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chief here for probably the better portion of the hour and hour business took longer than we all expected. any other comments? okay. colleagues, on the motion to continue, madam clerk, role call vote. >> supervisor kim i, mar i, tang i, wiener no, yee i, breed no, campos i, chiu no, cohen no, farrell no. there are five is and five nos. >> motion to continue fails and with that, unless there's any further discussion let's take a role call vote on the underlying ordinance. there is no public comment. we already have committees on
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this where you could have made public comment. >> on item 50 supervisor kim >> you do have comments, supervisor kim? >> i wanted to explain my vote prior to. i think if we had more time i would have come to understand from the parameters of being comfortable to vote for this item. i think given the information that i have now if we are forced to take a vote then i'll have to take a no vote, but i don't want to take that as being perceived as me being against an em program that could work, i have some questions i'd like to ask and get a better understanding from the chief in terms of his categorical opposition, instead of hearing it is. i'm sorry we're not going to have an continuance today, but i have to vote no today not having all the questions to be -- all the answers to the questions that i have. >> supervisor campos. >> i'd like to ask that we move this item to the end of the
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agenda. i'd like to hear from the chief of police what the basis of his opposition is. so i would like to ask that he come and tell us what his -- what the basis of his opposition is. i think this is important stuff and i think if he's opposed that he should let the board know what the basis is. >> any further conversations? colleagues. supervisor campos, i take that to be a motion to continue to the end of this meeting? >> yes. >> is there any objection to that? supervisor cohen. >> the sheriff actually made a very articulate point about if the police chief was going to be coming to speak, shouldn't adult probation be coming to speak or the public defender who's always in favor of this particular matter. if we're going to do balance in hearing from all law enforcement then we should be
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balanced and invite everyone. >> well, that's why i had made a motion to continue. >> which i believe had failed so i don't know where we go from here. >> again colleagues, we could take a vote on whether to continue this to the rest of -- through the end of this meeting. >> supervisor farrell. >> i would say on this discussion around continuing, i appreciate the comment, i don't have a problem with it, but there's nothing i'm confident enough the understanding this enough that would change my vote so i'm prepare today vote on it today, but right now if it helps to punt it 30 minutes or so, i'm fine with that, but to drag this on, you know, i will say from my perspective, i reached out to police department to ask for [inaudible] and so i was able to hear from the chief because of that and so, you know, i appreciate not everyone had the conversations that i have wanted and i get that so if it
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takes time here so be it, but i will say in terms of my vote on the continuance and why i'm prepared to vote on, there's nothing to change my mind on this so i'm not going to support -- again, end of this meeting, but i would like to vote on this today. >> we had a motion to continue beyond this meeting, that vote failed, but unless there's any objection we hold this over to the end of the meeting and hopefully i do understand that the cheer is in the middle of a homicide investigation, but if he has -- >> i'm sorry. there has been a shooting in the district and i'd like to go to the district so holding this meeting longer than needs to be -- >> we hearing today not going to hold it. as soon as we come to the end of the meeting we'll all just have to make a call on how we feel about this ordinance. >> fair enough. >> we'll continue this item to the end of the meeting. >> there's an objection. >> we have public comment, we
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have role call, other items on the agenda. call for the question, let's vote on it. >> call the question. >> mr. president, if a question has been called, you're terminating debate, you would need two supervisors to second that motion. >> is there a motion to second call in question? >> second. >> okay. so -- >> you would need two seconds, mr. president. >> two seconds. is there a second to that? okay, there's not a second to calling a question so again, unless there's an objection, why don't we vote on this meater matter at the end of this meeting. without objection that would be the case. with that, let's go to some far less controversial committee report item, item 51. >> [inaudible] public premises located at 365 11th street.
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>> on item 51, supervisor kim. kim i, mar i, tang i, wiener i, yee i, breed i, campos -- on item 51 campos, campos i, chiu i, cohen i, farrell i. there are ten is. >> the resolution is adopted. item 52. >> resolution to determine that the issuance of a type 42 sale beer and wine public premises license located at 854 geary street will serve the public convenience. >> same house same call. item passes. >> [inaudible].
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>> same house same call. this resolution's adopted. item 54. >> item 54 through 62 were considered by the rules committee at a regular meeting on thursday at 2:00 pm and to authorize the settlement of a lawsuit filed by jashgs against the city for approximately 4 million. >> supervisor wiener. >> we're just voting on 5 4 right now? >> correct. same house same call? this ordinance is bassed on first reading. item 55. >> item 55 ordinance to authorize the settle oment of lawsuit filed by [inaudible] development corporation against the city filed on august 19. >> same house same call. this ordinance is passed on first reading. next item. >> item 56 is ordinance to authorize settle m of lawsuit by miss crocker. >> same house same called.
