to decide which projects should move forward. and if not a moratorium and certainly does not hawk the production of affordable housing. the latest residential pipeline report shows we have built luxury housing of 21 1% while moderate income and low-income have languished at 27.5% and 56.8% respectively. the housing affordability gaps for households up to 120% ami proposes a significant problem for san francisco. based on the last census as i mentioned, these households make up 60% of our city. in fact, our regional housing needs assessment growth is that we build 60% of affordable housing here in san francisco. we want to continue to work with the [speaker not understood] of stakeholders and want to thank those who have been participating in our process thus far. affordable housing advocates, tenants, advocates and the mayor's office and the mayor's work group and we want to continue to work on a package of reforms that actually address the need for increased revenue and reforms our

inclusionary housing policies. with conshes us in our city that the state of luxury housing, what we are currently building is not creating the housing that we want. this is the first real attempt by the board of supervisors to address the imbalance of affordable housing production for 60% of san francisco residents that make $80,000 or less. this puts us on track to be really serious about what building affordable housing means into the future. going out of balance is not what the city wants. it's not about height, it's not about development or even the waterfront. but we must build what san franciscans can afford. i want to thank co-sponsors supervisor avalos, campos, yee and mar. and i just also want to make clear we are not closing the door on the legislative process. hence the new introduction. everyone supports this goal so let's keep talking and let's pass a package of land use and revenue legislation that gets us to our goal. and finally, on behalf of supervisor london breed and

myself, we're asking that the board of supervisors adjourn in the memory of kevin lessen. this has been quite a bitter sweet week for many of us and myself in particular. many of you know kevin very well. he is a father, husband, best friend, writer, hip-hop aficionado, sports and politics speak, accomplished journalist and long-time new america media family member. he passed away peacefully in his home in oakland surrounded by his friends and family after nearly two years fighting with leukemia. he was 45 and from 1999 to 2010 he worked as a new american youth media [speaker not understood]. he was an activist and

visionary. he founded the voice of the inner city youth. as a young man kevin was a paper boy for the oakland tribune. he admired the first black publisher of a major metropolitan daily. at the time he had no idea he wanted to be a journalist. his interests in journalism [speaker not understood] his experience as a community college organizer and he noted the paper had the message he he and others wanted to get across. he started vying for the paper. [speaker not understood] city college by working for u.p.s. and started writing for pacific news services. over the next two decades he raised a generation of young writers, film makers, photographers and activists from east oakland, bayview hunters point, and the mission. many of whom before meeting kevin would not have conceived of themselves as having a break and many of whom have found great success.

russell morris, the former [speaker not understood] magazine editor and one of many -- one of the many [speaker not understood] eloquently wrote, i was one of the people kevin guided. my story is a familiar one among a veteran. i spent my teenage years in juvenile hall and came to new media hall through yoest. kevin came in as head of the magazine. he trusted our impulses and gave us the tools and encouragement to tell the stories we deemed most pressing. [speaker not understood] a former colleague of mine came to my office after a chance meeting in 2001 reflecting on his influence in her life, she said as a young reader i was afraid to talk about taboo topics related to the afghan community. kevin taught me how to find myself. voice. he taught me how to find courage. he showed me how to take risks

and advance myself. her first story ran on the cover. thises was a month before 9/11 and long before the oppression of afghan women as a justification for war. kevin was dialed into the world in a way that seemed almost extra sensory. his legacy is solidified as a media pioneer in what is now referred as a bay area style of journalism an early ancestor of journalism that combines multi-media storytelling and activism with emerging technology toward the 21st century. the pacific news service model of journalism encouraged community members mostly media to tell their own stories relating to themes ignored like incarceration, environmental justice, violence and immigration. kevin [speaker not understood] dynamic and unique perspective in the world. in the years that we worked together his typical work ethic consisted of a dashiki worn

under a tuxedo jacket with camouflage pants and an oakland a's baseball cap with his bushy afro pushing out the side. many aspects of kevin's identity were in this [speaker not understood]. a proud oakland native. as russell clearly wrote, [speaker not understood], he insisted on media production as a core of the training and his office produced video for the entire office. he considered -- convinced the san francisco d.a.'s office to fund a computer lab for youth diverted from prison whom yoest then trained in excessive art. the program ran successfully for three years and was called changing the odds and was cited by attorney general harris as one of her signature initiative in the juvenile justice program. as a journalist kevin was to make connections no one else saw, to see the wider context in [speaker not understood].

