no, everyone didn't get what they want. it is frustrating to have to give up some things in order to allow various districts to have things where there is more need, and in particular, in my district i'm really happy with the ability to make sure that community centers like [speaker not understood] get taken care of as well as job programs and job training programs. the frustration of dealing with in the past the homicides which i know mady scott is here today from the healing circle. some of these women here today have lost their sons, have lost family members ~. one of the things that happened in my district in particular was the loss of so many young african-americans over the years and the one consistent message in my district has been job opportunities, housing opportunities, and opportunities for a brighter future. and because of this budget, because of the ability to add additional money to our job one

stop center, because of the ability to add additional department of public works positions where these folks who have maybe a criminal background record or maybe have some challenges in their past, they will be able to move into potential job positions through a training program so that they do have city employment opportunities so that they can take care of themselves, their families, and hopefully their communities. so, ultimately as supervisor, this is what i set out to do, to change lives, to provide opportunity, to make sure that many of our forgotten residents are not forgotten. and i know some of you here feel the same way. there are some trade-offs when dealing with a budget of this magnitude, and i'm the kind of person who wants everything that i want, but i also realize -- don't shake your head, supervisor. i gave up a lot. but we all did. it's a compromise, and i'm hoping next year that we have a

fair and balanced process like we did this year. i'm really happy about a lot of the gains not only for district 5 and its budget but a lot of the gains for the entire city. i'm looking forward to making sure that the opportunities that will exist as a result of this budget reach to those communities that desperately need it. so, thank you all for working with us on this. >> supervisor kim. >> sorry, i was waiting for my mic to come on. i will just add my voice to the chorus thanking the budget committee for all of their work, in particular chair farrell and supervisor john avalos. i think that this continues to be a good budget process extending from last year. i would have liked more notice that we were going to finish a night early, but that's certainly set a new precedent and i'll know to be at city hall every day of that week now. in an it is patience of an early budget finish.

but i do think that it speaks to a lot of coordination and as supervisor breed mentioned, both understanding the need to prioritize and being willing to let go of certain things even though it's incredibly important for their constituents and district. city-wide i was really glad to see us continue to fund hspa, making sure that we are funding rapid rehousing to prevent families and individuals from becoming homeless. it is so much more challenging and more expensive for us to address individuals and families once they're on our streets or in our emergency shelters than keeping them in place in their homes and stabilized. along with the hspa, i know there is an increase to the eviction defense fund. i know the mayor's office also funded as well, as we are seeing a rise in evictions in the city we want to make sure we are able to support our residents and constituents to stay in their homes. i'm glad see that that value was included in our budget. the other two major city-wide

of course is food and security to ensure that we are taking people that are on our waiting list to be fed. often that can't leave their apartments because they are older or disabled. i think that is an incredibly important program and that is something we have not been able to fund in the past because we haven't had the dollars and the revenue to fund that need. but as new dollars are coming in and the city is doing better, i think it's really important that we are able to see those that are hungry but cannot leave their apartments to be fed. finally, of course, vision zero, pedestrian bike safety, this is something that i know this board has been talking about extensively over the last 7 months. after we first introduced vision zero and adopted this measure, funding street re-engineering and a campaign for public education around vehicle, bike and pedestrian safety so we can all share the roads together, so incredibly important. these are the types of fatalities and injuries that we can absolutely prevent and we

can't just do it by talking about it alone. i'm so happy to see some of that funding went in there and next year i know there will be a larger conversation to cover the potential gap in expected funds that we were expecting from vehicle license fee this year. but godspeed the city is commit today that in 2016 and next year we hope to have a discussion how we can further fill in that gap. for our district, was happy to see us continue to fund summer programming. really important for youth and all of our districts. i know that supervisor cohen had a press conference today to talk about the need for violence prevention and youth leadership and after school program. i think that in and of itself the negotiations around the children's fund which we will vote on today to allocate an increase in set aside for funds dedicated to youth and families is going to be a really key piece next year in ensuring that we are able to continue to adequately fund and increase funding for youth and family

