environmental issues because of where they live. i want to thank the department staff, particularly karen cohen from the department of public health, wade w. from the planning department for their work on this very important issue. my apologies, wade, i just can't pronounce your last name. i want to thank supervisor kim for shining on as a co-sponsor as she has ate large portion of her district which falls within the air quality hot spot zones. so, colleagues, i do can for your support in this important legislation. thank you. ~ >> supervisor kim. >> and i want to thank supervisor cohen for bringing this before the board. air quality becomes an increasing concern amongst our district residents and was really highlighted at monday's land use committee when we saw the air quality hot spot region. and it seemed to encompass all of district 6. but it's something that we've been hearing more and more about, particularly as we grow in inner city and district and

employment and our economy is back up. we have many more people in cars, particularly in our neighborhoods as they circle around the 80, 101 and 280 freeway to get in and out of the city. and i know that more and more of our residents are asking what we as a city are doing about the quality of air. for them and also many of our families that are raising their children in these neighborhood so i'm really glad we are going to be putting into place an air filter system for all of our new construction. and i really look forward to working with the department of public health to ensure that we can provide some options for existing construction in this neighborhood, particularly for buildings that can do that quickly and then look at what options there are for buildings that may not be able to afford to. but i'm glad we are moving at least this forward today. >> colleagues, can we take it same house same call? without objection this ordinance is passed on first reading. [gavel] >> next item a. item 22 is an ordinance to amend the health

code to authorize the use of [speaker not understood] psychiatric hold permitted under the california welfare and institutions code. >> i do understand there might be a couple of amendments to this. is the represent from the san francisco d.a.'s office here? >> good afternoon, supervisors. katie miller from the san francisco d.a.'s office. i'm the chief of alternative programs. we actually don't have any amendments that we'd like to put forward. we do support the legislation at this time. the one concern that we had raised was that we have the resource he we need to staff these proceedings once they go forward. we want to be a part of them and we want to be able to staff them right so we started a discussion with our city partners and the mayor's office to that end. but we have no amendments at this time. thank you very much. >> thank you. i know there might be a technical amendment by the city attorney. >> deputy city attorney jon givner. i've distributed set of amendments that basically make

a numbering change effectively to line this ordinance up with the [speaker not understood] ordinance that passed earlier this year. >> so, with that, colleagues, could we -- could someone make a notion to amend as our city attorney just described? motion by supervisor farrell, second by supervisor mar. without objection that will be made. [gavel] >> on the underlying motion can we take this item same house same call? as amend without objection this ordinance is passed on the first reading as amended. [gavel] >> item 23. >> item 23 is a resolution to adopt the san francisco hazard mitigation plan of 2014. >> colleagues, same house same call? this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> item 24. >> item 24 is a notion to appoint [speaker not understood] residency requirement waived and [speaker not understood] to the sunshine ordinance task force for terms ending april 27th, 2015. >> same house same call? this motion is approved. [gavel] >> item 25. >> item 25 is a motion to appoint joseph calderon, dominic [speaker not understood], earnest kirkwood

and kimberly court any [speaker not understood]. >> same house same call? this motion is approved. [gavel] >> next item. item 26 is a motion appointing john [speaker not understood] and rob [speaker not understood] to the citizens advisory committee to the central market street and tenderloin area term ending august 2nd, 2017. >> same house same call this motion is approved. [gavel] >> and let's go to item 27. >> item 27 was considered by the rules committee at a regular meeting thursday, october 16, and the committee sent the item to the board as a committee report. it's a motion to confirm the mayor's appointment of [speaker not understood] to the public utilities commission term ending august 1st, 2018. >> supervisor yee. >> thank you, president chiu. i wanted to express my full support of andy moran's reappointment to the public utilities commission. andy bring decades of experience on wastewater and power issues. we are thankful that he wants to continue his services to help continue san francisco

legacy of environmental stewardship, energy efficiency and reliability. he's a really remarkable person that has so much knowledge. it's just really fortunate to have him there. i am confident in andy's leadership and his ability to work with different parties. also hopeful that he will help us move the clean power san francisco program forward to the near future. thank you very much. >> thank you, supervisor yee. colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? without objection this motion is approved. [gavel] >> why don't we now go to roll call. >> first to introduce roll call for introductions, supervisor farrell. okay. supervisor kim? >> thank you. first i am making a hearing request from presentations from caltrain, california high-speed rail, and the transbay joint powers authority on the issue

