measure to provide that after two years if the vlf passes the mayor will have the authority to cancel this measure and the vlf will pick up where it off. the measure has garnered strong support in the transportation advocacy community, endorsed by the transit riders union, sierra club, walk sf and the san francisco bike coalition. i also want to thank my legislative mr. powers for his work on the measure and everyone else who had input into it. colleagues, i ask for your support. >> supervisor tang. >> thank you. i will just reiterate a couple comments i made in committee and really want to again, acknowledge supervisor wiener for all his work on public transportation in san francisco. i'm going to have to vote

against this measure today, mostly because of the immediate -- next fiscal year $22 million hit to our general fund and we just finished our budget conversations here where we had many trade off conversations. i agree with the intent of this measure, i agree we need to put more money into our public transportation system, that we've severely been lacking and why we've as a board have signed on to support a general obligation fund as a measure for votes. rs. i'm concerned people will be confused this november and i want to work as hard as i can to make sure the general obligation bond is successful this november. i have the issue with the $22 million hit to the general fund, a little bit with the way the measure and formula is structured, but don't disagree we need to put more resources to our public transportation

system. thank you supervisor wiener. >> any additional conversation? role call vote. >> on item 24, kim i, mar no, tang no, wiener i, yee no, breed i, campos i, chiu i, cohen i, farrell no. there are six is and four nos. >> this charter amendment is submitted. item 25. >> item 25 is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to authorize the department of public health to enter into operating leases for equipment. >> role call vote. >> on item 25, supervisor kim i, mar i, tang i, wiener i, yee

i, breed i, campos i, chiu i, cohen i, farrell i. there are 10 is. >> this ordinance is passed. next item. >> item 26 is the ordinance to reappropriate 23 million if waste water revenue bonds placing 8.47 million on reserve and to maintain [inaudible]. >> can we do same house same call? without objection this ordinance is passed on first reading. item 27. >> ite27 is ordinance to retroactively appropriate approximately 653,000 in the fire department surplus

expenditures in fiscal year 2013 through 14 #14. >> same house same call. this ordinance is passed on if first reading. next item. >> [inaudible] approximately 76,000 in the department of emergency management surplus expenditure to support increase expenditures in fiscal year 2013 through 14. >> same house same call. this ordinance is passed first reading. >> number 29 is a resolution to amend 265-13 to revise the scope of work for an emergency contract from six to five digesters at southeast water control plant and i crease the contract not to exceed amount to approximately 14.45 million. >> same house, same call. resolution is adopted. >> item 30 is resolution to [inaudible] execute amendment number 4 to an agreement with urs corporation to increase the length of the agreement until may 24, 2019, a duration of 15

years and nine months and increase the estimated cumulative krablth amount to [inaudible] improvement program for the [inaudible] replacement project. >> same house same call. this resolution is adopted. >> item 31 is a resolution to authorize the port to accept a gift of art referred to as the james r herman valued at 250,000 for display at pier 27. >> same house same call. this resolution's adopted. next item. >> item 32 is a resolution to authorize the filing of applications for funding assigned to the metropolitan transportation commission and authorize the department of public works to accept and eks pend approximately 1.3 million in awarded grant funds. >> same house same call. this resolution adopted. >> item 33 is a resolution to

authorize real property [inaudible] not to exceed amount of 2.79 million. >> same house same call. this resolution's adopted. >> item 34 is a resolution to approve the jurisdictional transfer for property commonly known as the san francisco reservoir under the [inaudible] and approving the transfer price of 9.9 million. >> supervisor farrell. >> thank you president chiu and thank you colleagues for hearing this item today. many ways, very surreal after all this time, they're actually voting on the reservoir and what's going to be a transformative project, not only for surrounding neighborhoods but city of san francisco. when i first came into office in 2011 we started working with our public utilities commission around the reservoir and what it would look like to repurpose the site.

