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 from someone who has been waiting six months to get approved for opening up a cafe. i talk to supervisor wiener because i'm not in planning. it's about cleaning and improving public space for the cbd, but since we're visible, people ask us, the air smells bad, what can you do

about it. i get stopped so bad that my family won't walk with me on 24th street because we don't get to get far. speaker: actually this is a general question. speaker: sure. speaker: for both the cbd, i know that both of the cbd sort of mentions that you're forming to include the quality of life and some of the things that you do there could be evidence that it's improving equality of life, i've always been curious because -- how do you know people feel like the quality of life has improved? speaker: how do i know? speaker: yeah. speaker: i honestly don't know as far as residents or community members. i don't know if they feel that way. but the property owners who pay for these improvements and we sent out a

survey and they were satisfied. if you asked the man on the street, i think they would be happy with the bench and the plants and all the beautiful things you get to look at. my biggest job is i advocate for that street. i advocate for that neighborhood. when the property owner who owns what is now -- they want to put in molly's stone, i said we need a real foods. that building has been empty for ten years and he got them to move on that and together we organized a community meeting on january 22nd where over 100 people came and wanted to see what the plans were. you know noe, it's an active neighborhood. they're very involved, but i think they're happy with what we've done to date. thank you for your time.

speaker: i wonder as an office with the cbd's, we could actually support their effort to maybe survey residents to ask this question. how do you feel about this business corridor or this corridor. i never could tell whether people that actually live there feel like we're hitting the points or market as far as quality issues. speaker: my predecessor lisa who run the study for years. she took a study to look at the real and the perceived improvement in quality of life, so in her study she found that both crime was down and the perspective or perception of crime was addressed in that time period. in addition to cleanly ness,

we noted that cbd's were generally cleaner in those commercial districts in comparison to non cbd neighborhoods. we can share that report for you, but we plan to do that for the 2015 timeframe as well. speaker: any other questions. any comment comment. seeing no public comment. public comment is closed. supervisors, any thoughts? somebody like to move this. speaker: so moved. speaker: no objection, this passes. speaker: madam clerk, item number 3. speaker: resolution receiving and approving annual reports for the castro/upper market community benefit district fys 2009-2013, submitted as required by the property and business improvement district law of 1994 section 36650, and the district's management agreement with the city, section 3.4. speaker: good afternoon, supervisors. chrissy, oewd, senior project man --

manager. i'm going to -- the presentation is similar, so i'm going to skip over some of the slides we have already shared with respect to the legislative overview. we were reviewing the cbd for fiscal years from 2009-2013 so we'll take fiscal 2014-15 in front of you shortly. below is a partial map of the cbd. they were formed back in 2005 and they're planning to expire in 20 -- in terms of operations, we have andrea, the executive director of the market cbd. they too already have the service areas of public walks of way and district identity and street scape

avenue and corporate operations. again, the bench marks we overview, i'll go into them in further detail in the following slides. with respect to the management plan to annual budget, the cbd performed well in this bunch mark. the only year where we saw a variance was in fiscal year 2009, 2010. in terms of assessment revenue and fundraising for non assessment revenue, cbc met this requirement with exception in 2010 and 2011 and they were shy by 1.7%. in terms of budget to actuals, the cbd has performed well in this respect. in 2009-10, the various points for public rights of away was greater than 10% and this was explained by grants they received in that fiscal year and