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ordinance is passed. >> item 57, ordinance to authorize settlement filed by [inaudible] against the city for 250,000 filed on january 5, 2012. >> same house same call this ordinance is passed. >> item 58 is an ordinance [inaudible] set toe against the city for 225,000 filed on july 1, 2012. >> same house same called. this ordinance is passed. >> item number 59 [inaudible] filed by conly against the city for 3.5 million filed on january 27, 2012. >> same house same call. >> mr. president, i believe supervisor breed is asking to be excused. >> colleagues, can we have a motion to excuse supervisor breed. can we do that without objection. that shall be the case.
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item 59, supervisor kim i, mar i, tang i, wiener no, yee i, campos i, chiu i, cohen i, farrell i. there is 8s, one no. >> the ordinance is passed in the first reading. next item. >> item 60 is ordinance to [inaudible] libraries and the coalition for a better north beach lie briar and playground filed against the city. >> role call vote. >> kim i, mar i, tang i, wiener i, yee i, breed i, campos i, chiu i,
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cohen i, farrell i. there are ten is. >> the ordinance is passed. item 61. >> approve the settlement of the unlitigated claims filed by the regents of university of california on december 15, 2010 and june 24, 120 #20 13. >> role call vote. >> on item 61 supervisor kim breed i, campos no, chiu i,
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cohen i, farrell i. there is nine is, one no. >> this resolution is adopted. item 62. >> rose lugs to approve the settlement of the claim filed the war ton school of pennsylvania against the city for approximately 66,000 filed on march 13 #20shgs 13. >> colleagues role call vote. kick i, mar i, tang i, wiener i, yee i, breed i, campos i, chiu i, cohen i, farrell i. there are ten is. >> this resolution is adopted. item 63. >> item 63 was considered by land use and economic development and regular meeting on monday july 21 and forwarded to the board recommended with
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the same title by adding chapter 53a creating local procedures to implement the local agriculture [inaudible] incentive zone. >> i appreciate your consideration in this item. with this legislation san francisco would be the first locality in california to implement the urban incentive zones act. this is to address the fact that our urban farmers throughout the state and here in san francisco noe that there's just not enough space to farm particularly in san francisco given the expense and scarcity of land in our 7 by 7 city. this ordinance which was crafted with significant input and city staff of ab 5511 is a an important step to addressing this issue. it would use for their land, allowing them to pay more
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property taxes in exchange for committing for at least a five year period, exclusive agricultural use of the land. i want to thank supervisor cohen for her cosponsorship as well as lands use committee for their recommendation and ask for you support. >> any further discussion? madam clerk, role call vote. >> item 63, kim i, mar i, tang i, wiener i, yee i, breed i, supervisor campos i, chiu i, cohen i, farrell i. there is ten is. >> this ordinance is passed on first reading. why don't we go to role call? the >> supervisor kim will submit. supervisor mar.
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>> thank you. i have a couple of items. i'd like to thank supervisor david chiu for address r dressing these issues with a stakeholder group he's been working with for some time now and look forward to coordinating my efforts with his as well. as the miller bill moves forward in congress this year, the schedules at work act is expected to spark a national conversation about fair
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scheduling policies for workers similar to the broad public dialogue about raising the minimum wage policies locally but also on a nationwide level as a much needed and common sense approach to addressing the growing inequality in our city and income inequality in general. for their lead ir ship on thesish shies i'd like to commends congressman miller and the worker advocacy groups that have been working for years with including the law senters popular democracy, the national [inaudible] wanted to announce that in parallel with these efforts on the national level i've been working for the last several years with a coalition of community organizationings and i'd like to announce that next week i'll be introducing legislation at this board with similar goals as the miller bill. i've been working with a broad based coalition of community, labor and small business groups
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to develop the proposed ordinance and we're calling it the retail workers bill of rights. this local san francisco ordinance seeks to promote full-time employment, discourage on call scheduling practices and large retail businesses in our city. i'd like to thank supervisor chiu for his leadership on these issues and tune into 88.5 fm tomorrow morning for congressman miller and i'll be joining him on the forum radio shoi as well. coming through san francisco this coming sunday is the san francisco marathon, sunday july 27, and the marathon is really an amazing race. san francisco's known for its seenic views and this marathon will bring some of the most
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incredible global athlete in the world. it starts at the [inaudible] and runs along the embarcadero over the ridge along the coastline, through the richmond district and through golden gate park and the ash bury district and past at&t park before finishing in front of cupid's arrow along the water front. the marathon events a full marathon, two half marathons and even a double marathon. we're expecting 26,000 runners to participate. to help with planning, whether a runner trying to get to the start line or a resident trying to get around the city on race day, see sfmarathon.com to view the race map and impact on your neighborhood. district 1 will be a tected [inaudible] should be expected
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delays on [inaudible] and check the website that i just cited and sfmta.com for the muni routes to get around as well. >> thank you supervisor mar, supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. supervisor campos? we will move to supervisor chiu. >> thank you. i just want to comment. i appreciate the work that supervisor mar's been doing on issues around predictability and i want to thank the members of the task force that have
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worked with my office over the last year or so to address these issues. i hope -- i haven't had a chance to see the legislation, but hopefully there's ideas that overlap that we can work on together. the issue of predictability in scheduling is one i've been working on for a couple years now and certainly with what congressman george miller is proposing, this is an issue that's gathered a lot of attention with good thoughts and ideas around policies to address it and look forward to conversations we'll be having about it. >> with that -- >> thank you mr. president. >> supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. thank you. already ladies and gentlemen, i'm trying to make this as brief as possible, but i have several items that i want to talk about. first i want to acknowledge and thank the planning department for their unparalleled leadership and commitment to helping me get the development agreement passed. i was remiss and didn't have an
