you, colleagues the rest i'll submit >> supervisor mar. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you mr. clerk. so first colleagues i'm introducing a request for a hearing in september about water conservation in the city to provide our city departments participate recreation and parks department with an opportunity to talk about the steps their taxing there's confusion why some water is turned off and plant watering is not happening. the second to explore with various departments whether or not legislation is appropriate to require that probably new construction and multi unit

buildings have water meters for each invented unit right away right now you can build a multi unit building that's not mediations for water there's no incentive to conservation water or know how much water so use for older buildings it's infeasible to shift over to individual meters but at a minimum we should look at this for new construction i was surprised to learn that's not a requirement we will receive a status on increasing the number of watering circling and water use the puc has a number of plans but i think we're behind in terms of where we should be. i'll be joining supervisor breed p who will be speaking and

sponsoring the approval the mta contracted to pretty much the next generation of light rail vehicles. this is incredibly exist we don't have enough light rail vehicles they breakdown and have defects and riders see the results everyday in the subway on the sunset at the t at balboa station i'm excited about this next generation in terms of having more l rb and having the ability to link and delink to have three and four tyrone's in the subway it i'm very excited about this and also that undermines the importance of

transit for the funding we're going to have to recomment to funding our transportation and the rest i'll submit >> thank you, supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. >> commissioner white. >> supervisor yee will commissioner white. >> supervisor avalos >> thank you. i have 3 items for introduction. i'm continuing the saga around the mortgage reduction my office has been gleaned i have legislation for the resolution that was before us earlier this month. actually, the legislation will be creating or directing the city attorney to negotiate with the city of richmond w the creation and will lead us to voting an ordinance i'll have the terms in place for the joint powers authority the resolution also creates terms for the

negotiations we want to make sure that the questions people have had so far can get built into how we perform to joint powers authority while indemnify and cover the costs through the j pa foshgs for the eminent domain for are mortgages they'll not have the power to use eminent domain on private property only eminent domain in mortgages with consent from the homeowner it's the hope that negotiating this will affiliate many of the concerns people have expressed we're looking at to the future where most of san francisco is not experiencing the foreclosure and underwater homes like altercating other communities around the bay area there's the potential of it happening again and neighborhoods in san francisco

especially on the southeast and southern part of san francisco hair many homes under a water that needs support from the city. so this resolution would direct the city attorney to negotiate the terms also working in under the awe that his the mayor's office of housing we want to make sure that the program that is supporting households against foreclosures and underwater homes has the support of mayor's office of housing. i have a couple of other items i have a letter of inquirey about the intent of the san francisco employee retirement system to televise their meetings here in the city hall. earlier this year there was a commitment experienced by the retirement board yet not seen

progress made spitting despite there's money in the budget for this to happen we want to make sure we move forward as we deliberate on the respecter fund this have been done under the scrutiny of television and under the eyes and transparency so i'm hoping that will be responded to before we could be on september 2nd. the last item for introduction is i'm excited about in the excelsior district we have our native son jerry garcia our famous son his birthday is august 1st he was born in 1942 we'll be celebrating the jerry day at the jerry garcia amphitheater. what's unique we've actually

finally moving forward on creating plaques in the homes of jerry gary's in the excelsior district on amazon in the excelsior and 87 herself ton in the excelsior. he grew up there and went to school and the balboa high school. we want to show what the excelsior has been able to create often over looked in many parts of san francisco and the plaques will help to showcase the talent. and we're hoping the plaques will be installed by next year's the 50th anniversary of the graet grateful full dead he was one of the founding members of the grateful full dead >> thank you supervisor breed. >> colleagues, i have one item

i'm excelling excited by introducing legislation that will allow many to expand its expire fleet of trains. it this is a one billion dollars investment the contract is up to two hundred and 60 new light rail cars for the enable one hundred and 51 to replace our entire fleet and an additional 81. the trains will be built and the evidence locally in sacramento and more reliable and more efficient and safer and cheaper to operate and more flexible and projected to run over ten times longer than 59 thousand miles instead of four or five thousand miles before repair their come in below purchase price this is a product of years of work it's

badly needed and i'm happy to see it come to fruition i've been speaking about this since i became supervisor i went out into the upper and lower hate almost in every instance the biggest concern of my constituents was the constantly can you fix the injudged now bear in mind over 40 thousand people it carries over day it is the single busiest line and it's consistently detailed and overcrowded i'll tell people have faith so for the past year and a half i've made the m is l and j and all of muni one of any highest priorities we work with the mta staff for the mini

