being a consultant pharmacy and working with young people, by getting the drugs safely out of homes is very important. 73% of the drugs that are taken by kids, young people and young adults come from homes. and making -- again, getting the word out in the community and making it easy for them to dispose their medications is what we need to do. they do it in other countries we can do it too and i'm in support of your ordinance although i live across the bay and i work in marine. i wanted to let you know we're looking close to your ordinance and we're having public hearings. thank you. speaker: thank you, next speaker please. speaker: good morning, and thank you. i'll be brief because you've heard for so many people. my name is catherine hide and i'm speaking to the

concerned professional. i lived in san francisco for a number of years, for 18 years, i was a social worker and visited hundreds of people of frail older adults and elderly in their homes, and we saw thousands and thousands and thousands of drugs stock piled in their homes and they didn't know what to do with them. in my more recent past for the past 18 years, i've worked in solid waste management and recycling in san francisco and i'm aware of the needs of safe disposal for the public, and it needs to be convenient. i'm very concerned about these medications injuring our water systems and the hazard to our children and adults so i strongly urge you to support this ordinance for a safe, secure via message the drug company. speaker: thank you very much. next speaker. that's the last speaker card i have. so if there are any other members of the public who would

like to speak that would like to speak, please line up to my left. speaker: my name is kirk rhymes. i'm representing the bran -- we're a community located in the bay view. thank you president breed for championing this issue. your commitment to the environment, public health and the safety of our children is appreciated. much has been said already of why having safe medicine collection system is important for the environment and public health. i want to add a few key perspectives and i'll score a few points. we have no independent pharmacy in the bay area. we thank the department of the environment with working with the city college of san francisco, and the san francisco public utilities commission to locate a collection bin at the southeast community center to

give bay view residents to take their unwanted medication. the walgreens along third street should participate. they should help our community by keeping medicines out of the hands of kids who may abuse it. much has been said about the shared responsibility by the testimony today by the folks who are taking responsibility are the city and us rate payers, not tax payers, but rate payers. it's time for -- i'm a water customer and i pay my bills on time and the water utility in san francisco uses my money to educate those not to flush pharmaceutical down the toilet. recology uses money to educate consumers not to put their medicines in the trash. i get that too.

that's also my shared responsibility. but what about the drug manufacturers and their shared responsibility. whether they're in paris, or even zurick. how are they contributing to keeping the medicine out of our bay. speaker: next speaker, please. speaker: good afternoon, commissioners. joshua, speaking in my capacity as president of the san francisco commission on the environment. first i want to thank you president breed for your leadership on this issue and moving us to this point. it has been a long time coming. there's a lot of us who are excited about moving forward and we hope you will with strong recommendation today from the committee to the full board. we've had hearings that the environment commission, you've heard from our staff, our expert staff who leads the nation in thinking through these issues and how we do good for the environment and community and public

health. we heard a question about outreach. we have our environment team who is the best community base outreach team in the country and they don't get enough applause for what they do sometimes. [applause] speaker: they're amazing so if people need to know, it's going to happen because we've got an environment now. a lot of folks have been working on this, from community folks, you've heard from seniors and folks from kelly who had left, but worked on this for many years and probably in this room in spirit as we cast this vote because she's worked in the state level as well as those in the room. good for the community. we're going to work through anything that has been raised. we're good to go. this thing is ready to move forward, so lead the way, to set a new standard for the way these materials are handled. we have a great partner with recology. you heard they support this. that's huge to have support from our partner from

the business sector and that's how we're going to make it successful. i want thing i want to reiterate, we heard the phrase, a lot today and it's two words, shared responsibility. this is how we do it. it's responsible and i think for those in the industry who has raised concerns it's a way for them to step up in shared responsibility as well. thank you. speaker: thank you. speaker: if there's members of the public who would like to speak who haven't had an opportunity, please line up to my left. speaker: my name is renee and i'm a town council member in fairfax. i would be remised in not thanking you for your leadership. we're new kids on the block in marin. we had 65 members of the sectors. in marin county there was overwhelming support for pursuing this. i'm here to thank you for the leadership and we'll call upon

