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to the city attorney's office to show case our commitment and many others loss they're for their work in the neighborhoods how we stabilize san francisco and build more affordable housing so colleagues, i ask for your support thank you unless there's further decision colleagues, same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. this being an urgency ordinance this ordinance is finally passed. >> and with that, roll call. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you, very much mr. clerk i want to note that this coming monday at 10:00 a.m. there will be a federal trial here in federal district court
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concerning my relocation assistance ordinance whichhis board of supervisors passed with a super majority judge clarlz charles buyer will hear the case on golden gate avenue as you recall by a super majority of this board we enacted the ordinance in april of this year, the ordinance provides that when landlords make use of ellis act to withdraw the residential units from the market they may compensate the tenants between the tenants current rent and two years worth of are we talking about at a comparable rent in san francisco it yaets creates two administrative stiff appeal processes to protect the small businesses one at appeal for the
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ellis act to challenge the differential calculation and another process to allow the landlords to port commission petition for payments where they show payments of financial hardship the landlords can pursue both appeals this has been a part of the solution of san francisco affordability crisis we've heard reports the law has lout tenant to live in san francisco after being evicted despite the as not only rents in san francisco because of the importance of this law many of our middle-income residents are still here we know this lay is important to address the crisis i have a great deal
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of conditions in the city attorney's office and thank you to city attorney herrera and his entire staff for making the defense of this law a priority we believe building we'll prevail but we're confident at the end of the day this law will be protected by the courts this is a legal case that goes beyond the issue of relocation but to the question of whether or not working people middle-income people can live in san francisco it is a place for everyone to live and again, i think the city attorney's office and look forward to the trial on monday the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor campos president chiu. >> thank you mr. clerk colleagues today, i'm excited to
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introduce our ordinance for predictable schedule for formula retail employees with which is the bill of rights introduced by supervisor mar the ordinance we're introducing is the first in the country to deal with the unbe predictabilityable schedule and unfair practices that effect our low income wage workers i proposed the family ordinance and thanks to you san francisco became the first to establish caregivers to request flexible work schedules and president obama expended the right to over 2 million workers and part of the rights we included provisions for predictable schedules but the topic was i
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suggested a separate label for employers to address this topic 0 for much of this year we've through the discussions learned and unpredictable schedules and last minute on call practices creates work family challenges and undermines workers well-being we've heard about the best practices how to manage the schedules as well as the fact that the largest chance stories typically known in our city as formula retail establishments have the ability to have a flexibility in schedules that can base this on schedules and customer demand our economy is doing well, for many we have too many people that struggle in
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jobs with unpredictable shifts and have barriers to a solid criteria lard we've heard from apartment workers who how much they will learn and struggle with two jobs over the past decades tennis 2003 workers have download our city as said this is not enough to lift the folks out of poverty but must be based on on fair schedules this ordinance will apply to employees that encompass 5 percent of the workforce it will require formula retail employers to post skweldz working days in advance and discourage the erratic
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consultations by providing predictability pay changes are made in the last 7 days where a worker is having their changes made similar to paid time required by the state it will discourage the on call shifts to allow the workers so have unpredictable pay and provided part time workers have equal protections with howell wages i want to thank the coalition the staff from the legal position and jobs for justice and many on that have been part of the coalition and colleagues i look forward to discussing this with you i want to mention supervisor
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wiener will be discussing one topic it will be trees and in particular, the trees that have not been kept up in our city in my district this past week a giant tree krachd and we know that our cities relinquishment policy with trees is not working earlier this year i asked the colleagues to include an expenditure in the budget for trees in the district i know that supervisor wiener has had serious challenges in his district we need to do better and because of that i call for the hearing he'll be describing in a few minutes. >> thank you president chiu supervisor cohen thank you, very much. i'm delighted to hear that supervisor wiener is going to be calling a hearing 0 on trees i'd like to add my name to that
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request it's a significant problem an ill conceived idea to transfer those sick trees to resident i'd like to close today's meeting in memory of a great man under johnson he was the only african-american elected to the sacramento board of supervisors and later appoint to the u.s. health and human services and also served as a cabinet secretary he was widely praised with a keen political insticks out a a passion to help people he was a strong voice in the 71 and a champion of the social justice work to protect the interests of the working class and uses emphasis position to
