afford to live here at the mission there's a whole bunch of projects that will bring rich people in i'm thinking of one on 16th and mission and here we talk about a transit first only city but 3 participate project that should be housing low income people that don't have cars and have public transportation or everything they can get into but what we need is more lower income housing we need to be able to house fire houses and teachers and policeman and people that clean buildings i think we have 20 housing for tech people that make the million dollars but we need anymore low income housing thank you.

>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> calvin san francisco clearing house speaking in support of the legislation it is critical to get this legislation passes it is critical to move on a resolution of this issue it took us almost 35 years to recognize that market rate housing as an impact on the transit system and we will today or very soon see a study or nexus study to propose means an actual fee on market rate housing to pay for the transit impacts 6 years ago kaiser did a nexus study for the inclusionary zoning has a more affordable housing and the construction of market rate housing that for every one hundred units

of market rate housing the kaiser marston study found a demand was generated for the workforce that provided services to the overwhelmingly condominium associations that represents one hundred percent of all market rate construction in san francisco and the demand was created for 20 units i unions a units of affordable housing to house this workforce that housed the workforce there's a definite relationship too the impact on market rate and the availability of affordable housing the sooner we gathered the data to demonstrate that we'll move forward with meaningful legislation to aid that reality thank you. >> thank you very much>> thank

you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm with the council of community housing organizations first of all thank you, supervisors for working on this legislation supervisor kim and the planning department for having gone through all the necessary steps trying to understand the data that is necessary for the moving forward of our housing and prop k goals at building another a minimum of 33 percent housing in the city we clearly have a long time to go like finding funding and changing zoning and preserving the rent control housing we've gotten i found interesting it came through a community process in the western selma an understanding that neighborhood in the western central selma we built thirty percent of our housing and as a city from 1999020 percent of our housing is affordable housing

when the market sinks and we're building the high-rise they've shut down their cranes on the other hand, the affordable housing is a small percentage of what is currently entitled moving forward in order to reach the goals we need to start with data and understand the baseline and be able to turn the antidotes the evictions that happen the housing that was built that people tried to get into data that we can use what's affordable for low income and moderate income and what rent control we're using we need to understand that by invades supervisor wiener we have huge high-rise how much inclusionary is being built in supervisor cohen's neighborhood that are in the dog patch how much of that

is available in bay area is that all in the shipyard those are all - >> thank you fernando do any other speakers? >> hi, i'm robert i'm in the fifth grade and my family has been here for 5 generations i go to sferts. >> wow. my dad passed and now just me and my mom my mom works full-time and goes to school full-time after i do my homeowner we go to the park we are now homeless and we can't find a b.a. place to live i used to have my own room but we can't afford a studio i live in my

mom's car you couldn't go to school because my mom got a flat tire my folsom mom still doesn't have enough of i get a work permit and work i don't understand why everything has to be so hard i miss any dad and i miss my room i'm just a kid i don't know this has to be like this. >> any public comment on item that item? >> hello, i work in the burdening no heights i'd like to say that we support the call for more information related to affordable housing anything that brings us closer to the how's in

burr no heights the market rate can't meet the needs of our neighborhood and any more information for affordable housing in general would be much appreciated for us to craft policies and regulations to help our citizens stay here thank you. next speaker. >> hi supervisors supervisor cohen i'm karen batting bit if the sierra club the sierra club supports this ordinance i have copies of the letter that was e-mailed an hour ago i hope you haven't read it and be bored prop k was widely passed by the voters the reporting requirements will provide needed data for the planners and others

for making informed decisions on housing the sierra club is pleased to see the reporting has take into account the loss of rent control the plan settings s sets forward to monitor the process toward those goals and track it by affordable on the regular base it is hoped that san francisco will make sustainable decisions regarding housing and other developments thank you and please vote yes today on this ordinance i want to see i think that robert did a good job i'm embraced to be here i want you make sure you understand the sierra club position. >> next speaker seeing none, public comment is closed for item 3. >> supervisor kim any other

remarks. >> no, i want to clarify the amendment that city attorney had brought up a request by the clerk for the resolution by the board of supervisors i know that there is further clarifications and decisions between the clerk and the city attorney's office and read into the record. >> certainly the language i understand was to the sentence you're adding which will change to read in emission with the amendments the annual report shall be accepted by resolution to the board comma which resolution shall be accepted by the department i want to add the department was noting you had changed the february 1st to march first but haven't changed the kwoerdz. >> no, no we missed that as well. >> the report should be march

first and september 1st and so we can accordingly and thank you to all the public that came out to speak i was surprised to see the overwhelming support 45 minutes of testimony we weren't accepting all you but robert hidden valley high school it all there is an incredible need to make sure the housing all types of residents in san francisco not only the only weighty there is incredible frustration with the construction at a rate we've not seen in the history of san francisco since the 1/earthquake and now not seeing more affordable housing but a lot of housing that is out of reach for

