identify the vehicle at pretty close range and affiliate the expenses not a one-size-fits-all one cab company may want to do it one way but not have a rigid one-size-fits-all and again, i'm going changing the motion this is for later and on the gentleman's point if the fine for a bubble pen is extensive we can come back and look at it some of those things. >> i just want to pick up on the ladies point of background check don't you respond. >> all taxi cab drivers are to undergo a backward check for a

driver to be a legal resident of the u.s. if the driver were to have infractions or in their home country we may not be getting that information we'll get the background check of activity from the united states and so correct me if i am wrong and so that's the southern if there are issues from the home country that we wouldn't be getting and she feels the eliminations of that being a legal resident - >> yeah. >> i have one question about the fines how are they and is there an seas important the cost recovery enforcement or is that punitive. >> a lot of the fines are based on we have a historical schedule and that we went through the schedule and actually tried to

think up the fin with the code infraction and the changes are matching them up and things change over here and not over there increases are based on what is felt to be reasonable and a lot of the chances were suggested by the enforcement team we have cost recovery sort of analysis in mind although we wanted to point out the intention not to generate income or revenue only improve the customer service and act as a detriment. >> all in favor, say i. so, now we're supposed go into a closed session. >> actually, you have a few

items earlier in the meeting general public comment on matter non-not on the agenda we have a few (calling names). >> good evening. >> good afternoon well, it was afternoon i congratulate you, your like solomon and in the previous guidance that was very educational you didn't really deal with any of the issues you dealt with the general public comment you have to understand that you're killing the taxi industry and your not putting enough buses on and that's the only way you're going to get less cars polk street was designed in what the

18th century or the 19th century it didn't matters it can't take the traffic most of the streets in san francisco can't take the traffic your neglecting the taxi industry and yellow cab a going bankrupt and they're cutting the amount of money to the medallion holders down to one thousand dollars that's jeopardizing the medallion sales force you benefit from and you're sitting around doing nothing the puc new chairman is talking about handing over general recreation and your doing nothing not talking to him not doing nothing maybe we don't need trait transportation at all you have

to do something soon or no taxi industry. >> yes. mr. chairman. >> i have an item here just to show here. >> oh, i'm sorry that works. >> so i just wanted to make it clear to everyone i'll try to be brief i'll answer my questions i'm excited to see e.r. is that did soto cab will be another taxi the taxi industry need to be recast number one conferring has to be the top priority and the reliability and the technology innovation the taxi consumers was asked about app

and the majority have no idea you can book a cookbook with an app if you look at the color councilman at the google and the apple store logo is here it was a big decision to give up the soto brand from dispatch years ago it was hallow with our new consolidation fly whole you'll leverage every taxi and wait less than 5 minutes for us to retain the large volume and enjoy this back to the industry we must support the fly whole and let the industry know this is a great view and my medallion holders and regular

customers we think this is actually popular and hope to bring the brand recognize and brand back to the industry maybe a move out of the necessity we're leading the move in innovation and maybe thrive by thinking this way if you have any questions. >> good luck. >> is tony still here tom lee you're the last person. >> please we if we don't forget where's our study going sometimes, we make detour but at the end of the route we make our destination but we have a margin to the mta about a taxi integrating the whole system the whole medallion is the last thing we have to refine it at the end the game is having their

own vehicle of the medallion without the cab case in chief why the gay people only want a pay they're fighting for go to city hall and amend i don't mind whatever they do we can will together but they want the same medallion it is defining to run ourselves why we need cab company on top of the layer we have to run ourselves we're sitting on the cliff we have a big loan for a cab driver not a lot of cab drivers not bow they have no future for this job whatever they don't want to fight with the tnc and uber come from the meeting they started their own uber like 4 years ago it is right now the director i

hope she can listen to us we're represented of a thousand cab drivers i don't want to bring people here i'm so upset i chose to walk away from my drivership you sit here but at the moment he would sit here and go to bed everything cooled off the body different we can change. >> thank you. >> we have director's report and direction by board members. >> then closed session. >> my report is that we'll be in a chinese new year's parade honoring mr. lee and have a 19 of 9 muni coach for low income seniors and processed more 38

