think revolutionary in a city like this. i feel really good norman put together the effort to combine everything into one package. i wasn't always in agreement with that. now i'm seeing the wisdom of that from his experience leading organizations like wu yee and many early child care -- child care and early child care education organizations combined allow us to build a stronger unity among educators among teachers and parents and youth as well. lastly, i just wanted to say peter lawederer borne from my office did an incredible amount of work to advocate and to move things forward, too, and i wanted to thank him. but i think especially ~ it's that united campaign that will win in november and set san francisco back on the map as a city that really puts children, families, and equity in social justice first as we advance our children's and families initiatives forward in 2014. thanks so much to jane, norman and john avalos as well. >> supervisor avalos.

>> thank you. i'll be very, very brief. everyone has said pretty much everything that needed to be said td children and family initiative. drawed needed to be said about the ~ beth rubenstein is in my office, wanted to acknowledge her work. [speaker not understood] in norman yee's office has been combining these measures and working closely with all of our offices. peter lauderbourne did a lot of work knishly with the children's furnished coalition. i wanted to thank him for his effort as well as ~ fund as well [speaker not understood] in jane kim's office. norman yee mentioned tom owen. wanted to thank him as well for his work and getting last minute details from us to put in charter amendment form. that was very, very helpful. and look forward to voting on this next week. >> thank you. colleague, as you know, under

our board of supervisors board rules, at least six days need to intervene before the first appearance of a proposed charter amendment before we actually submit it to the electorate. with that i'd like to entertain a motion to continue this. could i have a motion to do that in motion by supervisor yee, seconded by supervisor mar to continue this item to the 15th of july. without objection, that should be the case. [gavel] >> madam clerk, could you call item 70? >> item 70 was referred without recommendation from the rules committee. a charter amendment in its second draft, charter amendment (second draft) to amend the charter of the city and county of san francisco to require the department of elections to hold a special election when there is a vacancy in the office of the mayor or member of the board of supervisors, unless a regularly scheduled election will be held within 180 days of the vacancy; to provide that the president of the board of supervisors serves as acting mayor until an election is held to fill a mayoral vacancy; and to provide that the mayor appoints an interim supervisor to fill a supervisorial vacancy until an election is held to fill that vacancy, with the interim supervisor being ineligible to compete in that election, at an election to be held on november 4, 2014. ~ held to fill that vacancy. >> supervisor avalos.

>> thank you, supervisor chiu. i will hold my comments to next week and motion this item to the following meeting. >> supervisor avalos has made a meeting. is there a second to ma motion? seconded by supervisor kim without objection. item 70 will be continued to the 15th of july. [gavel] >> madam clerk could you call the committee reports item 71? >> item 71 was considered by the [speaker not understood] at a regular meeting july 7. the committee sent the item to the board as a committee report. it is a resolution imposing interim zoning controls for an 18-month period in the castro street neighborhood commercial district to require a conditional use authorization by the planning commission under planning code, section 303(i), for a proposed use that has been determined to be formula retail even if a project sponsor subsequently removes one or more distinguishing formula retail use features from the project proposal; and making environmental findings, and findings of consistency with the general plan, and with the eight priority policies of planning code, section 101.1. ~ project proposal. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. president. and i want to thank my co-sponsors, supervisors campos and mar, on these interim zoning controls which were

designed to close a loophole that we recently discovered in our formula retail controls and which emerged in the castro street neighborhood commercial district. and, colleague, i ask for your support for these temporary controls. i know that both the planning department, supervisor mar are working on legislation to deal with a number of different issues around formula retail. i believe that this loophole would likely be cleared up by legislation, although i can't say for sure because i don't know what exactly is going to come out. but for now i ask for your support. and i do want to ask the city attorney to respond to a purported ceqa appeal that we received at the board of supervisors relating to these interim controls and to ask the city attorney if that appeal is valid in terms of being an

appealable item and if we can vote on this item today. >> deputy city attorney jon givner. the clerk's office received an appeal -- ceqa appeal today on this item. the planning department made the determination this item is not a project. and as a result, that -- that that determination is not appealable. determination is that a, that a action is not a project or not appealable to the board of supervisors under ceqa. so, the board may act on this item today, notwithstanding the attempt at an appeal. >> through the chair to the president, mr. givner, thank you. colleagues, i ask for your support. >> with that, the last item we voted on being unanimous, colleagues, can we take this same house same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> madam clerk, why don't we go now to roll call.