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better those lives and the lives that are around him that were around him tested survived by his wife ms. lee turning and daughter patricia and katherine and others he'll be solely missed i want to recognize it's legacy lives on not only inspires me but there are organizers here in san francisco that have known mr. johnson for a long time the rest i submit mr. clerk. >> thank you supervisor cohen supervisor farrell. >> supervisor kim >> thank you first of all, i want to wish any colleague supervisor campos a very happy birthday it happenings happened two days ago i want to introduce a modification for the transbay plan that allows the city to receive more money for
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affordable housing by allowing a developer to pay a significant fee i know this issue with in the august around the concerns of the protecting vs. the 34r5ur9 housing this deal is a huge precedent in the city around a discussion we've had about charging varying rates of oversight rates depending on the types of buildings like the condo or an 18 unit building you're asked to pay by the city the same amount but some units are more valuable than others this negotiation was a huge success on the part of our city to set a preept on the types of dollars when we allow luxury condo developers to oversight their units
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generally as a policy i prefer inclusionary units to be on site but this is a case we're allowing the developer to pay a fee in a significant number of affordability units in the transbay area plan we've committed to 35 percent of affordable housing thanks to redevelopment and the state we have one other affordable housing project that's been completed in the transbay area the renee parent and on fremont and fulsome the original proposal on fremont was for 11 ooutsz units to be on site of a mixed use office building under the current structure the developer would pay $5.5 million toward affordable housing if they off sited those units oozing they negotiated a
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$13.85 million annual fee towards the affordable housing in this area almost 3 times the amount that a developer would have paid in the current program it's significantly higher than what is lout on the market rate vs. the pure rate amount the - we know with the homeowner association fees would have been in the thousands of dollars thereby preexcluding folks will build 69 affordable homes now we're building 69 affordable rental oozed uses so the net between 54 and 58 new units since they will be subscribed by the city it has a cap that is
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negotiated by ocii it could subsidy 5892 housing unit they will be built on the transbay area not 12k3wr5ig9 them and block 8 is located open fulsome between 1 and fremont street ocii has xuftd awning agreement with companies and tenderloin development corpse to build the project and transbay block 8 designed by obamacare m a this proposal will include more affordable housing than proposed with 67 hundred and six 3 unit in which one hundred and 77 are affordable to hourldz between 40 and 5060 percent of the area medium income it's low on the superdome the items being
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introduced will be heard alters ocii and planning i want to express my strong support and come back to the board of supervisors as we see sit on the proportion of the area plan this proposal will allows us to get more affordable housing and thus set an important precedent of setting a higher off site fee and demonstrates that the developer can and will pay higher fees to do off site with had it develops for affordable housing the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor kim supervisor mar. >> thank you embarcadero i want to join supervisor cohen in honor of brent from sacramento as a child growing up in sacramento and a student activist i had respect for him and had an ability to meet with
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him a number of times he was so down to earth whether working in the administration or the gray davis administration took time with grassroots individuals like myself i think that technology was only 65 years old he passed away on dikes and heart failure i'm thinking will how diabetes is in people's liking life but 23 we do nothing about diabetes one half of the african-american population will develop diabetes 50 percent b will likely develop alzheimer's and diabetes should be seen as a crisis within our communities i also wanted to add that mr. johnson came out of the movement whether students and the
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antiapartheid to owner turn issues in the 70 that united people of color challenging the government to be fair to an equal opportunity programs throughout this country and whether the dell heights or sacramento he is stood strong whether the activist to when b b became a nationwide leader he'll be missed also i'm proud to stand with our wanting david chiu in introducing and supporting the second formula retail rights it is significant it's taken years for many of the workers advocates and the policies folks and the grassroots coalition lead by jobs for justice that are coming together with the part one that was introduced too months ago and this piece part two that
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will hopefully insure that 0 san francisco supports our apartment formula retail workers and raising the minimum wage is not enough as president chiu said we must promote full-time employment and stable work steldz e schedules but to uplift the low wage people in the city the vast majority or people of color and women 0 they're not only living paycheck to paycheck but suffering from erratic schedules san francisco needs the formula retail bill of rights to restore a fair workweek and this is for tens of thousands of low income workers the coalition of project sponsors in addition to those president chiu mentioned are
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leading this for jobs for justice for community empowerment and the south of market network and young workers united and united food and commercial workers and the local 2 and the san francisco labor council thanks to mike to make sure we have the strongest possible mile-an-hour going forward i'm intruding freud proud to be working with president chiu with the floug historic new laws that will promote stability for restaurant and workers in san francisco also this coming weekend on friday saturday and sunday october 3rd through the fifth is the support the bluegrass festival in golden gate park i know that supervisor farrell mentioned he's planning on going
