motion, i understand i need to make -- include within that motion that supervisor tang first sit as a chairman of our board at the december 9th board meeting. >> supervisor farrell has nominated supervisor tang for the office of board president to sit for the first time on december the ninth. let me ask if there are any other nominations. are there any other nominations? okay. there being no further nominations, the nominations are closed. [gavel] >> madam clerk, could you please call the next item. >> the next item is the election for the president of the board. members will now proceed with the election for the president of the board of supervisors to become effective at the swearing in for the state

assembly of the current board president. >> and, madam clerk, could you please describe the rules of this election? >> there are no absent abstention or passes. all supervisors must vote when a question is posed. the lowest vote getter is not obligated to withdraw their name and they will be included on subsequent ballots unless the nominee chooses to withdraw their own name. at any time a nominee may withdraw their own name, the board can adopt a motion to reopen nomination with a majority vote as the president stated. in the event that no nominee receives a majority vote there shall be an additional roll call until a nominee receives a majority vote. and then the supervisors who have been nominated for the election to the office of board president is supervisor tang. so, when your name is called, please indicate your preference from among the nominees stated. in this case there is only one. again, if no supervisors received a majority of the votes we'll proceed to the next

round until a nominee with draws or if there is another motion to reopen the nominations. >> colleague, unless there is any further discussion, madam clerk, could you please call the roll? kim for tackvthv. is that correct, kim for tang? supervisor mar? mar absent. supervisor tang? >> yes, tang for tang. [laughter] >> tang for tang. supervisor wiener? >> tang. >> wiener tang. supervisor yee? >> tang. >> yee for tang. supervisor avalos? avalos not present. supervisor breed? >> tang. >> breed for tang. supervisor chiu? >> supervisor tang. >> chiu for tang. supervisor cohen? >> katy tang. >> cohen for tang.

supervisor farrell? >> supervisor tang. >> farrell for tang. there are eight ayes. [cheering and applauding] >> congratulations, supervisor tang. >> thank you. first of all, i just want to thank all of my colleagues who were voting in support of this. it's unfortunate given the conversation that we had, but really my priority for these next two meetings as interim president is really just to make sure that we have a smooth transition. so, knowing that we do have another vote coming up in january, i'm going to keep my comments short, but actually want to take this opportunity to acknowledge president david chiu, really thank him for his service as our board president for three terms. i think he has done a fantastic job and being a very balanced board president and leader for san francisco. so, i really want to appreciate him, offer him my best if you can hear me, in his new role of

state assembly member. and of course we all look forward to working with you and having a really great relationship with you in sacramento. so, again, i want to thank the board members, but again, there will be another vote in january, so, we look forward to that. >> thank you, supervisor tang. i just want to make a couple of final comments. first of all, i want to clarify that supervisor tang will be taking -- assuming the position of board presidency when i vacate that position at 11:59 a.m. on monday, december the first. colleagues, i want to thank you for what i know was a difficult discussion. these decisions are never easy, but i want to thank you for the conversation and certainly want to concur with the comments of supervisor farrell. i think we all hold supervisor tang in the highest esteem. we know her to be someone who is fair, who is balanced, and someone who has worked well with all of us. and i know we all look forward to our work with her during this interim time period.

so, with that, madam clerk, are there any in memoriams? >> yes, mr. president. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following and beloved individuals. on behalf of supervisor wiener for the late mr. danny williams and mr. robin [speaker not understood]. on behalf of supervisor yee for the late ms. paula minkus and on behalf of supervisor breed for the late senior master sergeant william cluster bill yancy. >> and madam clerk is there any more business in front of the board of supervisors? he >> that concludes our business for today. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned for today. [gavel]

november 19, 2014, >> >> city of san francisco >> >> historic preservation committee >> >> please stand by... >> >> san francisco architectural

heritage was present and expressed heritage report on three contracts and planning staff gave a short presentation. committee member supervisor avalos did have some comments about san francisco's program in relationship to other programs throughout the state of california and the types of properties that took advantage of the program as compared to cities and san francisco and did comment as to whether or not the properties applying for the mills act this year were in truly need of a property tax break. as a result of those comments, the committee deciding to forward the contracts to the full board without recommendation which was disappointing for us but we believe we'll be able to demonstrate to the full board that the mills act program is in fact a really important