you for your expertise as we move forward. speaker: thank you. any other members of the public who would like to provide public comment at this time? seeing none, public comment is closed. and with that, just to wrap up, thank you everyone for coming out and expressing your opinions and your support for this legislation, and i just wanted to comment i know that the san francisco chamber has made a request that we hold off on implementing the legislation until it goes through the court process, and unfortunately i will not able to honor that request. clearly when this legislation in alameda was brought before the lower federal court and the 9th sir kit of

appeals. we won't grant that request today, but i would like to offer two minor clerical amendments before we hopefully pass this legislation through for consideration to the full board, the first amendment is on page 8 line 23 under the definition of producer. i would like to change the article to a, the article a, so it reads a wholesaler is not also the manufacturer. this will clarify that wholesalers are exempt as long as they don't manufacture the drug. that's my first amendment. on page 8, lines 1-4, i would like to change it to read,

manufacturer means the producer preparation compounding or processing of a drug but not -- does not include the activities of a repackage or practitioner who prepare and labels such as device. i think that isn't clear because i have a lot things that's stricken out to the language, but this is really clear -- this is information that clarifies who's responsible, and we're working on an amendment to further address what the city will do in the very unlikely event we cannot find enough retailers to participate in the program. the ordinance already follows -- allows for flexibility, but i'm comfortable in putting language if those are

concerned. for now i would like to move that we make the two minor clerical amendments i proposed. speaker: thank you supervisor breed. do you want to speak on the amendment? speaker: no. there's an amendment moved. speaker: second. speaker: no objection. amendment passes. supervisor christensen. speaker: so i want to thank -- i want to thank everybody who came out today. and again, to the department of the environment and to supervisor breed for shepherding this. i think what we've highlighted today is this is a significant issue that concerns a lot of people. it's something that needs to be addressed. and while i do agree, this is a baby step in a much larger issue, i think it's welcomed and as mr. raphael said earlier it's something we can do now in the short term. i do support the ordinance. i do

have some considerations. i don't think they're going to hold us up. but there's something i would like to discuss and they're administrative as we spoke earlier. i think in terms of time for implementation, my preference is i think san francisco wants to lead not only in intention, but also in methodology. i think we want to lead with something that's going to work, so i have some concerns about the timelines that has been set aside because we're basically asking these producers to become aware of the program, to identify or create a stewardship program, to fund the organization that's going to do the stewardship, staff it, to notify all of the retailers and the police enforcement agencies of opportunity to participate, to arrange for a disposal method, to design outreach and to get approval for their plan which is going to take three months and to implement it in a 12 month period. that sounds a little ambitious. and while

i'm sure we can crack the whip, i would like to discuss how we can time this so we encourage compliance with this. a question about cost. i see in the ordinance that we're asking retailers to participate in a greater way than i had understand -- that i understood earlier. we're asking them to be responsible to supply to the city, that list of producers and we're asking them to indicate whether those producers are compliant or not. so that's a certain amount of administrative work that we're requiring of pharmacies and other drug retailers in the city and i don't know, what the cost to them of this may be, i don't know how that information is going to be collected and passed on, whether there's cost involved in that that could be passed onto consumers, but again, we want to make sure that they can actually comply with it. and since the penalties only apply to those

who knowingly or willingly don't comply, if i'm pharmaceuticals in zuric, we want to make sure the familiarity with the program exist. i support the ordinance, but i would like to look at the details so we increase its chance of success. speaker: thank you. supervisor breed. speaker: thank you, supervisor christensen for your comments to the chair. i wanted to remind the public that this is -- we won't reinvent the wheel. the pilot program already exists. we have systems in play that will only expand the program. this will give us an opportunity to expand the program and when i met with retailers and also hospitals, they definitely have expressed interest in doing and participating in this program and in fact, for example, kaiser has already moved in the direction

of setting up a system within their pharmacies and i think that it won't be as difficult to implement this program based on the aggressive timeline because again, there's already systems in play that will help us to move this along quickly but i also don't think the department of environment is going to -- if there are pharmaceutical companies who are genuinely working with us to comply, we're not going to be hard core about the timeline in such a way that we make it difficult for them to implement this program. our ultimate goal is to make sure that we implement the program and we are successful in implementing it and we have success in our pilot program. as i mentioned in my opening -- we're going to make sure we have locations as well. we want this program to succeed and we want to make sure that