thousand applications that concludes my report anything another from the board members a motion to go into closed session. >> all in and is okay. we're in open session we discussed the christopher and other cases the board voted to address the situation and the directors a motion for disclosing or or notice disclosing. >> the last item is authorizing the director for a commercial lease agreement for the ellis for a 10 year term and 5

millions directors no members of the public to address this. >> a motion and second. >> all in favor, say i. the opposed? thank you we're you adjourned. >> thank you. >> well done. >> that's a record. >> it is a

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. >> good afternoon everyone and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting of march march 10th, 2015. welcome mr. mayor to our meeting at this time madam clerk can you please call the roll. >> yes madam president. supervisor avalos present president breed present supervisor campos present supervisor christensen present supervisor cohen present supervisor farrell present supervisor kim supervisor kim present supervisor mar present. supervisor tang not present supervisor wiener present supervisor yee present. madam president you have a quorum. >> thank you ladies and gentlemen. will you please join us in the pledge of

allegiance? >> pledge of allegiance. >> thank you. madam clerk, are there any changes to the agenda? >> nomad no, madam president there are no changes and there are no communications. >> okay colleagues are there any changes to the meeting minutes? motion by by supervisor mar seconded by supervisor cohen without objection the meetings are approved pending public comment. madam clerk, can you please call our special order? >> the first item of business is the policy discussion between the mayor and the board of supervisors the mayor may make initial remarks not to exceed 5 minutes and the president will recognize the questions and as long as the entire discussion doesn't

exceed 5 minutes per supervisor. >> okay at this time we will recognize the supervisor from the great district of district ten supervisor cohen oh, before we do so, the mayor has some opening remarks. >> oh, of course. >> thank you president breed it's good to see everybody this past weekend for the entire bay area's 's enjoyment of our new year's new year's celebration and the year of the ram and want to congratulate the chinese chamber of commerce and all of their thousands of volunteers and i want to acknowledge the grand marshall this year was your public works director and of course i want to thank him and all of his staff for keeping our city clean and beautiful they work very hard and i see them around the entire city so when you have an opportunity please

thank their staff as they continue all of our corridor cleaning and thank president breed and the board on the end of construction for the city's navigation center. we know the status quo is not acceptable and there's still too many people on our streets and we'll work together to help our homeless residents change their lives for the better and this approach will help homeless people reconnect with their loved ones at home and move off of our streets and into stable housing or residential treatment programs and get access to services that they need to stabilize their lives and in fact through our housing and family reunification efforts our city has helped more than 19 thousand people leave the streets with 11 thousand moving into supportive

housing that we've built since 2004 and we take pride in being the city of saint francis and healthy san francisco housing first treatment on demand and project homeless connect and now the nation's most progressive minimum wage and our new project called 500 with a focus on intense services and case management for our most at risk families and i just want to thank the inter-faith council for their partnership and working with our board of supervisors and city departments to launch this center that will provide counselors to intake new clients provide meals and safe shelter and connect homeless people with their critical social services and as you know, part of this effort is to

master lease single units and they are being lined up as we speak and we hope this will be another model that i think we, as a city, can be proud of and with that eager to get to supervisor cohen's question. >> thank you mayor welcome and at that time i'd like to recognize supervisor cohen from district ten. >> thank you good afternoon everyone. mr. mayor thank you for coming. just one very short question for you but it has a long preamble and so i begin -- so mr. mayor we both discussed our mutual desires to increase the number of serving businesses along the corridor and worked with your office of workforce development to support existing businesses

attract new businesses and to fund improvements in an effort to increase foot traffic and better serve the surrounding community however several city agencies and nonprofits including the human service agency have been looking for office space along the corridor and while these organizations provide key services they are competing for the same spaces needed for new businesses and we've identified office space surrounding the merchant corridor and where these services can expand and we've also proposed ways that these nonprofits and city agencies might partner together to leverage their collective resources to lease or buy new space. given that we have room for both new businesses and expanding departments in the bayview, do you support efforts for commercial businesses? what is your position on where