of platform compatibility and its impact on the transbay terminal and downtown extension of the caltrain from fourth and king to the new downtown station that we are currently building. presentation from the caltrain should include status on their rfp for vehicle procurement. several weeksv ago i called for this hearing at transbay powers authority for an issue train platform compatibility between caltrain and california high-speed rail. while this sounds like a very technical issue that is difficult to under, this issue is important to the city of san francisco and the transbay terminal project because when we have various agencies looking at the types of transit they're going to purchase that are planning on purchasing different types of trains that will require different boarding platforms, it does mean that there may be a challenge in getting high-speed rail to come all the way to san francisco into the future. basically this is an issue of platform compatibility and one that i've been currently learning about that there are

trains some board at 25 inch and some at 50 inch. caltrain and high-speed rail are currently planning to go out for rfp on two different completely different types of trains which mean that they will not be compatible to finally enter into the transbay terminal. this is a long-term regional discussion in san francisco need to take a strong position before any vehicle procurement occurs to ensure that the high-speed rail and caltrain will be able to come into the heart of downtown and i look forward to holding this hearing at the land use committee and for the support of our city and of course our board of supervisors. second, and quite sadly, i'm submitting an in memoriam for cecilia lam. on act ninth a young asian american woman in the south of market a block and a way from my house was in her home when her abuser and former partner broke down the door, shot her and then turned the gone fatally on himself. on october 15th cecilia lam

passed away as a result of her wounds. cecilia was a 15-year resident of san francisco and an asian american studies at san francisco state university ~. she dreamed about continuing her social justice education at berkeley and eventually becoming a civil rights attorney. she was a compassionate and courageous advocate who held the values of a quality and antiviolence close to her heart and translated her values into action by joining the movement for gay rights, marriage equality, and volunteering at local women's shelters in the city and advocating for increased prevention and awareness around domestic violence. her family and friends describe her as an angel on earth with the biggest heart you could ever imagine. she was the type of person who would defend the defenseless fighting justice head on and giving to people less fortunate than herself. her final wish was to be an organ donor, and even in death she wanted to give all that she could to others in need.

it is a tragedy that we lost this young woman to domestic violence. to cecilia's family and friends and on behalf of the board of supervisors, i want to extend our deepest sympathy. we share your sadness and pain as we mourn the loss of someone who is cherished by many. but we will not forget her. and in the manner in which she lost her life. but today we celebrate her accomplishments, her dreams, and the way she touched the lives of memory. and we want to honor you. cecilia's family has started a memorial fund on go fund me.com/ceci, her nickname ceci, dv to help the family cover the cost of her memorial service. any unused funds will go towards domestic violence awareness efforts. and given this recent homicide in our district, we know that the loss of any life to this kind of violence is too many and after a much touted

unprecedented 44 months without a single domestic violence related death reported by law enforcement, we have had four domestic violence homicides reported in san francisco in 2014. four lives have been taken due to this violence, four families, four communities have had their hearts and lives ripped apart. and in light of this month marking domestic violence month, we need to understand why and whether there is more that we can do to prevent any more of this type of violence. we know that our city has been a model for how to handle these types of cases for years because of the tireless effort of this community and its advocates and many leaders are actually here today including dr. morasa from the department of women status, beverly up ton from domestic violence consortium and members of the justice and courage oversight panel. but the advocates and experts have been asking us to do more and one of the steps that they have been pushing for along with the city in the past is to

conduct an in-depth review of domestic violence related fatalities with a multi-disciplinary team with the sole purpose of preventing future incidence of these types of injuries and death. not finding someone to blame. the community has been working to revive this expert panel and after speaking with members of the community chief sur and cecilia's family today i am introducing a resolution reconvene the domestic violence review team and conduct an in-depth 360 degree analysis of these related fatalities for exactly that purpose, to prevent any more of this type of loss. and i want to recognize my co-sponsor supervisor katy tang, london breed and malia cohen. >> thank you, supervisor kim. supervisor mar. >> thank you. i have a couple of items today. the first is an ordinance i'm