programming. and also finally, major issue in our district and i want to thank the senior disability action network for highlighting this really important issue, came about the elevators in our aging building. we know this is a major issue in our public housing properties and i'm glad that the mayor and the city has stepped up to ensure that we are going to fully refund all of our capital improvements, including elevator repair in our public housing. but, of course, we have a huge swath of privately owned properties, primarily office buildings that were built really over 100 years ago starting in 1906 after the earthquake and we have many seniors and many disabled residents that live in that building -- in those buildings as well, and they have failing elevators. what makes it challenging is the city doesn't own these plots so we can't just up and come in and fix those elevators, but yet we have seniors and individuals with disabilities stranded in their apartments and can't leave

because they have no way of going back up the stairs when the elevator is not working. and, so, glad to see there is a $250,000 revolving loan fund we can administer with the property owners. it is just a beginning, a very small start, but look forward to the continuing discussion with the stakeholders group that the department of building inspection has convened and hope that we can continue to make headway in this issue while we support the city doing this in our own publicly owned property. so, congratulations to everyone. i know there will be a continuing discussion around a new incoming [speaker not understood] come in for priorities that we were not able to fund and look forward to that discussion as well. >> thank you, supervisors. i also want to just reiterate a thanks to our budget chair, budget committee, all of you, and our staff, our controller, mayor's budget staff, our city attorney, our budget analyst who i think has just done his fourth budget as well as the community moving this forward. with that, madam clerk, could you please call the roll. >> on items 9 through 38,

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. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen. cohen aye. there are 1 ayes. >> these resolutions are passed on the first reading and resolutions are adopted. [gavel] ~ 11 >> with that, madam clerk, could we go to our 2:30 special commendation? i understand we have one commendation today. that's supervisor mar, and i will be jointly presenting and i would like to defer to supervisor mar. >> thank you, president chiu. i see former supervisor here in the chambers with us today as well. i wanted to say that along with

president chiu, it's my honor to recognize an amazing community leader and education leader at social work and community leader nancy lim yee. and we have later on our agenda a resolution acknowledging her work as well. but i'd like to ask if nancy lim yee could come forward. i know her son robert is here with us, too. but, ms. lim yee is an incredibly inspiring leader. i worked closely with her on the first five commission. i know of her work through many others as well. she's the director of the chinatown children's development center, but i think her history and the information i'm going to give about her life should hopefully inspire you as well. she's been guiding and teaching and mentoring so many people within the community for years, especially her dedicated staff

at the chinatown children's development center which provide outpatient mental health services to children, youth and families, parent education, and consulting and capacity building within chinatown for many, many organizations. nancy's own clinical work as a social worker spans many generations and improved the lives and the mental health of countless san franciscans. after i am grating from guangdong china as a toddler, nancy learned valuable lessv ons from her hard working parents and extended family. neighbors and mentors, she is really humble. it is important to acknowledge her leadership. she credits her own leadership from lessons learned from treasured teachers and professors at st. mary's school, lowell high school, san francisco state, u.c. berkeley, and from many other places. and i think she adds four special ingredients into her

success. one is character, two is integrity, three is grace, and four is tremendous amount of heart. nancy's commitment to community and volunteering is well known among i think a lot of chinese americans, asian americans, and within the early care and education community as well. she served on a number of boards and councils and commissions. i know her as the first five commissioner, but at st. mary's school, san francisco developmentally disabled council, the arc of san francisco, san francisco school districts community advisory council on special education, i know how hard that one must have been. also timing head start, association for chinese families of disabled, ethnic minority advisory committee, state department of developmental services, the chinese performing arts foundation, the asian pacific islander social work council, the national association of

social work california chapter [speaker not understood] chinatown council, protection and advocacy. she was also appointed by the california assembly house speaker, san francisco's chinatown technology for disabilities project, nico's chinatown wellness village project, portsmouth plaza, parking corporation, nico, chinese health community coalition and children's family first five coalition of san francisco. i am personally grateful for her mentoring of me on so many different issues to help me understand systems, but also how to serve the people and serve the community in not just chinatown but city-wide. but i know many, many others have said how grateful they are for her work, but also how she's helped us be better community servants, public employees, and leaders in the city. i thank her for her work, her vision, her loyalty to the community, and the basic belief in the goodness of people and communities.

