. >> only mark from ecology good morning, everyone all right. let me begin by thanking everyone for coming out today 0 for this great event this event is about streets but it is a partnership that has city staff from many agencies mta, public health and public works police department, along with the mfrnts and everyone what does business or enjoys stockton street is our fourth yes, we try

to do better a couple dialysis we were at the a meeting with one of the merchant one thing we discussed opening up more opportunity to the side streets i promised we'll explore that we heard of so many great success with the program i definitely wants to thank benny and others for their leadership and the community without u without further ado a man that needs no introduction and poster of all the work with the city is doing but particular stockton street our mayor, mayor ed lee please welcome him (clapping.) thank you. >> well, you you know if mohammed had recommended all the chinese i taught him he would have said josephson we say joe

son in chinatown san francisco so i'm glad mohammed thank you. the department of public works for working with the chinatown merchants and working with the chinese-american association of explicit customers the chinese chamber of commerce and all the agencies from chinese development association to the nonprofits to the leader are here and a who have come together at 24 wonderful time of the year pieces and benny were driving up washington street gosh for this day all the graft is done you you know on the corner of washington hopeful that lasts more than one day this is a time when everyone in the chinese community begins to

clean up their house and get rid of the old things to get new things the year of the ram means will steadyness and success and collaboration but will be solid direction i want to present that he kind of leadership i know our new supervisor julie christensen will be representing that kind of strong community for this district and the whole district of district 3 coverage including chinatown that is a wonderful time we're collins avenue only the holidays but a great combol symbol of that we've worked for four years be it lead by department of public works and also our wonderful police department i know that captain lazzaro and his staff as a conversation on in this district

is safety everybody's safety during the holidays streets are filled are families and children timing to shop and buy new things and make sure we patries all the local shores the jr. idea years ago came from the merchant that was led and bias and benny to place a few more merchandise there but keep a high-level of safety this is a very, very busy corridor as you can see and that's not the last time the honking of a horn will interfere with any speak is where he have an important transportation system that the mta is fixing up our subway but while the construction is going on it adds

to the construction to the cars and all the other public so everybody's coming together for the safety of our residents and the visitor and the shoppers and the celebration we have more of the ability of a small merchandise shop owners to present their goods for the new years for the next two years before the chinese new year begins this is a whole effort behind it not only does it help chinatown but the whole city the chinese new years eve is celebrated all over people will come here to get the cultural touch meet with their families and you know reunite what all the shopkeepers and others and introduce the new year properly i'll suggest that the entire region of the bay area comes here to stockton and chinatown

we're proud to present ourselves in the cleanest way that is safe so for everyone that wants to come here i'm thrilled to this defendant every year we do that it gets bigger and bigger and more agencies exhibit their pride we have a lot of things to celebrate this city is strong economically but this is also a time to see how many other people we can help share in the prosperity i'm working hard to build new housing to support the small businesses to make sure that people's job are sustainable mission bay anything this happens we bring ourselves together a that's what we did with a necessary family that was in need our own local restaurant came up to support that family this is my chance to say thank you to our chinatown community

and many of you helped me to create scholarships for locking youth i was happy to do that with you and now that we have a mayor whose also health department representing people in the district we can represent people thought the city i'm in a celebrations mod. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> thank you very much for everyone being here. >> let's give our mayor a big hand. >> next person i'm going to introduce someone i've had an opportunity to work with in the district the volunteer and someone that goes around to make sure this district gets was it deserves by no surprises she's new now the supervisor please welcome julie christensen to say a few words capitol hill.

>> i've been coming to chinatown for 36 years this is special n this year to 0 come to the chinese celebration in district 3 and you can be insured i'm working hard to make sure it is most successful and safe is stlks we've had i love new year's the parade and the good food it's a time of year we look for wishes of prosperity and health but all those fine people behind me added a new element to the celebration it's a cooperation over the last 4 years the leader of chinatown pieces and benny the chinese 6 companies have worked hard with mohammed and barbara with the

health department. >> captain lazzaro and folks if ecology it takes those people to make the celebration a successes even some of us who participate in the event don't realize how much organization it takes and communication so along with health and prosperity we wish a year of cooperation i'd like to really thanking thank those folks for the hard work they do (clapping.) so i'm looking forward to being here and working with the merchant and the resident and chinatown with the mayor's office and all the city departments so we keep making those things happen in chinatown and we're that happy and prosperous. >> thank you julie as you heard

from julie and the mayor is takes a whole team won the key concerns we've had and worked hard to address it i want to thank the merchant is the safety of the pedestrians i want to ask the san francisco police department captain lazzaro to say a few words. >> good morning and welcome from the words of mayor ed lee i want to thank mohammed fro organizing this to echo what commissioner christensen said it's important that the police department be a partner we've excited about the new year the start of the initiative on state and local street public safety is very important on behalf of the san francisco police department specific central