introducing to reduce the number of cigarette and toe he back owe permits in the city gi wanted to acknowledge the amazing youth organizing advocacy and leadership of the youth leadership institute and vietnamese youth development center, many of the young people that i've worked with for several years to develop this legislation. ~ and i so, this legislation will help us alleviate the problem of having an over concentration of tobacco outlets in low-income areas, especially communities of color and communities with a large number of young people. some of our eastern districts have a disproportionate concentration of tobacco permits compared to other neighborhoods. for example, in district 6, supervisor kim's district which includes the tenderloin and south of market neighborhoods, there is approximately 270 tobacco permits compared to only 37 permits in the inner sunset district, for example. i want to thank supervisor jane kim and scott wiener for coauthoring this and we're

hoping other colleagues will join us as well. for over two years now the tobacco youth reduction force campaign of the youth leadership institute and other grassroots organizations have done great research door to door, door knocking and advocacy. i wanted to acknowledge not only our former youth commissioner louisa c [speaker not understood] from the south of market area but also amanda from the sunset, malaysia funders, some of you may have seen advocating on different issues from the bayview hunters point area. many of them kind of were from various high schools but also city college, san francisco state as they were advocating and organizing for this piece of legislation. i wanted to also say that this ordinance specifically would amend the health code to include a cap on the number of allowable tobacco permits in each of the city's 11 supervisorial districts. while no existing permit will be taken away, a new permit would only be allowed in a district after the number of

permits in that district has over time reached a cap of 45 permits. in addition, new permits have to be located at least 500 feet away from a school and 500 feet away from an existing tobacco retailer so a preventing easy access to young people, also preventing the clustering that many people have been seeing of other types of businesses as well. in order for business owners interested in selling their businesses or who have been in business owners for over 7 years, there will be a one-time exemption and it's been written into this ordinance to allow a new business to come into that same location and sell tobacco. i'd also like to thank the arab american grocers association and other mom and pop small business leaders, but arab american grocers are a consortium over small business owners in san francisco for their ongoing input which has resulted in a much better piece of legislation than when we started several years ago. and i look forward to support from other colleagues as well.

also, please join me this coming friday, i know supervisor chiu has worked on food day over the past few years with the center for science and the public interest. but this coming friday we're recognizing again a national celebration of -- and a movement toward more healthy and affordable and sustainable food. it's a challenge to the existing food system which is unsustainable in many of the nonprofit and community based groups opinion, created by the center for science and public interest and driven by diverse coalition of food movement leaders, food dairy inspire americans to change their diet and food policies. every october 24th, thousands of events all over the country bring americans together to celebrate and enjoy real food and a push for improved food policies. last year the third annual celebration featured about 5,000 events in all of the 50 states. this coming friday and thursday i'll give you some sampling of

the san francisco events, the bay area dietetic association is hosting a food day film night on thursday night this coming thursday from 6:30 to 9:00 at the red poppy art house, 2690 folsom street. hunger for justice, a spotlight on the south and a feature film, what's organic about organic. and there will be a post screening group discussion and light snacks. at the children's council in san francisco they'll have a crunchy or a healthy apple team that will lead a taste testing of real food so that they could see if people can tell what super processed versus what's real. they will also encourage people to learn how healthy eating can lower your health costs and supporting sustainable and organic farm and how that contributes to the health of our community. the event takes place on friday from 12:00 to 2:00 on church street. also a number of restaurants and grocery stores are really

celebrating food day from restaurants like mixed greens to radius to the plant to witch craft, epic road house and water bar and many others. these are all establishments that are important for me to mention was they've been certified by the u.s. health fair food council ushfc for serving healthy sustainable food. food day is an opportunity to think of food system more broadly and to think about what we put in our bodies as well every day. food day is a chance to celebrate what our food system does right and to take action to address the pressing food issues that we face. for example, poor diets cause widespread obesity, diabetes and other diet related disease he. millions of americans struggle with food insecurity and hunger every day. in fact, about one in four san francisco an are at risk of food insecurity, according to our budget analyst. also vital food safety and antihunger programs are