>> first up to introduce new business is supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. i just want to take a moment and recognize a woman who dedicated her life to san francisco. her name is omega harden. i'd like to close the meeting out in her memory. ms. harden was born on march 9, 1927 in texas. she what the ninth sibling out of 13 children and she lived in san francisco for 65 years. spending most of her time in double rock. ms. harden spent the majority of her life as a cook working at the huntington hotel. the former le me ridian hotel in san francisco. churches included evergreen baptist church, bell chapel cme

baptist church as well as providence baptist church. to me ms. harden was known as the godmother of [speaker not understood] rock community and was well respected by everyone who lived there. she what known for her famous butter cookies and always made sure that everyone who entered her house was fed. she was kind and always saw the potential in everyone. ms. harden touched lives as she touched mine and she will be missed by many people. and, so, want to just give a moment and just recognize the many member of shooting and give voice to this particular issue. it is an important issue, not one, but only affectseses eastern part of the city, but also the entire city. as you know, there was some unfortunate acts of violence around market street and it is a slow ground swell, there is

a growing sentiment of outrage and certainly one that is not misplaced, but appropriately so. and this growing outrage needs to send a message to everyone in san francisco that the issues that we're facing in the southeastern sector of the city is everyone's issue. everyone should be alarmed by the number of shootings and the loss of life that we have been experiencing in the last 13 days. i think it's also important that we recognize those that have lost their life and important that we stay focused on the harm that violence, particularly gun violence is doing to our city. i think it is apropos you heard in my remarks earlier when we were talking about laura's law that we begin to deal with toxic stress in a very serious manner. for youth as well as the department of public health, i want to commend them for the

work that they've done addressing the crisis that ha arisen due to the shooting at hurst playground. the leadership the community has given ~ and ha wrapped their arms around the families that mourn as well as the entire community that's in pain. thank you for your consideration. next for introduction i'd like to discuss an item that will have a significant contribution to the bayview community, 900 innes. i'm introducing legislation to acquire the southern waterfront parcel of open space. it is important we note that this acquisition of the property at 00 innes is an integral piece to completing the greenway which is actually critically needed to continue

to move the bayview community in the revitalization of the greenway forward. the bayview master plan is one of the city's most comprehensive open space planning issues in decades to come. it is in part of the city where we are experiencing rapidly growing changes to the neighborhood. once completed, the region will be like, i hate to say this, but like chrisy field, but only better. i want to use chrisy field as an example because that is a mental image we all can wrap our minds around. we are going to take chrisy field by storm because we're going to make it better and it's going to be transforming resources that have really been neglected for the community and create a beautiful open space and greater waterfront space accessible for all. the new open space will connect these neighborhoods to the

waterfront and serve as the catalyst for responsive and responsible development employment opportunities and economic vitality. some of the goals of this project i want to just take a moment to tease out for you. it's going to create 13 miles of open space network along the southeastern waterfront. it is going to preserve and enhance existing retail spaces, improve transportation with the informational bike lanes and pedestrian improvements, largely opening a part of the city that has been locked up. it's going to preserve and restore the historic ship right building on-site and this vision is -- this vision for this project began 10 years ago in the making. i'm happy to carry it over the finish line but i also want to recognize the significant contributions that former supervisor sophie maxwell made to bring this vision forward. also want to recognize the leadership within the india basin community and also want to give up lift to those living up on [speaker not understood] road in kiska.

