call, this motion is approved. [gavel] >> item 28. >> item 28 is the motion to reappoint linda richardson to the treasure island board of directors for a term ending april 28, 2018. >> same house same call, this motion is approved. [gavel] >> colleagues, why don't we go to our 2:30 special orders. we have two today. first will be district 1 colleague supervisor mar. >> thank you, president chiu. today there's a number of companies that are here with us today and i'm pleased to recognize them as winners of san francisco and the bay area's great race for clean era wards. as some of you know, supervisor john avalos and i sit on the bay area quality management district board and it's been an honor to help clean the air, fight pollution, and create healthier environments for everyone. but these companies from san francisco joined a number of other companies from the bay area in reducing greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, and pollutants from the air and

environment. as i say, the great race is a two-month long bay area wide competition that helps to clean the air by reducing c.o.2 emissions and encouraging workers and employees to use alternative and cleaner and greener commuting methods. and this spring over 1,000 employees from 70 bay area companies saved more than 770,000 pounds of c.o.2 from entering the environment. and the winners have been chosen, they're recognized for, one, the highest c.o.2 savings, two, the highest level of employee participation, and the highest percentage of clean commute days, days when employees used cleaner, greener alternatives to driving alone to just transit, biking and car pooling. i'm really proud to say san francisco businesses took the top spots in a number of the category. and i'd like to thank the executive director of community focus stephanie anderson who is here with us. if she could come forward.

but i'd like to thank her and her staff for their efforts in coordinating this annual event. also we'll be honoring and introducing a number of san francisco's winners, 7 of them, and if you can please come forward as i call your name one by one, i would appreciate it. so, for the highest level of employee participation in the mini size, the smaller companies, organizations with up to 25 employees, the second place winner is a well known one and we'll hear them a little later in the meeting. livable cities. accepting the trophy on their behalf is beth bern and liza [speaker not understood]. third place winner is alexa internet and accepting is stephanie anderson. the smallest, 25 to 100 employees, the first place winner is hdr architecture. accepting their trophy is jean

hanson and matthew rig by. second place in that category is interior architects, and it's eric zimmer accepting their award from interior architects. third place is footster, and that's the from the winners circle the second year in a row. and we have hanna [speaker not understood] from [speaker not understood] with us today. for the highest level of employee participation in a larger size company, that's 101 to 500 employees, the fourth place winner is nekto therapeutics. we have brenda chu [speaker not understood]. they won fourth place [speaker not understood]. congratulations in every single year. 38% of nektar employees participated. that's over one-third of their full workforce. for the highest overall c.o.2 savings the second place winner was also nektar therapeutics. thanks so much to brenda chu and the whole staff there as well.

lastly, for most clean commute days per participants, the first place winner is another san francisco entity, san francisco maritime national historic park. and accepting on their behalf is lynn sullivan. and the third place winner in the most clean commute days per participant is alexa internet, almost sweeping it in many categories. so, thanks again to alexa internet and stephanie anderson for accepting on their behalf. we have so many san francisco businesses and their employees improving the environment by cleaning their commute habits, and i'd like to ask if supervisor avalos has anything to say about our champions and companies. thank you so much for the 22 member bay area management air district board. it is a pleasure to serve with supervisor avalos and others on that board. and thank you so much to these companies for creating a healthier environment and cleaning the air. and let me turn it over to stephanie anderson as well.

>> thank you so much. we really appreciate this opportunity. i just want to congratulate all the winners and all the companies who participated in the great race for clean air this year. it is a fun way to encourage your employees to try commute alternatives. the most important take away from this, if people can car pool once a week or take a bus once or twice a week it can have a huge impact on the traffic congestion or the air quality. it's worth giving it a go even for a couple days a week. you don't have to go in for all five days. every bit helps and if it's fun and your employees like doing it you'll have a lot of fun. so, thank you so much for this opportunity. >> i'd like to ask if any of the businesses and entities would like to say anything. thank you so much for everything. supervisor avalos, you want to join us for a photo?