various city agencies should locate in the bayview which includes hsa thank you. >> thank you for your question supervisor cohen and i know you and i both share say vision to support our neighborhoods throughout your district and throughout the city and i want to thank you for supporting my invest in neighborhoods initiative and a variety of programs along the third street corridor and i want to name some of them i'm proud these companies exist and there's auntie aprils where i get to have chicken and waffles once in a while and southern sweets and when anita let's me and the bbq is my next visit and the market and lag u.n. a

tacueria to name a few and these businesses have struggled they are always about family and i know as they both survive and just last month i had the pleasure of walking the corridor along third street where southern sweets is. she started her business as a single mother and now she's a staple in the bayview and i want to see more businesses like yvonne's continue to be successful in our neighborhoods for years to come and that's why this initiative will continue to attract businesses to vacate store fronts for a thriving corridor. supervisor,

to answer your question, the simple answer is yes, that we need to i think emphasize for the commercial corridors small businesses that could be located there. and i've seen these efforts with our invest in neighborhoods not only thrive but been very successful and in fact throughout the rest of the city we've had a 2 percent drop drop in vacancy rates as a result of this initiative and with that rate we need more of that attention and we'll be able to get there in the next few years and i want to see things improve in the right direction for the bayview as i know you do and this project is good and supports the vision that that the community has defined for itself and i'm in support of the complete neighborhoods but the emphasis should be on commercial ideas. i think that the best solution

to this challenge that you have articulated is to have our agencies are looking to expand work within the confines of a plan that the neighborhood has adopted along with your leadership and that should help identify spaces that are appropriate for business and spaces that are appropriate for agencies and also spaces that are appropriate for a variety of nonprofits. city agencies should find more creative ways to establish themselves and i will honor that commitment but i also know that there's a lot of nonprofits that could spark a lot of filling of vacancies just as we see along midmarket street thank you for your question. >> thank you. >> thank you very much mr. mayor we appreciate you stopping by today. >> thank you. >> madam clerk, will you please read the consent agenda. . >> items 2 through 4 considered

routine and if a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately. seeing none will you please call the the role. >> supervisor kim supervisor kim eye. >> supervisor tang aye. >> supervisor yee aye. >> supervisor avalos aye. >> president breed aye. >> supervisor campos aye. >> supervisor christensen aye. >> supervisor cohen aye. >> supervisor farrell aye there are 11 ayes. >> these items are finally passed and adopted nan under unanimously. >> item five is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to establish a legacy business registry and authorize an an

administrative fee. >> i just want to thank all of the folks who worked with us to make this happen it's very exciting that we'll be the first city in the country to have a registry for legacy businesses and i want to thank my cosponsors supervisor supervisor farrell and supervisor mar and the emphasis behind this is how we as a we as a city can help long time businesses that have given character to our neighborhoods that are being pushed out and this is a first step in this direction and i ask for your support. >> colleagues -- without objection this ordinance is finally passed. can you please call the next item madam clerk. >> extend the reduction of building coincide code fees and to affirm the planning

department's determination. >> same house same call this ordinance is passed on the first reading unanimously item 7. >> the competitive bidding requirement and to authorize the director of public works to enter into a construction contract with pneumatic tube products company in an amount not to exceed 953 thousand for for for the delivery system at san francisco general hospital. passed unanimously. >> item 8. emergency public work contracts under administrative code section 660 with design space modular buildings inc and albert electric which will comprise fire station 48 to house fire operations on treasure island.

>> same house same call without objection this is adopted unanimously. >> item 9. authorize the general manager of the puc to execute a new ten-year water service contract for continued water service to the lawrence livermore national lab with estimated revenue through december 21 2034. >> without objection this resolution is adopted man under man muffle. >> >> item 11. same house same call without objection this resolution is adopted unanimously next