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opportunity to thank them last week during our fifrs reading and introduction. today i'm introducing a filming notification and this will require filming companies to provide at least 24 hour notification to neighboring businesses and residents should their filming obstruct traffic or public parking spots. we've recentsly seen an increase in film productions across the city. my neighbors are extremely sensitive to the inconveniences often that filming can create in the neighborhood. while it's a great thing to see our city highlighted in movies and commercials seen around the world, it's important we provide notification for businesses that might be impacted by the production. many of these productions result in closures of heavily
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utilized streets in areas that can cause unnecessary disruption in everyday peoples' lives. i've heard from many about the lack of outreach and notification to neighboring businesses and residents when film productions take place in the neighborhood so it's my hope this legislation will bring the information they need to aptly prepare for any disruptions contain -- which
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has resulted in spills and contaminations. the port and department of environment have both shown leader ship on this issue and willingness to work together and bring a poll say forward to board of supervisors to restrict the transport and export of these armful materials inside san francisco. the port has also consistently rejected proposals from companies who are looking to use port property to export coal and in may, the policy committee of the commission on the environment adopted a resolution asking staff to work with the port to develop a policy. this resolution expresses the
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board of supervisors support for the collaborative efforts of these two departments and asks for them to bring forward to us a set of recommendations on how we can address the significant environmental issue. and finally, i have three in memoriam i'd like to introduce today. first is recognizing the life and times and contributions of ruth coalman who passed away last wednesday and miss coalman was the wife of the infamous doctor arthur coalman, who was the first african american physician in the bay view hunters point neighborhood she was excellent and dedicated mother as well as community member and she was known by many in the community and will be dearly missed. i'd like to uplift and recognize the life of mr. willy james howard. mr. howard recently passed away.
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he and his wife opened up wendy's cheesecake which many of you may be familiar with on third street. it opened up in 1982. it's a brakely that's extremely popular for people in the neighborhood and serves some of the best cheesecake in town. he also will be sorely missed by many people. another in me more e her name was miss pree ya haji. she passed away unexpectedly monday july 14 and she was only 44 years old. she was a single mother to two very young children. she was born in detroit and raised in texas. she pursued her vision of improving economic opportunity and equality by cofounder three
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companies, all based here in the bay area, including one that was i most touched by, and that was her company called free at last. the other two were called world of good and save up. save up was the last company that she was currently serving as ceo at the time of her death. free at last is a national model program for substance abuse treatment and hiv aids intervention within the african american and latino communities. she was recognized nationally for her work with this organization and her legacy fortunately continues to live on. so mr. chair, thank you for an opportunity allowing me to recognize these three great souls that have departed from this earth. and the rest i submit. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor campos. >> thank you very much.
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i want to talk about -- i think a number of us this weekend -- think it was supervisors wiener, chiu and i who were at the aids march this weekend and it was definitely as always, very moving. and i just sort of wanted to say that it was very moving, but it's also very moving to hear about what happened with malaysian air. it's just tragic how life works sometimes, you know.
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but i'm very excited about the prospect of the city honoring the memory of those individuals by continuing the work and with respect to aids and hiv i'm very proud of the fact that we are exploring becoming the first city that is actively distributing or increasing access to prep, which i think prep has the potential to radically eliminate the risk of aids and hiv in our community. the second point is i have a resolution that i'm introducing today and it's the resolution that talks about the fact that that there was a very unfortunate lawsuit that was filed by the state lands
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commission, essentially to deny the voters of san francisco the ability to be have a say over the future of the water front. for many decades land use involving san francisco's water front have included voters and whether it's elected leaders or appointed leaders they have to deal with the voice of san francisco vote rs and this is not something that is new to san francisco. the fact is that following the enactment of the burton act in 1968, san francisco voters have voted on at least 18 water front related bat lot measures, including measures to rehab historic ferry building, create water front parks, create open space, to build giant water
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front ballpark and it's interesting that this whole time we have not heard a peep from the state lands commission as to their claim that voters did not have a legal right to say anything about the future of the water front. and it's only because more recently in june san francisco voters approved prop b the water front height limit right to vote which which was passed by the way with majority of 59% of san francisco voters. the fact is that if the state lands commission is going to make this argument they should have made this argument a long time ago. i through this resolution want to acknowledge the work of san
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francisco who immediately responded to this lawsuit by noting that this resolution that i am introducing today, and i want to thank supervisor avalos and march for their cosponsorship, but the san francisco big soda on record as supporting the city attorney's decision vigorously defend san francisco pa par tis pa toir water front process which respects the will of the voters, not only in passing