>> thank you. supervisor mar. continuing on the theme recognizing small businesses that are doing -- helping to anchor our community, i would like to invite up to the podium raymond and carol young from j.c. market. i'm also happy to invite a

family. just for a little background, since 1971 raymond and carol have been the owners of j.c. market which is a neighborhood serving store at 830 jackson street in the heart of my district in chinatown selling fresh meats, dry goods, vegetable and other chinese groceries. they immigrated here decades ago from china. carol taught for many years in public elementary school while raymond has managed j.c. market as a stable presence within the chinatown community for over 43 years. and i want to thank you for your leadership in helping to anchor that place within our chinatown community, particularly during significant neighborhood change. raymond and carol during the construction of the new chinese hospital have continued to not only taken credibly good care of their dedicated employees, many of whom have been with the market for many, many years, but they have been strong

supporters and incredible advocates for the new chinese hospital building during construction, even though the market has been impacted by their construction work. and i know there are many members of the chinatown community that are very grateful for the work that you have done and for continuing j.c. market and helping to [speaker not understood] the community and on behalf of our districts and our neighborhoods i want to thank you for your leadership, thank you for your stewardship, and we want to wish you all the best for at least another 43 years to come for j.c. market. thank you so much. (applause) >> i want to thank supervisor chiu for this high recognition for my husband. actually, i have not very much to do with him. he's just too shy to come and

say to the board of supervisors so he asked me to come and do it. but i'm glad to accept this commendation and i really appreciate it. and i'm sure raymond does, too. he started off in 1971 as an importer and he did that for about 20 years. but with the change of the clientele and all that, he just gave it up, but he still enjoy going in the store every morning at 9 o'clock and getting off at 6 o'clock. and he looked forward to it, actually. i told him he's supposed to retire with me, but he said that as long as he's able to walk he's going to keep the store open and greet the clientele in chinatown. and he really appreciates. thank you so much. (applause)

>> colleagues, that completes our special commendations for the day. why don't we skip over our 3:00 p.m. special orders and go to our committee reports. madam clerk, could you call

items 39 through 69, the m-o-us. >> items 39 through 16 were considered by the government audit and oversight committee at a regular meeting on thursday, june 12th, 2014 and forwarded to the board as committee reports. the following are the ordinances to fixed compensation or adopt and implement various arbitration awards or mediation agreements establishving a memorandum of understanding or a medving and adopting various amendments to the m-o-u between the city and the following. the building inspectors association of san francisco years 2014 through 2017. local 798 unit 2 firefighters 2014 through 2018. local 78 [speaker not understood] fiscal year 2014 through 2018. item 42, the compensation for unrepresented employees effective fiscal year july 1st through 2014. local 38 united association of journeymen and apprentices of

the plumbing and pipe fitting industry fiscal years 2014 through 2017. local 258, [speaker not understood] multi-unit fiscal years 2014 through 17. local 250 a, the transpour workers union of america 7410, effective fiscal years 2014 through 17. local 200, the transport workers union of america, effective fiscal years 2014 through 17. local 856, the teamsters, multi-unit effective fiscal years 2014 through 17. the supervising probation officers effective fiscal [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. local 10 to 1 service employees international union effective fiscal years 2014 through 17. the sheriff's managers and supervisors association, effective fiscal years 2014 through 17. the san francisco city workers united effective fiscal years 2014 through 17. local 3, the operating engineers effective fiscal years 2014 through 17.

the municipal executives association effective fiscal years 2014 through 17. the municipal attorneys association, effective fiscal years 2014 through 17. local 1414, the machinists union, effective fiscal years 2014 through 17. local 261, [speaker not understood], fiscal years 14 through 17. the institutional police officers association effective fiscal years 2014 through 17. local 21, the international federation of professional and technical engineers effective fiscal years 2014 through 17. local 6, the international brotherhood of electrical workers effective fiscal years 2014 through 17. the district attorney's investigators association effective fiscal years 2014 through 17. the deputy sheriff's association effective fiscal years 2014 through 17. the deputy probation officers association effective fiscal years 2014 through 17. the class coalition effective fiscal years 2014 through 17.

the committee of interns and residents at the service employees international union effective fiscal years 2014 through 17. local 10 to 1 staff and per diem nurses at the service employees international union effective fiscal years 2014 through 16. local 856, the supervising registered nurses, the teamsters, effective 2014 through 2016 the municipal executives association for fire effective fiscal years 2014 through 2018. and the municipal executives association for police effective fiscal years 2014 through 2018. >> thank you, madam clerk for reading that all with one breath. and with that, colleagues, would anyone like to sever any of these items? supervisor tang. >> i'm sorry, i didn't mean to sever anything. but as much as it was a mouthful for madam clerk to read all those, i want to say a number of gao, it was a huge feat for dhr staff to negotiate all these contracts and to do it on time.