there are kinks worked out as you've expressed based on your concern and ultimately i think this is going to be an incredible program and we'll continue to work with even those who oppose the program, to try and figure out a way to make it easier to implement. but i think, i'm really excited about this. i didn't start off pushing for this legislation, but when assembly member chiu was leaving the board, and he had a couple of things about unfinished business he wanted to -- the only thing i was interested in taking hold is this in particular especially from our own personal experience of taking the wrong medication and making mistakes and it's not necessarily the pharmaceutical company's fault in that regard, but i think it would be nice to have a place to make it easy for me to

dispose of unused prescription and non prescription medications and what's so interesting about is this is -- one of the pharmacies in my district, charlie, he thought the program was going away and he was definitely really concerned about that because he's, like, i have customers come from everywhere and i develop new customers an -- customers as a result because i have this drop location and a lot seniors utilize this so much. we have several pick ups more than we anticipated. i think there's a strong desire and i'm looking farld to the implementation and with that, i would like to move forward the legislation as amended to the full board for positive consideration. speaker: thank you, supervisor breed. so i also want to thank the

public for coming out and expressing your views today. and i believe that the timeline is an aggressive timeline. i believe sometimes it's durable. i also believe that we're not the first to do this and i think we could especially take note of what alameda has done. if you haven't already, i would ask them when their timeline was and whether this is feasible. that would be really reassuring for all the city here. i think this is a very important program. i've gone through quite a few of my relatives who were seniors and the jars that ms. kelly brought up is a fraction of what i saw them having. and unfortunately i didn't know any better, and i dispose of probably thousands of pills, throwing them in the

garbage can, so i'm being educated today, actually. and i also wanted -- if you don't mind, sign up as a coauthor. this motion that has been put on the floor, without any objection, the motion passes. [applause] speaker: madam clerk, item 2. i know many of you will be leaving the room, but if you can leave quietly. we want to continue. item 2. speaker: item 2, resolution receiving and approving annual reports for the noe valley community benefit district for fys 2009-2014, submitted as required by the property and business improvement district law of 1994 section 36650, and district's management agreement with the city, section 3.4. speaker: i believe chrissy, from the office of economic and work force development is here to present.

are you try to go get the screen on? speaker: good afternoon, supervisors. chair yee, president breed, and supervisor christensen, chrissy from the office of economic and work force development. senior project manager, overseeing the benefit district program. i have a slide show queued up here regarding the noe valley district program. so, welcome to this committee. this is my first time with all of you except for president breed.

just to give a brief overview, we oversee a program governed by the state law which is our tax regulation code article 15. today, the resolution before you covers the annual reports for 5, fiscal years from 2009 up until 2014. it's our responsibility that all cbd's and bids are meeting their plans and staff conducts an annual review of the reports and the financial reviews and we provide the board a summary of those items. here's a map of the noe valley association benefit district. it was formed back in 2005 and the initial assessment budget was roughly

$230,000 and to expire in 2020. in terms of operation, debra who is here with me will present more on the accomplishments of the cbd. their main service areas are public rights of way. district identity and street improvement and incorporate operations. in terms of financial bench marks, obw covers bench mark one. it's budget amounts for each certificate vase provider was within ten percentage points from the management plans. bench mark two, whether they meet -- in comparison to the budget. bench mark three, the variance between budget amounts for each certificate vase category within ten percentage points from the money spent. and whether the funds are cared for into the fiscal year and the budget being spent

for those items. in terms of bench mark one, the noe cbd did not meet this requirement in the following fiscal years, 2009, 11-12, and 13-14. the explanation for 09-10 was the cbd received grant money which helped to increase the money in the district [inaudible]. in fiscal years 11-12 and 12-13, they brought on extra staff to support the organization, and in 13-14, the cbd was lucky enough to receive funding for physical improvements along the street scape. this blew out their budget quite a bit. we had to note they weren't meeting this requirement, there were outstanding circumstances which caused this. in terms of

assessment revenue and other income, the cbd was successful in exceeding their 5% requirement. in terms of having their fee compliant with their budget, only in years 13-14 was the cbd off base and that was due to the fact that they received a significant amount of outside funding. in most of our cbd's because of the timeline in which we deliver funds to the cbd's which their first payment gets to them in january, much of their operations is kicked into the following fiscal year so they carry over a 6 month reserve to the funding you see before you is not out of the ordinary to see this carry into the following fiscal year.

