and so it can't be closed down. because we are dealing with growing, living things. and so, it is of the utmost importance for our city to understand that everyone would have to be relocated in the down time when i have spoken to every single vendor, the flower market could be no more than two to three days without a major financial loss across the board of growers, wholesalers and florists and so i want to put it out there that what more time that this is an unusual industry in terms of it is not like you could put your restaurant somewhere else and it is all of the vendors work together, and it is one kind of living organism, and if it is separated, it is going to destroy the flower industry in san francisco. >> i have a question and what

are the deadline that we are facing. >> september 11th is when the developer signs, to buy the property and they have not said a single word to any of the tenant as of the flower market and now, they are in negotiations to buy the other half of the flower market. >> if i might add, generally these projects are anywhere from 12 to 24 months, looking through just approval process as well. so,... >> yeah, at least i have to go through the planning. >> most of the leases for the tenants are up, to the 31st of this year and so everyone and, no one knows if they have a new owner or how that is going to effect them in terms of their leases. and so it is extremely unstable

situation. next item please. >> item 12 11 is general public comment, on items that are not before the commission. >> and do we have any members of the public that would like to make a comment on items that are not before the commission today? >> seeing none, public comment is closed, next item please? >> next item is new business. >> do we have any new business? >> seeing none, next item please. >> item 13 is adjournment. >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> we adjourn the meeting at 6:36. see you later.

>> good afternoon. welcome to the board of supervisors land use & economic development committee. i'm scott wiener the chairman of the committee to my right is supervisor jane kim the

committee vice chair sea to my left is meaning our clerk is andrea thank you to sfgovtv specific jennifer lowe >> michltd and, yes please silence any diaz and items accountant on today will be on the september 16th agenda unless otherwise stated. >> madam clerk item one. >> an ordinance for the earthquake performance evaluation of private school structures. >> colleagues, we have i along with the mayor and other supervisors are the co-sponsors of this legislation and chaegz i'm sure you're aware of over the last few years the mayor's office and board of supervisors has taken up issues for seismic

safety including the legislation the board passed to have retrofits for soft story buildings. i'm proud to be a co-sponsor of those various pieces of legislation and look forward to work with the issues on the future preserving our building stock and keeping people safe when the big one hits must be a top priority at city hall today's legislation advances us towards it this goal it requires private schools in san francisco under go a seismic evaluation they've been retrofitted and this legislation is not a retrofit requirement but instead on evaluation requirement and will allow everyone to have a better understanding of the state of our private seismic

safety and if any work needs to be done this will make our private sxlz for resilient and teachers and staff and children safer what was t was introduced we heard a number of concerns while the private schools have expressed the overall goal of making our schools safe they've raised aspects of the legislation. i'm sure you're aware of there is a bit of a scooper that all private schools are wealthy i didn't the numerous schools serve working class families there's concerns that some of the schools do not have access to deep pockets but some of the schools would be forced to closed as a result of seismic requirements my office began

working with the mayor's office and is the private school community to address the concerns this led to productive meetings convened by the mayor's office and others conversations how to go forward where the appropriate amendments were made. i want to recognize patrick who will be addressing us and our staff for having engaged in a meaningful way to try to move forward what is a solids piece of legislation and thanks to the members of the private community that put in an enormous amount of work including bayview hunters point from the archdiocese and jessica from the jewish community count ii community and armando from the cbc armen school and bob and

charles from the academy and steve wilson and sharon wilson and sister diane to help strengthen the program and thanks to my staff bringing the program together. we have a piece of legislation to improve the seismic safety while mitigating concerns all c k through telegraph hill undergo on evaluation schools with a 25 or less will think exempt this legislation applies to buildings use for educational purposes non-educational buildings like places of worship will not going

under go this program. the evaluation will be a publicly maintained document available at the department of building inspection there were questions about seismic work will trigger other code requirements around the ada and fire codes we can't exempt schools from the requirement this legislation commits the mayor's office to 0 form a group to less than e lessen the burdens for non-triggered requirements as well as to assure the permitting process and to identify a single point of contact within the departments so the schools may have a contact they've met ones and will continue.

