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and this money that has been allowed and big tax breaks for these big corporations which ends up displacing people who are residents in the city and county of san francisco is a violational of the constitutional law pertaining to the 14th amendment and due process and equal protection under the law on the grounds that you are giving big multidollar tax breaks for a certain high end back of the people whereas the people who are in the low income brackets are not receiving this type of benefit, and treatment. so, therefore, i recommend that you conduct with the city attorney to coordinate what i am talking about because, this violation of constitutional rights and due process is further compounded by this ellis act, where numerous, people are being wrongfully
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evicted or evicted because of this ellis act and as a result, put out on the street. and now that act, is further compounded because these tenants who are evicted based on this other fact are moved ahead of the people who are on housing lists and pertaining to the affordable housing, and which is another violation of due process and equal protection under the law of both state and federal law, of due process. so, that needs to be looked at and addressed and i will need to have you talk to the city attorney about that. because the situation about the high income back of people that might enjoy it by lower income people. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors my name is adam gabrel i will keep this very brief, everybody here we have all understand about things
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that cost money and as we mentioned the facility is not spread out to us in the parts of the city and thes very important and the property on third street and a million plus and could be used to build components, and shoe box unit types, structures that are 300 square feet or less for people like myself, i live in a van, the van is filthy and i have no access to hygiene and the scenario of 2:00 1k3 3:00 in the morning and i would be in a world of trouble, revisit the concept of the shoe box unit and that is discussed by the mayor and weiner who is from new jersey and spoke to him about it and we need the shoe box unit and but not at a market rate it is going to fail, just like you... and con way i met personally, and i can go so on and i am getting no money from any of them and we cannot listen to and there is
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bigotry against my graphic we don't want to be useful, and i don't want to depend on the offices and $183 on food stamp, i was extremist by this government and all of my designations were taken away, i stand with the general and yet being an extremist, i love everything and i am living in this van and we need the shoe box units and access, and others, we need access to the money, we are not listened to as evidenced by the stalling and mr. bundy in the ranch in nevada and the people are fed up with my demographic and we want to earn our money, three years is too long, we can do this in 6 months, we can build the unit structure in less than four months. thank you very much. >> are there any other members of the public that wish to comment today on this item?
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>> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> we want to thank you again, for being with us, hearing and i want to thank everybody who presented and spoke in public comment and appreciated sxh i and thought it was a fantastic start and as it relate to this one and san francisco has a lot to be proud of in a national leader for adopting the national housing approach as we kopt to explore that and a lot of themes came out of today and interesting data and we know that there is not enough supply to meet he demand and going to house the most people and take care of as many people on the streets as possible and that is the end goal and we are all united in that and how we are going to get there from here and a journey, but we look forward to exploring now and the ladder and the things that come out of that and so, with that, colleagues could i have a motion to file this hearing? >> so moved. >> motion, and seconded. will be taken without objection. >> okay. >> madam clerk.
