tv [untitled] November 1, 2014 6:00pm-6:31pm PDT
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>> good morning, everyone, welcome to the board of supervisors, budget finance and committee meeting, for october, 29, i am joined by john amylee howcroft, and i want to thanks charles for sfgovt tv for covering this meeting and the clerk of the meeting, miss wo ng. >> silence all cell phones and any electronic devices and completed speaker cards and copies of documents should be submitted to the clerk sxit ems acted upon will be on the november 4th, board of
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supervisor's agenda, always otherwise state. >> could you call item one? >> item one is,resolution retroactively authorizing the public defender's office to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $75,889 from the board of state and community corrections for the purposes of implementing local juvenile justice accountability measures through the juvenile accountability block grant, for the term of july 1, 2014, through june 30, 2015. >> thank you, we have the public defender's office to speak. >> thank you for having us on the agenda and especially thank you. >> would you speak. >> number one. >> i am patricia lee, managing attorney of the office and, juvenile unit and i have been working on this grant for over a decade and this may be the very last fund that the fcc will extend to us and so we are fortunate to even have this amount and it has funded partially funded one of our attorney positions who have
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dealt with reentry of youth who are returning from long term out of home placement or the county champ and as part of a team effort in keeping kids stabilized and in their homes. so it has been a very, very successful grant. we look forward to institutionalizing the funding in the fewer tur. >> thank you. >> and seeing no questions, we don't have any budget analyst report. and so we will move on to public comment. anybody wish to comment? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> thank you. >> we have a motion to move this item. >> take that without objection. >> would you call item two? >> item two is,resolution authorizing the recreation and park department to accept and expend a grant of $200,000 from the california department of parks and recreation's habitat conservation fund to support the youth stewardship program. >> okay, thank you. we have rec and park here today. >> good morning, with the recreation and parks department, the habitat
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conservation funds allocates approximately $2 million per year for nature interpretation programs and other programs that bring youth, and urban residents into the parks and wild life areas. and the recreation and parks department's youth stewardship program meets to engage kindergarten through 12th grade students and environmental education and service, learning projects throughout san francisco parks and open spaces. yfp's mission is to foster and use the understanding of the important role to help to build the healthy and social and natural communities, and the program is free and available to any school or youth group in san francisco and in 2010, the youth stewardship program received a grant of $165,000 from hcf, it is funding was set to expire in 2015 and with this new grant, that funding will continue until 2019. thank you. >> also, seeing no questions here, we will move on to public
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october 28, 2014. >> supervisor avalos. >> guarantee go giants. >> supervisor breed supervisor campos president chiu. >> go giants. >> supervisor cohen supervisor farrell present and go giants. >> supervisor kim go giants. >> supervisor mar go giants supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee mr. president, all members are present. >> ladies and gentlemen, please join us and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> colleagues, we have our
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september 23rd board minutes can i have a motion to approve those minutes most by supervisor malia cohen we'll take that without objection. madam clerk my communication. >> none today arrest consent calendar if discussion is desired, that item will be removed from the consent agenda and will be considered separately. >> roll call vote and on the consent calendar supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor chiu there are 11 i see those measures are passed.
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>> item 9 to admin the codes to create certain provisions noticing and reminders as tenant buy out agreements. >> supervisor cohen supervisor farrell no supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang no supervisor wiener no supervisor yee supervisor avalos supervisor breed no supervisor campos supervisor chiu there are 7 i's and 4 notice ordinance is pass. >> to authorize the use of an additional thirty psychiatrist hold under the california welfare and institution code.
