will under mine people's access to life saving medication and frankly, it is effectively a back door to get around the ban on excluding the people for preexists conditions i am calling for a hearing on this issue relating to hiv medication, but other medication for other diseases as well. and asking kiaser to come but not just them, asking a number of different insurance providers to come to us and talk to us about this issue and also talking to the department of public health and the mayor's office and it is an important issue and a growing issue and we need to stay on top of it, i am also today, introducing a resolution to support senate bill, 277 by senator richard pan, and which will eliminate the personal belief exemption from california vaccination requirements. and i know that we have all

been following in the news the really troubling spike in measles, and we need to make sure that our children are vaccinated, and this is not just about individual choice, this is about public health and this is about making sure that every child, and every person who goes to anywhere to a school, to a playground to any public place is not exposed and especially since even those of us who are vaccinated and it is not 100 percent, it is 95 percent and this is a very, very important issue and i give senator pan credit for pursuing this and taking a science based approach to vaccine policy in california and then finally colleagues, today i am introducing interim zoning controls that will apply to the corona and the corbit heights neighborhood to help to slow down and take a deep breath with respect to a troubling trend of demolishing or

effectively demolishing, smaller, existing homes, and replacing them with massive, monster homes and if you have never been to the corona heights neighborhood, please go and it is a beautiful, and state street, and bulcon and saturn and just a series of amazing and unique streets where we have homes that are nestled in the woods, effectively and it is not something that you would expect to find in the middle of a city. and we are seeing more and more of the beautiful modest homes in this neighborhood being expanded dramatically and double or triple in size and turned into monster homes that are really and in the view of many, not consistent with the fabric of a neighborhood. and the legislation is not about adding any additional complication or delay, to modest home renovations and we are not trying to stop the people who want to add an additional bedroom or do a modest expansion to their home and this is did about

dramatic expansions and we are not banning anything, what the legislation will do is require a conditional use authorization from the planning commission under the certain circumstances and it will apply to any project that is proposing to create or to expand a home to be more than 3,000 square feet. if the expansion will be more than 75 percent of the square footage of the home for projects that would or that are multiunit in nature it will have to be more than 100 percent of the square footage in terms of the increase and then on the vacant lots we will require the conditional use when a project greater than 3,000 square feet is proposed on that lot and we will remove a loophole relating to lot coverage and which currently exists in the code, this will be an 18 month interim control and will give us the time to come

up with the permanent controls and i look forward to work with the community and others to make sure that we are looking out for the character of this neighborhood, thank you. >> thank you, supervisor weiner, my apologize. >> supervisor yee. >> thank you, madam clerk, and (inaudible) happy new year. today, well, let's back up a little bit. you know we have basically committed in this city the whole notion of the vision zero and pedestrian safety issues has been one of my main focuses since taking office. as i move along with this issue and have the opportunity to discuss this stuff or to learn about other activities that the other cities do, it helps us in creating some of the similar

policies. so when i was in new york with supervisor kim, which also there at the vision zero conference, one of the things that we heard about was this notion of arming the city vehicles with what we called black boxes, gps system. and so they have done this to all of their vehicles and has, and they basically have said that it has been really successful and so when it came back from that conference, i asked the legislative analyst to study this and get back to us with it. and so, he has come back with the preliminary results. and so today i am introducing a hearing to request that this report from the budget and legislative analyst on

equipping our city fleet with black boxes and the results have been what i have seen so far, we are finding that the data collected from the vehicles, and the devices in the city vehicles can help the city correct and improve the unsafe driving habits, and the appropriate use of the city vehicles and missed vehicle maintenances. this effort is not just limited to new york but other cities have also started this and again, they have found that the results have been very positive. and so in addition to that, if we were to install the black boxes and they have the potential to save the city, significant time, money and potentially people's lives. if across the fleets, 7841 vehicles. and again, we are not talking about needing to arm all of

them, or all of them at this point because 30 percent of our vehicles actually are armed with these black boxes. private industry and other governments have found significant and rapid benefits from the use of these system and given the value of the city's vehicle assets is better managing their assets and their potential liabilities will have a city wide impact and i look forward to this conversation and will continue to work on this through the budget process and i want to thank supervisors kim, avalos and breed for co-sponsoring this hearing. i also want to mention that in the same spirit as the ordinance amending the administrative code, we voted on, on the language access, that we will not necessarily

