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like to thank the youth commission staff for being here today. in the 20 years of operation, hearing about the city's budget, juvenile hall rebuilds and free muni for low income and youth and muni fares have all occurred with hardly any youth in attendance. i think we want to increase the amount of youth voice for the future. unlike most commissions they exist with the board of supervisors with explicitly involving our work and unlike san francisco residents young people are the ones to be mandated to be in school during certain hours and they have no other means of advocating for their work where for example workers have might others speak on their behalf. but youth don't have any other means of advocacy. i think this is a simple admonition to -- motion to
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honor young people and help us as supervisors to help them in a meaningful way. i encourage you to pass this in a positive way and urge you to help these young folks in our commission. and as for angela akkad i -- it will allow the committee adopting -- i would appreciate adopting these amendments to the full board if it's your pleasure. i would like to thank nick per slooe for his commitment and i would like to thank you for your work as a leader and seg serving in our commission. with that, i would like to ask if supervisor campos wanted to give his
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remarks. >>supervisor david campos: thank you supervisor mar for your leadership in this. we are glad to be sponsors of this. i think it makes sense. nick, thanks for everything you have done and we will continue to hear amazing thing about you and i'm excited to see what is next for you once you are done in school. i think this makes a lot of sense that we as members of the committee and chairs of the committee would consider finding a time when appropriate that is adequate, that will ensure there is adequate representation from youth. i want to thank angela, the clerk of the board for working with us to make the amendment. with that in mind, i will make a motion. i know that we'll have public comment before we act, but i make a
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motion to amend the board of supervisors rules of order id in -- identified in the document that you received. >>supervisor norman yee: thank you. any public comments on this item? c'mon up. >> thank you, chair yee, members of the committee. i want to thank supervisor march for striking a compromise here but without asking to compromise the principles. i do support this motion. i'm happy to codify the communication between the youth commission and the supervisors into the legislative file for you and have enjoyed working with a much respected outgoing youth director jimmy tell me if i'm wrong to help strengthen the infrastructure in the clerk and the boards office in
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their endeavor to realize the charter to advise the board and the mayor. thank you very much to the supervisor mar and the committee. >> thank you. through chair, yee, i should have asked the chair of the youth commission to come up. he has a short presentation. i would like to thank lisa for being here. >> if sf gov. tv. san francisco television can change to the computer. thank you for hearing me. my name is nick -- this is something that the commission has been working on all year long. i'm excited to have it before the board of supervisors today. part one is basically why the youth commission wants this to be passed. i'm sure you are familiar with the brown act which is a legislation that was passed in 53. that allows
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people to attend the public meetings and provide public comment at those meetings. the main issue identified is that it did not apply to young people. moe -- most of the hearings are at 10 a.m. :00 a.m. and the youth are in school and not able to provide input. the board of supervisors has stated in its commitment to hearing public testimony before it takes action on any issues and we hope you will do the same for young people as well. also, we have heard very troubling youth vote data from the youth is survey. for example 43 percent of sf sfusd students don't care at all about public service and the significant majority don't care at all
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and not interested in government policy. this would allow students to become more civically engaged in city hall. this is a graph, regardless of what your opinions are for the youth program, something amazing about it was the number of youth at came out to participate and the civic engagement that we really inspired. this is an example. we were really shocked by the data here. a cumulative frequency draft. as you see as time reached 3:30, 4:00 p.m.. this was an hours long hearing. this proves the point we are trying to make. if the hearings are held later in the day, the youth will be able to come and provide their input. the last thing i will
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say is the brown act has a section 54953.7. which allowed greater access to their meetings. so we believe this is a very appropriate example of how the board of supervisors, as a legislative body could impose a favorable requirement and policy to further assist young people. this is briefly the last part two, the how of how we are going to do this. we are going to establish a new board rule hopefully. the youth commission will be monitoring the legislation and making the request to the relevant committee chair and then the committee chair would be strongly urged to respond to that request and hopefully make that hearing at a time that would be appropriate for young people, probably around 4 :00 p.m. or after and last thing is outreach. the youth
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commission has stated resolution that youth commission will be held accountable for outreach coming out to the hearings. we don't want the commission having to wait for after school hearings. now that we have adopted specifically at the youth commission, we feel that will be easier to do. with that, i would like to thank you for your time and thank supervisors mar and campos for your support and angela carve i and would like to thank rodriguez from david campos office. he was one of the first to think of this idea and did a lot of the research when he was on the commission last year. again, thank you so much. if you have any questions, i would be happy to answer them. >> thank you so much. i turn it back over to you. >> thank you for your