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>> supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor chiu there are 11 i see ordinances is finally passed. >> item 11 to appropriate 3 hundred and 4 thousand for the general fund from the department of public health for hiv prevention to prevent exhibition. >> is supervisor campos. >> thank you, mr. president san francisco became the first nation in the city to see the epidemic level of hiv and aids because of san francisco responded the concurs has
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changed prep has the potential ever saving thousands of ltz multiple reports show it can eliminate the needs when taken daily prep reduce the interaction by 90 percent in 20133 hundred and 32 san franciscans were null diagnosed with hiv nearly one percent a day yet two years after it was approved for the purposes of preventing hiv and more than 4 years the studies show it can be effective people are not using this is to prevent barriers 2, 3, 4 more blaze to have it prescribed and eliminating the cost of the use and making sure that but community members have the facts of using it as a 12:00 san francisco must do more
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i am proud of our city's history in fighting hiv and aids and honor those who have come before us my revving to accept hiv infections i'm committed to build upon the funding and working towards the spread of -- half a and aids i'm proud that today with the support of my colleagues my co-chairs supervisor mar supervisor kim supervisor avalos supervisor farrell we're taking a bold step in making prep available to all san francisco this is a supple that provides 3 hundred and 61 dollars to help patients get it including private insurance and medicaid and medi-cal and the assistance program with that funding san francisco is leading the way
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we've been a is any city on so many fronts sanctuary from hiv interaction i ask for your support. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you. i support this appropriation and am proud to co-sponsor it i want to thank everyone that helped to move forward it forward we have a lot of work to do 33 years into this especially depg and although they've made great strides in terms of rugby the interactions in san francisco almost 3 hundred people continue to get it despite our incredible prevention we have numerous work to do 50 thousand people are becoming hiv and more per year
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worldwide this is an especially depg are still becoming positive and struggling with access care and people are still dying from hiv and aids we have to do everything it gratefully fight this epidemic and preparing is an important piece of the puzzle in terms he remembers of reducing infections and the risk of hiv by up to 99 percentage when taken daily a potentially revolutionary approach to preservation in combination with all our other preservation efforts like condemns so it is also important to look at the big picture in terms of how we
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eliminate once and for all this epidemic we've been working for a year as part of the getting to score consortium which is a collaboration of department of public health and you mean and other based organizations i'm a member as supervisor campos and this is consortium has as its charge the goal of figuring out how do we eliminate new infections prep is an important part of that effort but there are other parts as well we have to encourage people and educate people to get the evidence more frequently every 3 months we need people to know raw if they're positive and connect people to the environmental drugs so they can spruce their environmental loads because people that spruce them radio
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less likely to pass the disease so as we move forward with this supplemental it is important we have to keep in mind how it fits into the broad coalition as it relates in san francisco this is a step in the right direction in terms of addressing one of major barriers to prep access even for people who are aware of prep and even for people who are able to manage the stigma that surrounds prep unfortunately, we're trying to combat that people struggle to access prep the drugs are two expensive the co-pays are high and the co-assistance is not as high as it should be and people that do have the benefits that cover part or all of it sometimes struggle to access the benefits so investigating navigateors who help people
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through the process is important i'll say which was was first extraordinary it had a co-assistance that was removed from this measure and i think we also have to make sure we continue to punish our pharmaceutical companies to lower the prices of those drugs and the prep that we continue to make sure that people have access to every possible resource to help them afford the drug and help them with some of the very, very expensive co-pays i know we'll all work token tom nolan together to make sure we achieve that goal. >> thank you supervisor tang. >> thank you first of all, i want to acknowledge i am glad to see this supplemental went down if 8 hundred to $300 i want to highlight many of the grow efforts that the department of public health in san francisco
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has made for hiv preservation one of their core you functions they're the leader on epididymis metrological and they spend 16 will million dollars on hiv preservation annually in 2010 they were did first in the nation to recommend treatment for anyone with hiv and they were the first site that showed prep was effective at reducing the hiv infections and trans females and the dph enrollment surpassed all sites asia dph clinic sites is one of the prep projects, in fact, we're now still going to be continuing 3 ftes to retain the staff for the projects as a result of the efforts by dpw and all our
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wonderful community partners san francisco has far fewer undiagnosed infections in the via country and we're successful at laying a foundation hiv persons to care so prep is one part of this getting to zero initiate as supervisor wiener mentioned it is important for us to look at the broader picture how we address those issues in our outreach effort so although i know the amount has been reduced i feel that this is something we can absolutely address during our regular budget process and something that our dpw has been a great leader in the be entire united states and well excepted to handle the degrees and outreach programs i look forward to our regular proposals to further work on funding for simple programs and initiates with that, i respectfully can't support of the supplemental
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today, i don't say i don't support all our efforts in the intervention outreach. >> supervisor. >> i think it's important to recognize that our department of public health has been a leader worldwide in hiv treatment and preservation the fact is though as much as we've done we still have 3 hundred and 32 people that be infected and from a financial stand out i want to note that the study shows for every hiv infections you present you actually save between 3 hundred and 50 to 5 hundred thousands of the life of that individual for treatment respectfully i ask for your support. >> thank you colleagues reenforcement. >> item 11. >> supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim
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supervisor mar supervisor tang no supervisor wiener supervisor yee supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor chiu there are 10 i's and one no. >> it ordinance is passed on s first reading. >> item 12 to adapt the environmental quality act including the agreements with certain semi terrors with the enthrone water storage. >> roll call vote. >> on item 12 supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos
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supervisor chiu there are 11 i's that matter is adapted next item. >> item 13 a regulation to authors the general manager of the public utilities commission to enter into a new site lease with existence and control inc. and license for the purpose of existing or now a myself antennas or another general communication facility in al led for a 25 year term of $90,500 for an initial base rent. >> same house, same call? this resolution is adapted arrest to adapt the zoning map to improve the embarcadero alcohol restricted use district and african-american others code for the technical changes and making the requisite finding.