go through the -- and work through the administrative process to basically to do what the school district and at our school boards have done for years. and that is, there will be interpretive or interpretation services for all for our board meetings here and not upon request, but, somebody will be here and those languages that need to be here. and i found that it has been a little awkward because we never know when we need them and when you might even know that the day before and it is almost like too late to ask for the translation. and so, it is something that you know it would really relief in the democracy for all of the residents and the citizens that we need to have this language access for them. so, so this is something that i am going to work through,

not through the ordinance but through the administrative process and i just want to announce that this morning for the first time in my district, and in district seven that we are actually and we did a ground breaking ceremony to basically have the first open space creation in our district for probably decades. and this is really a partnership between four different departments and really proud of these departments. who says that they can't work together? they are not only working together but they are providing resources to make this happen. the four departments and this is really off of the library, engleside library and so we have the library and the puc in which we are going to expand the garden area into the puc pathway, which will then triple the amount of land that is going to be for the open space there.

and dpw and the park and rec and so that is just one to acknowledge those four departments that worked really selfishly to make this happen today, thank you very much. >> thank you supervisor yee. supervisor avalos? >> thank you madam clerk. and colleagues, i just have a memorium to introduce for joe lunardo, mr. lunardo was born in luca italy to his loving parents jesapina and lougi, and he grew up in san francisco and was a proud graduate of galelao high school and worked in the groceries as a clerk for 40 years and joe was the president of the am son botchy ball club and as a member of the elmando and the social club was able to gather the folks around him

to celebrate the rich history of italy and as a president of the club, he was instrumental in bringing together a lot of the public pressure to get the botchy ball courts along moscow street to be restored and that is something that the restoration there is part of his legacy in san francisco. and he also had a tremendous number of friends that he hung out there with every day, and you could find him playing basketball courts and he played in the courts and he unfortunately, he did not reach the age of 70 and there were many people who actually in the late 80s are playing, and he was one of the younger ones that were there and there are a lot of members there who will be missing his presence and his leadership, joe is survived and adoored by and his adoored mother, and loving brother, and emelano, and cousin, and the

family, and the late, etalo and the family, and nancy william and family, ida and family and guito and family, and adam and son. and joe also leaves behind many cherished relatives in italy and will be strongly missed by many life long friends and close acquaintances that he met through the associations here in the united states. >> thank you, supervisor avalos. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you very much, madam clerk, and i will try to be brief, let me begin by thanking supervisor ferrill for the resolution that he introduced and i was proud to be a co-responser to address the disturbing things that are coming out of the archbishop op here in san francisco. and i personally having been

raised catholic i personally do not understand the obsession that this archbishop has with the subject of sexuality and homosexually, it seems to be a personal infatuation but when it becomes the focus of what the diacesis doing, it is disturbing and mentioned how pope francis has dealt with this issue and so i do want to quote something else that the pope said about these kinds of issues. and he said, we cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of conceptive methods, this is not possible, i have not spoken much about these things, and

i was reprimandd for that but when we speak about these issues we have to talk about them in a context, we have to find a new balance, otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards losing the freshness and the fragrance of the gospel and it is truly a house of cards. the second point and the second item that i want to talk about is an item that i have talked about many times and as all of you know and the city knows, recently, being announced and they announced last week, actually, on wednesday, that they had just paid all of the back taxes owed to the city and county of san francisco, which was reported to amount to tens of millions of dollars. this has truly been a long time coming, and myself,

senator fine stien and leno and the san francisco democratic party and a broad coalition of community leaders, have been pushing for the payment of back taxes for quite some time, and it is really hard to congratulate a company on paying its taxes three years late, but i am glad that they have finally done so and it is quite a statement about the state of affairs of san francisco in any event, toward that end, i am today introducing a request to the budget and legislative analyst to look at another issue because this is not just the issue of back taxes

that is a concern that i have had when it comes to short term rentals the fact is that we are yet to fully understand and grasp the full extent that the short term rental market is having on housing stock in san francisco. and is having on this housing crisis that we are facing. and the fact is that there are thousands of units and we are not really sure how many units we are talking about that are being removed, and have been removed from the housing market and moved into the short term market and this request is to ask mr. rose and his office to compile a report to detail the impact that the short term rentals have had on san francisco's housing stock and including the impact on rent control housing in san francisco we would also like to know what the impact has

had on the rental prices.