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presentation. okay. continuing with public comments. any other public comments on this item? >> hello supervisors. as you saw as my colleague, i was going to call him supervisor, but that's not the title. as commissioner kersey has presented it's important to have the youth voice president. as a youth i have been participating in a lot of public comments since high school. however it was very difficult for me to leave school early in order to attend. sometimes i got some excuse letters to let me go from school early, but really i wish that wouldn't be the case because i want to stay in school and pay attention and later in the afternoon come and do some public comment. i think that's really for every young person out there. they all want to be speaking on issues that are going to affect them. it's not fair for them if you are the ones making decisions for them and they are not providing
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necessity feedback or comments for what they want to see this city to affect them. also it's not only important for youth in high school but youth in college because it might be more flexible to be in college, but it's so hard to get out of those classes because you can only miss three times and third strike you are out. it's really important for this to be passed and i'm in support for this because i want the youth voice to be present. the youth are our future and i want to make sure we an abiding by them. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm a program coordinator in the adult ally at youth leadership institute. she's been amazing for a number of years now. my first job out of school, i learned
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about the different fears of influence that we have when it comes to be agents of change in the community. we can do one work individualized with policy work which affected entire communities. one thing that is missing in the policy sphere influence of san francisco we don't have the ability to incorporate young people's voices and young people are such a huge part of the community here. so having the ability to keep youth oriented visions at youth friendly times is crucial to ensure that we have this very large important population is heard when it comes to decisions that are made that change their lives. thank you. >>supervisor norman yee: thank you. any other public comments? >> hello, everybody. my name is brian chiu. i'm a performer
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district four youth commissioner. i decided to drop by. i think this issue is really relevant. when we talk about policy, i think a fundamental policy is that whatever the policy affects, you really want to have the party that affects, you want that party to have a voice. when it comes to policy, the reason we want youth to have a say in this is because if you look at other things as science policy, i have seen them try to make a comparison here, what if we made a policy for women or a science policy without scientist. that's why i support this legislature. thank you. thank you. any others? seeing none, public comment is now closed. supervisor tang? >>supervisor katy tang:
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>> actually i just wanted to thank wise youth commissioners and former youth commissioner chiu but especially commissioners ger owes andchersky for their work and others. i wanted to thank you while there is youth legislation that is coming forward that she's helped, but it really coming from young people's long efforts of organizing and education of all the board members too. that will be major piece of legislation that we are hoping has strong youth participation. it's about reducing tobacco consumption in our communities. colleagues, i think this is a good first step forward and hoping you will support the strong add vocacy and organizing this and especially youth commissioners that have spoken. thank you. >>supervisor katy tang: thank you. i want to thank all the youth commissioners for first
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of all your interested in serving on the youth commission. when i was in high school, i don't think i even knew the 11 districts. i'm so happy to see that you are all so passionate about policy making and wanting to be involved in that. i want to thank supervisor mar and working with angela. i want to make sure it also works logistically. i know we face a lot of challenges in scheduling a lot of our meetings, we want to make sure it works. in addition to the legislation today i will say that we should think about other ways to incorporate and make sure we listen to youth voice. for example i make it a point to sit down and listen with our district for our point -- appointees so they can make they are thoughts on
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the decisions they are making and i also make it a point to tried memos -- read the memos that the youth commission sends to us and try to find some time where we can ourselves or members of our office can try to maybe participate in some of their youth commission hearings since they are all there already and hopefully that works as well. that might help to supplement the situations if the meetings don't work out. i appreciate you taking so much interest in the work we do because you will potentially be the next supervisor or mayor. thank you for all of your work and input. >> likewise, thank you in particular to the youth commission to came out today. this is a logical piece of ordinance that i would like to support. i actually have a daughter that was a youth
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commissioner when he she was 14 and it was very difficult to try to attend these meetings. and whenever she was able to make comments in this chambers or anywhere else, it was her needed to get an excuse and after a while as a parent i got pretty irritated that she was out of school half the time attending conferences and so forth. so i'm more than happy to support this. and what supervisor tang, her comments around thinking about other ways to involve the youth in particular youth commissioners that for instance the commissioners for district 7, i try to incorporate her into activities that i have for the community. she was in my --
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participatory council and invited to the mayor's so she can share her voice in the discussion. so i encourage all my colleagues to do that. so there is a motion on the floor, and no objection. then the motion passes. >> you have the amendments first and pass it as a committee record. >> the motion was for the amendments and now i would like to make a motion to move this item as amended forward to the board as a committee report. >>supervisor norman yee: okay. seeing no objection, the motion passes. item no. 7. city clerk: item no. 7, the motion submitted by the voters at the november 2014 election
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administrative code to increase the minimum wage from $12.25 and reaching $15 in 2018. >>supervisor norman yee: okay. i guess there is no presentation. we heard the amendments on this item last week. there has not been any additional changes. so is there any public comments on this item? seeing none. public comment is now closed. colleagues, any thoughts? do we have a motion to forward this item as amended and as a committee report to the full board? >> so moved. >> okay. no objection. this motion passes. thank you.
