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tomorrow morning at the farmers market. i take my little red granny cart there every wednesday morning and spend from about 7 to 8:30 picking up probably 80% of all the eggs and produce that we use in a week's period of time at the shop. otherwise we source the stuff from local artisans and business he and we're trying to expand that to bring their products into our little shop so we can all work together. our name farm table is just [speaker not understood] between farm and table because we try to be a close as we can to farms as we are to our table. so, almost everything we buy we buy direct. thank you. (applause)
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>> we have one final presentation today from our mayor's office represented by joaquin torres. >> oh, we do? >> thank you, president chiu, members of the board of supervisors. it's a great privilege today to be here to recognize what truly is an anchor in the district 5 community of the fillmore. and i know that both [speaker not understood] white and her had you band david are very much appreciated in district 10 as well especially this sunday where david will be cooking to help support community youth center in the bayview. together with supervisor malia cohen. she is not being recognized today only for the incredible
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food that she and her husband put on the tables for so many guests who visit the fillmore, but also for the incredible community activism that she's involved in, especially currently right now in terms of your leadership mineta, with the lower fillmore and [speaker not understood] and making sure the fillmore is as successful and strong as ever. i know that mayor lee and invested neighborhoods truly appreciate all of the leadership that you've been providing for this community and for the businesses. one of the first things that we actually had a chance to work on together in her new role was making sure an adjoining business across the street no longer had its entryway blocked because of a bus stop that was [speaker not understood] we are so happy to finally have that out of the way and get people in and out of businesses because that's something you care so much about. so, both for you, mineta, and to your husband david, we thank you so much for i believe the 7 years of incredible food and service and community that you build not only inside of 1300 fillmore, but throughout and up
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and down the corridor. so, thank you. if you would take a few moments to say a few words. >> thank you. i would like to thank the mayor lee for this recognition during restaurant appreciation month. the timing of course is perfect. we're celebrating our 7 years in business this saturday. we know it takes time for a neighborhood to go through its transition as supervisor breed said earlier. we've been struggling through some changes, but it's been all positive and we've seen a lot grow. progress is happening. as well as the businesses on the street, we take pride in building our community and giving back and we take extremely interest in economic sector on our corridor. 1300 is more than a restaurant. it's a place of community. it's where people connect. of course, yes, the chef is not here today. he's actually going to prepare
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for the restaurant to open [speaker not understood]. we plan on continuing our efforts in the fillmore with the leadership of supervisor breed who is continuously on me to make sure that this merchants association gets going and to take part of one of her soldier, i can say, in district 5 in helping our neighborhood grow. again, thank you for this recognition. it's always nice to be honored in this way, especially when we're doing what we love. we he love the business of 1300. we love our community. and also without saying we love the city. so, thank you very much. (applause)
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>> thank you, everyone. i again want to thank all the amazing restaurants that were represented here today. that does conclude this year's presentation of restaurant appreciation month. and for the next year, everyone, happy eating. and with that, madam clerk, why don't we now go to the next items on our agenda. if you could call item 12. >> item 12 is an ordinance to amend the park code to approve amendments and lease extension with glenn eagles partners for flexible pricing to commence on the effective date of the ordinance and ending november 30th, 2022 nor 7% of the gross revenues. >> roll call vote. ~ >> on item 12, supervisor chiu. >> aye.
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>> chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos. campos aye. there are 11 aye. >> the ordinance is passed on the first reading. next item. [gavel] >> item 13 is a resolution to adopt the mental health services act integration plan for 2014 through 2017. >> same house same call? this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> item 14. >> item 14, resolution to approve the grant agreements and modifications between the city and the institute on aging during the period of july 1st, 2010 to june 20th 2019 to a total not to exceed amount of 39 million. >> same house same call, the resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> next item. >> item 15 contract renewal for the california department of
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health care services mental health services for the period july through june 20th 2015. >> same house same call, this resolution is adopted [gavel] ~ >> next item. >> >> [speaker not understood] and a 55 year lease and access license to the friends of the geneva office building and power house for the rehabilitation and use of the building and power house for cameron beach rail yard. >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you very much. i just wanted to thank supervisor farrell for co-sponsoring this legislation and for his actual reaching out to folks on the geneva office building board. that will be that partnership that is starting will be very helpful as will this lease disposition and development agreement will be for enabling the fund-raiser to actually have documents to show that we're making progress on the permitting for the site. so, excited to have your support, colleagues. thank you.
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>> colleagues, can we do this same house same call? without objection this resolution is adopted [gavel] >> next item. >> item 17 is a resolution to approve the 2014 grant application for the united states department of housing and urban development continuum of care program in an amount not to exceed 27 million and fulfilling the board of supervisors' review and approval process for all annual or otherwise reoccurring grants of 5 million or more. >> same house same call? this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> next item. >> item 18, motion to respond to the civil grand jury request to provide a status update on the board of supervisors response to recommendation number 13 contained in the 2011 through 12 civil grand jury report entitled deja vu all over again, san francisco city's technology needs a culture shock. >> colleagues, same house same call? without objection this motion is approved. [gavel] >> next item. >> item 19, ordinance to amend the public works code to
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require the installation of city-owned communication infrastructure in excavation projects where the city has determined that it is both financially feasible and consistent with the city's long-term goals to develop the communications infrastructure. >> thank you. president chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. colleagues, i want to appreciate your consideration of our dig once ordinance. and i want to thank supervisors wiener and cohen for their co-sponsorship. i propose this dig once ordinance to help us build out our city's fiber-optic network which is the backbone of internet connectivity while saving money and limiting construction impacts on our residents, neighborhoods, and traffic. this ordinance establishes the policy that if we're going to dig up any of our streets for any reason, let's just dig once. requiring fiber conduit to be installed when streets are already opened up will save our city millions of dollars that would otherwise be spent digging up streets multiple times. the city will pay for incremental costs including materials and labor required to install additional fiber
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conduit. engineering estimates find that we can save between 25 and 75% on these installations with this policy and, of course, these disruptions are something that our growing city ha become too familiar with and they will be limited by dig once. in recent years while we've already installed 140 miles of fiber to serve the connectivity needs of our government, dig once will expand our fiber network and help close the digital divide for many residents of low-income communities who are still off line. it's estimated that it's close to 20% of residents in our city. we need to do better. broadband internet service is no longer an option or luxury, it's a necessity for full participation in our economy and our educational system. in the 21st century, cities need access to affordable high-speed broadband to compete just a access to water, roads, and electricity were crucial in the 20th century. san francisco has lagged other cities around the world.