so, thank you, nancy lim yee, for making all of us in our communities better and your generosity in giving so much of 39 years or more to the community and the city. later today we'll vote on the resolution that is co-sponsored by supervisors norman yee and david chiu. i know norman has worked closely with nancy as well over the years. it will be declaring july 18th, 2014 as nancy lim yee day in our city and county. before i ask if nancy could say a few words, i'd like to ask if supervisor yee and president chiu would like to say a few words. >> thank you, supervisor mar. [speaker not understood] joining this incredibly well deserved recognition of nancy lim yee. i cannot believe i have the honor to work with you for every day that i have been in office and i can't believe that has been about four decades worth of service. i understand you started when you were about three years old

serving the community. but on behalf of my constituents in chinatown and our constituents in chinese and asian community as well as literally thousands of families that you have touched, that you have shaped, that you have helped to grow, i cannot believe the breadth and depth of your service. supervisor mar listed and i'm not going to reread the 18 organizations that you served with in addition to your service with chinatown development center, but your leader should iv has been absolutely tremendous. ~ leadership i do know while you will be officially retiring, you'll continue to serve in other ways and i look forward to our work together in other capacities and look forward to your new adventures. but i will say for one on behalf of our constituents in northeast neighborhood, you have truly blessed our city. so, thank you. and with that, supervisor yee. >> thank you, president chiu. thank you, supervisor mar, for bringing nancy forward in honoring her today.

it's been almost four decades and i think i've known her for almost four decades. many of those organizations that are named, we crossed paths many times. nancy, you can name all these organizations that she's worked on and volunteered on and certificatedctionv on ~ and served on and so forth. what's missing on this is what i have seen her starting from the beginning and seeing her blossom to being the leader that she is today. and mentoring many other leaders since then. the thing that struck me about nancy, unlike other people that may be part of larger organization, is she always found time for everybody, regardless of your part of the organization or not. if there is somebody, individual that needed help, she's always there and will always say yes. i can't do it right now, but

maybe this saturday at 9 o'clock, i'll come to your door steps and ask what's wrong. and i've seen that over and over again. so, i'm really proud to be part of the resolution that we're going to vote on today. you just make everybody proud. thank you, nancy. (applause) >> supervisor chiu, supervisor yee, and honorable supervisors on the board, thank you so much for your very kind words. i have enjoyed very much the 39 years that i have worked for the chinatown child development center and for the city and county of san francisco. being a clinical social worker has been a very great privilege and honor for me and also working at the chinatown child development center in chinatown

where i grew up has been a privilege. i have learned so much from the families and the children and youth. every day has been a pleasure for me. and i've learned very much from the mentors and my colleagues. you know, oftentimes where you'll hear comments about, oh, those city workers, but i have worked with the most dedicated, the most passionate colleagues that you will ever see. they don't go just the extra mile, but they will go the extra 2 to 10 miles for their clients, for the families that we work with every day. so, you know, as supervisor chiu mentioned, i have a very, very active volunteer life. so, i've been telling people

that i will be retiring from my day job. and, so, i hope to see many of you, you know, in my volunteer life. thank you so very much for this very great honor. i'm very humbled by it. thank you very, very much. (applause)