we couldn't have gotten this far without you. so, i hope, i hope to have your support on this particular measure to continue to go forward. thank you, colleague. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i have two items today. first resolution that we've been working on for close to a year here with a number of our members of our city family, a resolution around health care quality and cost transparency. as you all know, i serve as member of our health service system board representing the board of supervisors and last year we held a hearing on the need for transparency and accountability in the health care marketplace as we continue to seek health care costs rise across our country. i will say and we will ~ [speaker not understood] part of the budget, we are incredibly lucky to have catherine dodd leading the charge of hhs reducing our rates and getting our rates under control in the city and county of san francisco for our own employees. and i've been working can

catherine in the joint labor management transparency and accountability to continue to move this issue forward. i do want to thank rebecca orient, [speaker not understood], jeff, saily, elizabeth for all their hard work on this ~. this continues to be important issue because lack of transparency makes it difficult for people to know when they can get the best health care for themselves, for their families or for their own employees. if someone needs open heart surgery, no facts or date to a inform someone where the lowest mortality rate exists or lowest post infection rate may be. as we continue to evolve and paying for our own health care, that we continue to shoulder the burden of more ongoing costs and procedures down the road, i believe we continue to need to be more well informed as residents, as citizens, and as people here in san francisco. in the united states we pay almost double what every other developed country pays for health care. and premiums are likely to go up 5 to 8% in the coming years

as affordable tax and tax on high health care plans also kicks into gear. hhs spends more than $720 million annually on insurance premiums for over 100,000 public employees retirees and their dependence. transparency will reward providers who deliver the best quality care and help patients pick the best doctors, hospitals, pharmacies and other providers. without transparency, it's extremely difficult to negotiate and improve rates. in terms of the resolution being introduced today this is an issue that's going to require several steps and constant attention. after several meetings with our city attorney's office catherine dodd and other members of hhs and the joint labor committee we all agree this resolution is the next step to address the issue. the resolution gives a directive to hss as they negotiate with health care vendors to demand quality and cost transparency by 2016 as well as agreements with no anti-competitive provisions. it also recommends that hss establish a payment reform and transparent advisory group made up of a nationally recognized

expert and experts to outline a framework for transparent health care system here in san francisco. and i will continue to work with hss to form this group. hss will report back to the board of supervisors march 31st, 2016 on their negotiations, progress and outcomes for this advisory group. i do believe we as a board owe it to our residents as consumers to gain more insight into health care costs that we continue to shoulder the burden of more and more. so they can begin to move towards more competitive pricing structure. transparent marketplace as we all know are inherently more competitive and more competition will lead to driving down costs, something we can all agree on we're seeing here at the city and county of san francisco. i look forward to your support as that comes forward. the second item is unfortunately an in memoriam for reverend anthony turney here in san francisco. reverend turney was joined by friends and family on july 4, 2014 in the coming home hospice in san francisco following three years living with cancer.

he was 76 years old and his death came on the 30th anniversary of him becoming a u.s. citizen. reverend turney was born in england in 1937. his first years were spent in the church of england home for waifs and strays. he was adopted by the turney family 40 miles northeast of london. in his mid teens he served as a police cadet and at the age of 17 anthony joined the grenade air guards re i am. ~ [speaker not understood]. besides serving in the guards icon i can ceremonial duties outside of buckingham palace, anthony also had distinguished service on their fire crisis. afterwards he spent his 20s in various jobs in london, lost in the wilderness as he put it. for his career he moved to the u.s. in 1968 and immediately jumped into the nonprofit world. he first established himself in new york city. reverend turney made a name for himself as an independent

producer. especially proud to present at carnegie hall. over the years he also lived in st. louis, atlanta, washington, d.c. and san francisco. he was a long time champion of social justice issues in the lgbt community and most recently as arch deacon for the arts at grace cathedral, he epitomized what it was to be a servant minister. an open gay minister. [speaker not understood], executive director of the dance theater of harlem and administrative director of the san francisco opera. with his life in san francisco and the onset of the hiv/aids epidemic in the 1980s, reverend turney's life changed course. in 1991 he quit his work to care for his partner james who was dying from aids related complications and losing his partner was devastating. in 1992 after completing aids memorial panel he asked god

what he should do next and he moved to san francisco. in 1992 he was named ceo of the names project foundation, international caretaker of the aids memorial quote and after 43 years 43 panel to washington, d.c. to display on the national mall viewed by over 1 million people. ordained to the episcopal [speaker not understood] in 186 and continued to serve through his work at grace cathedral under the austria cpitions of san francisco. in 1996 he was appointed the san francisco arts commission. in 2000 he served as a consultant in the united states agency for international development. in san francisco he found a spiritual home at grace cathedral where he served as parishioner, canon for development and vocational calling as clergy. several years before his retirement he was appointed to the arch die seize of california serving the whole community of deacons administratively and pastorly and very much a person to whom very relied centrally and heavily.