why did oakland children laugh at the schindler's list because they had never heard of the holocaust. [speaker not understood]. new generation of street survival benefited from surgery in the gulf war to leave shrapnel in the body rather than dislodge them. kevin established a connection between violence for communities and the ongoing wars in iraq and afghanistan. he encouraged young writers to find a global connection to the local stories they were writing about. kevin won a fellowship of the knight journalism center at stanford, a prestigious fellowship and program. it was at this time as many of you remember that kevin was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of leukemia. kevin and his wife latifah, a giant of her own within our generation, was an activist frame of always thinking about the larger community then began a campaign to increase the

number of people in particular african-americans and other people of color to [speaker not understood] the bone marrow drive to convince more people to donate through the bone marrow transplant registry. bone marrow transplants are lifesaving medical procedure that can help leukemia like the one kevin suffered from, and this is a particular difficult struggle for african-american communities because only 8% of registered donors are of african descent. kevin spoke passionately about this problem saying my story is one of many. there are thousands of african-americans and people of color around the country who des plattly need a bone marrow transplant but can't find the match. my wife and i started this campaign to do it what we could do to raise awareness about the urgent issue. he was a voice, warrior [speaker not understood]. they gave the money to children who were also fighting the same

disease. his last day on father's day, kevin fought. he fought his way out of the hospital. he insisted ongoing home. and when he got home, he insisted on having a smoke in his backyard. and then when he laid down to rest, he watched the final ball game, watched espn and continued to talk to his friends. we talked about politics, we talked about the oakland's mayor's race, even the [speaker not understood] race. sports, soccer and the world cup. kevin's family, his wife, his stepdaughter, three yoer old daughter layla, mrs. weston, particularly thank the entire community and the board of supervisors for supporting the fight, contributing dollars, volunteer hours, publicly to the story and the bone marrow drive, but most of all your love. rest in power, kevin. we miss you and we love you tremendously. and the rest i submit.

>> thank you, supervisor kim. >> colleague, could i suggest that we do the in memoriam on behalf of the board? i think most of us have had a chance to know kevin. >> yes. >> that should be the case. [gavel] >> supervisor mar? >> thank you, madam clerk. ~ without objection, that should be the case it is an honor to be added to the in memoriam with the rest of us and those who knew keefa simon, may kevin weston rest in peace and power. i have two item today that i'm submitting, very important ones. the first is an antispeculator tax that we're hoping to place on the november 2014 ballot with a coalition of community groups throughout the city. the second is a resolution to address the rapid expansion of

uber and transportation network vehicles throughout our city. so, the first item, i just wanted to acknowledge that i was proud to stand with supervisors david campos, john avalos, and jane kim, the four of us with a broad coalition today on city hall steps. and we are introducing today an antispeculator tax for the november ballot. this will go a long way towards stopping the relentless real estate speculation going on right now that's making our housing unaffordable and tearing our neighborhoods apart. i thinks as many of the neighborhoods represented today, we were chanting stop the flip. and for those of you that don't know about previous efforts in the city to maintain our housing diversity, harvey milk, our former beloved supervisor, his idea but also along with housing justice leaders many decades ago, was to propose a

tax like this. it was one of his final pieces of legislation. but our effort today is building off of that tradition and the power of the movements to maintain the diversity and the beauty of our city. the idea also comes out of large numbers of gatherings of communities throughout our city to deal with the horrible affordability crisis that we're in, and to fight back with balance and fairness and to stop greedy speculation going on in our city. so, i'd like to thank the hundreds of san francisco residents that were with us today and that we will build through november who have spoken out and identified real estate speculation as the main culprit causing san francisco's housing crisis and have asked all offices to step forward to help us move this measure to protect our city. here's how it will work. it will create a graduated real estate transfer tax, short-term flip property. when a profit is being made off of the sale.

if the resale is within the first year of purchase then the tax will be 24% of the retail price. within two years, 22%. three years, 20%. up to five years at 14%. if you buy property and hold onto it for five years or longer it doesn't impact you at all. the tax also focuses specifically on greedy speculators. it does not apply at all to six categories. single-family homes or condos, owner occupied tics or tenancy in commons, new construction, buildings over 30 units. when a property owner sells their property at a loss, and lastly, sales to create permanently affordable housing. we know that speculation leads to increased housing costs. there have been a number of studies showing that. also, we know that astronomical housing costs like we're facing today in san francisco is the greatest concern of many san franciscans throughout our city from the rich modxctionv to ~

richmonds and other neighborhoods as well. we need to work together to preserve our neighborhood, character and diversity, also to make sure san francisco is affordable for all. if we pass this measure, we have a fighting chance to accomplish these goals. it will take grassroots efforts and unity across our neighborhoods to win in november. i wanted to thank the san francisco antidisplacement coalition, the antieviction mapping project, affordable housing alliance, alliance of californianses for community empowerment or aid, [speaker not understood] housing opportunities program, [speaker not understood], central city collaborative, the chinatown community development center, ccdc, coalition of community housing organizations of [speaker not understood], [speaker not understood], harvey milk lgbt club, [speaker not understood], san francisco rising coalition, san francisco tenants union, sda or san francisco senior and disability action and many, many others.

