>> i want to recommend our director mr. wong because i really appreciate that mr. wong's work is good with the seniors and mr. wong always takes care of oh you -- our seniors and i want to take an example for instance he let us go to the restroom and the restrooms were so dirty but mr. wong really cared about the dirty

things and sometimes he even cleaned up the restroom in person and really appreciate his work and taking this for consideration. i really recommend mr. wong. and another example is that we have our senior that has cancer and he lives by himself. he's a lonely person and mr.

wong takes care of that person and everybody in the senior center say very good for him. so that's the reason why i recommend mr. wong. and sometimes we see doctors and we live in apartments and mr. wong makes an appointment for seniors and this is why i will say good for mr. wong. i think that's it. thank you. >> thank you.

>> good afternoon, sir. i'm a flip everybody can tenant center and they don't have any discrimination in their hearts like other citizens. so i'm very glad that there is a golden gate center where i was able to walk again. i'm now 84 years old and i can still walk after i have broken my two knees. thank you very much for telling them their center is very nice.

no discrimination is being practiced there. thank you very much. >> thank you for coming. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. thanks for the public for coming out to make comments on this item. and i also want to thank the applicants. again i want to thank mr. porfido for his comments and just to be clear you have withdrawn from this particular item. so, colleagues, what are your thoughts? it's a tough one. supervisor tang? >>supervisor katy tang: thank you so much for speaking. i have not made up my mind. i really like these

candidates here especially want to speak to mr. benny wong and ulash and did unlap. mr. benny wong i know that working with the chinese community is very important and i know that is the district that i represent and we have mostly seniors and they may not feel as comfortable in obtaining services and seeking help. ms. did you lap you working with young individuals is important because when you start early with the youth they will grow up healthy. i wish that we could appoint both of them but i think they are both up for seat 15. i would be eager to hear from our colleagues. >>supervisor norman yee:

supervisors campos? >>supervisor david campos: thank you very much. i want to thank the applicants. mr. porfido, i look forward to hearing from you when the consumer seat becomes available. i think you will be a great fit for that and i certainly think that debra hardy will make a great addition to the body. i will say that i will support that. in terms of beeney wong, u lash is tough because they each bring something unique. what i would say both of them before we make a decision is that anytime there is more applicants than seats, we always encourage the person who doesn't get the appointment to please continue to be involved because the fact is that seats, people come off these seats from time to time

and most of the people that end up getting appointed is people who have gone through the process a number of times. the fact that you are not selected is in no way indicating that we think you are amazing, it's just a question of timing. i think either one of them would be great. to be honest for me given where the needs are in the city right now especially with the influx of undocumented youth coming in and issues around youth and because there is no south asian on the committee, i would be probably tip the scale a little bit on the side of u lash dunne lap. not because mr. wong isn't

the choice, it's because of the need. i'm making a motion that we move forward debra hardy for seat 13 and dunne lap for seat 15. >>supervisor norman yee: basically i concur with your statements. the two candidates for seat no. 15 are excellent candidates. it's times like this where i wish i weren't sitting here having to make these decisions because you are both good candidates that would make a really great member for this. i just wished we had more than one slot for you guys, but we don't and we have to make these decisions. and i want to reemphasize that whoever is not selected please continue to stay active and look for the opening for next time because i have

seen quite a few people get selected a second time around. so there is a motion on the floor. are there any objections? seeing none, the motion carries. so it's seat no. 13 to ms. hardy and no. 15 to ms. dunne lap. thank you very much. this item is now closed. madam clerk, i would like to ask commission from my colleagues to skip three for now and go to item 4 because item 3, oh, i didn't see you. never mind. we are going to item no. 3. city clerk: [environment code