there's provision in the legislation if a school chooses to increase go a retrofit if the school voluntarily retrofits they'll be exempted for the next 20 years the last thing we want to have a school going through a physical retrofit and a few years later they have to do it all over again, we want to encourage the schools save in the knowledge they'll not have to redo it pr the mayor's office will provide case management to help them through the evaluation process one other go concern is the financing. there are, of course, significant limitations in terms of public funding being used to help private schools especially

religion schools the mayor's office is committed to assisting and identifying financing opportunities for private schools. finally one additional request of the mayor's office we know from the soft story ordinance that schools will be approached by various businesses and consultants offering to do the evaluations and retrofitting is services this can be confusing and overwhelming for the schools there's different of types of businesses in terms of their ability to rub believability i've requested the mayor's office to put together a one page fact sheet that applies to qualifications and so forth simply helping to guide them not to be take advantage of and

finally at the conclusion of public comment i'll introduce clean up and other amendments we've worked through those amendments have been agreed to by both the private school community as well as the mayor's office and will not require a continuance. again, thank you to everyone that made the legislation possible and colleagues if there's no opening rakers i'll turn it over to patrick the director of the earthquake safety and implementation program >> good afternoon, supervisors patrick the chief officer for the city thank you, supervisor wiener it's important to note this is the capstone on a very long program we launched the program in san francisco and coming up on the 25th anniversary the october it is more than appropriated we talk

about the issues in a meaningful way in san francisco. private schools are an important part of the fabric of san francisco they've have 1/3rd of the children in san francisco 24 thousand kids we've talked about them in the terms of the safety by also talk about this in rebounding from disaster we've seen the terrible situation in the schools in new orleans after katrina we know that the air force disasters we have to have our kids in skltz i want to thank the supervisor you've done a wonderful job of coordinating the parties. also important to note that the group met once this was made up of the city agencies in the permitting process so on behalf of the mayor we've asked them to

designate a person on the staff but also to come up with their formation documents making sure they can expedite the permits so when is school does the retrofitting we've doing as much as we can as quickly as possible. the outreach is important once this goes into lieu we're going to let every school know about the requirements and it's similar with the soft story program a series of workshops with the professionals connecting them with the resources whether technical or in a wide case go management so they understand the scope so if there's requirements that are triggered we want them to understand what they're facing. so with that, if there's questions from the supervisors

i'll be happy to answer them >> thank you for your work and so with that, we'll we'll open this up for public comment and i have a few public comment cards so (calling names) we have blue cards in the front if you want to and (calling names) that i you don't have to speak in the same order i called (laughter). >> well, i guess i will well. sharon the principle of the st. catholic school we have 3

hundred and 29 students i first want to thank you. i came to today with several things you've addressed them and sclaerl heard our concerns and guess legislation is changed because of the convection that's government at work you need to keep our kids safe there isn't a principle at any of the schools that doesn't support of the seismic retrofit i'm sure you're aware of our concern was many of our schools would have closed. i appreciate you addressing that we have working poor in many of our schools and committed to keep those schools open. so i'm pleased from what i've heard and brown what the changes with going to be and i appreciate our efforts and those of everyone on the committee and the combined wisdom to keep our

children in the city of safe and our staff and parents so thank you very much >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm his sister diane i'm the president of the academy on 24th and gerrero streets. and we've been there one hundred and 31 years. we currently are the only crystal rated school in the san francisco area belonging to the in effect of schools across the united states committed to a rigorous catholic secondary neighborhood for the underserved

our initiative program gaemz our young men and women in a workshop that funds a significant portion of their tuition costs but also provides exposure to possibility in the work world world that might not be assessable to our students. i wish to express great gratitude to supervisor wiener and supervisor kim and you supervisor malia cohen for our support of our young women scloorldz we work to help the women in a safe elapsing or leadership and community vision this ordinances surely will have serious impact on our school but we appreciate that living in earthquake country we and city hall need to prioritize disaster preparedness thank you for

allowing our voices for heard and advocate for private schools a fair hopefully equal process comparable to our public schools to chief earthquake retrofits and safety standards thank you for recognizing also that the private school community is dedicated a strong contributor to san francisco's vibrator as a liveable city and for working with us to decrease the impacts of the ordinance for the sake of education that is safe and worthy ever audio students and families for all this we thank you >> thank you sister and supervisor cowen i wanted to take a moment to compliment you i've had a couple of women interim in my office it's been a