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>> could you call item three? >>ordinance amending ordinance no. 160-13 (annual salary ordinance fys 2013-2014 and 2014-2015) to reflect the addition of 68 new positions (16.85 ftes in fy2013-2014) at the human services agency for implementation of additional work associated with increased state and federal funding. >> you have taken to jury duty. >> yes. >> and so we have heard this before and it was continued and maybe you could just talk about, your discussions with the budget analyst in between and behind of, and you have reached a middle ground? >> that is right. supervisors i'm dan caplan human services agency deputy director for finance and administration and this item as you mentioned is a continuation of an item that was before you last week and an amendment to the annual salary ordinance for 13/14 and 14/15 and what it did was it added staff in a number of hsa programs, and the
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staffing was fully funded in the current fiscal year and in the next fiscal year, the item was continued to give the agency, and the budget and legislative analyst a chance to work together, and we have done that and we are now in agreement with regard to the filling of new positions or the funding of the new, or the adding of new positions. so, >> okay, thank you very much. >> commissioner, let's go to your report. >> chairman and members of the committee, based on my testimony, and i will just get right to the recommendations, and which are on page 19 and let me make one clarification. regarding our recommendations, number 1, although, the hire date will still be june first and in fact mr. chairman you suggested that and we totally controlled with you on that and changed from the department
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that requested april first and may first and now june first, in order to code the positions in the 2013, 14, in the city's payroll system the date needs to be june first, it is a technical matter where the date should be may first and so we are now, recommending back to that may first, date. >> and okay. >> to comply with the city's system. and the other recommendation, and the recommendation number 2, and amendment proposed saldy ordinance to reduce the total number of asa positions by 15, from 68 to 53. and as you will recall, we had recommended a reduction of 22. and we are now, making a recommended reduction of 15. and we recommend that you approve that the first ordinance as amended. >> okay. >> and i understand that you say that it is in agreement. >> we are in agreement. >> thank you very much. >> thank you to the parties for
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working in the past week. >> colleagues with no questions, we will open this up to public comment, anyone wish to comment on item three. >> seeing none, closed. we have these recommendations now and i would say, prepare the written one and again, it is now may one and not june one and it is recommendation number one and could i have a motion to approve all of those. >> so moved those two amendments. >> and we have a second. we can take that without objection, and then the underlying item, could i have a motion to submit forward >> okay, we can take that without objection. >> excuse me mr. chair, i would like to request that the department submit it to the office before 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. >> could we do that? >> okay. >> great. could you call item four. >>resolution approving the port commission's third amendment to lease no. l-15169 with autodesk, inc., a delaware
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corporation, for the lease of unimproved shed space at pier 9 in the northern waterfront with a 111 month term, to commence upon board approval. >> okay, thank you very much, supervisors. >> good afternoon, jeffrey ballum the port's leasing manager and seeking your approval for the item as read by the secretary, it is an amendment to an existing lease, and it adds 3400 square feet of currently unimproved shed space that is currently used for parking, and will invest no more than $2 million to develop their robotics research lab, pier nine, and they have, and this will bring them up to 30,000 square feet and they are doing 3 d printing, and software development, and currently, employing about 120 persons at pier nine, and the amendment is co-terming with the existing lease and it runs for about 104 months. and there is a construction period where no rent is charged for a period of 180 days, and
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the amendment does provide the credit of 400,000 which is ammortized throughout the lease in a straight line formula and i am happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> thank you, colleagues any questions? >> okay, mr. rose, could we go to your report on item four. >> yes, mr. chairman, members of the committee on page 18 of our report, and we point out that it is shown in table two and table two on page 19, and under the terms of the proposal the original, to the original lease, auto desk is required to improve the subject 3400 square feet by an estimated 2,405,000, and inincludes the building shelf that is offset by the credits of up to $400,000, on page 19, we report that after adjusting for the month of the rental credit, the port anticipates receiving net revenue of 109 sf, 898, as
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shown in table three and then it is on page 19 of our report. >> and, we note on page 20, of the top of page 20, the city administrative code section 2.6-1, space with leasing the city owned property must be awarded through the process unless they find that the bidding procedures are impractical or impossible, however they award the original lease to auto desk without submitting legislation to the board of supervisors to exempt the lease from the requirements and the administrative code. and so our recommendations on the bottom of page 20 are that we recommend that the third resolution and we state that the board of supervisors finds that a competitive process for the 3400 square feet, and unimproved, shed space under the proposed third amendment is impractical and recommend that with the state of determination is january, 15, 2023 and approve the resolution as
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amended. >> thank you very much. >> any questions for our budget analyst? >> okay. with that we will move on to public comment, anybody wish to comment on item four? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> could we have a motion to accept the budget analyst recommendations? >> we will take those without objection and the underlying item as amended, without objection as well. >> yes. >> madam clerk? >> i would like to request that the port commission provide that to us before 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. >> we can. it would be yes, we can do that. >> great. >> thank you very much. >> okay, and the underlying amendment and we can take that without objection. >> could you call item five?