she graduated from the con vent of the sacred heart and attended the university and she has a fearless leader of ifpt local 21 technical engineer chapter for many years and a founding member of the union political action committee. she recently earned her chip for 15 years of living sober, and she was highly dedicated to supporting others and in recovery, and her interests were eclectic as wide ranging as her activism and she was

an ardon star trek fan and eagerly awaited the novels that continued to extend to this day. and one of her favorite writers was butler who she admires much for the body of work as butler shattering of barriers as a black lesbian author of science fiction she also followed college and professional woman's basketball, and one could find ramona and another willing companion in search for the perfect oyster as well and a tribute and a celebration in her life will be held at the country club and located at 4058, 18th street on saturday, february 28th from eleven a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and of course, all are welcome and may ramona rest in peace and i ask that

we adjourn the meeting in her memory. >> thank you. >> supervisor? >> i am wanting to join in the implementation of the rband b and we have seen the significant developments on this front and for one thing we now have regulation and a point that has been some what overlooked this month and secondly as supervisor campos mentioned, we have our back taxes. and i am eager to move forward with the future tax collection now that this has been clarified. and i think that it is also important that air b&b is now including a field for home sharing registration numbers and is reminding its homes sharing participants of their civic responsibilities in san francisco. and the question then is, what can we do as supervisors and as a city? to facilitate, compliance

with these new regulations? and so i am happy to join supervisor ferrill in asking what we can and should be doing in going forward and how can we facilitate the compliance and the rest that i submit. >> thank you. >> madam president, seeing no other names on the roster, that concludes the roll call for the introduction of new business. >> okay, now, at this time, we will open up for public comment. this is a time for general public comment. but also it is a time to comment on the item that we have in closed session as well. and so, after we are done with public comment the board of supervisors will be going into closed session. so, can the first speaker move forward? >> and i am with the mission of ininclusive and development and i wanted to speak a little bit to back history month as well and also to the future of black

lives in san francisco and i moved in to my neighborhood, which is west and the people are saying that the neighborhood is gentrified and what do you call this? is it north of the panhandle or the western addition and it was through the research that i foupd out about the history of redevelopment and also of harlem of the west and i wanted to direct the people to the great films that were made locally about this great issue. there is take this hammer by james baldwin and followed him as he went around the neighborhood and then there is also

>> and we could have a credit union, and a cdfi and a community development financial and institution, and for the african american community as well as an ewaste recycling program and he has that idea and then, also, and i am excited about what booker t washington is doing to develop the property for emancipated foster use and i am excited and i just want to give out a shout out to hanabal williams and rogers who are instrumental in community development in the neighborhood. >> thanks. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker please.

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votes forward. and as it lights. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> thank you president bead and my name is christopher and i live here 14 meters and ten, and to continue my comments, and on the howard, and i just said. and and over the past 30 years, the only thing that has changed significantly is the price of a bedroom. and why is this? the supply of new housing has been severely constrained, period and they have been of the idea that greedy owners keep the prices high and therefore the renters should

not create more greedy owners by allowing new new development and the owners are aware on the new supply and free up the price to get higher on the existing property and so there is a functional alliance between these apparent enemy to preserve the housing supply status quo of high demand and limited supply and on the property it is the mortgage financing that they can get on it and all that the renters need to realize that the greater the total supplies of bedrooms the lower the cost of one. period, and please recall the five story house boats that i mentioned previously, they would satisfy three needs with one structure. and they would house people today, they will not fall over in an earthquake tomorrow and they will not submerge as the sea level rises in the next few decades

thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please? >> my name is nism. >> i am sorry. >> could you get closer to the mic. i have been around the san francisco scene since 1976. and i have opened a business, and in december 5th, and i had four stores on chest nut street and i will have a store around the neighborhood for a long time. and most of the real estate development, and you know it is, behoofing to spoke about giving and i used to be a big brother in the big sister movement and i was a big brother to a young man and he

was in the black neighborhoods. and he went bad. but he knew that i was saved by a brother and he was black (inaudible) and he was my sponsor. and he died. but my business -- father and the name was mckayla and she called me up and told me when he died. i loved him. any way, i am (inaudible) and in san francisco, and on third street, and many of the other things, i have a video and you can watch part of it you can. >> thank you. >> next speaker please. >> next speaker please?

>> hi, everyone, my name is (inaudible) and i am the current district six commissioner and i am also a senior from the (inaudible) and first of all i really want to thank supervisor campos and supervisor ferrill and uls my district six supervisor jane kim for helping to sponsor this arch, bishop resolution and to support the students that are against these mortality clause and to support our teachers that are fighting for the rights as teachers. and recently we have had two vigils so that we can experience our concerns against these mortality clauses and since then when this was issued earlier and this is brought about earlier in february, and our school community has been in some sort of devastated atmosphere and the reason for that is our teachers, are living in some sort of culture of fear, and by that, i mean that if this goes about