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>>supervisor norman yee: i guess we are coming off recess. we are going to resume to the last item in which we already called, right? so we are joined by supervisor jane kim. she will introduce the item. >>supervisor jane kim: thank you chair yee. i just want to thank and acknowledge the rules committee. we've hat a tough session. we made it finally in time. we were just negotiating literally words to make sure that we came forward to the rules committee with the right amendments and changes that we would not have to make later. i'm really happy to announce that today
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we have agreed upon a set of core terms between the mayor's office for housing and neighborhood stabilization plan to achieve our goal of balance of achieving 30 percent of housing. this plan of 2014-2015 via legislation and if necessary ballot measures in the future. we are starting this process today by presenting to voters on november 2014 a ballot measure with core values which memorialize the agreement. this is a compromise but under we share the same goal. we are taking off a ballot legislation that would enable conditional use authorization more than 30 percent providing accountability to work collaboratively with a work of stakeholders to reach a goal
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of 33 percent. higher balance legislative goal of 30 percent. housing that is affordable to 60 percent of our residents. so i will be presenting an amendment, striking the original ballot legislation and inserting this declaration of policy, affordable housing goals. i also wanted to present the list of solutions that we have agreed on to pursue collectively. one, we are going to look at potential affordable housing revenue sources. we know impact achieve 30 percent without revenue. one is to examine and look at the geo bond. a potential set aside from property tax increment value and a new development
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exact for a new fee and transfer tax charge. we've always agreed on the potential uses of this revenue fund. one is to create a stabilization trust, two, housing catalyst fund for new and low income housing and three mayor's office of housing pipeline and fourth, to jump start the housing rehab and finally we have agreed to examine and pursue and introduce a set of stabilization policies. the first of which we will introduce in september. so much as adopt the plan. and control showplace square to prohibit displacement of pdr non-profit arts and small
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business. we'll be looking at policy to loosen restrictions on commercial districts and limit the second floor to non-profit office use to pursue additional square footage that non-profits can compete for that would potentially be a lower cost and a policy to provide affordable ground floor space in finance projects such as affordable housing. establishing a citywide neighborhood advisory body with neighborhood base subgroups to help identify sites for acquisition for the stabilization fund and the soma area plan will enable 43 percent of new housing will be affordable which might include an isd to help meet that goal. finally we'll be looking to perform an economic placement study for redevelopment and
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recommend practical solutions to move forward. i'm looking at development in sensitive areas, these ground floor space to community non-profits, looking handout you to require new developments to provide low cost space to pdr, non-profits and arts and finally looking to require new development for stabilization fees to address the impact and non-profit displacement. it's an exciting list of ideas to picture -- pursue collectively to achieve the goal of 43 percent of affordable housing to the vast majority of our residents in san francisco and look forward to this work in the next year 1/2. >> okay. any comments or questions? supervisor campos in >>supervisor david campos: you know, i'm still trying to understand the revisions and
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i certainly think it's a good thing that we can find compromise. i have to say though, that i don't know that a policy statement is really what is needed right now. i certainly am open to learning more, but, you know i think that policy statements are made all the time at city hall. i'm still trying to understand, you know, where is the beef, i guess. the saying. >> supervisor tang? >>supervisor katy tang: thank you supervisor kim for explaining some of the changes. for me, i did have concern with the original measure introduced. i understand with all compromises not everything is perfect and what everybody wants. i certainly appreciate no you what we have before us and would feel more comfortable supporting this measure. >> okay. supervisor kim?
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>>supervisor jane kim: thank you. i want to respond to the initial concern. i want to make it clear that this policy statement is a very small piece of the entire compromise package. this was a way to memorialize that we would go to the ballot together with the dual measures. the actual substance of what we dwreed upon is a stabilization trust. the neighborhood stabilization plan and of course revenue to ensure that we can hit 33 percent affordable housing. so, that is what we are really excited to work on. it's something that we could have worked on with the housing balance measure and in my belief. but, when there is disagreement about the tactics and strategy by which achieving affordable housing, we in good fartsdz faith are pulling this measure in both revenue solution and housing
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solution to ensure that we hit that goal. it's not the end of the discussion, but we have a commitment that all sides will be working on this together in the next few years and we look forward to working on the substance of this over the in -- next 2 years. i think that will continue on as we continue to move forward. i want to recognize moss who is here on behalf of mayor's office to speak on this measure as well. >> okay. would you like to come up? >> good evening, supervisors, tam ka moss with the may or's office. as supervisor kim acknowledged we at the mayor's and board of supervisors recognize we have an affordable housing affordability crisis and we have a policy recognizing the
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mayor's goals around 30,000 units and producing affordable housing moving foefrmentd -- forward. we want to support the measure you have been you as a joint compromise. recognizing the board of supervisors is committed to this as is the mayor's office. and to the point that the supervisor made in terms of this really being the beginning, we agree with that. we this i that the work of really defining how we in fact build additional affordable housing and stabilize our community is a priority for our office as well. we commit absolutely to exploring these options with the supervisor and looking forward to put forth something that the
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mayor and board of supervisors can be proud of. we look forward to working together to find solutions to respond to the housing needs of all city of san franciscans. thank you. >> any other? is there any public comment on this item? seeing none? yes, i see somebody. c'mon up. >> thank you, supervisors. my name fernando with the community of housing organizations. it's very nice to be here and after a lot of sleep less nights. i think what's really encouraging is that supervisor kim stepped up to really try to see how we would accomplish a goal of one thirds of all new housing to be affordable for people
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