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pay the rest of the meddles are simply clarifications to the code and cleans up and also deleting a couple items obsolete but both proposition e and they no longer apply with that, i'll take questions. >> colleagues questions we have no budget analyst report anyone wish to comment on item 4 seeing none, public comment is closed colleagues, can i have a moving motion to send forward we'll take that without objection. and madam clerk call item 5 a resolution amending the 1450 dash 10 for the class agreements between the city and the aging community living fund in a modest grant not to exceed
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$43 million okay. thank you very much. >> thanks for being here. >> good morning dave with the human services this is an amended resolution of one that was passed a couch years ago it renews the time and extend the time of the 11 grants under the umbrella resolution increasing the amounts and time the agency of aging is a nonprofit that serves the senior community 11 separate grants i'll point out that as previously this is not a retro act it didn't interior until june of 2015 we're taking into consideration to bring this he early i have one of the my up
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and coming contractors that will talk about it the 11 services if you wish to hear that now? >> i've been briefed on this item colleagues, i think we're okay on that thank you okay. if there's nothing is there anything more. >> go to the budget analyst report. >> we were a little bit presumes in assuming the r.s.v.p so we'll projected what we think the spending amount is it's too early but we'll bring those back into the trshths. >> mr. rose can we go to our report. >> mr. clerk and members of the committee we need it the fund is subject to the board of
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supervisors appropriation of approval we report on page 2410 of the grants should be reduced by $200 million plus as shown in table 4 on page 25 of the report to cooperated with the rfp the recommendations on 25 to 26 are we recommend you amend the proposed resolution to remove 9 senior disabled center it has linkages set up to provide young adults with sdrarldz and meals and citywide information and assistance supervisor clinic supervision and forensic center that were omit from june 2015
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from the alzheimer's date research center the adult daycare elderly abuse for elderly suicide prevention and the center and specified the dates for 2017 specify the termination of the date to 2018 from grant agreements the linkages to the citywide information and assistance and critical supervision and reduce the increase needing 1011 grant by $3 million plus from 26 to $22 million plus so therefore the total grant agreement amaze about increases that i $22 million from the original needing of $60 million plus or
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minus plus to the needing $38 million plus we recommend you approve the proposed resolution as amendment. >> thank you, mr. rose colleagues any questions for the two gentlemen we'll open this up for public comment anyone wish to comment on item number 5? >> women supervisor women's can't be offended body wise or even thinking so anything further a new law to protect the women supervisors. >> okay. thank you anyone else wish to comment seeing none, public comment is closed colleagues can i have a motion to accept the items by mr. rose. >> and the underlying item. >> perfect a motion 41 by
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supervisor mar we'll take that without objection. >> mr. chair, i ask they provide united states noornts tomorrow and a at 9:00 a.m. >> it shall be so okay why not slowly call item 6 supervisor david campos gets into the chambers. >> item 6 is an amending of the code for landlord to provide disclosure of the tenants before the landlord comprehends beauty information. >> thank you that was well done why not have a two minute recess here we'll be back in two minutes thanks everyone.
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>> okay welcome back to the board of supervisors board of education meeting for october 8, 2014, we're rejoining from recess we just called item six the last item on our agenda and want to i'm going to turn it over to the sponsor of the legislation supervisor campos. >> thank you very much mr. chair and the board of education for hearing this item and also thing hillary from my office
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that's been working on this for quite some time despite the attendance in san francisco about the issue of affordability in this housing crisis the truth of the matter is we really does not have a complete picture about the true scope of the displacement it's happening in san francisco one of the reasons is that tenant beauties are not currently regulated by the city and county of san francisco beauties for folks who that may not know happen with had a landlord offers a tenant a monetary sum for the tenant vacating the unit this is sometimes that happens outings outside of the eviction process the beauties are a loophole in our bylaws in san francisco under the rent control ordinance a landlord must have one of the
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15 just cause some are based the actions like failure to pay rent other evictions reason are considered no fault when an owner decides to move into a unit the san francisco just cause eviction scheme was carefully crafted for the reason of protecting the units in san francisco that is san francisco's large prices control pricing not vulnerable to the market the market has been changing rapid in san francisco beauties are a loophole they allow the landlord to evade by offering the tenant a monetary sum to vacate would you tell us goes to the others eviction process and having a assert one the judge causes for eviction we
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know that protecting the how's e housing stock in san francisco is a major component of addressing our cities housing crisis because, in fact, the rent control united 0 impose more than 50 percent of the city's price control housing and give that efforts toy do the ellis act we must develop and pass legislation for the purpose of protecting renters in san francisco i believe that regulating beauties is a critical way to act to address our housing criticized we don't know about the exact buy outs for every local 7 butte buy outs took place in san francisco moreover the budget analyst recently released a report that analyze the data from the tenants union that found that
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the number of tenants seeking advise increased between calendar years 2009 from 76 inclines to one hundred plus in 2013 i imagine it number has been raised the buy outs are going up the amendment is a pyritic legislation that first requires the landlord to provide laents e tenants with a disclosure of the tenants rights before the landlord commences filing and at the time the buy out agreement is reluctance to writing it requires all buy outs to be in writing and allows the tenant to resend a buy anti
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agreement 45 days overtime there's an imbalance between the entertainment and landlord this is especially, when the tenant is a limited english speaker i've heard many stores of tenant accepting a tiny buy out amount to vacate a unit this is 1u7b8 less than the boy out under the ellis act or the owner move in no fault eviction grounds by requiring the landlord to provide a tenant with information about he or she rights before the buy out the tenant will have the time to be caught about his or her rights when negotiating with the landlord i hope this provision will help balance out the
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inkwaeblts that occur where the tenants are able to negotiate large buy outs while they leave the rent control unit legislation requires the landlord to file a copy of document with the board and requires the rent broadway board to make those public on a searchable website and it requires the nature of the buy outs by requiring the registration of buy outs with the rental board we'll have the data to fully understand the level of displacement in san francisco this information about help us as at board of supervisors and collective as a city to craft the solutions to address the issue the legislation imposes