so, really wanted to acknowledge all their efforts as well as all the parties involved from the various unions to come to an agreement. so with that, just really want to encourage colleagues to pass all these items today. thank you. >> thank you. i would also join in the comments of supervisor tang. colleagues, unless anyone wants to sever any of these items let's take a roll call vote on the m-o-us. >> on items 39 through 69, supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor 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. >> the m-o-us and the ordinances underlying are passed on the first read. [gavel] >> yea. >> i understand that dph is

here to retake up item 20, which we have already called. so, if i could ask our dph staffer, if you could please approach the microphone, i have a feeling a couple colleagues would have some questions for you. if you could identify yourself for the record. >> tim still well, [speaker not understood]. >> i'll kickoff the questions. could you explain to us this retroactive amendment? >> certainly. so, this contract is a contract that the state of california uses to enforce and structure and mandate that each county provide [speaker not understood] prevention and treatment services. the state's practice is to issue three-year contracts and this is the last month of the three-year contract with them. the contract was originally between san francisco and the state department of drug and alcohol programs. but since then the department of drug and alcohol programs has been disbanded by the governor and the duties were reassigned to the department of

health care services. and then the name of the section within the department of health care services changed again this fiscal year. so, they thought it was necessary to revise the contract. and because the contract is the payment mechanism for medicaid under drug medi-cal, it has to name the responsible state agency for the entire contract period inasmuch as settlement and audit issues are still current, going all the way back to 2011 for the contract. so, they -- that's why they sent us an amendment that would make the naming of the department of health care services retroactive to the first opening date of that contract. >> colleagues, any questions to dph? supervisor breed. >> just a clarifying question. so, there was a contract that

was previously entered into in 2010 under a different name. and so the changes under the state, this is why it's being asked to enter into a retroactive contract. so, the initial contract -- i notice that's what it says in the document. so, that's -- that actually makes sense. but you were obligated to change this contract and the responsible entities based on these state regulations and i just want to make sure that that's what you're saying. >> yes. >> okay, thank you. that helped clear it up. >> supervisor campos. >> yes. if you can explain to me when this contract, the amendment expires. does that expire june 30th of this year? >> indeed, it does. >> and i guess why would we -- what took so long to get to this point?

my understanding from reading the resolution is that the contract amendment was not sent until may of this year, which was, you know, [speaker not understood] since the last amendment expired. just wondering if you could explain that. >> no, there was a contract in force the entire time. the original contract that was signed was through june -- going back to 2010. that was the contract that was -- thats was the period, through june 2014. so, it's been amended several times, and then most recently this amendment that's before you. >> this amendment ends june 2014, right? >> yes. >> so, two weeks least. left. >> yes. >> the last amendment ~ ended june 18, 2013. isn't that correct?

>> i would have to look at that. >> i say the last amendment was voted on by the board june 20, 2013. i'm just wanting to understand the dates here rent >> i understand it was amended last year ~. i honestly believe at that point it was amended to cover through june 2014. >> okay. and, so, the amendment increases it by 1.6 million? >> yes. >> can you explain a little bit about that? >> sure. so, it's basically three funding mechanisms that regulated this contract. one is a submission of federal fund from the prevention treatment and block grant which is an annual allocation from the department of health and human services down to the state and the state reallocates it to the county.

so, that amount tends to be adjusted at the federal level for inflation. so, if you're looking at the same contract for the same services, it increases a little bit for every fiscal year so it will be a little higher than it was last year. that's one. the other sorts of funding [speaker not understood] to the regulations here ab 109 public safety regulations where we have the realignment of state tax revenues to the county so rates have also increased in the last year. and the third piece is the state's estimate of how much they need to encumber to be able to indemnify us for our drug medi-cal claims, and that estimate has changed also based on the change in rates, and also on the changes in drug medi-cal eligibility as of january 1st, 2014. >> yeah, i'm going to support this item, but i do think that it is a little odd that we are

essentially retroactively increasing a contract, you know, two weeks before the term with the increase is supposed to expire. i don't think that's how you want to do business normally. you know, i think it's important that we raise the red flag when something like this happens. >> if i could just ask a follow-up question. again, we're talking about the city receiving money to do these services, right? >> the county. >> the county receiving money. >> it is a county function that this is [speaker not understood] to. >> colleagues, i guess from my perspective, we are increasing this so that we can receive money, which is a little different in my mind than if we were to enter into a contract so that the city can pay money to someone else. that being said, i do agree that we should try to resolve these issues before retroactivity issues occur. although i know it happens a lot as it does a number of items that we did not talk about today. i am also going to support it,

but again, just want to thank you for coming here and, by the way, i understand mr. still well, you're retiring in a few weeks. >> yes. >> just want to -- >> couple of hours. >> couple of hours. thank you for coming down in a final last moment to get your final appearance in front of the board. appreciate that. colleagues, any final questions? with that can we take a roll call vote on item 20? >> on item 20, supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor 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 absent. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. there are 10 ayes. >> this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> supervisor wiener just stepped in.