i wanted to also thank nick [speaker not understood] from my staff for spending countless hours building unity among people, addressing different concerns, but really moving this forward in a masterful way. and i'd like to thank ken fuchioka and fernando marti for helping in the process. with strong unity in our neighborhoods we can hopefully addressee vixes and displacement going on in our city. ~ also i wanted to introduce a resolution today supported by supervisors john avalos and david campos. it's to find a balance between our city's transportation needs and the safety of drivers, passengers and pedestrians. it's addressing the issue of the rapid increase in the uber lift type vehicleses or transportation companies. the tragic new year's eve killing of six-year old sophia lu but an uber driver and the injuries of her mother and

brother is something that is still fresh in our minds. ~ by the incident raised a number of questions about uber and lift type companies also known as transportation network companies or tncs. i believe the term was coined by our public utilities commission a few months ago. i'll have to get used to tncs as the term. but these new types of companies that are providing popular transportation services, i use them once in a while as well, are operating in what i would call a wild west of unchecked industry without any controls and regulations where efforts to protect public safety and consumer safety. also as we've seen from a budget analyst report, [speaker not understood] carefully rapidly expanding as well as a new industry and business is it the city. some of the statistics i've

seen are -- in the city we have about 9,000 cab drivers and about 1,856 full-time cabs on the street, and yet according to the budget analyst report i commissioned from june 9, we are seeing a rapid expansion of an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 tnc drivers operating in san francisco. so, it's a huge industry that's expanding. and last week our budget and legislative analyst, the report that they competed, also detailed a number of risks that are raised by this expansion of this industry, and it followed a march 6 hearing on tncs where we heard from some experts, but also some in our communities. the bra analyst report and findings are really important. they recommended that or they pointed out san francisco taxis are required to do significant extensive background checks, safety checks, training courses

to maintain low fares, and especially to serve vulnerable people like persons with disabilities as well as, but there isn't a comparative balance with the uber type tncs and they can exploit this to providing unfair advantage at times. the existing uber type tnc companies are also not required to charge predictable fares, be accessible to persons with disabilities, and aren't required to demand more extensive background checks for drivers for public safety reasons. and this is leading to what i would call and the budget analyst found the price gouging found last week in muni's stick out or denying people service with animals. it's not okay for uber to put people at risk without strong safety precautions or deny service to people with disabilities. for today i'm putting forward this resolution. it will urge our state's public utilities commission to quickly take stronger action to further regulate the tnc services and

require the mta to develop an action plan to enforce these stronger regulations that are coming through state legislation and through the state's public utilities commission. the resolution is urging our public utilities commission to establish more stringent safety regulations including annual vehicle inspections conducted by third parties and driver background checks using state and federal criminal history databases, to, to create more comprehensive insurance requirement, three to restrict the number of consecutive hours that a tnc driver may work and, four, requirements fully accessible to persons with disabilities. it also directs the mta to report on the action plan steps necessary to establish tnc regulations or locally enforce state's public utilities commission regulations. lastly, this is about ensuring that all of our transportation services are safe and accessible for everyone in our

city of san francisco. we don't need to trade our safety to get good service for transportation in our city. again, i'd like to thank our co-sponsors supervisor avalos and campos and peter in my office for put thing together. thank you. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor wiener. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, today i'm introducing legislation that will do two things. first, it will provide our public utilities commission with the right of first refusal to be the power provider for all-new development in san francisco, and second, it will generate funds due to that increase in retail customers for the power enterprise to invest in the puc's power infrastructure including our long neglected street light

system as well as other infrastructure such as mountain tunnel. the power enterprise has been providing power in san francisco for about 100 years. we are relying on the power right now as we sit here in city hall. so, if san francisco general hospital, san francisco international airport, fire stations, libraries, police stations and so forth. this is a reliable source of energy. in addition, it is 100% clean renewable energy being hydroelectric power. this is the direction we should be going in terms of expanding clean energy in our city. unfortunately, the power enterprise, unlike its sister agencies, the water department and the sewer department, has a very, very small customer base. the puc does a great job both in water and sewer services to a broad segment of san francisco, but the power

enterprise is very limited, providing for the most part municipal energy to city departments as well as the school district and city college. these rates are basically at cost and the puc power enterprise very much needs retail customers in order to generate funds to meet its infrastructure needs. right now the significant amount of hydroelectric power with the power enterprise does not sell at retail. it's sold onto the wholesale market at a much lower rate. by increasing the power enterprise's retail customer pool, i.e., giving it the first right of refusal for all-new development in san francisco, residential office, et cetera, by providing that increased retail customer base, the puc will generate significantly more revenue for every ten megawatts, megawatt hours of electricity that it sells at retail, $4 million will be

generated. those funds will then be reinvested. we know that our street light system is not doing well. the puc owns and operates 25,000 street lights, many of them are in a state of disrepair, significant deferred maintenance. we have very, very large street light needs. the puc also has significant infrastructure deficits in terms of its up system infrastructure. it's total infrastructure needs are pushing a billion dollars and this clean energy plan in addition to increasing clean energy in san francisco will allow the agency to begin to address its very large infrastructure requirements. so, i look forward to moving this legislation forward, and i look forward to asking for your support. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. submit? supervisor avalos.