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>>ordinance retroactively authorizing the san francisco public defender's office (pdr) to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $395,231 from the department of justice, office of justice programs, bureau of justice assistance to create the first local and nationally applicable checklist system to better guide attorneys through key moments in cases, ensuring competent representation and avoiding costly errors; and amending ordinance no. 160-13 (annual salary ordinance, fy2013-2014) to reflect the addition of one class 8173 legal assistant grant-funded position (0.50 fte) at the pdr for the period of october 1, 2013, through september 30, 2016. >> okay, thank you, thanks for being here. >> good afternoon i am with the public defender's office here to announce that the office was a recipient of the bureau of justice's assistance encure anling innovation, for the federal grant, and it is in keeping with the department of justice's strategic plan of improving the quality of indegent defense in the nation and assuring the administration of yus and reducing unnecessary confinement and keeping with that scene, the public defender's office proposed to create a checklist system that will insure competent representation and reduction of errors not only locally but create a system that is
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nationally applicable and applicable throughout california and we attempt to do that over the next period of three years. and if you have any questions, i am happy to answer them, and our goal will be to conduct research and identify focus areas, collaborate with, attorneys, and identify, risk areas, and implement these checklists in a neighboring county and then, have disseminate these checklists throughout the nation and we are partnering with the center for court innovation. and there are research partner who will provide an evaluation regarding the effectiveness of what we have produced and produced some recommendations, in the area. >> great. thank you very much. >> colleagues any questions? >> okay. we do not have a budget analyst report for this item and so move on to public comment.
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>> anybody wish to comment in >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> colleagues could i have a motion to move this item forward >> a motion and a second and we can take that without objection. >> madam clerk, do we have any other business in front of us. eno, mr. chair. >> we are going to take a 15 minute break and so we will start up at 1:10. we are adjourned. thank you. welcome to the people
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city hall. first of all, i'm kind of in a great state of mind right now we joined our fire department in honoring a heros who saved a life on our ocean beach a few years ago and it's got to be inspirational we have wonderful people in the city and hail oftentimes sacrifice a lot of their personal safeties in order to help with the other so i'm going to look all you knew commissioners as heros we're going to help me sustaining a successful city for everybody so we can grew up other heros in our families that choose to live
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in our great city. i want to say thank you all of who are here with the families and friends and people in the neighborhoods that have recommended our service i want to say thank you ahead of time you'll make time sfraz for this will be more than oofrments sometimes struggling with important decisions that help the commissions and depended figure out though how to create uniting in our city and for this ahead and all the aspects. some 16 different bodies restraining order re79d today with new commissioners we have 21 of you who have uped users for the task and thank you first and foremost you are giving up our personal time to do this.
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your city so much is run by the policies you get forgot and the voice and tune you have to the public about welcoming their ideas as you make deshgsz and guide our departments about doing thing the right way i want to say thank you it takes time and we'll be wondering what mayor ed lee asked you to you. i'll ask this solitaire day there maybe other days that are headaches and it begins with that and begins with you think your are participation in what so many others are doing and have done to join the great departments we have and make accident city work for everyone. welcome to the city family. so are you ready?
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all right. if i may and by the way, the 16 bodies is so diverse. just to mention a few we have the arts commission and the eastern neighborhood citizens and fire commission and finance commission and immigrant rights and mta and planning commission the open space and tide which is our treasure island southeast facilities and juvenile it spans the psychologically when you look at those agencies you'll realize that all of them command and need a very solid community communications and that's what you're here to a help us. with that all please stand. and as we do the oath if i may ask each think one of you to go
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down after i say i and state your name for the record and go through the recycle of the oath. okay. please raise your right hand >> i. >> commission. you can yell as loud as i want to. ken. >> (repeated.) >> thank you. >> (repeated.)