i want to [inaudible] both of their hard work on this matter and, you know, as we continue to talk about open space here in the city of san francisco as we continue to increase our density i'm such a huge believer that in every single neighborhood across our city we need to be proactive creating new forms of open space and this is simply a once in a lifetime opportunity to create a brand new 4.5 acre park in one of the densest parks of san francisco. this partnership we have formed over the last three years is really in four largest neighborhood organizations, many of whom are in attendance today with their stickers and have been with us every step along the road. these neighborhood organizations have stepped up and their leadership has stepped up and this project would not be possible without them. the working group helped build support with over 40 organizations total that have

been involved in this effort and helped raise the funds necessary to bid and maintain the park into perpetuity. we're going to be able to left leverage the open space funds, but with the across our city to help build the park and to maintain it into the future. the site itself is located just on the corner of hyde and bake street in the russian hill area also bounded by which he is nut and larkin. it's been under the jurisdiction of our public utilities commission, and has been concrete and chain link ever since this project has become very personal not because of just the time we've spent with it, but growing up here in san francisco i have fond memories playing as a child around the reservoir, dropping the footballs around the reservoir and picking them up and now children are going to have the opportunity to play

on grass and fields and it'll be such an amazing difference. since the 80s the manning department continue the dez nation of open space in our general plan. obviously the benefits of open space across our city are undeniable. it simply increases our quality of life like none other. great cities have great parks and we have the ability now today to act of that inventory. people have called it the mission delores park of the north. whatever we want to call it, it's likely going to be the francisco park, but this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to transform a neighborhood. the three year collaboration with the francisco park working group has not only included the

neighbors, but again, all the citywide organizations that have come to support this project and i want to list them. the immediate neighborhood groups that have formed this include the aquatic park neighbors, russian hill improvement association. i want to thank mayor ed lee for his support all along the way in this process and my cosponsors. first of all david chiu who i have had the opportunity to share governance over russian hill with and we share a board there and he's been a lead cosponsor along the way. supervisors davis campos, london breed, katy tang, wiener and yee. i want to thank the members of the budget and finance committee which passed this ewe than mousely. the san francisco parks alliance, san francisco beautiful, sierra club, omega

boys club, china town ymca, san francisco league conservation voters, middle poke neighborhood association, china town development center, san francisco tomorrow, galileo high school which sits next door and we'll have amazing opportunities to many other organizations. i also want to take an opportunity to thank so many people who have been involved in this project from the city perspective. first of all, again, i mentioned to our public utilities commission thank you for all of your efforts. i want to thank our rec and park department. thank you for your leadership, phil, stacy bradley, your team has been amazing throughout the process. to the working group from san francisco reservoir, i want to thank everyone involved.

leslie, your support and leadership has been incredible. i want to thank our city's office, who spent a lot of time with our puc and rec and park departments, as well as in particular from my staff, margo kelly whose support has been unbelievable and we would not be here without her efforts over the past few years. again, from my perspective, certainly someone who grew up using this area, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity that i don't think we can pass up. i'm so proud of where we've come over the last three-and-a-half years. it's's been a labor of love for everyone involved and this is such an opportunity for our neighborhoods and san francisco, and i ask for your support. >> thank you supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. >> thank you. wanted to talk a little bit about my thought process around

this conditional jurisdiction transfer which is i have really spent the last month-and-a-half really debating about. a lot of thinking around the open space acquisition funds, but i wanted to call out today, in the life of the fund i'm concerned we haven't spent any of the funds in high needs areas. i represent one of those districts. i have if fewest and smallest parks along with district three. our district has 0.17 acres of open space per residents. 0.17 acres of open space per resident and in comparison with the district with the most open space that's district two, 25 acres per resident. for me, i know that last year i supported using the open space acquisition fund for the square. the neighbors really did a lot of work and a lot of neighborhood planning and fund raising to leverage those funds to acquire that site and today, begun e i will be supporting

the francisco reservoir for the same reasons i supported it last year. i want to commend supervisor farrell. clearly three years of work has gone into this. a lot of neighborhood groups, a lot of coalition building. it's great to have another large new park for san francisco and it'll clearly serve galileo high school, as you mentioned, as well as other communities, but going forward i really hope that we, as a city, take a hard, strong look at making sure we're ensuring equity with the remaining funds. i hope that the next vote that i take will be for a high needs area, particularly of course in district 6 or 3 and of course, in the districts that are absorbing growth, which includes the southeast sector. i wanted to name some of the concerns i have on the future ongoing use of the funds, but i want to recognize the work