station we're concerned about safety in chinatown it's a proprietor for me and public safety is very important i'd like to say that as we start the new year as we continue with the mayors vision and vision zero eliminating pedestrian fatality i'm asking those who come to chinatown who enjoy the experience follow the rules of the road in terms of the public safety i'm grateful to the mta adding a traffic light and if you follow the rules and look if we don't walk unless the hand is white and not jaywalk we'll stay safe loovthd lubricate for bicycles and coarse and pay attention i think if everyone does they're part we'll have a good start the other thing for

personal safety when we're in crowds the mayor talked about people coming down and having a great time and the merchants we want everyone to be mindful to save guard their values and be aware of their surrounding one of the things i'm adding extra patrol making sure that every police officers know what's going on so we add to the safety by having a presence of officers so we're excited for that again, we're thankfully to work with the partners and we have the year of the ram i'd like to say . >> (speaking foreign language.) >> thank you very much. >> in addition what we heard from captain lazzaro and aware

of the logistics especially the ecology truck that came at 7 o'clock not 6 o'clock mar make sure everything is moved off the street all deliveries should be made by 8:30 we'll set up for the local businesses businesses that partnership is going to bring c y c to work with the police department they'll be ambassadors of the programs and make sure that the path is a clear for everyone all those details i'm placed if you have questions please make sure to get in touch with the department of public works we'll be here to make sure we have a safe event with that said, i'm going to introduce someone that is a friend of mine who at every meeting 1 or two or three inch

for the march please well. >> thank you very much good morning mayor ed lee and commissioner christensen and director mohammed and department and ladies and gentlemen on behalf of the merchant doing business on stockton street i want to thank the mayor ed lee for supporting this special event 14 device before the chinese new year allowing the merchant to use the parking area to display their merchandise this program bring more chinese live in the bay area to come to chinatown to prepare and welcome the chinese new year the last 20-year former

commissioner benny yee and i have been working with the last mayor to promote china to this event with no leukemia until this mayor who understands the chinese concerns and want to have the small business in chinatown the first two year was a pilot program but today is a are permanent program in chinatown thank you, mayor ed lee thank you (clapping.) because of the chinatown subway construction that was on stockton on the corner of jackson and washington was the repair i'm pleased to report to you all the slits have been repaired last week and thank you, mayor ed lee and director

(clapping.) on behalf of the stockton we invite mayor ed lee and director on december 14, 2014 to visit the location on state and local and broadway where the sidewalk is 15 feet wide but the situations in broadway to sacramento street is only 10 feet in the name of safety and to bring more customers to visit chinatown we propose to mayor ed lee to widen the sidewalk stockton street to sacramento street same from broadway by using the same model after listening and visiting the location 3 and 4 and director louisiana to see the job plan i'm hopefully soon the department of public works and

mta will have a proposal to ride on the sidewalks but to keep the city prash patricia for the mayors con laudation and approval i want to thank mta for listening to stockton and merchant concerns and working with the merchants thank you very much after doing business in four to five 4 years in chinatown and politics for the last 35 years i want to make a fair statement based on this is mayor ed lee has helped the chinese community more than the last 3 former mayors so happy china new year thank you very much (clapping) okay. so what we're going to do next something that everyone

likes doing shopping so mayor has agreed a to lead and down stockton to shake hands with the merchant so. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> and thank you very much

>> good afternoon welcome. welcome to the board of supervisors meeting of january 27 2015. mr. clerk can you please call the roll. >> supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. >> here. supervisor campos. >> present. >> supervisor christensen.

>> present. >> supervisor cohen. >> present. >> supervisor farrell. >> present. >> supervisor kim. supervisor mar. >> here. >> supervisor tang. >> present. >> supervisor wiener. >> present. >> supervisor yee. >> present. >> madam president you have a quorum. >> okay. is there a motion to excuse supervisor kim. motion by supervisor wiener second by supervisor yee without objection supervisor kim is excused. ladies and gentlemen can you join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> >> i pledge allegiance to the flag to the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.. >> mr. clerk are there any changes to the agenda? >> i have no changes.

>> okay colleagues are there any changes to the meeting minutes of january 7 and january 8? is there a motion to approve those minutes? motioned by supervisor campos. seconded by supervisor farrell. without objection those meeting minutes are approved. [gavel] >> following public comment madam president. >> is there any public comment for -- no we would only -- okay got you. thank you. so those meeting minutes will be approved after public comment. okay mr. clerk can you please call the consent agenda. >> items 1-9 are considered rout. if a member want to remove one from the consent agenda. >> seeing none can you call the roll. >> on the consent agenda.