- revising the urban forestry council composition and meeting requirements] sponsor: wiener ordinance amending the environment code to revise the composition and meeting schedule requirements for the urban city clerk: sf 31234 >>supervisor norman yee: okay, mr. franklin, do you want to come up and say a few words. >> i will just mention, for scott wiener the sponsor of this ordinance. the supervisor is carrying the ordinance as a request for council after they deliberated on this topic and passed the resolution looking at changing their enact their bylaws and guidelines to be able to function. mayling from the department of the environment provides staff support for the council and a little bit of background on the orbs >> good afternoon,

supervisors. i'm mayling wei from the department. i think this is in your packet, the resolution to council? good. i brought copies in case. the council pass aid resolution earlier this year requesting some amends and also a meeting schedule to lineup with their bylaws and some longstanding vacancies they have had on the council. they have had two seats vacant for a long time and they want to see all of their members be voting members. in the past all of the members were voting members and this will be changing back to early yes council membership make-up. so i'm happy to answer any questions you have and also i believe dan, the chair of the council is here as well. >>supervisor norman yee: no questions. mr. flan igan would you like

to make some comments. >> good afternoon, supervisors, thank you for listening to this issue. i'm the chair of urban forestry council. we had to be relevant and we needed the right people on the council. the council fully endorses the changes we are making now. it didn't make sense that some departments were voting and some were not voting. and we are going to where it was first formed. this is endorsed by every member of the council as well as public members and the non-voting members. we do feel our role is to advise you the supervisors and the mayor on issues that surnd the urban forest. in order to do that we wanted to have

the best people available on the council. it's hard to get folks to show up to a council meeting if you don't have a vote. that did happen and we want to address that issue. if you have any questions, i would love to answer them. >>supervisor norman yee: if someone can just highlight some more in terms of what's changed in terms of -- would you point out which would be the voting. >> you want to know what the changes are? >> just so the public knows. >> for the meeting schedule the council code says they have to meet every month, meet monthly. typically the council meets between 6-11 times and they have committee meetings that they meet regularly. the request is that they meet six times per year and the next is the membership.

currently they have 15 members which six of public agency staff and the remainder either placed by the nominated by the board of supervisors and mayor's office. all the board of supervisors have voting status and two are the departmental governance has voting status as well. all members have the voting status. the four public agencies that do not have voting status now would have voting status. >> which are the four you are talking about? >> the ones that vote now are the planning department and public works. the ones that don't have voting is the public utilities commission, the gold national gate recreation area and the last one is is redevelopment.

redevelopment has been vacant since the resolution of the redevelopment agency. it requested that those four members become voting members and changed the redevelopment seat to port authority seat and ggnra seat but if it does not provide a member that allows the presidio trust. >> thank you very much for the summary. supervisors, any questions? seeing none, okay. any public comments on this item? on this item.

focus >> something to containment a connection to the higher level >> is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, thoughts? supervisor campos? >>supervisor david campos: thank you for coming forward. i would like to move this forward with a positive recommendation. >>supervisor norman yee: the changes that you are making seems to be straight forward and i'm glad you are doing this.

there was a motion. any objection to the motion. it passes. thank you very much. madam clerk, item no. 4. city clerk: [administrative code - catastrophic illness programs] ordinance amending the administrative code to authorize the department of public health to designate another city department to carry out various functions in the administration of the catastrophic illness program for city employees and the catastrophic illness program for family members of city employees. public health departmenttcity clerk: [administrative code - catastrophic illness programs] ordinance amending the administrative code to authorize the department of public health to designate another city department to carry out various functions in the administration of the catastrophic illness program for city employees and the catastrophic illness program for family members of city employees. public health departmentt city clerk: [administrative code - catastrophic illness programs] ordinance amending the administrative code to authorize the department of public health to designate another city department to carry out various functions in the administration of the catastrophic illness program for city employees and the catastrophic illness program for family members of city employees. public health departmentt >> 1234 okay. ron. >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm had -- the human resources director for the department and i have laura marshall, senior performance analyst with the office of the controller.