maturing awarding experience culture vat the women to become leaders and look at it not only strong leaders but thought world. >> thank you sister and. >> next speaker >> good afternoon. i'm the principle at the characteristically school we've been around since 1962 i also have been part of the conversation from the beginning i want to thank you all of you for your leadership in recognizing the importance of a fair and equitable process for the retrofits and the safety standards that our families deserve. the process and engagement improved after the mayors implementation of the public safety and it's encouraging to see how elected officials have

been able to recognize the real world impacts on our students and families many continentals are part of the alliance in the catholic schools will continue to function but meet the niece of a diverse group in the city and the changes you've made to the legislation will allow us to do that particularly the areas of identifying the buildings specifically where students more students and faculty congregate so we can limit our resources to achieve is goals we've asked the parents and others they've addressed the chair of the committee and scomploomz s supervisor campos with the mission schools to establish an efficient process and proper communication of risk to the

families so they can make choices and funding opportunity a strict focus on earthquake safety thank you for your collaborative efforts we be look forward to moving forward >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm joe i'm the president of the aider and abettor bishop on free lands avenue thank you to the supervisors and especially supervisor wiener you took the time to learn about our school your leadership to reach out not only allows to keep our private schools to allow our private schools to remain open is greatly appreciated we're we were in san francisco since 1949

question have leadership through our inclusive program with dedication to justice we do this in a family environment that fosters the faith and athletics and the art's. arching bishop has 6 hundred and 80 i did not know men along with others around the world with my reflect the history in the city and county of san francisco and appreciate the integrity of the each individual as a human being the school admits a variety of the students with abilities we'll continue to work with our committee and the city to evaluate our schools in a responsible manner and continue to prior sisters the program it's important to hit the pause button and constructing conduct

the dialog that is needed for the buildings even though their necessary we're willing to do that thank you to all who worked to achieve the ordinances before you this is clear and unambiguous and fair >> next speaker i have an additional card (calling names). >> good afternoon. my name is dbe rad were with the schools in the mission district we cater to the working poor and working class. mel will i school is one of our schools we've been are here since 1952. 1852 thank you, supervisor wiener and supervisor cohen that have allowed our schools to proceed with our commitment to

the subsequent and mitigates the interacts of the proposed law we'll work to make sure this seismic he retrofits are financial feasible especially with our schools that have limited resources we're need help from the city and the wider community to identify and remain reasonable resources to help with the work that will unavailable arrive from the earthquake ordinances >> thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> hi supervisors my name is a louis i was the chair of the private schools earthquake safety worker group with the

parents and school representatives we've meet to study the issue and put together a report that led to the draft ordinance i appreciate you guys are taking little issue seriously we know that private schools are important in san francisco but the reason we're here our workshopf. found that half the school structures are likely to perform parolee in an upcoming earthquake or has characters that the city doesn't 34 know howl how we'll perform the city is rigging all schools to be seismically save this is not the truth in recognition of the first step to find out and a because this is hard for schools

we shouldn't require them to retrofit by require them to know and make up their own decisions thank you very much for addressing this issue we look forward to making the issue a skew. >> is there any additional public comment on item one seeing none, public comment is closed. thank everyone for coming out and appreciate everyone's participation. so colleagues, i have distributed the amendments that describe when is not requiring a continuance. ca can we take those amendments without objection? okay. so the amendments are adapted. and could i have a motion to for the record item number one to the full board of supervisors with a positive recommendation supervisor kim >> so i'll make a motion to

move this forward i want to make brief comments i appreciate the seismic retrofitting it is insuring the safety in san francisco and the napa earthquake we certainly want our high schools to be safe and move through a system that's affordable in the tenderloin two private sxlz don't have the alumni base or parent network that can't raise the funds. i know you're an important part of the education system here in san francisco >> great so the motion is to forward would positive recommendation we'll take that without objection. >> madam clerk madam clerk, any other business before this committee? . there's no further business. >> then we're adjourned.

>> thank you for gathering here today for this wonderful event. looks like the rain is going to hold off hopefully prayerfully. i am robert cowan and a pastor and we're here and we are blessed to have many of our city officials including the mayor who is going to come and speak in a few moments as soon as everyone is gathered. it's great to see everybody. what a great compilation of folks. the children aren't paying attention as it should be. how is the food? >> great. [applause] >> sip did a wonderful job with the barbecue. let's give them a hand. [applause]