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to the family friendly event 7 stages over one hundred performers and but on friday from 8:30 a.m. a great program for the middle school students it's exclusive for them they don't let others into the area and mchammer and this year's is the disciplinarian yell patrol music festival as well an educational event for our middle school kids. >> thank you to some folks for this generous gift and i'm looking forward to my usual steve earl and the dukes great bands this might exist you bryan adams and roxanne and t bone and
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i love the local bands get down and stay down this is performing on friday and what an amazing line up of different performers i'm reading on my script they're expecting to draw upwards of 7 thousand people around the park so i know that concerns about issues from traffic to noise and disruptions may come from our communities so there's a neighborhood hotel line 414 that 5 3868584 i've circled all the biking areas i go to the usually spot and there's also the heavy i didn't parking area near
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presidio avenue and there's 30th after a big bike parking and jfk and there's plenty of parking and public transit is encourage if you drive and park on the streets please respect our neighborhoods whether the richmond and don't bloke driveways and it is on a first come, first serve basis george washington in the richmond and argon elementary school they have a lot of parents mann and womening the parking lot address lafayette on saturday and sunday on 36 oath and presidio middle school on 29 and geary and lastly jefferson elementary school at 1725 e.r. i go and a
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cough of the performances are going to be streamed live for are wwwhardly strikingly bluegrass.org the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor mar supervisor wiener. >> thank you mr. clerk as president chiu mentioned today, i'm introducing a hearing request and want to 245i7k president chiu and supervisor cohen for covering it is for the misguided tree relinquishment policy there's not high public awareness around this we have basically diced what i think it probably the one of the worse possible policies that you can have in order to promote a flushing healthy urban effort the policy is that if you own a
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home adjacent to a street tree the city is basically going to dump maintenance responsibility of that tree into you this is the case whether or not you planted the tree or own the tree whether or not you want the tree, whether you have the physical or financial robot and whatever the size the tree in supervisor chiu's district that are trees that are to 50 feet tall that is absorb to ask someone to take care of that and expensive to bring arborist out in my district a woman had the good fortunate but having the gull to own is a home with a
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street next to 50 trees and the city said it was her responsibility to maintain the 50 trees, however, did city backed up the industry is unfair to property owners and think the property owners want the the trees and know how to take care of those trees it's a receipt for an urban effort of the 20 large streets san francisco is number 17 in terms of the canopy coverage that's because we had investment in our urban forest and the investment is one of the issues 4 percent of our trees die because of natural attrition and a lot of property owners
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don't want new trees next to their homes abused of the responsibility of taking care of them we need to shift our urban forest tree policy so expand the number of trees in san francisco so that we increase our canopy cover and have a healthy way rather than relying on homeowners some people will do a fantastic job others do a poor job or hire a arborist the purpose to explore the relinquishment program whether the city sees the program in the future and when the city aupz anticipates all the trees are having if you trees under their responsibility and having a
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flooifr upper forest given this policy this is an important issue colleagues, i building that the people of san francisco care passionately about trees and having a flushing urban effort the rest i submit. >> seeing no other names that community colleges roll call. >> why not go to public comment. >> at this point the public my may comment and including items that are considered by a board committee pursuant to the board please direct our comments to the board as a whole and not the board if you like a document to be displaced on the overlay
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please let us know. >> let's hear from the first speaker. >> good afternoon, president and supervisors i was reading the paper they're looking for fresh air in the city we need a city that is fresher than fresh district exciting in the city thaivengz thanks to mayor ed lee it's fresher than fresh and about the fire chief chief joanne you can't start a fire without a fire chief for hire even if the city chief joanne
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hayes-white was just distancing in the dark you're the joke our the wine we're stay in this town the streets will be carving you up all right. want to this city district play and city the city that the laughs on you stay on the streets of this city town and be carving you up all right. can't start a fire without a stark this chief joanne hayes-white fire chief for hire in this city and we're going to have where you left our city heart and see hope you had a nice city september hope you had a nice city great month and i'll see
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you in october and i'm going to wish you city luck. >> thanks boss next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors that event of technology has enhanced our quality of life in many ways that is unthinkable as early as 20 years ago i want to take advantage to claim the san francisco police department and vehicles with surveillance cameras its much needed and long overdue san francisco is not the windshield wield west the police officers risk their lives while enforcing and exuding laws in the line of duty and