>> ask with that, colleague, why don't we go to our next item, which will be the schlage lock item at items 39 through 41. madam clerk. ~ >> item 39 is an ordinance approving a development agreement between the city and county of san francisco and visitacion development, llc, for certain real property located in visitacion valley, bounded approximately to the north and west by mclaren park and the excelsior and crocker amazon districts, to the east by the caltrain track, and to the south by the san francisco/san mateo county line and the city of brisbane; making findings under the california environmental quality act, findings of conformity with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of planning code, section 101.1(b); and waiving certain provisions of administrative code, chapter 56. ~ chapter 56. >> item 40 is ordinance amending the planning code, section 249.45, to provide for use controls, including controls for formula retail uses, building standards, and procedural requirements, including noticing and community participation procedure, for applications for development, including design review and modifications, among other controls, in zone 1 of the schlage lock/visitacion valley special use district (also referred to as the schlage lock site); amending

the zoning map by amending sectional maps zn10 and ht10 to reflect the visitacion valley/schlage lock special use district; and making environmental findings and findings of consistency with the general plan and the eight priority policies of the planning code, section 101.1. ~ district. >> and item 41 is an ordinance amending the general plan to amend minneapolis 1, 24 and 5 and [speaker not understood] and making the requisite findings. >> thank you. supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. so, colleagues, thank you for allowing me an additional week to resolve one very key remaining issue that's related to this important item. and i'm really thrilled today to -- today that we can move forward on this important project. so, you should have received some of the administrative changes that have been made to the development agreement since our last meeting. these don't require amendments by the board but i want to make sure you are aware of changes to the agreement.

as i mentioned in my comments last week, i believe this is win of the mortv important developments we have seen, seen on the board this year, and it's one of the most important projects that i've worked on as supervisor. what you have before you today is a proeked that is the result of more than 13 years of community-based planning accompanied with thousands of hours of work and hundreds of public meetings. ~ project this project stalled two years ago after being entitled when the state dissolved the redevelopment agency and with it took more than $50 million of tax increment funding. it's been a very challenging to move this project forward. but after two years of reenvisioning and reprioritizing of thinking city agencies, the project sponsor and more important the visitacion valley community has arrived at a project that we agree upon today. it's going to provide significant investment in a corner of our city that

historically has lacked investment. this reenvisioned project will deliver more than 1,600 units of housing which gives -- which given their location -- in the market rate units which makes them affordable to middle incomev owners. it also generates hundreds of units of affordable housing, new public parks or open space, a grocery store, pedestrian safety and transportation improvement, and an issue that the visitacion valley neighbors championed, that's the restoration of the historic office buildings. so, colleagues, we clearly have come a long way as a city and as a neighborhood on this particular project. i firmly believe that this will be a significant and transformative investment in the southeastern neighborhoods. i want to take a moment to recognize and give some thank yous. want to recognize the hard work

from emilie and ken rich. thank you very much for your leadership on helping us get this project over. also want to recognize jonathan sharp man and michael for their hard work and all the members and business agents that pulled several all nighters and stayed together till a project or agreement was reached. this was a critical agreement. also want to recognize the visitacion valley advisory committee. i don't know if we have any members here, but they have really carried this project across the finish line over many, many, many miles and days and years. want to recognize andrea [speaker not understood] also provided certain level of expertise. and also want to give some voice to the team of advocates that came in in the 11th hour and pushed, but through collective efforts we were able to strengthen the first force hiring. and this is really important, strengthen the first force

hiring to specifically call out folks that live in 94 1 34 to ensure they have an opportunity to work on these ~ -- to work on this job. i would like to also take a moment to talk about two items in the companion -- two item are the companion planning code and general code plan amendments. this is for items 40 and 41. these two amendments are for your consideration. the amendment to item 40 is the schlage lock special use district. it specifies that the ordinance will become operative when the corresponding development agreement is effective. the amendment to item 40 specifies that the general plan amendment ordinance will become operative when the zoning changes and corresponding development agreements go into effect. so, these amendments will clearly tie all of the entitlements together so it's a clean document.