viable financial incentive for landmark properties in san francisco. sew -- so we'll keep you posted on that. the second item i wanted to share with you was an item heard at the planning commission. the planning commission unanimously approved the downtown project authorization on embarcadero before them. the reason i bring to your attention, the commissioner richard contemplated to pursue landmark designation for the property, but after further discussion with the planning commission members they elected not to include the designation as a requirement but encouraged the property owner to consider that for the future. with that, i

will conclude my comments and happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. commissioner wolfram? >> >> is that where the tennis club is going? >> that's correct. >> commissioner that will put you under commission matter item 3. announcements. >> no announcements. >> item 4, draft minutes for november 4, 2014. >> thank you, commissioners, any corrections or alterations that you see at this time? seeing none off the bat, we'll open this for the public. any public comment on the draft minutes? seeing none. commissioners? >> i move to adopt the minutes. >> on the motion to adopt the minutes, commissioner highland,

johnck, matsuda, wolfram and commission president hasz. that passes. now item 5 for comments and questions. >> comments, questions or disclosures? >> >> commissioner highland? thank you, we wanted to report on the meeting prior to our next meeting december 3rd and hoping we can do it once a month probably the first meeting of the month and then if ar c is needed to be scheduled as a project that we can shuffle it as we needed to. >> we have this room starting at around 11:15, we would schedule it starting at 11:30 to get

ample time for a brief break in between and to refer to it as a committee. >> okay, just some context to what commissioner matsuda and i were thinking is to have an open forum to invite the community and talk about what their most important assets are in the community and the work by heritage and workshops have been a great start. we thought it might be good to open it up and give people the opportunity to speak who may not have had that opportunity. we would like to invite supervisor campos' office to present their legislation and someone from the mayor's office. i'm not sure if it's with oewe with the

civic department to get feedback from the mayor's and we would like to reach out to the supervisors to see if there are community members in their district. what we'd like to do is get some feedback from each of the separate districts at our first meeting. there is a lot of activity going on around here and we don't want to duplicate efforts but want to hear what's happening. i just became aware of an opening of a program that's been launched by census place lab in san francisco tomorrow where they ask the communities of bayview and mission to do this exact thing. it's a photographic essay. they asked them to take photographs of the community assets that they value and they are going to be on display at soma arts on

brand tomorrow for a few weeks. i will go visit that exhibit and see what's come of that. that's what our thinking is. >> and to ask if we can have the planning department staff to help us do the outreach and to contact people who have already been involved in various communities to also feel free to offer their thoughts. >> we might as well ask heritage to participate as well. >> i think we'd be happy to coordinate that for you. >> okay, thank you. that's a big agenda. >> for 1 hour. >> commissioner johnck? >> yes, i was wondering how we are doing with architectural

landscape and the project completion coming back to us? >> the project was continued to the december hearing. we will be asking for a continuance. we did receive authorization for the additional funding for the consultant to update the project. so we are still in contract negotiations and finalized some of the details of the contract. hoping to have that done in the next month or so. mr. hasz did share information with us. as soon as we are under contract with the sculpture -- consultant we'll have a better idea for you. i'm presuming late winter, early spring next year but i'm hoping to have a date at the december 5th hearing to present to you. at least the outline that you are going to

contract them to cover. >> okay, that would be great. thank you. >> seeing no other commission comments, disclosures, we'll move on. >> commissioners that will place you under your regular calendar to be item 6. item 2011.0910 l, 2168-2174 market streechlt consideration to initiate landmark designation of the swedish american hall. good

afternoon, commissioners. planning department preservation staff. today i'm pleased to present the landmark for the swedish american hall. this is two reports. landmarks is authorized under section is of the planning code which allows for individual structures or districts having special character or special history category architecture or historic difference. this is to initiate landmark swedish hall in the upper market area. the building is located welcome -- within the open mark district and also contributed to the upper market commercial historic district. the commission hall meets all landmarks under section of the planning code. should this commission choose