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and while our city's network is now providing free wi-fi on market street, at our airport, in public housing, and in some of our parks, we can do better. we can also work with the private sector more. several years ago i began to ask if we could lease our unused identifiabler capacity also known as dark fiber, and our department of technology now does that in a limited way bringing almost $300,000 a year. we should do more of this and bring in potentially millions of dollars to the city to reinvest the revenues into our identifiabler network. with that, kaolin, i ask for your support and hope we can move this forward. ~ fiber >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank president chiu for his leadership on this incredibly important piece of legislation. and i will [speaker not understood] committee. this actually should not take legislation. ideally, our city departments, our executive branch, our
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department of technology, dpw, so forth, should make this happen. the fact is for years and years and years we've been periodically digging up streets. it's been accelerating recently in terms of sewer work and water work and gas line work and road resurfacing. it should be standard practice without any legislation to put the conduit in so that we can lay fiber and expand our municipal fiber networks. and it's been disappointing to me when, for example, the street that i live on was i think in a state of being torn up for about 15 months. they could have put fiber there now it's all covered up. but better late than never. since its hasn't been happening we're requiring it be considered. this is an important step forward. it's exciting for the work going forward we're going to see more conduit laid in expansion of our municipal fiber america. i will say, though, we need to be diligent in making sure this
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actually happens. the department of technology, it's a new thing for the department in terms of having to navigate all the different departments and utilities involved in these road projects. and as we've learned in term of pedestrian projects and other street design projects, it is sometimes like navigating an obstacle course. every department or someone within the department has a reason to say no. it's not feasible, it's not doable. it's too expensive, it's too difficult. and we need to really make sure that our departments have a can-do attitude about getting this conduit laid. it is not rocket science. it just needs to happen and we need to have our departments have an attitude that it can and will happen. and we need to support the department of technology when other departments or utilities just say no and obstruct the ability to actually get this done. in committee, i offered an
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amendment that was adopted to require periodic reporting by the department of technology of all of the blocks. there are a number of blocks that had this kind of work done in terms of the street being dug up. how many opportunities there were to lay conduit and how many times conduit was actually laid so that we can actually see this is happening in a high percentage of street projects or is it a low percentage. and i'll tell you, if it is a low percentage i would be very open in the future to responding to that by turning this into some sort of mandate. i hope we don't have to go in that direction. i hope that our departments and our utilities all work together to actually get this done so that we don't have to create a mandate that conduit must be laid because we do have the power to do that. we're not doing that in this legislation. we're simply always requiring that it be considered and i hope that everyone will play nice and really have a unified
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approach to getting this done. thank you. >> thank you, colleague. colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? would youv objection this ordinance is passed on the first read [gavel] >> next item, item 20. >> item 20 is an ordinance to amendedth planning code to permit arcades in the haight street neighborhood commercial district, affirming the planning department's determination under the california environmental quality act and making the requisite findings ~. >> colleagues, same house same call? this ordinance is passed on the first reading. [gavel] >> next. >> item 21, ordinance to amend the health code article 38 and the corresponding building code sections to require an enhanced ventilation system for sensitive use projects within the air pollutant exposure zone and to establish document review fees making environmental finding and findings under the california health and safety code. >> supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. colleagues, thanks for hearing this item. today this ordinance is a result of months of work with the department of public health and the planning department to
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strengthen the ventilation requirements for new housing to ensure it is protective -- it's protecting public health. certain parts and areas in san francisco particularly in the southeastern neighborhoods suffered disproportionately from environmental impacts such as truck traffic, freeway traffic as well as industrial activities. this is also the area of the city that is experiencing a significant amount of growth and housing construction. and as a city, we are also aggressively developing formerly industrial properties and brown fill sites with housing and commercial space as well as parks. we know that exposure to particulate matter such as diesel emissions can lead to chronic health problems that -- health problems and that people living near free ways and other emitters are most vulnerable to this. the ordinance before you today
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updates our city's landmark article 38 of the health code to require developers that are retrofitting a large portion of a home to -- or building a new house in a designated air quality hot zone to install enhanced ventilation systems to ensure that residents receive clean air in their units. this ordinance will also streamline the ceqa and permitting processes for project sponsors by clearly identifying all of the areas of the city where we know these enhanced measures are needed and will be imposed as ceqa mitigation measures. this legislation has been a part of an overall strategy to help keep residents of the city, and particularly those that suffer disproportionately from a wide range of environmental issues because of where they live. i want to thank the department staff, particularly karen cohen from the department of public
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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
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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.
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>> 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
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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]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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