prompt for the inner sunset and supervisor wiener and i developed seating and we've held hearing for the train replacement i've worked with mta director john to launch shelter train service on the ervin parts and helped to secure the funding for the mta and local funding we've where else about this so many times i think my readers are tired of hearing about it and clearly they want action but i keep writing there about this it is a monumental step for making muni a step one priority a multi million dollars creation for subway lines this is

probably the single greater thing we can do for muni riders we have many trains but many are damaged so often because of they're no to the call of the chair operating doors we generally only have one hundred and 10 trains available for service i think we remember supervisor wiener went through the camera and i won't make the face it was hilarious but the lack of reliable trains is what causes the details and over crawford u crowding and frustration muni riders face we're in the process of replacing our entire bus fleet the rubber tire side and i have supported those contracts with this contract we'll have a full

reliable fleet of 21st century trains. i'm critically proud to be port part ever this effort and i want to thank john mta director for transit for his hard work and for everything he does to improve our fleet and thank you, supervisor wiener and supervisor mar and supervisor tang the transportation authority staff and everyone that has helped. i know that supervisor wiener gave us the bad news we don't have the money but i'm optimistic that some of the efforts through the transportation authority and other things we're doing as a board and as a city will help us to get to that point i look

forward to our support and transportation authority >> thank you supervisor breed. supervisor campos thank you madam clerk and i want to begin by saying that i know this is our last meeting before we go into our very short recess i wish everyone a well rested recess but i'm here to talk about two pieces two items that i believe are very important beginning with an item that we are introducing a piece of legislation to continue to address the issue of the affordability crisis and the crisis we have here not city and county of san francisco. the fact is not we're not entirely clear of the true stent of the crisis we're facing. the true scope of the

displacement phasing san franciscans is not entirely clear because even though we have the numbers when it comes to evictions one of the items that is displacing people is the issue of buy out the landlord offers the tenant a monetary sum for the tenant to leave the you are talking about this is some time something that happens outside the former eviction process? a loophole and under the san francisco represent control owners the landlord must have one of the 50 reasons to evict a tenant some of the reasons are based on the alex action of the tenant like

failing to pay rent an example of a no fault eviction a landlord wants to move into a unit the san francisco scheme was carefully crafted to protect tenants and rental e rent control units in san francisco. and buy outs are a loophole around the protections they allow landlords to e avoid an eviction by offering a tenants to vacant a unit without having to go through the formal eviction process and have to assert one thought just causes we know that protecting the housing stock in san francisco is a major component of addressing our housing crisis and, in fact, the housing unit compose more than 50 percent of

the housing. notwithstanding the forest by the board of supervisors and mayor ed lee and tom and others our efforts to academy the ellis act in sacramento has failed new we must continue to act locally to protect our tenants. we don't really know the full stent of the existence of buy outs but we know from talking to our advocates and the record that was issued by the budget analysts we know the beauty outs could be 5 or 6 or 7 beauty outs it's a significant issue the legislation i'll introducing is

a balanced piece of legislation that does a number of things to provide the landlords information at least 45 days prior to negotiations and landlord to submit a written agreement in material terms of an agreement including an oral agreement within 7 days of a buy out agreement and the power to have administration action against a landlord that fails to do either of the board and enlisted the tenants a right to bring a lawsuit for failing to bringing up the buy out policies and requires the rent board to post buy out armies on its a reasonable degree of medical certainty e website and beginning in 2016 that report to the board of supervisors of the

and a half of but out and finally the legislation compassed the same prohibitions first, it accomplishes the requiring of beauty outs with the rent board we will finally have the data to actually understand the level of displacement happening through butte buy outs it will help is in the resolution of creating the displacement. second oftentimes with had a lymph gland offers a tenant there's an imbalance of power between the landlord and the tenant this is especially the case which the tenant has limited english skills. i have heard many times from many residents stories of a

attended accepting a small buy out offer to vacate the unit that is illegal what the tenant would be entitled to. this balances and levels the playing field so the tenant understand their rights before entering into negotiations this will help to balance the inequality that is occurring in places like the mission. and finally this legislation will help protect san francisco's rent control housing our stock of rent control housing will be protected by preventing landlord from concord condominium conversion in the same manner as the landlord is prevented from concord converting the landlord would not be able to convert a condo n

for 10 years and not been able to condo convert at meantime if he or she makes a beauty outing buy out to a senior or ill person. i look forward to seeing this piefks legislation that deals with buy outs addresses the affordability crisis we're facing. i want to thank my co-sponsors as well as the organization that have worked with me to draft that piece of legislation the tenants units this housing rights committee and the chinatown community center and the tenderloin clinic and the eviction free san francisco. i also want to especially thank our city attorney's office which has been working diligently on this piece of legislation and a number of other pieces of