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the same condo prohibitions that are in place for other no fault evictions it help to prevent lymph gland to buy out from concord converting as a after a no fault eviction the landlord will be able to condo convert for 10 years in the same building and not been able to condo convert meantime he or she makes a buy out to a ill entertainment finally the legislation allows the tenants and nonprofits and the c-3 or 4 with the primary mission of protecting the tenants or the city attorney's office to enforce the provision of the law in the california 13ush9 in the original version we're going to
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have the rent board but after talking to the director felt rent board we don't feel the board has the capacity to handle to level of enforcement and have concerned with the conflict of interest as the rent board and as a supervisor of the metrics law judges that decides those cases for that reason we moved the enforcement power to other you departments that has the housing authority in mind after conversations with the process we decided unnecessary for charging a landlord fees therefore i'm make an amendment removing the free provision specifically rovmd language on page 7 line 16 to 20 when
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appropriate i ask the committee to make that motion and we have another technical amendment to change 90 days to one hundred and 20 days on page 14 line 10 this is also at the request of the rent board we'll get to those amendments later on in the hearing so mr. chair i don't know if you or any member of the committee has questions or comments in not why don't i we'll open this up for public comment and i have a number of speaker cards i'll ask the speakers to line up on our right our left and just come up as your name is called please line up
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(calling names). >> good morning. i'm tommy i work at the housing rights committee i want to make a few points about buy outs first of all, it's clear it buy outs are de facto evictions we at the housing rights is committee see tenants coupling with letters from their landlord and basic the letter he says either you accept the buy out it's you usually kilo low bye like $3,000 low under the ellis act either accept it or we have no choice but to the do the ellis act it's
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an inundation trying to pressure people into getting the buy outs their scared a they're to losses their homes, etc. and take the buy outs buy outs are out the control we see it we have the credit claim e housing clinic we have everyday people coming in that have been offered a buy out vooernl or through a letter or some kind of threat they've been offered a buy out there's a lot of buy outs going on their outside the radar we had count evictions we don't count those the threats against immigrants they've been threatened to be
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resorted to immigration this legislation will bring the butte buy outs under control and duty u cut down open 0 this in the city i encourage you to pass this with a positive recommendation to the full board. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i'm andrew with the san francisco tenants union thank you sxhooums for working on this legislation and the union we receive a lot of clients who come in with buy out offices that are low and some people don't come in if they think this is all they can get. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good morning. i'm deanna i'm a housing council with the cause i'm here to urge tour full support for the buy outs
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legislation that of interested 40 introduced to the board the san francisco represent board is pro-active in collecting data this legislation supports the much needed documentation to system lee count for the democratgraphies and laents on the buy out agreement currently not data regarding the trend that the buyist offers the provisions in the legislation can elaborate the pattern and old practices as well as the questionableness between the acts of good faith and we see this as a tracking of the preservationries hundreds of affordable housing as supervisor campos mentioned are already
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under rent control for the take intents ticks and the buy out offers the crisis that our city and cities across the nation s are currently seeing the provisions your endorsement can help the mechanisms that assistance of mapping who is at stake for the underground practices. >> thank you very much. >> hi, i'm a tenant counselor with the agency we and clinic see over one hundred kinds i'm here to urge tour support important the buy out cases u cases we're getting cases where a 99 this was purchased in the mission the
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landlords wanted to get people to enter into a offer he called the tenants typed them letters and paid personal visits to their home the tenant too want to live under the pursues and harassment and signed i met with another tenant and it is one of many cases the bottom line the tenants in this getting deadlines and constant phone call from the landlord and representatives we need to strengthen our strategies and provide education resources and hold landlords accountable this legislation will give the tenants more/89 opportunities to learn it they're right and services in their language and time to adequately assess the steps to take if folks access our services we can 0 give them
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time to make decisions there are instances we don't know about where people are leaving with this legislation people can not have their rights cut away with let's go information. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is peter green i'm just a regular citizen i came to san francisco when i was 24 years old i would go in an agreement purchased 2 years ago i came to show the face of a tenant facing eviction i'm now living in southern california far from the place i love to work i could go into the aids crisis and my contributions i know you want to focus on the
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buy out in the dead of night i was told the building was going to be sold i was lucky enough to be ill i could get help from lucky to get help from legal here in the city i can't minimal 60 days to get out after 28 years and a buy out that barely got me to southern california i'm bashed from the place i live and work and divorcee could gone. >> i was lucky it was a nightmare so i just i don't know. i don't pretend to know the horrors i i'm a facing face here everyday. >> thank you very much it's good to see you in san
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francisco thank you for sharing our story. >> good afternoon or good morning. i'm scott an attorney we've been around since 1981 doing tenant rights litigation buy outs having is one of the things eave dealt with you think based on the testimony you've heard you have a basis for abandoning buy out on first blush buy outs are okay. people are shaking hands and coming to an agreement your heard the context of shaking hands it is usually preceded been a landlord h that is purchased the building and often by a landlord saying i'm going to ellis act the building but if you can hand you more money if you don't make me
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going going through the process it's around ellis act it's around the restrictions as so forth in the condo conversion of ellis act evictions proposed legislation if not impose any undue burden on anyone to require a landlord to give tenant information about their rights is heralds american people imposition to even the right of recession 45 days most of the buy outs are 5060 or 90 day so the right of recession didn't put no one in an adverse situation as far as the condo restriction if you're going to ellis act it then face the condo restrict