afterwards anthony was named arch deacon [speaker not understood] and chaplain of the dean's arts committee for the cathedral. they will remember him most for his personality. he filled the room with grace and dignity and uses keen humor to destroy any remaining decorum. he was a [speaker not understood] he valued each person that came into his life. his friends and colleagues know him best by his giving nature as well as san francisco. reverend turney is survived by san francisco, st. louis and los angeles family, his friends and colleagues and companion drew. the funeral and celebration of reverend turney's life will be held july 14 at 11:00 a.m. and the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. >> submit. >> supervisor mar? >> thank you, madam clerk. this weekend on sunday is the second time sunday streets will hit the richmond district and i wanted to say there is a route a laguna honda ar dwell a

boulevard from golden gate park all the way to the presidio that i share with supervisor farrell as well in district 2 ~. so, i'm please today announce this coming sunday from 11 to 4:00 p.m., sunday streets will be on ar dwell a boulevard from fulton street at golden gate park to lake street near the presidio arguello gate traveling from park to park as we call it, this route will connect golden gate park to the presidio by opening arguella boulevard for peep to engage in fun and healthy activities, lots of family, dogs, many people are out there each year and we're really happy and hoping for nice suny weather this coming sunday. the richmond route is a little different from last year, though. so, be sure to check the map. this route highlights the entrance to the richmond district and the importance of arguella boulevard located on a bike network it is a major north south connector that

passes many important destination in our city. unfortunately it's also a high bicycle injury and high pedestrian injury corridor. so, i'm working closely and my staff is as well with local residents, the bicycle coalition, the mta and others to develop a new safer street on arguello. so, the sunday streets will give us an opportunity to see how pedestrianization and closure of a street for one day in the year can really help us look at more safety efforts, too. so, after the inaugural sunday streets in the richmond last year, we were excited to bring this fun open streets back to the richmond. it connects car-free streets on jfk drive on golden gate park to the car free streets of the presidio. sunday streets in the richmond also creates miles of car-free space for families to get out and be active. i think sunday streets which emerged from south american countries like bogota are an opportunity for youth, for

people to come out to build stronger, connected and interconnected communities. the root connects to clement street, farmers market. i call it clement street community farmers market. as supervisor farrell and i know it is the place where i see him and his family. i see many people from the richmond as well every sunday for our community farmers market. so, one of the places that i'll be -- i'll have a booth with my staff and volunteers on arguello on clement street at farmers market, also the presidio family fun festival will be taking place at mountain lake park is the supervisor farrell's district. it is another way to connect sunday streets with other great activities. there will also be a free shuttle on sunday streets richmond district that connect people to off the street grid presidio main post. it will pick up people from the start of the sunday streets route at arguello and lake as well. so, i hope you join us on sunday streets, come to my booth, our booth at the

entrance of the farmers market and talk about the issues and how we can make arguello boulevard and many other streets in our neighborhoods safer. if you want more information, contact livable city at 415-314-40 89 or go to sunday streets s.f..com. thanks. i'll submit the rest. >> thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor wiener. ~ >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, today i am submitting four in me more i can't relating to the murder of fourteen agers in the middle east in the last couple of weeks ~, three i israelis and one palestinian. [speaker not understood] is one that gets very politicized and we all have our views and differing views in the community. i know i have my own strong views. but this is really not a