to initiate landmark designation, the item will be referred to this commission for the board of supervisors to approve, disapprove or modify the proposal. constructed in 1907, the swedish american hall is the most significant building with san francisco's swedish community and for 100 years has served it's home for the swedish in san francisco and the oldest swedish organization in the pacific coast and on then claef and upper market area of the turn of the century and a variety of social groups related to san francisco scandinavian community. the building is also characteristic to a period and method of construction as well as being architecturally significant work of

swedish born architect. the buildings are usually fine and depict a level of craftsmanship. it conveys a street presence and offers superior detailing and the largest public place features highly ornamental style in california and defining features and outstanding level of integrity. over the past year several interiors of the space has been remodeled and as well as remodeling of the cafe. an ada elevator is also installed. mcgivens

is here to -- today and he can also speak to this work. clearly it is an article landmark and supplied the planning department with a letter expressing support by that organization for article 10 landmark designation. before i conclude my presentation i wanted to share with you, the commission an updated resolution. these were at the request of the city attorney's office. i just wanted to make those available as well. that concludes my presentation. >> what is the difference between this and what was in our packet? >> tim can speak to that. >> commissioners, the previous item, basic motion in your packet was the

motion erroneously listed as a motion rather that be a resolution since it was a recommendation whether or not to forward a recommendation to the board. >> thank you. >> does sponsor want to speak on this? >> if you have no comments. >> we'll hold on to those. forgive me. in the interim, sponsor wishes to speak on this item? >> yes. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners, my name is dylan evan. i'm one of the new tennants at the swedish american hall and the ground floor restaurant and we have been working on this for about a year 1/2. we started

our outreach to provide some new viable vibrant buys -- businesses to the building. what we heard from the community is they wanted to landmark the building. we had many meetings with the triangle neighborhood association and they said we are willing to support you with whatever you want to do, as long as we can preserve this building for the future of the neighborhood. there is a lot of big shiny glass buildings going up and this building really stands out as something special in the neighborhood. i have been in business on market street for about nine years 9 years and i live at 17th and dolores. so i know the neighborhood very well. we also heard from the society that the building needs a lot of work. it's a 104 building and if something

fell into disrepair, they wanted an elevator. they build the shaft but never put the elevator. we have a fully ada compliant elevator in the building so which means that meetings held, they can now go up to the fourth floor, they had the meetings on the ground floor because they didn't want to climb the four 4 stories. for the next hundred years people will no longer have to be carried up those stairs. we also installed several new ada bathrooms and we've modified the restaurant and bar spaces so they are fully code compliant with san francisco's health code and will work with the vibrant businesses

and we did this with the historic nature and interior of the building. we want to make sure we tell the history of the building accurately and we think we've done so. we are very happy about the future of the swedish american hall and hope it's there for many decades and centuries to come. thank you. >> commissioners, any questions? >> commissioner matsuda? >> i just have a comment. thank you for doing this. and hopefully you can use some of the information created for the landmark designation to include around the building, these stories, i didn't know there was such a huge community there in that area and learning about it makes me want to know more. i think there are many people like me who would want to know more and having stores like this available for someone who

might want to get a drink at the bar might want to know more and hopefully never forget the community that once existed in that neighborhood. thank you. >> commissioner johnck? >> i thought it was an extraordinary report. >> seeing no other questions or comments. public comment. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners? >> commissioner wolfram? >> i'm very impressed with the report. very thorough and comprehensivi and concise as well. >> thank you, i would like to point out that one of the resources for the scandinavian resource from the county library was very helpful and also the translation from google

translate. it's perfectly accurate and a brave new world for historians. >> very well done. >> commissioner frye? >> i want to chime in to remind you that with every landmark designation this will have to come back to you one more time and at that next hearing we will ask for a recommendation. this hearing is meant to review the report and hear from the public and see if there is any holes that we need to address prior to the next hearing. as you know this hearing is noticed through our standard agenda notice but for the next hearing we will send out a mailed notice to alert the public of the proposed designation. >> commissioner pearlman? >> i want