i have two staff who perform these services daily. this is a project that the department began with the controllers office in dhr in 2012 to improve the catastrophic billy program. they have come up with a solution that makes the department of public health to relegate the administrative functions and there is some things that the department of public health and release program that is not a strength for us. i have these other staff with me if we have some specific questions or if you want some details. it's a way to shift the responsibilities to dhr where it is a strong point. we would like to keep the responsibility with the medical director thomas aragon. >> i just have a quick question. i'm glad we have this type of program in san francisco. i'm just curious, do you know

how often this is being utilized? >> we do have some figures on that susan, do you want to jump in here. it's quite a volume. it talks about 35 members per month approximately. 25 new applications a month and we deny about 7. so quite a volume. >> great. thanks. any other questions? okay. thank you. any public comments on this item? is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues? supervisor tang? >>supervisor katy tang: i think this makes complete sense. i would be happy to forward this to the full board for

recommendation. >> any more discussion? this item passes. >> madam clerk, item 5 5-14. >> city clerk: litigated claims. >> is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues is there a motion to convene in closed session? so moved. >> with no objection, a motion is >> committees can i have a

motion to not disclose? >> so moved. >> motion is passed. madam clerk, is there anything else on our agenda? >> that concludes the business for today. >> if there is nothing further, then we are adjourned. thank you very much. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> on december 28, 1912. san francisco mayor, sonny jim

rolph stared into the crowds of those who have gathered. a moment in history. the birth of a publicly own transit system. san francisco municipal railway. muni as it would become to be known. happy birthday, muni, here is to the next 100 years. the birth of muni had been a long-time coming. over the years the city was disjointed privately owned companies. horses and steam and electric-powered vehicles. creating a hodgepodge of transit options. none of them particularly satisfying to city residents. the city transit system like the

city itself would have changes during the san francisco earthquake. the transition that will pursue from this aftermath would change san francisco's transportation system once again. facilitated by city boss, abe ruth, ushering in the electric city car. the writing was on the wall. the clammer had begun for the experiment including public transit people. owned by the people and for the people. the idea of a consolidated city-owned transit system had begun traction. and in 1909, voters went to the polls and created a bond measure to create the people's railway.

would become a reality three years later. on december 28, 1912, mayor sonny rolph introduced the new geary electric streetcar line and the new san francisco railway. that he said would be the nucleus that would host the city. and san francisco gave further incentive to expand the city's network. a project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. in december the first streetcar was driven into the tunnel. just two years after its berth,

muni had added two lines. and k, l and m lines that span out from westportal. in 1928, the j line opened heading west to the beach. in 1944 san francisco voters finally approved muni take-over of the market street railway. by then motor bus and trolley bus improvement had given them the ability to conquer san francisco's hills. after the war most of the street-car lines would be replaced with motor or trolley bus service. in 1947, the mayor recommended replacing two lines with motor coaches. and it appeared that san francisco's iconic cable cars had seen their final days. entered mrs. cluskin, the leader

to save the cable cars. arguing that the cable cars were a symbol of the city, and she entered a charter placed on the november ballot. it passed overwhelmly. the california street cable railway was purchased by the city in 1952. there were cut backs on the cable car system and in 1957 only three lines would remain. the three lines that exist today. in 1964 the cable car's future as part of california's transit system was sealed when it was proclaimed a national historic landmark. in february, 1980, muni metro

were officially inaugurated. in that same year, muni received its first fleet of buses equipped with wheelchair lifts. in 1982 when the cable car had a shut-down, they added an alternative attraction to the cars. the festival was a huge hit and would continue for the next four summers in a permanent f-line that would extend all the way to fisherman's wharf, by 2000 the f-line was in place. and in 2007 muni extended the third line to the southeast corner and returning to third street. for the first time in 60 years.

in the course of last 100 years, muni's diverse workforce forged by men and women of innovation have reflected the many cultures that flock to the city. muni's ground-breaking antidiscrimination has guaranteed equal opportunity for all. the city's policy mandates the course for the future, as they work diligently to increase options and increase multialternatives, and deduce -- reduce the carbon footprint. it continues to improve the systems. during this sen -- centennial year we reflect on the transit system. driven notcall

this meeting of the historic preservation commission to order. . >> welcome to the san francisco histosfoerk preservation commission meeting to order. i would like to remind members of the audience the xwhition does not tolerate any disruption of any kind. please silence any mobile dwietions that might sound during the meeting. please speak before the commission. i'd like to take roll.