political issue. when we see teenagers being murdered in cold blood, the politics are not what this is about. the fact that this is happening is further proof that we have to resolve this situation. it's untenable in terms of the conflict that's occurring, an apparent inability to come to a peaceful resolution. on june 12, three israeli teenagers were kidnapped in the west bank as they were hitch hiking home. on june 30th the israeli mill industry found their bodies in a field northwest of hebron. i think it is important to note these were not just statistics, these were real live people, teenagers. [speaker not understood], 19, was from alad, town in central israel. friends of his family spoke of him as having been the father of all kids in the neighborhood

and someone who always did the right thing. naftali frank el was born in the religious community [speaker not understood] between israel in the west bank. his mother rachel said he was the second of 7 children loved playing basketball, and the guitar, fought with his sister, and had a cynical sense of humor. [speaker not understood] was from the settlement of [speaker not understood] in the central west bank. he was a leader and [speaker not understood] a popular religious youth movement and his friends and family said he was an avid baker. shortly thereafter a palestinian teenager named mohammed abu a 16-year-old from east jerusalem was abducted from his home and his charred remains were found in the jerusalem forest. preliminary autopsy reports found that he was still alive when he was set on fire. mohammed's cousin remembers him

as a quiet boy, "who went to school and then straight home, a boy who had good friends, who didn't get into trouble." colleagues, i ask that we adjourn the meeting in the memory of these fourteen agers and that we do so on behalf of the whole board. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. and i skipped over supervisor tang. sorry about that, supervisor tang. >> no problem, madam clerk. thank you. today i am actually not introducing a piece of legislation to you all, but introducing to you the first of its kind san francisco blueprint. it is a project that i took upon two months after coming into office and came up with this idea because i had -- i had been really inspired by the fact our city had a ten-year capital plan where we really layout how is it that we're going to fund our infrastructure improvements within the next ten years. and, so, i wanted to bring that to a neighborhood level, not just about our infrastructure improvements but policy areas and also bringing to light our community concerns.

so, we spent six grueling months doing some really engaging community outreach talking and listening to our constituents about what some of their ideas and suggestions were to improve the sunset district. we also met with all of our city departments to gather their feedback about what it is that we are already working on that can help also improve our district. and we came up with five issue areas that we wanted to focus on. children, families, and seniors, public transportation pedestrian safety, land use, economic development, and public safety and emergency preparedness. so, in those five issue areas we have laid out what it is we hope to see short medium long term in the sunset district and really hoping to provide a more focused effort in our office to better serve our residents. so, we did this all in-house, depth hire any outside consultants. it was a huge incredible effort. so, i really want to thank my staff arkly summers, stanley [speaker not understood], we had incredible intern [speaker

not understood] as well as planning department staff adrian who helped us put this together. i want to thank them for that. we're going to officially reveal it to the community tomorrow evening, 6 to 7:00 p.m., [speaker not understood] on 20th avenue. in the meantime want to pass around a draft. we're proud of our accomplishment, but i will ask for the draft back afterwards and i just really want to -- hope that we will be able to continue being very proactive in how we serve our community and residents. so, thank you very much. >> thank you, supervisor tang. supervisor yee. >> thank you, madam clerk. i'd like to close today's meeting in memoriam to layton dong. layton was a close friend of mine for 40 years and he was [speaker not understood] with his son up in the mountains over a week ago when he

suddenly passed away, not really knowing what he passed away of. and i have to say that losing him will be a great loss to san francisco. i mean, i just loved his sense of humor and his knack for life. he what probably the best cook i've ever known. and more recently he was well loved by the swing dance community. and prior to that he was a leader in bringing culturally for the first time in the united states chinese drumming. he was the head of the founder of the yellow river drum troop that taught chinese drumming to just 15, 20 years of children learning at schools and so forth, and now it's becoming a

little more of a mainstream in term of that cultural activity. and prior to that he always was into his martial arts and line dancing and always taught many people in the community these trades. so, it's like i said, it's a great loss to not only me, but many of his friends and the city of san francisco and what he had brought to san francisco. he he is survived by his wife janet and his two sons kegan and logan. ~ the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor yee. supervisor avalos. >> thank you, madam clerk. today i have an in memoriam for edna eileen flores lagunte, wife to a member of the clerk staff richard lagunte. on june 4, 2014, riding her bicycle as part of the 7 day