-- 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

different places around california are only required to have extremely small spaces for their animals to live, up to 3,000 square feet for a tiger for the entire life. >> >> 300 square feet for the tiger to life and many things the people don't see when the tiger comes for a performance. the opposition fights to keep the standards so low and the public that supports that thing is much more aware of what happens. the animal trade is another disgusting part of the wild animal business, not just the ones that come to the city, but the ones that are bought, sold and traded that are considered surplus, so if anybody has any questions i have been doing this a long time and i might be able to answer some. >> thank you very much. i think that you have been a really great supporter of this

legislation. i really support your efforts and what you're doing. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon committee members. thank you so much for the opportunity to speak to you. i am captain cindy michado and the director of animal services at the humane service and have been working there in a law enforcement capacity for over 30 years and a certified animal welfare administrator. congratulations to all of you for considering this very important legislation. it sets a precedent not only in san francisco but the bay area and california and across the country. these exotic animal issues are imperative that we take a proactive safe approach. i have been doing this long enough to see hideous issues in regard to traveling animal exhibits using these animals and i am referred to assistance with enforcement, with

investigations, with passing local legislation, and trying to figure out solutions, and your approach this this problem is by far the most trend setting approach we've seen, and with every exotic animal performing what you're not seeing is what is behind the scenes which is neglect, torture of training, surplus animals that are being bred and imported and exported to other areas. it's a cycle that needs to be stopped. by the time the animals are exhibiting it's just the tip of the iceberg. there is no enforcement with the usda to protect the animals and by bringing it down to the local level is the most effective way to deal with the issue and thank you for the legislation. we look forward to strongly supporting you and the process until it's signed. thank you very much.

>> good afternoon supervisors and members of the committee. i am dr. allison stanley representing the league of humane voters of california. my sincere thanks to you supervisor wiener, tang and supervisor yee for being willing to cosponsor this legislation. obviously it's very important. i also want to send big congratulations to the entire board of supervisors. you've done some extraordinary measures over the years and especially more recently to take humane measures on behalf of animals and it's just as somebody else said trend setting for the rest of the country. i want to make sure you're aware that the fact that the video shown of the abusive training of animals and have how they bring the animal acts to san francisco and i have

articles here to provide evidence of that for you. again i really just want to give you my most sincere thanks and any additional information i can provide to you i am happy to do that but thank you and congratulations. >> thank you and as the next speaker comes up i will call the last speakers. [calling speaker names] . >> good afternoon. my name is daffy lang and a lifelong san francisco resident and representing the animal legal defense fund. i want to thank supervisor tang, wiener and yee for sponsoring the legislation. when it comes to handles these animals for entertainment abuse is the rule, not the exception. handlers embed the sharp hook into the soft tissue behind

elephant ears and other sensitive spots and under the chins and tigers are whipped and beaten and man are in tiny cages and this ordinance is in the best interest of public safety and animals that are subjected to abuse are prone to unpredictable dangerous behavior that has a serious risk of injury and death and while weapons can inflict serious pain on animals they can't control a elephant or tiger that attacks and we applaud the supervisors for taking the lead on this issue and san francisco should join the other california cities that have banned exotic animal performing acts. thank you. >> good afternoon everybody. my name is krista herman and i am here on behalf of the san francisco spca and i am here to

convey our organization a support of the proposed ordinance. this is a compassionate and really forward thinking measure that improves animal welfare and public safety in san francisco and it also sends a very clear message that entertainment involving the exploitation of animals is completely out of step with our city's humane values. we urge your support on this important legislation and i thank you for letting me speak. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is pat and i am with a group called humanities for education. i have been documenting the conditions and treatment of animals in circuses in the bay area for the last 27 years and applaud you for introducing the legislation and not only where our country is headed and the world is headed

and mexico passed similar legislation. what i have seen in my 27 years documenting these conditions there are two ways circuses are hurting animals and one is prep i have vaigz and in-- deprivation and abuse of animals and deprive them from freedom, such as socializing with other animals and tigers and lions are kept in tiny cages and can't take many steps. tigers room rome -- additionally as you saw there is infliction from weapons on the tigers and the camels and the