supervisor breed. >> i. >> supervisor campos. >> aye. >> supervisor christensen. >> aye. >> supervisor cohen. >> aye. >> supervisor farrell. >> aye. >> supervisor kim. supervisor mar. >> aye. >> supervisor tang. >> aye. >> supervisor wiener. >> aye. >> supervisor yee. >> aye. >> supervisor avalos. >> aye. >> there are 10 aye's. >> okay. those items on pass on the first reading finally passed and adopted unanimously. mr. clerk next item please. >> item 10 is respond to the civil grand jury for contained in the 13-14 civil grand jury report titled ethics, promise or pretense. >> all right. supervisor avalos. >> thank you madam president and colleagues. i want to thank you for allowing this item to

be continued for two weeks. there were a lot of -- there's a lot of language in this i wanted to look at and on face value i wasn't able to make a determination even looking at before the weekend of the last vote so i want to make sure i have ample time. my staff was working on this and i found there were a number of items in the resolution they think it would behoove us to make more action on and take more -- at least consideration of legislation that could come before us from the ethics commission and the roles that other departments could play, the controller's office as well in recommending audits so i have a number of amendments i would like to propose, and i will read the amendments as they come before me here, so on page four lines four-12 recommendation

number two i will like to see that we amend this to say that the board requests the controller to conduct an audit to determine prohibited contributions have been properly forfeited to the city. actually it would make more sense that the board asks for that rather than any individual supervisor so i wanted broaden the request of such an audit by making that cover the entire board. page four line 13-21 recommendation number 11. amend this to say that we urge the sunshine task force ethics commission and the city attorney to grade preservation policies for emails and text messages and those rules should be informed by the future ruling of the california supreme court whether public officials use personal devices and subject to disclosure. since that ruling is not necessarily performed yet we

want to make sure that whatever policy we have coming forward will align with the california supreme court. the original response that the policy changes are beyond the jurisdiction of the board, but that's not exactly correct. the board is free to make amendments to chapter eight of the ad min code which covers record retention policies so i wanted to see that we played a role to request that these entities -- the sunshine task force and the commission and the city attorney provide us with some preservation policy recommendations for our consideration. page four lines 22, page five line four recommendation number 16. amend this to say that we support requiring additional transparency regarding gifts of travel without creating excessively burdensome reporting requirements. the original response said they're beyond the jurisdiction of the board but that's not exactly correct either. the board is free to

initiate campaigns to the code and the campaign but need to be approved by the ethics commission. the next amendment is page five lines five-13 recommendation number 18. amend this to say that the board will consider an ordinance -- will consider not do but consider an ordinance to add the board of supervisors to the list of offices covered by the public consent calendar requirements of the sunshine ordinance and require the calendars to include the topic of meetings and attendees at the meetings, so that is a consideration and we can have -- if we do have legislation coming forward perhaps it would take the entirety of the recommendations or part of them but i think it's worthy of our consideration here in the board of supervisors. the board already complies with sunshine requests for calendar so it seems like there is no objection to codifying this into practice, codify this practice into law. i understand that

tracking attendees in our meetings would require additional work from our offices. the reason for the recommendation because without knowing who supervisors are meeting with it's impossible to track with registered lobbyists are meeting with supervisors. i am open to alternative ways to track them. this amendment only says that we will consider an ordinance and i am happy to work with colleagues on a manageable solution for this. the last i think it's the last recommendation i have is page five lines 14-23 recommendation number 21. amend this to say that the board will not implement the recommendation that the ethics commission has provided be given -- that the board will not implement the recommendation that the ethics commission -- of the ethics commission -- there is an amendment about the ethics

commission provide -- allow for staffing for a secretary and while it's important to add to the ethics commission what they have been increasing is staffing increases is investigators so i think it's appropriate that we follow those recommendations of the hick thick commission they actually have the staffing necessary to did the work that they do in researching file accident -- filings and campaign financing is proceeding like it should so those are the recommendations so the last one just to be clear we will not be approving a recommendation for staffing for commission secretary rather looking at additional staffing for investigation and odd tors. >> okay. supervisor avalos are you making a motion to move those those amendments? >> i am. >> second by supervisor

campos. i would like to recognize supervisor tang. >> thank you colleagues. so having sat on the jao committee with supervisor breed i wanted to respond to some of the amendments proposed. i know we had a two week continuance but we saw these amendments today so i wish we had a better opportunity to work on this -- >> we can continue again. >> while i don't fundamentally disagree with you supervisor avalos on some of the changes that you would like to see made i do want to respect our committee process and why we came to some of the conclusions that we did for our responses so i'm not going to go into every single change that has been made and why we made the decisions that we did in jao but for example for recommendation number 21 we responded the way we did because we want to during our regular budget process give our whole entire board of supervisors along with our city departments the ability to make

decisions in the context of our budget process. again that is just one example of how we responded the way that we did. the second point is there are difference responses to make for the civil grand jury report and we can include a summary and explanation for what we did. second the implementation is not recommended but within a set time frame provided. third we can say that the recommendation requires further analysis and fourth we could say that the recommendation will not be implemented because it's not warranted or reasonable and provide an explanation so i know that some of the amendments made do not follow that structure so i would really encourage that if the amendments go through and lastly i would say again based on the responses that we provided in jao and nothing just like you mentioned supervisor avalos nothing prevents an individual supervisor from going