madam clerk, thank you. mr. chair? >> thank you. supervisor cohen has introduced some amendments to items 40, 41. is there a second to those amendments? second by supervisor tang. colleagues, can we take those amendments without objection? without objection that should be the case. [gavel] >> again let the record reflect for the underlying development agreement on item 39 there are some amendments that supervisor cohen has described. and with that, if we could take a roll call vote on items 39 through 41. madam clerk. >> 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. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? >> thank you. aye. >> cohen aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the ordinances are passed on the first reading. [gavel] >> items 42 through 43 related

to the transbay transit center. >> item 42 is a resolution of intention to incur bonded indebtedness in an amount not to exceed $1,400,000,000 for the city and county of san francisco community facilities district no. 2014-1 (transbay transit center); and other matters related thereto. and item 43 is a resolution of intention to establish city and county of san francisco community facilities district no. 2014-1 (transbay transit center) and determining other matters in connection therewith. ~ the transbay transit center. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. the two items before us today finally establishes the transbay transit center on community facility district in order to finance the cost of public infrastructure which includes the rate and method of the special tax with new developments that take care of -- that take advantage of the additional height and square footage allotted in the new transit center district plan which was passed unanimously by this board in the summer of 2012. with the additional density throughout this district, we will continue to raise the value of this neighborhood with two large public parks, one on

the rooftop of the center and one under ramp park. so, they're different plazas. on living street which includes widening sidewalk to include pedestrian safety and of course increased density on residential and office in this neighborhood. increasing pedestrian safety improvements, whether they are the two ways of streets, build outs, crosswalk, secured by [speaker not understood], mostly the downtown extension of caltrain and hopefully for the future high-speed rail. this mello-roos community [speaker not understood] is incredibly important for the city to finally realize the vision that we had for this district. i want to emphasize, however, that this resolution that we are passing today only sets a ceiling, a legal ceiling in our intention to incur bond indebtedness of $1.4 billion. that does not mean that's the dollar amount that we actually -- that we actually incur in

bad indebtedness, but we want to make sure we had a reasonable ceiling in place so this is not something we have to go back in terms of the election. but i know moving forward that there will continue to be extensive dialogue between the city on transbay and of course many of our developers who are working to build in this neighborhood. i know that there was a year of discussion both around the formulas and the dollar amounts. and i just want to emphasize again that the final -- that this discussion can continue to go on throughout the summer as the board of supervisors will hold a public hearing on the proposed debt issue and consider the issuance of bond and other debt on behalf of the district in september. and, so, i do want to encourage that continuance, and also want to commend the city on the work and the input that has already been taken in thus far developers, most notably of course the change from gross square footage to net square

footage which will be further explained by ken rich who is here representing the mayor's office of economic development. >> mr. rich? >> good afternoon, supervisors. ken rich with oewd. the community facilities district that's before you today will help to pay for and leverage funds from one of the city and the region's highest priority transportation projects, the extension of caltrain from fourth and king to the new transbay terminal. it will also [speaker not understood] local street and open space improvements for this area. as you know the city has planned for significant growth around the new terminal with the expectation that this would be a future transportation hub including rail. as part of this approval and agreement with the developers to do so, the city would capture a small portion of this new value about half of 1% to pay for these crucial infrastructure projects by creating a mello-roos or community facilities district for major new developments that

participate in. we're now coming before you with the mechanics of creating this district. you also have in your board packet a letter from attorney james ruben on behalf of a group of unnamed developers expressing a number of concerns about the way in which the city developed the valuation of buildings in the transbay area for purposes of calculating the mello-roos special tax. yesterday staff distributed a memo to you responding in detail to each point raised in the letter. in sum, staff believes that with the one exceptionally note in a moment,edth the valuation methodology used was sound and consistent with the implementation document ~ adopted by the board as part of the transbay plan. however, we want to acknowledge these ongoing concerns and we realize that the cost of this special tax will be a significant component of expenses incurred by building owners in this district going forward. as outlined in the staff memo, we have met with the