average resident not only the low income residents in san francisco while this resolution ended up here didn't build the housing but helps us to figure out the resolution we can't do that without indicate it is a simple ordinance ensue agreed upon data points in terms of what is forcible and how we calculate that to know if we're reaching our goal 1/3rd of affordable housing to 60 percent of our residents i know a comment was made 70 percent of the residents in the mission it is up to $170,000 income it explicit come from the city but community advocates that went through lots of paper and literally counted the units that were produced and how many were

affordable the city should have that not people pouring over that in their home and providing that to the city we need to be providing from the city - but it is great to see a cross section from the bay area and the south of market and tenderloin speaking buyouts importance of this i want to thank you for your support and we'll have support from the board of supervisors for this ordinance this is just the first skep step we want to inform the actual solutions like the revenue or the other innovative solutions to acquire more affordable housing colleagues, i want to

amend as articulated before and after public comment first and then ask for your support for this ordinance at the full board. >> motion has been made to accept the amendments seeing no reason not to let's accept those amendments unanimously thank you. is there a motion. >> i make a motion with a positive recommendation to the full board. >> all right. thank you very much this move forward with a with a positive recommendation to the full board. >> any other items for this body. >> there's no further business. >> this committee is done

>> [gavel] good afternoon everyone. the meeting will come to order. this is the thursday april 2, 2015 meeting of the public safety and neighborhood services committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. my name is eric mar. i'm the chair of the committee. to my left is supervisor julie christensen and to my right is supervisor scott wiener and katy tang. our clerk is mr. derek evans. could you give us the announcements. >> thank you mr. chair.

please silent all cell phones and electronic devices. speaker cards and files should be splitted to the clerk and items will be on the april 14 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. we have three important hearings on the agenda today so it's going to be a substantive meeting. the third hearing on addressing bias in the san francisco justice system and the racist and homophobic texts within the san francisco police department will be last and i will start with the first one. >> number one for the health code and prohibit wild or exotic animals for public entertainment or amusement. >> thank you. this is sponsored by supervisors tang, wiener and yee. supervisor tang. >> thank you very much and i would like to thank everyone for being here today and last month i introduced legislation that will prohibit the performance

of wild or exotic animals for public entertainment or amusement in san francisco and many of us attended a circus or live animal performance in the past. they are common place in many of our cities. san francisco last hosted a circus in the fall of 2013 and again slated for this year but circuses i believe do not provide educational value. i think that they do a disservice to many of the young people that attend circus us think it's natural for animals to perform certain acts. existing laws do not protect wild or exotic animals for conditions involved in shows and animal welfare laws are hard to enforce when shows travel between jurisdictions and the animal welfare act signed in 1966 when circuses or other shows mistreat the animals they're only required to pay a

fine of the animals are not removed from the care which is nots them to potential future torture when inspectors are not present and furthermore entities can afford to pay the fines and the animal welfare act provides slight criteria for the animals and stress and over heating and fails toy did fine what that means for the animals so i think the best way to send a message that we don't not support the abuse of animals especially for entertainment purposes is ban them in san francisco. the legislation bans wild or exotic animals in particular and monkeys, elephants, beer -- bears and zeb bras and could be subject to a violation.

unfortunate this is common place in training these animals and results in injury and death. chronic stress and trauma have effects on the psychological effects of performing animals so at this time i do have a video clip, probably the more -- or less traumatic one that we can show here in committee so sfgtv if you can show the video and i will continue my remarks while the video is playing. and while the video is cuing up i will just say that one of the individuals who are here to speak for the legislation today wanted to bring a [inaudible] into city hall but are not allowed to and it's a weapon for humans. sorry about the -- so

i think there's definitely more videos that much more difficult to watch, but i think that just shows a simple demonstration of what it is that we're trying to prevent and as i mentioned some of the individuals wanted to bring a bull hook into city hall just to demonstrate what it looks like and how it's used on animals but we're not allowed to bring it into city hall which demonstrates it's not appropriate for animals too so performances and shows endanger the trainers and public too. there have been instances that elephants have trammeled the

performers and other animals have escaped their quarters and many are subject up to 11 months of travel in the year. according to a report by the new york city bar, a city that has a similar ban in place, animals travel in small cars up to 36 hours on the road and creates a stressful environment that negatively impacts their health so this legislation goes beyond just banning circuses and means the animals are baned in films and we talked with the director of the film commission about this as well but there is a balance we're trying to strike. animals can be presented at institutions such as zoos as long as it's for educational purposes. there are 10 other municipalities in california that have similar bans or regulations in place and colorado and connecticut and washington and others have