legislation we've put forward i know we've taken up a lot of time of our city attorney's office and their work is especially appreciate. the final issue is something that is happening in my district. you've probably read about in the paper the planned parenthood clinic located in my district in the mission. i want to provide some context for what's happening. in 193 affidavit gun was shot and killed on his way to work on the pensacola medical women's clinic it occurred in the middle of an anti-abortion profit that was aimed at the staff at the clinic. that same year dr. golden gate

war serving as the medical dork in that clinic was shot in both arms by anti choice protesters. dr. actuallyer would survivor that only to be killed by another anti activity. there were 4 thousand plus incidents of violence in the united states and canada in the last 20 years. i want to provide that context because what's happening in my district where anti extremity outlets are targeting women as they go into the planned parenthood clinic and the staff has to be put both the larger context that has happened in other part the country. recently the u.s. supreme court

held that a 35 foot boundary was uninstitutional. today because of that ruling there's a buffer room ordinance we pass here in san francisco and i thorough. because the status of that buffer zone we passed is unknown i'm introducing a request that we as a board of supervisors meet in closed session so we can obtain advise from our city attorney concerning our buffer zone and that we consider in closed session the various options we have as a board in protecting the rights of those women. the buffer room zone ordinance allows for a fixed 25 foot buffer zone at the entrance of

the clinics and in exits and driveways of any facility that provides facilities that are not owned are operated by hospitals. we believe this ordinance is necessary to prevent protesters from creating stationary barricades and gaunt let's between a patient and facility. it's my opinion that people that enter the clinics should be free of harassment and including vieftsdz very recently, i can tell you what we're seeing in front of that clinic is not free speech it is harassment and intimation i've seen it firsthand it goes beyond whoo is

first amendment talks about they are standing in in front of a doorway and trying to keep woman from going in they try to shame the individual and try to dissuade them by intimately them and file number block the clinic and when someone passes by and disagrees with what they're doing they try to go after the person and has the individual. image i i believe what is happening is not only wrong but illegal. until the board of supervisors makes a policy statement as to how we're going to proceed in terms of protecting those women the san francisco police department will not enforce our buffer zone are i believe that this buffer zone needs to be enforced as quickly as possible

but because the police department is waiting for the direction from the board of supervisors i think it's important for us to meet as as soon as possible on this issue i hope we meet in september when we return from our break ambassador in the meantime, i have asked our city attorney and police department to they can do everything within their power to make sure that other laws currently in place for the purpose of protecting women who are assessing the chaplain our other purposes we do everything we can to protect the access to the clinic. women's rights are being violated here 90 in san francisco. if we can't protect access to reproductive health in san francisco where else can access reproductive health be

protected. thank you to our police department and the city attorney's office we've met with them and they're making this important issue a priority we need to act quickly i think we have very good legal agreements including factual differences what's happening here and what was ruled on by the supreme court. i believe that san francisco needs to continue to follow it's tradition of protecting the rights of people even when their legal questions involved we pushed the envelope on same sex may remember and proven fore right and we need to continue to do so here and push the effective so the right of women to choice what to do with their bodies and access health care is

protected transportation authority >> thank you supervisor campos. >> supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. okay. a couple of items. for introduction today. first colleagues i'm introducing an ordinance that elements the amount of says that a building is allowed to convert once it's a designated historic landmark. over the last two months i've worked with tenants in the 2 henry adams it was impartiality for a landmark designation their proposal to convert their 5 story building to office space and displace tenants is a significant concern. based on a survey there's approximately 14 other buildings in the pdr one d and g areas that could be eligible for

landmark designation those buildings are allowed to convert one hundred percent of their space to office. eir respect of whatever whether or not they displace the tenants this limits the number of stories they can limit by establishing now controls i believe this legislation strikes the right balances between higher revenue balances such office space to support the maintenance of those historic buildings without displacing tenants or can only obligating a whole pdr building. you've heard me time and time again stress the value of pdr and the value it brings to our city it provides blue-collar

jobs and diversity to our economy 0. not addressing this issue will lead us down a path of undercutting all issue to support a growing local manufacturing industry next to give voice to what's happening in san francisco a number of gun violence across thecy in the south eastern part of the city this year alone they've stolen the lives of 20 individuals prematuring and scaring countless of other physically as well as mentally. the current epidemic of violence in america threats our physial