lower the principles and to modify the loans as well. regina was born in arkansas and her father traveled to german and korea and japan. when she was 18 she sheltered in san francisco and met her husband here. judge roy wonder prooetd at here wedding. she was dedicated to her family and she was with an organization that helped to keep people safe.

she was a report secretary until her last day she raised three children she loved tremendously and was a wonderful woman and wife we'll miss her forever the rest i'll submit >> supervisor avalos and supervisor breed. >> i'm requesting the controller draft a budget to renovates one hundred and 72 off-line units and bring them back on line. there are over 40 thousand units and many units are currently not available for san franciscans to live in. as we grapple with an

unprecedent affordable housing issue particularly affordable housing those units represents one of our chapter itself opportunities to make hoosiers available now. the housing authority estimates we can bring those online for one hundred and 15 thousand a unit we can do that quickly depending on the construction of affordable housing to fruition. the cities 2013 survey found families including hundreds of children is homeless in san francisco. there's, in fact, a church that is used as a shelter in 25 to 50 families use the shelter almost every evening there's no facilities and showers only a few toilets and sinks. we shouldn't allow those units

to be vacant when we have shelters that are empty. in february of this year we were projected a surplus in new and unanticipated revenue. i know this is not something we traditionally do we have not duplicate ♪ the past we earmark funds but we contacting can't use 1960 policies we have in san francisco in 2014 we have to do something different and continuing to allow those units that be neglected and allow people to live in those conditions and continue to isolate them from affordable housing in our city is not what we should be doing as a city we have thousands of people without homes and thousands struggling

to keep their homes we have thousands of unused housing that can be used and we have millions of dollars. i'm leery about the supplements in general but those are extraordinary circumstances and require extraordinary measures i don't want this to get lost in the process. we can make a lasting impact on hundreds of residents. i want to thank mayor ed lee when i came into office one of the things he asked me about my 3 top priorities i said number one public housing and number 2 and 3 public housing. living in public housing for

over half my life has given me a prospective unlike 0 anyone i know that we need to make a difference in the lives of the constituen constituents. but i see we're having discussions about building affordable housing but this discussion has to make public housing a priority not just public housing as that relates to the housing authority but remaining e retaining public housing all over the city we can't say out with the old and in with the new with you to make sure the people are still protected i feel we're on the right track but we have to look at putting our money where our mouth is. i believe this is a large effort

to make sure that the residents in public housing can enjoy security in their homes when supervisor farrell introduced a measure to the hot team we have a place to take people for trickle purposes but we have one hundred and 72 units if we provide with the right support we can prioritize homeless people in order to get one hundred and 72 units on line that can house hundreds which for the purpose so that's what i'm asking for today. i'm not necessarily introducing the legislation to make the request i'm asking the controller to start to draft the request and i want to look at other ways to support around furnishings and case management

to make sure they're getting the comprehensive support they need. thank you, colleagues the rest i'll submit >> thank you supervisor breed. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you madam president and supervisor breed for the special. as we talk about the housing authority crisis it has to be an important exponent. i want to talk about the hearing we'll be holding tomorrow at the budget committee a hearing on the availability of legal assistance and residence in santa fe san francisco that are facing eviction. specifically the tent to which tenants are facing eviction and

patrol car there's adequate representation is an important part of the strategy to make sure we allow people who want to stay in san francisco remain in san francisco. i want to also not there will be a press conference at 9:00 a.m. to discuss this issue we'll be discussing a recent 0 report by the budget analyst report we have a lot of work to do in the area of insuring proper representation to tenants. as we're phasing the housing crisis where the rent in san francisco is hire than any other city we have a report from the budget analyst report this shows in calendar years 2013-2014 tenant were only represented

12.9 percent and 17 percent of the time. we know that tenants who are facing eviction he procedures are likely to stay in their homes with legalese representation. it's only provide in 13 percent and 2012 and 17 percent in 2013 shows there's a huge gap that needs to be addressed. we believe that legal representation should be provide for tenants phasing eviction with their financial status and look forward to having that communication at the budget committee meeting tomorrow the rest i'll submit >> thank you. i'm introducing legislation to introduce the short term rentals.

we've seen an explosion in short-term renltz it's estimated this is happening over one hundred thousand times in our city. we know everyday our current laws on the books to prevent our housing from being used as hotels is being broken and our bracket enforcement has phenomenon been working. i'm proposing a different approach based on feedback from proposers. first is to create a clear distinction between unacceptable and reasonable activity in this area of sharing housing. on one hand we've known of offender who have taking entire homes off the market and turning them into hotels. on the other hand, we all know

worker families and students on summary break and residents traveling or seniors with a spare room have been able to use the new sharing arrangements to pay for rent. today optimum proposing a distinction based on ones preliminary place of home. if they're a permanent san francisco person and their apartment is where they actually live for 9 months of the year. under our proposal a resident who meets the requirements can carry liability insurance in case anything goes wrong. the second element of our proposal would be to strengthen enforcement. there have been multiple codes but the codes have not been consistent with the rules.

my legislation will make it clear that all apartment buildings are subject to regulation and if a resident is not registered but involved with short term rentals that person will be automatically in violation and will be place on a black list until they come into compliance. as part of this conversations we have to make sure that we have the resources for enforcement. the third element is that we will finally be regularly the online short-term rentals. we know there are dozens of platforms and under our proposal every approach will have to notify their tenants before posting is loud and every

approach will have to have taxation. the last element is to really emphasis our city needs to collect the taxes we have to pay millions of dollars to pay for all our services for all the tourists who visit us. this is necessary to be roved before moving forward. i want to thank the treasurer for pushing this bill as well. two weeks ago after resolving that a b b agreed to collect taxation i appreciate and i know this is important. our legislation will require every approach collect all taxation. this legislation strikes the

right balance for the san franciscans to share their housing and cover their rent and supplement their income but we have to protect our tenants and others from displacement. i want to thank dbi and the city attorney's office and thank the tenants union for their support of our legislation and thank the feedback from online platforms as well as the apartment association and the coalition for bettered housing. i know there will be more discussions and look forward to those and thank amy chang >> mr. president, seeing none, other nominations that concludes the roll call. >> i want to go to our

accomodation district had would like to move forward with we do those at 2:30 but there's a important person here. >> again, thank you very much supervisor chiu and colleagues for entertaining this. for this person i wish we could roll out a red carpet. last week wednesday something tragic and beautiful at the same time happened on ocean beach. today, i'm so thrilled to be able to how were you someone who both sides the true sense of the word. a 17 why would i think he's decided to go catch waves he sad