that's gone into putting francisco reservoir into place today and appreciate there was a lot of negotiating with the puc to ensure the drawdown of the fund would happen over a course of time as we're depositing more open space reserves into the acquisition funds. one last thing, as land become more eks pensive here in san francisco and the parts that are developing, i want to make sure that our funds are enough to cover the cost of land acquisition to ensure that there is open space in areas that are becoming more dense and also to figure out how we as a city can ensure that it's not going to be neighborhoods that have the funding capacity, that has the ability to fund raise and have existing neighborhood infrastructures to support acquisition. there are neighborhoods -- i know this discussion came up a lot about varying different schools and ptas and their anlt

to fund raise for their school and it was a discussion we have at the board of education. i hope we can have that conversation here, particularly in low income neighborhoods. the tenderloin could be an example. how can we make sure that we're able to make up for the fact that these residents may not be able to fund raise and how can we support secure inging those sites when the neighborhoods don't have is that type of capacity. i want to support this today. in acknowledgment of the work that i feel that supervisor farrell's office has done over the last three years and making the best, i think of a situation that's before us. i would have like today have seen some development. i think how uzing will continue to be in need on any of our surplus property and i think that's another thread of conversation we can have otherwise, but acknowledging we're at the point we're at today with the site, i will be

voting yes for this. >> thank you. president chiu. >> i want to lend my voice as a cosponsor on this project and mention that while this is a project that's often viewed as a district 2 project, we're honor and my district 1 is actually two blocks away from this site and as supervisor kim just acknowledged our neighborhoods have the least amount of open space and are the densest set of neighborhoods outside of manhattan. with that context, i want to also just sthang all the community organizations that came together and had a vision over many years and did the hard work. i want to thank supervisor farrell for his leadership, as well as the members of the community that have agreed to support this, not just with your personal support, but also financial support. i believe when this project is done no one is going to regret

the open space and park we're going to see. i know all of us, as we support this project, we are also equally committed to making sure that future projects get done,that, again, can help us recognize the beauty and wonderful community spaces that we have in our city. with that, thanks to all the hard work and i hope we're able to get this done today. >> thank you. supervisor campos. >> thank you. i'll briefly say i'm very excited to be a supporter and cosponsor of this project. when i heard about it from supervisor farrell and starting hearing about the level of this community and making this happen, i was really impressed and really think that this project presents an example for other parts of the city for how communities can come together to push for something like this. i think that supervisor kim is right in terms of the

importance looking doing that is the fact that i think that they tried to spread the period of time as long as possible to make sure that the impact on the fund was as minimal as possible and i think it's greatly appreciated and i can't wait for it to be completed. so thank you to the community and supervisor farrell, congratulations. >> supervisor yee. >> thank you. when supervisor farrell discussed this project with me and my first reaction was of course. it's within of these projects where it seems like i have a lot of history in san francisco so [inaudible] and so forth. like supervisor breed, going to school at galileo and knowing

how limited our fuel is at galileo, any open space for the students there would be appreciated. it even goes beyond that. i actually spent the summer in one of these summer jobs working for the department of works , i guess. and around the reservoir with the amount of weeds and bushes and everything else -- it's nicer now than when i was growing up when it was almost totally jungle there. my summer job was to clear the jungle and spent quite a few weeks doing that. and i always thought, wouldn't it be great if we had a park up here? and that was my thought at the time at 17 years old and here it is where supervisor farrell has sort of taken the lead on that. before i actually committed to it i looked at what he was talking about in terms of the

finances and looked at the open space funding and to see -- to make sure this project, as valuable as it is, doesn't deplete completely the open space funding because like supervisor kim and like supervisor campos, when they mention equity is important to me growing up in china town and being in the open space committee in chinatown and fighting for those couple of square feet of open space over 120 -- 20 years to get it and i understand how difficult it is. i'm glad, supervisor farrell, this you put this project together. i'm glad that you were very sensitive in terms of not depleting the open space funding so that as we move forward in the future that

places like district 3 can have access to funding to provide more open space for their residents. thank you very much. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you mr. president. so i'll join in thanking supervisor farrell and also all the folks in the community as well as rec and park staff who have worked for many years to move this forward, but also i think we need to make sure to thank the voters of san francisco for creating the open space fund and having the foresight to say it's a very small portion of property taxes should be set aside for open space work, and particularly for the acquisition of open space and when you look at what we've been able to do, it's pretty amazing and we're going to have abeven better park system than we already have. i want to say that having gone through this process with town

square, and thank you for supporting that project, which is almost fully funded through non city dollars right now in terms of the creation of the park, but having gone through that process, it was always my understanding that the plans for [inaudible] which had growing quite large if we hasn't acquired anything for a while was going to be town square, francisco reservoir, the inne and i think we're all -- i know i'm very committed as i know supervisor kim is and you all are to make sure we get more open space in district 6 and i'm sure we'll be able to identify a wonderful site for the community there. it's a very citywide effort because these parks because -- i still have people that will tell me that delores park is just a neighborhood park.