constantly under attack in washington from snack perhaps to other programs. and many food and farm workers -- food system worker and farm workers [speaker not understood] animal welfare is often ignored. a recent study from ucsf has over the past few days found a new link between sugar sweetened soda consumption and cell aging. i think the researchers [speaker not understood] from ucsf show if you drink a 20 ounce coke every day it will limit your life by about 4.6 years. and they scientifically have looked at a sample of people over a many year period, but i'm hoping that that study gets us to think about not only what we eat but what we're drinking and putting into our body and how it advances the aging process to take 4.6 years off your life, for example. for more information on food day you can go to www.food day.org. i wanted to just give a shout out to one of my favorite

authors, anna la pay the daughter of fran is more la pay, founder of joseph colin of food first in the east bay. adam moore la pays diet for a hot planet is one of the books that i'm consuming right now as i think about food day. she gives a very easy example of 7 principles for a climate friendly diet. so, when i think of eating that hamburger and i do have those urges, i think in my mind, it's almost like driving a hummer. i think [speaker not understood] talks about how climate change is driven a lot by what we put on the end of our fork or what we drink in our bodies as well. so, she calls it fork power and we need to have new ways of eating from going to the farmers market and community building aspects of it to even thinking about the climate prices beginning at the end of our fork. and that in her book and her suggestions she gives a lot of

great suggestionses what individuals can do, but also what we can do on a system change approach as well. lastly, halloween is not this week, but next week, but in the richmond district there is a bunch of different scary and spooky activities you and your families can take advantage of. the ymca on friday has -- the richmond ymca ha our halloween celebration from 5:30 to 8:30. also the supernatural halloween party at the academy of sciences in golden gate park in district 1 is happening from 5:00 to 9:00 on friday. this coming sunday join us at the clement street community farmers market for the kids costume parade at 11:00 a.m., support the merchants, but there will be a sing along, and toy parade, free scoops of ice cream and sponsored by the clement street merchants association. and lastly, on sunday the many haunts of the richmond district neighborhood center, our neighborhood center in the

richmond on 30th avenue on balboa is having a haunted house in a neighborhood tradition and families and children can come join the fun. there is a costume contest at 2:30 as well. the rest i'll submit. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor wiener. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i'm introducing several items today. first of all, several [speaker not understood] contracts and i always like to mention thea because i think it's a really important thing. for many years san francisco always mills act program, mills act of course is a state law that allows local governments to enter into contract with owners of historic properties to provide a property tax rebate in exchange for the property owner agreeing to a maintenance plan to restore and maintain the historic integrity of the building. basically to say we're not just going to dictate if you own a historic home you have to keep

it in shape. we're going to actually partner with you to give you incentive to do that. and the mills act for a long time was not fully implemented in san francisco. almost no small homeowners participated in the program because it was too expensive, lengthy, difficult and unpredictable. a few years ago i authored legislation which, colleague, we passed unanimously to make it much simpler and straightforward to engage in the mills act process for small homeowners. and since then we've seen a number of contracts move forward. i am today introducing several contracts from my district from the newly formed [speaker not understood] historic district. so, it's always exciting to see thea contracts move forward. in addition, today i'm introducing a resolution to put us on record in favor of moving firmly towards open source voting in san francisco.

~ these free and fair elections are a cornerstone of our democracy. we need to continue to push for more transparency, more security, and more accurate election results. so, this resolution will move us toward the creation of free open source voting systems for elections in san francisco. open source voting means that the technology used to administer electionses is publicly available, allowing for greater accountability and transparency. our current system, private vendor holding proprietary software that is unavailable for public review, limits public accountability and oversight. the goal is to have certified and freely sharable voting technology which will enhance the quality, security, and availability of voting systems. it will increase security and sharable code can be viewed publicly. if there are flaws in the system, people can view them and people can flag them and make sure that they get fixed.