something on the local level as well so i have one particular amendment to make today. it's non substantive on line four and page 16 and strike out the american association and replace with global animal sanctuaries when we submitted copies to the clerk. the reason that we're making the amendment the global sanctuary for animals and we wanted to include that. i wanted to thank dr. allison stangly and the executive director of the california chapter of league of voters dr. chaplain and everyone that is speaking in support of the legislation and my cosponsors again supervisor wiener and supervisor yee and before i turn it over to the department i wanted to give supervisor wiener an opportunity to say a few words as well. >> thank you mr. chairman and

supervisor tang. i want to thank you for your leadership on this legislation and supervisor tang and i have partnered on various pieces of animal welfare legislation and budget support for animal care and control and it's a real pleasure to be able to work with you supervisor tang. and this is a long over due legislation and this is actually one of those areas where sometimes you propose something like this and people immediately say it's some sort of san francisco thing. well, we're not pioneers on this. we are doing the right thing, but other cities have already been doing this because this is really common sense, and here in san francisco we are a city that -- the city of st. francis and we deeply believe in the humane treatment of animals, and we have time and time again adopted innovative policies around animals to make sure we're not

killing animals in our shelters, to make sure we're doing everything we can to ensure that animals of all variety, every variety of animals treated humanely in this city, and the is that animals -- exotic animals used for performance whether in the circus or otherwise are frequently physically tortured. this isn't about simply aggressive training techniques and it's the physical torture of this animals and the bull hook is just horrible and i know someone suggested we should ban the bull hook. it goes beyond that and we have seen videos of animals being tied down to be trained and really aggressive way and other forms of physical abuse in addition to the way they're transported around the state and around the country, and this really has no place in san francisco, and so

it is over due for us to do this and i am grateful to all of the advocates that have been working so tirelessly state wide and locally to move us in a great direction and i look forward to getting this passed and to the mayor. >> thank you and through the chair one last comment i will say if this legislation passes in san francisco we really need to work on an effort at the state level because the circuses -- they come to the cow palace which is outside our jurisdiction so we need to work on that issue. we started conversations even before the potential warriors come here and would you not hold circuses in your arena and the effort doesn't stop today so with that said i would like to call up folks from three department representatives and virginia donahue and the new executive director of san francisco an male care and control, joe

fitting and a deputy director of the san francisco swr zoo and sally stephens and then proceed to public comment. >> thank you for inviting me to appear before the public safety and neighborhood services committee. i am virginia donahue and i am the new executive director of san francisco an male care and control. i have been in my position as of a month of today. >> >> we have reviewed the proposed ordinance and we believe we can enforce and implement it as part of the regular duties and we are in support of the legislation and would like to thank the supervisors for sponsoring it. san francisco has been a long leader in the animal welfare community using animals as entertainment doesn't reflect our values. the ordinance would provide us with additional tools to protect wild or exotic animals from cruel and inhumane

treatment. thank you. are there any questions i can answer for you? >> no. i don't think so. thank you very much. >> i just wanted to welcome you ms. donahue and thank you so much for coming to san francisco . >> good afternoon. thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to comment on this. my name is joe fitting and the deputy director of the san francisco zoo and i want to thank supervisor tang, wiener and yee for bringing forward this very important legislation, the san francisco. >> and the zoological society supports it emphatically and complement you for recognizing the important role of zoos and aquariums and connecting families with nature because the first step in protecting animals is connecting them to those places and by the connection we

am create the future conservationists and you have taken the important step by doing this and protecting these animals and thank you very much on behalf of our membership. >> hi i am sally steven and it is chair of the animal control welfare commission. our commission advises the board on issues involving animals. these issues have come up to our commission many times in the past and it's the type of thing we've always supported. there's just a technical timing issue that we couldn't take a vote at our last meeting on this specific legislation and ordinance, but just speaking as chair and speaking personally i wholeheartedly support this and i am sure that had we taken a vote the commission would have -- i can't say for sure, but this is the city of st. francis and we do value humane treatment

of animals so i urge you and the full board to support this wholeheartedly. thank you very much. >> thank you. and i think that concludes the department speakers so if we can as the chair of the committee proceed with public comment. >> yeah thank you very much for everyone to speak. we're going to keep comments to two minutes and a soft buzzer at 30 seconds to go so do your best to think about the time limits. thank you very much. >> through the chair i will call up the cards i have. [calling speaker names] . and i will call up the next set after. >> well, i can't tell you how delighted i am to be here. our organization performing an male welfare society -- animal

society has been in existence for years and this is coming to fruition in educating people and legislators. i am excited to have the san francisco zoo here today. actually there is a powerpoint that -- is it going? it go behind me. performing animal welfare society has three sanctuaries for displaced animals and abused and retired animals and one of the retired animals is the last elephant to leave the san francisco zoo which is lulu and finishes up the powerpoint program. i am on the committee to advise the director of fish and game in california as to the humane care of animals and i think federally and state wide we need much more stronger laws. the people that do the exhibiting of animals in