but these are parks that are enjoyed and used by not just the entire city, but in a lot of instances, the entire region and i know francisco reservoir will fall into that category. it's going to be amazing. i want to thank everybody who made this happen. it's an exciting day. >> i will be brief, colleagues. i want to thank ern thank everyone for their comments. we were able to negotiate with being thought about right now by a rec and park department for acquisition can get completed. a lot of talk with supervisor kim and i appreciate those comments around district 6 open space. you have my commitment to work on that together. i think this is something we need to do across every single neighborhood of our city and even with these acquisitions

that are currently being planned, including what we just planned with 900 innes, we're going to have $38 million left in this open space fund so plenty of opportunities, but something we need to be very proactive about. i think to a comment about the ability to be privately fund raise it's a very valid comment. one thing we talked about, i think this process is starting to bring new people into the fold of being philanthropic with the rec and park department and opening eyes about how transformative a project can be for a neighborhood. i think that's, to me, what is really exciting about this project is a lot more people coming into the fold to really think about what we could do in terms of our parks and leveraging some of our private citizens, philanthropic abilities. lastly i'll say it's not just

three years we've been working on it. this has been in working for decades within the neighborhood so i don't want to dismiss that be at all. this has been a reservoir sitting dormant for over 60 years and being talked about for decades across the neighborhood and city and today we have a chance to change direction of the francisco reservoir forever. again colleagues, hope to have your support. >> thank you. with that, let's take a role call vote. >> supervisor kim i, mar i, tang i, wiener i, yee i, breed i, campos i, chiu i, cohen i, farrell i. there are 10 is. >> the resolution is adopted.

[applause] and with that, let's go to item 35. >> item 35 is a motion to order submission to the voters 2014 an ordinance amendsing the business and tax regulations code by adding a new article 8 to fund food and health programs. >> supervisor mar. >> thank you. thank you so much colleagues. i know this has been an effort and years in the making. this san francisco tax is about the health of our families, communities and neighborhoods. i think the opposition that's already emerged, big soda xhaens, the american beverage association and others creating astroturf to mislead voters, i'll ask you don't be fooled. this is a reasonable common sense measure that will help,

if passed, provide tremendous health benefits to those who need it the most. that's why i and supervisor wiener, cohen, campos, president chiu and supervisor avalos have all worked together for over a year, but that's on top of the many years of work by health that have laid the ground work for where we're at today. we began work not only when we looked at health experts from bay view and hunters point and mission district and chinatown, but also our community coalition advised us to make clear that this is a major priority. diabetes, obesity, liver damage, metabolic syndrome, tooth and dental decay are hurting many of our san francisco communities and the root causes are several, but we know that the lack of healthy options and healthy

alternatives to sodas, energy drinks and sports drinks are really an important issue, but the tactics of the big soda corporations and others that are saturating our communities with advertising and marketing are one of the big problems. i think we mentioned earlier that my daughter is a teenager. the classmates of her generation, 1/3 of them currently are obese, but if we do nothing today, 1/3 of these children today will develop type two diabetes in their lifetime, that's one in three of this generation. that's not right and it's a national problem, but a local problem here. we know that for african americans and latinos, about half will develop type two diabetes. we have to do something about it and this is a common sense approach that is one step forward. to learn more about the epidemic, we asked the budget

office to study the impact of harmful drinks in san francisco and only looking at sugary drinks alone, they estimate it costs san francisco citizens between 48 and $61 million every year. we as colleagues on the budget committee and others agreed we need to take action. together with our grass roots very broad and deep community coalition we've developed what we believe to be a very reasonable soda tax that will reduce consumption. now or chief economist for the city says it could reduce it to as much as 30 to 40%, that's reducing the consumption of harmful beverages in our city and it would raise by accepted 2 pennies per houns, about a quarter per can of coke,