i understand supervisor wiener wants make a motion rescind this vote. second to that motion. seconded by supervisor breed. without objection, that item is rescinded. [gavel] >> roll call vote again. >> on item 20, supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor 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. >> this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> colleagues, it's now 3 o'clock and we have three special orders, but i would first like to suggest is that we take the third special order from dpw around assessment cost, take that item first so that the parties can have an opportunity to resolve their issues with city staff. madam clerk could you call items 37 and 38.

if members of the public, if you could please be seated just for a moment. we're calling items 37 and 38. what we will hear from this hearing first is staff from the public works department to give us the report on the assessment costs for sidewalk and curb appeals. then we will hear from members of the public that wish to appeal any aspect of this report who will have up to two minutes to speak. from then i will ask dpw staff to step in the hall to have a conversation with any public to see if we can amicably review this and i will ask dpw staff to come back later in the meeting, likely after one or both of the special orders to give a final report back. dpw. >> excuse me, mr. president. >> yes, if you could please read the items 37 and 38. >> thank you. pursuant to a motion no. m-14-0 94, approved on june 10th, 2014, the board of supervisors

will convene a committee of the whole for items 37 and 38. a public hearing to consider objections to a report of assessment costs submitted by the director of public works for sidewalk and curb repairs through the sidewalk inspection and repair program. >> let's now hear from dpw. >> thank you. my name is robert kwan, i'm with the department of public works. this report is for properties inspect and had notified and repairs made and invoiced by the city under the sidewalk inspection and repair program from april 2013 through april 2014. during that period the department inspected and repaired sidewalks and curbs along city blocks and portionses of the marina, lower pacific heights, western addition, cal hollow, potrero hill, lake street district, bernal heights, golden gate heights, outer sunset, hayes

valley, telegraph hill, lone mountain and claire don heights issuing 3,97 2 notices to repair and [speaker not understood] which goes to city agencies and, and private utility companies at a cost of 1,5 56,754 dollars for notices to repairs ~, $1,6 49,387 for [speaker not understood] for a total of $3,206,141. [speaker not understood] invoices were sent out to property oresctionv of which 1,528 property owners paid allowing the city to recover ~ $1,290,360. the balance of the property

owners elected to have the cost of the sidewalk repairs placed on their property tax or otherwise have not paid the city in a timely manner. in this report there are 217 properties with outstanding invoices totaling $2 27,575. >> thank you, mr. kwan. unless there are any questions to dpw staff, let's now hear from members of the public that wish to contest any aspect of the appeal. what i'd like to ask you to do is line up on the right-hand side of the chamber, starting with you, sir. please feel free to step to the mic. and i would ask every member of the public, you have up to two minutes, if you could state your name, your address, the basis for your appeal, and once you're done feel free to take a seat and i'll ask you to meet with mr. kwan outside in the hallway. let's hear from the first speaker. >> my name is tom chan ~ and i received a notice on the building address 5 20 through

524 filbert street. all three of those units ~ are tenant occupied, they're not owner occupied. no one ever received any invoice for any work being done and, therefore, we have no way of knowing what to pay or who to pay. we're perfectly happy to pay it. we just never received an invoice. >> thank you. next speaker. my name is dana chu, i'm one of the property owners [speaker not understood] in san francisco. like the gentleman before me, we did not receive any notice nor amount or an invoice regarding the item of of repairs. we don't know when it was repaired, how much was repaired and what the cost. if the dpw could let us know how much is due and owing and when this was -- when the work was performed, be happy to pay. and i would recommend in the

future that they make better efforts to notify and clarify what work is going to be done. in the notice here it says that there is a reference to the work and the amounts that are charged and it's not available anywhere either online or attached to the notice of the hearing today. >> thank you. next speaker. yes, my name is tom [speaker not understood]. my spouse and i live and own 21 79 [speaker not understood] avenue. we actually purchased our house in 1999. when we moved in, we were told that the large chinese elm on the sidewalk was actually maintained by the city of san francisco. a couple years ago the roots on the elm tree actually broke through the sewer pipe that go from our house to the city water system. we figured since the pipe is in our driveway we had to fix it. that co