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>> supervisor breed thank you. i want to say a quick if you words about the items the few fillmore and embarcadero commercial district were borne out of the community by a lax process i worked with the fillmore neighborhood particular their administered that point a trarld structure it was delayed because of formula retail but i'm proud to see the mcds coming to fruition they're working to have a vibrant 0 corridor creating named commercial districts is an important part of that the embarcadero runs 12 blocks if hate street and home to businesses like most joe and o i can't say cafe it runs 9 blocks from mcallister to bush street
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and home to 13 hundred on fillmore and the historic fillmore and the same as the state bird provisions most ever you can't get a reservation for they spent years under the redevelopment action is now establishing it's on identity those mcds will protect existing hours and invite nor activity and appealing architecture and treating create a framework for the neighborhood planning controls to their unique needs and atmosphere and both adult to the pending new policies regarding formula retail if they should pass for more than any specific provisions about sickened the 3450ikdz will create an infrastructure to help
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to shape the future of the neighborhood i want to thank tom of liveable city and everyone in house planning code expert a big thank you to the administer to the embarcadero and fillmore to the folks to the merchant is association and from the fillmore merchant association for their support i have minor non-substantive the city attorney doesn't know whether one would pass before the other. >> supervisor breed i understand you make items so i'll ask the clerk to call item 15. >> thank you supervisor breed. item 13 an ordinance to overwhelm the fillmore district african-american other conditions to make the requisite findings >> so those amendments are for both legislation in drafting
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those the city attorney doesn't know whether one would pass before the other so the current provision doesn't know my amendment updates that so each mcd references the other in the planning table, etc. so i move the amendment. >> supervisor breed passing has made the amendments siktd by supervisor cohen we'll take that without objection. that's the case and i'll appreciate our support moving forward with with a positive recommendation. >> colleagues, can we take those two items we'll take that without objection. the ordinance are passed on the first reading without objection. >> item 16 a recessing resolution to compass the interim zoning controls facing set the record starlight for 18
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months making the requisite finding. >> colleagues, same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. this is adapted. >> this is the issuance of a top beer and wine license on columbus avenue and will serve the public with necessity. >> same house, same call? this resolution is adapted item 18. >> a motion to appoint demet to the entertainment commission the term ending july 21st, 2015. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. president i'm speaking in support of the entertainment commission for this gentleman he's a xevenl well qualified for this position and particularly for the public health seats determining tree is the executive director that runs the fulsome fair up the alley and he's done it for a number of years and those two street fairs are really exemplar in terms
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terms of providing entertainment and community building running one stealing large and one event in a very, very responsible and well managed yet still edgy way so demetry knows how to get it done and well, he is has a long history in the entertainment community and has a long history in public health particularly- half a and the street festival focuses on will maintaining the health of the planters because we know that people can have health problems at street fairs if not well run demetry will be an asset to the commission and one thing about detrys
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appointment we know that street fairs and festivals at times struggle in san francisco the city is not sufficiently supportive of them and some of the fairs and festivals have actually had to access operations so having that prospective on the entertainment commission someone that has run for a good period of time to successful he street festivals will be an educate to other commission and will do when i want to see happen the entertainment commission play an even larger roll in fostering our street fairs scene in san francisco so i strongly support detry and ask do as well. >> supervisor campos. >> i don't want to repeat with supervisor wiener indicated i want to note this is one of the best appointment we'll make to
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the commission this individual given the important roles he plays in the two events that supervisor wiener tabbed brings an important prospective and this is someone that knows how to be successful in entertainment at the same time that responsible so i'm excited will this appointment i know this is an individual that applied previously and i think it's great for the city that he will be serving inand with that can we take this item same house same call? without objection, this motion is approved. [gavel] >> next item. >> item 19 is a motion appointing almudena bemubeu, haregu gaime (residency requirement waived), bill hing, leah chen price, and elahe enssani, terms ending june 6, 2016, to the immigrant rights commission. ~ 2016. >> supervisor mar. >> i just wanted to single out
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