in terms of recommendations that odw have, we want to encourage that the cbd includes all the information by the state and local law. in particular, insuring that the total carry amount is in the annual reports and how the funds will be spent. we encourage noe valley to insure that the 5% -- in conclusion, the operations of the cbd has well exceeded or expectations. they have done extremely job such as harvest festival and 24 holidays. they've increased their opportunity with partnering with stakeholders and agencies and maintaining a board of directors and several sub-committees. i'm going to bring up debbie from the cbd to talk about the program--

speaker: i've been the director for association since the beginning. and we helped form it with three other nand groups about ten years ago thanks to mayor nuson. now we've got -- we're been around ten years. you've already seen the map. there's two activities. the green committee which is about street improvement which we seek grants because we're the second smallest cbd in the city. we have an active event marketing group, we partner well with the noe and profession association. some of the other active communities we have is the harvest festival. this is volunteers from the committee -- from the community who have been doing this for 12 years, and they're still active and they want to put on this festival every year. our partner organizations as i said, who are the noe

merchant association and the friends of noe valley and residents of noe valley were able to raise half a million dollars and convince rec and park to turn a parking lot into a public space. it's adjacent to our cbd on 24th at sanchez and vicksburg. we write a lot of grants. we've had grants for street furniture and planter boxes and pavements to parks for the parklet and the best thing wiener did for us was get our prop b funding so we can take the long term plan we developed in 2009 and actually implement it by putting in three or four new bulb outs and working with mta and then recently last year, odw gave us money to put in new bike racks. so summer feast, we do

it the day before father's day and noe valley is a family friendly neighborhood so we have -- we close off part of the street and do a petting zoo. horseback rides and things of that nature. harvest festival is huge. we take over two city blocks and close 24th street and we have 2,000 people who come there and we have two stages for music and it's a huge event and i can't believe it's run completely by community events and the last thing we do for the year is we do 24 holidays on 23rd street. we put reindeers and there's artist and people roaming the streets. it's a way to get people to shop on 24th street. the day-to-day operations, this is more monday stuff. we remove a lot

graffiti because they've been getting more innovative. if we remove the big graffiti, they put it on benches. we're the only cbd that steam cleans every sidewalk march through december and because we haven't had much rain, the neighborhood isn't looking that great right now, but we'll start up next month. everyone likes flower baskets and we change them every six month. the challenge we have what every neighborhood has, which is get rid of those utility wires and i think there's a group on next door is trying to figure out a way to move this along. the opportunities are -- opportunities to improve our district come out of this plan, which in 200 of we had three community members which we presented 3-d models of what's possible in the neighborhood in the street and we gave everybody a certain amount of

money and we displayed huge boards of street scape improvements and things that can make the street better. we asked everyone where would you spend your money and based on that plan -- we have been successful in having grants. one that's left are to advocate for the property funding on the -- and to work with the real foods people to make sure a new building is built. i think that's it. thanks guys. speaker: so debra. speaker: yeah. speaker: can i ask you a question? speaker: sure. speaker: if you don't mind. speaker: not at all. speaker: i'm curious, is there a merchant association -- speaker: along 24th street,

yes, it has been there a long time. speaker: how closely do you work with them? speaker: very closely. we're partners and he's the chairman of our board. we're unusual in that sense is we have a very active merchant association and we have the cbd and we've got residents so the three of us work together. stern grove is coming and they said we like to do a concert in your town square and we're promoting it for mother's day. i wouldn't be successful if i didn't have the merchant's and the pro supervisors there. speaker: are there a lot of vacancies? speaker: oh, sure. no, i'll tell you what the issue is. the issue is the planning department. there's many people who want to move in, but the planning department follows things up royally for anybody who tries to open up a business in noe valley and i'm sure in other parts of the city. i got a text while i was waiting for this presentation fro