and having a sharable code will reduce costs. other than an initial investment to create the code, the only ongoing expense for counties will be hardware and counties can use off the shelf computers, tablets and printers. they'll no longer have to rely on expensive proprietary private licensing contracts with vendors. currently california spends more than $100 million a year to run elections a rate of $10 per ballot cast. the state has begun to pave the way for us to move towards open source. last year state senator alex padilla introduce and had passed through the legislature senate bill 360 which provides the regulatory relief necessary for open voting sis tempt: decembers. ~ systems. in the wake of this, the california association of voting officials, or cogl, this organization what formed to push for sharable open source voting systems.

cavo ha the support of 16 other california counties ~ as well as organizations like the equal justice society and the national organization of women. the resolution i'm introducing today will request that san francisco become a member of cavo and join efforts to make open source voting a reality. thank you, madam clerk. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. supervisor avalos. >> thank you, madam clerk. a couple items for introduction. one, the first one is related to our efforts around climate change, which is actually one of the most serious issues that face the world if not the most serious issue that faces the world this century. today i'm introducing an ordinance for gas stations to post labels on gas pumps to [speaker not understood]. this is an initiative created by 350 bay area.

they are calling it beyond the pump. the berkeley city council is also considering requiring these label. we continue to work on collective solutions to climate change like promoting transit and cleanpowersf, we can also encourage people to take individual action. putting information labels on gas nozzles would remind each of us that we contribute to climate change by putting that responsibility literally right in the palm of our hands. san francisco has established aggressive greenhouse gas emission limits. the department of the environmental has conducted an inventory of emission in the city and designed a climate action strategy that gives us a road map to meeting or our emission reduction mandates. the 2010 inventory of greenhouse gas emissions found that cars and trucks emitted 2.1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide which account for 40% of all san francisco's emissions. in order to meet our greenhouse gas emission reduction

mandates, the climate action strategy says we need to reduce emission from cars and trucks by 38%. the information label in draft form because which still need to refine the language would state, the u.s. environmental protection agency, the epa has determined that a typical passenger vehicle burning one gallon of fuel produces an average of almost 20 pounds of tail pipe carbon dioxide which the epa has determined is the primary greenhouse gas that is contributing to recent climate change. this is a message from the city and county of san francisco to learn about san francisco's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, go to www.sf climate.org. as you can see, that is a very long message, so, we have a lot of work to do to reduce that down. but the content of this message has the language that would be found to make it legally viable. this is a pretty startling fact, though, about what one

gallon of greenhouse gas produces, that one gallon of gas produces, it produces 20 pounds of carbon dioxide. a single pound of carbon dioxide would fill a 2-1/2 foot diameter balloon. but if we want to make it into more san francisco terms, we could say that a single pound of carbon dioxide would fill a 2-1/2 foot diameter yoga ball. imagine your car emitting 20 yoga balls of carbon dioxide for every gallon of gas, 20 yoga balls. that's a lot of yoga balls and that's a big volume of gas that's being put out by one gallon of gas. imagine all the gallons of gas that are burned in san francisco and you can see our sky filled with yoga balls. filling your car with 10 gallons of gas equals 300 yoga balls of carbon dioxide. the label would be attached to either the hose or the pump or

on top of the pump or it could be a combination of a label on the hole itself that you would see in the palm of your hand to more information that would be on the pump itself. but these are the things we can be working out before we get into committee. as we go through the legislative process, we will look at making sure that the public and [speaker not understood] will be informed of this process as we go forward. we will closely work with the city attorney to make sure this message is legally defensible. it is clearly factual and it is definitely noncontroversial. climate change is real and co2 is a contributing factor for climate change. my next item that i'll be submitting is an in memoriam for ted gulagson who passed away last week, very ~ surprising many people who have been struck by his passing. and i welcome colleagues who also want to make comments during my introduction after i read this introduction.

this is an introduction that was written by i believe bobby coleman wrote a draft for it and joseph smook who have had long-time relationship with the tenants union. last week we lost a beloved friend, an inspirational organizer of the city's tenants when ted gulacson passed unexpectedly. ted is survived by his sister sandra gul acson gaol by, stepdaughter, nieces and nephews and former partner sheila and dog who ted took in when he wandered up to his door. originally from massachusetts ted moved to san francisco in the 1908s and started working for the tenants union in 1988. for 26 years ted gul acson led the san francisco tenants union and was a key figure ~ in the city's tenant movement creating a successful legacy of accompli