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>> thank you. >> is that everybody? do supplement fisherman i'm support and defend >> (repeated.) . the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california >> (repeated.) >> against all enemies foreign and domestic. >> (repeated.) >> that i'll bear truth and fair alliance. >> (repeated.) >> to the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of
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california. >> (repeated.) >> that i take this obligation freely. >> (repeated.) >> without any mental reservation. >> (repeated.) . or purpose of evaluation >> (repeated.) >> and i'll discharge the duties about which i'm about to enter. >> (repeated.) >> during such as i hold the office of a member of - >> (repeated.) >> for the city and county of san francisco. >> (repeated.) >> commissioners welcome to the city family. thank you very much (clapping) all right. thank you. thank you food in san francisc
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just about expensive eat but food for everyone and there's organizations in the city that are doing really good work making sure that healthy food it assessable to everyone. more and more as follows are are becoming interested in upper arlthd they want to joy the open green pace sea know where their food it coming from we'll look at 3 programs talking ushering agricultural and garden to new heights. so what exactly it, your honor agricultural >> it the growing food or
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flowers within city limits traditionally we've been referring to communities gardener that is a raised bed over and over upper argument has a more a farming way of farming. >> so tell me 0 what's growing in this garden. >> a really at all plant. in the one of the rare places, you know, people have access to green space 24 is one of the places to grow things like the purple floor. it is sort of recognizing that the more diversity in given space the better not to just have one thing by everything
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supported each another >> it provides the community with an opportunity to get their hands dirty and reach 0 out and congressmen with the community in ways they might have not otherwise to engage with one other. >> now the dpw urban planning program so see how the garden community. >> so i grew up on a farm in air force base we picked the foods open the trees and share with other families and as i drive around san francisco i see any trees with apples or mrumdz and lemon trees i can see the food going to waste and brought that idea back to the department many of the trees where the fruit would go to waste we origin or crop and pick other
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fruits and delivery this to food banks or shelters to people who need them. >> i'm here with nang wong hello nang. >> hello. >> i need to understand house this gleaning work. >> we come and harvest like for example, we'll come over here this is the lemon and plug it like this. >> (laughter). >> made that good, good and ease. >> the trick is how not to hurt the branches. >> like the thing. >> i'm so excited about this. the people are so passionate about where the food goes to the
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private property owners give us the food they're happy that no of a t is going to waste >> oh. thank you. thank you. again job aura natural >> (laughter). >> from backyards to back lots let's take a look at the food and community bonding at the free farm. >> my idea was to start growing food and giving it away. and getting my neighbors to who had space and having a kind of event that brings people together not to run our food program this time around but to share the wealth of the
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abundance of our welfare. we were all divorce and as part of our philosophy of working together and working together. >> what's the most rewarding aspect of volunteering for the free farm stand. >> well, we could is a generalic satisfaction but something about giving food away it's giving something i brought that in and sort it and gave it to you it's primitive to be able to give something some basically to someone else. >> now serving number to 49 come on down. >> we have the capability of producing this food and in san francisco you can grow food all year round so the idea we're capable of prougdz food in our
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own backyards we're here to demonstrate an bans of food and i think that giving it away for free we show individuals it in have to be a comedy. >> we build time together and it's the strength of any ideas of the connections we'll turn that connection and the more connections you make no mistake about it the more you can have a stronger power and not have to rely on money that's the people power. >> in this episode we've seen the urban farms and gardens provide more in fruits and
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vegetation people can have the special produce available it can be a place to give back by donating food to others and teach our children the connection to the earth and environment it's truly >> good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco small business commission regular meeting of monday, april 28th, 2014 and the meeting is called to order at 2:09 and we'll conduct a roll call. commissioner adams? >> here. >> commissioner yee riley? >> here. >> commissioner tour-sarkissian? >> here. >> commissioner white? >> here. >> the