>> thank you, madam clerk. just a couple of item for introduction. see if i can pull this all together. [speaker not understood] is our city attorney request to draft an ordinance to authorize the implementation of full-service partnerships for individuals with mentor [speaker not understood] who meet the criteria established by california welfare and institutions codes, sections 5 -- 53 45-53 49-5 laurel law making a finding that this authorization will not result in a reduction of [speaker not understood] and mental health program. this submission strikes out the court bureaucracy due to the proposed assisted outpatient treatment policy that will be before us later this month. the new motion would instead guarantee mental health treatment for those who are mental health system has traditionally failed. the mission moved away from the politics that often surrounds the most disabled san

franciscans including disportion atly african-american and latino residents struggling with mental health illness. the measure also addresses what family members want most for the children for the children struggling with mental health issues and those are services. services are also what consumer want for themselves. under the proposed ordinance clients who qualify would be connected with a range of wrap around services called a full-service partnership. the ordinance would eliminate the [speaker not understood] and court process for requiring treatment and services. it would create instead a pathway to treatment that would allow family members to petition the department of public health directly for services for their loved ones. consumers who qualify for the full service partnerships program will be guaranteed services instead of having to navigate a complicated court process to get those services.

first service partnership is wrap around services recognized by the state as best practices and proved ento be client centered and empowering for clients. they also work to reduce homelessness, hospitalization, arrests, and ultimately to save the city money. i look forward to our conversation here at the board about how we can move this forward and looking forward to our discussions. my next item is a resolution that is in support of the city of richmond's control and [speaker not understood] reduction program. trying to support many households under water in that area. we have a part in san francisco where households are also under water. the city of richmond has been struggling to create their [speaker not understood] reduction program. they need a majority vote and that's not been able to do what some of the pressures of councilmember in city of richmond. the joint powers of authority

is a pathway, in the state of california the pathway they are choosing. i asked the city attorney to draft legislation to [speaker not understood] powers of authority so we can join that partnership and support many of the households including san francisco who are struggling with even with the economy the way it is right now with under water mortgages. so, the resolution we have before us is for adoption [speaker not understood] reference calendar. i want to make sure we can actually provide richmond with some support as they are facing critical decisions about their program moving forward in july and having a resolution that supports the intent of the board of supervisors to perhaps join the jpa, will give them some cover to make some difficult decisions in richmond and the county of contra costa county. the rest, colleague, i will submit. >> thank you, supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. >> thank you.

i have one item today that i want to talk about, but first i just want to acknowledge i appreciate the housing balanced proposal introduced by supervisor kim. i know many of us on this board are frustrated and we don't feel that enough is being done to strike a balance and to deal with our affordable housing crises in the city. and many of us have taken steps to address this issue. and i just want to talk a little bit about what my concerns are with the proposed legislation. i'm looking forward to a discussion with the board in order to come to some sort of resolution, but i do have a real concern. and i want to just start by explaining that market rate construction provides the much needed monies that we use for affordable housing. so, if we ashe trayerly restrict new construction, it

means less funding for affordable housing and fewer homes for san francisco of all income ranges. ~ arbitrarily i'm not sure under the proposal we would have less funding to do that. we already experience significant delays as it relates to building affordable housing in our city. in my district alone, we have empty lots that are available for affordable housing, specifically we just extended a lease with proxy for a lot located on hayes and octavia because we are not prepared to build the affordable housing for that particular lot. there is also another lot located on fell and octavia boulevard. this is slayedthed for affordable housing. we don't anticipate completing those projects for years to come. those are new potential affordable housing projects and we currently do not have enough money or resources necessary to build those housing. the money has to come from somewhere. it comes from a lot of different sources, but one of

the most reliable sources has been development and has been the development of market rate units, which help to offset the cost of affordable housing. this proposal, i think, will reroute all of the potential affordable housing funds to new development and i also have an issue with the fact that we have developments in my district in particular that need to be rehabilitated. there are a lot of different layers to affordable housing. specifically, there's public housing, yes, and there's san francisco housing authority. there is also housing that's under hud directly that exists as a result of redevelopment. and specifically a number of those developments are past their life-span and need to be rehabilitated. and i know we're going to be working on looking at this legislation to determine how those can be included in the