zebras. as far as public safety i have witnessed san jose zebras breaking free and camels breaking loose and i want to say as far as education goes these circus tricks don't teach us anything about who the animals truly are. they perpetuate a gross and false image about who the animals are and doesn't teach us about them and i applaud you for introducing this legislation. thank you very much. >> my name is terry mad lock and born and raised in san francisco. i spent my whole life in eric mar's district. i'm a high school and college drop out. i always wanted to be a zoologist and never made it so i'm a volunteer at the zoo and joe is my boss and i'm not a representative or spokesperson

for the zoo. i support this legislation because animal cute cruelty makes me sick and many of them involve [inaudible] >> >> and there aren't many left in the wild and to them abuse side sickening and i know it's terrible for children to see this happening to animals because when they grow up and be my age may might not see them in the wild and may only know of them in. >>s and wildlife marks and the institutions are there to make a profit and not teaching people about conservation and abusing them to perform tricks to make money and that is immoral. i was in the london zoo and there were two fish and one was a madagascar fish and the other fish and both are extinct in the wild and because of the london zoo they might be reintroduced

into the wild and have a chance and within the last hundred years there was a deer in china and known as david -- [inaudible] deer and extinct in china. however some were in europe in different swroos. the diewk duke of fedford bred them and now there are herds of over a thousand where they were extinct and zoos may have some fault but they're now in the business of education and conservation which not at all what the entertainment industry is doing and to abuse the animals and support the legislation and boycott indiana. >> hi. my name is andrea montoya and thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak today. [inaudible] as a san

francisco resident and animal activist i was excite and proud to learn that you are looking to ban the use of these animals to perform in the city. i have been a resident in san francisco for over 10 years and i am astonished that this type of entertainment still exists in the city limits. san francisco is unique a role model for other cities and a city that sets precedents across the country. when i learned that oakland was one of the first to start a movement against this barbaric form of entertainment i was embarrassed with the city and san francisco has been involved with recycling in the city and create new jobs and the companies starting business here but san frant cannot be proud for allowing this behavior to continue with the wild or exotic animals. we need to be proud of

our zero kill rate in the shelters and san francisco needs to be proud of the protection of the wildlife and proud of the zero tolerance of ivory sales in the city limits and san francisco needs to be proud to be one of the cities that do not allow this performances to continue especially with how the animals are treated. >> this is our opportunity as a city to set precedent and let san francisco be a role model for others across the country. i hope you understand and believe this behavior shouldn't be allowed in the city limits. i hope you're the voice for the ones that cannot speak for themselves. san francisco has been able to financially survive through much of the time. i truly believe that our city will benefit from the ban in so many more ways than what the revenue can provide. thank you.

>> hello. my name is daniella bore and i am here to tell you we're really, really happy that the city of san francisco to see this meeting today. i am just a concerned citizen but i also volunteer for peta and dixie which is a group that take cake of all the animals and action everywhere and i wanted to let you know my team we go and welcome the circus when they come to cow palace or san jose and i also travel to san diego to help protestlet business of the circus and i want let you know there are a lot of people that believe this is what needs to be done, this ban that we're talking about today, because there's large amount of people believe that this is the time to do it and even though this room is too small to have the people here today this is really

important for all of the people, and not only in san francisco as somebody mentioned, but for the whole state. we travel all the way from san diego to san francisco and this is really important for us. thank you for doing this. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is philip gary and a former commissioner on the animal control and welfare commission for six years and i am very familiar with all the issues concerning animal welfare i guess. i was moved to come here to speak today because i am in full support of what is being proposed. i am just surprised to me this is my personal opinion that public entertainment and amusement reads to me zoos which i was

trying to many years ago become just a rescue zoo but the powers that be didn't happen, but in my mind on a lesser degree -- not cruelty but ongoing policy of entertainment and amusement is what zoos are -- at least our zoo is about and again that's a side line but i do fully support this legislation and i am glad that you are proposing it. thank you very much. >> thank you and if there are any other members of the public that wish to speak on item 1 if you can please come up. if not i will ask the chair to close public comment on this item. >> excuse me supervisor. >> oh i just want to say there are no more speakers so i wanted to close public comment. >> thank you. public comment is closed. >> thank you for everyone that

came out to speak on this item. again there is more work ahead of this and so appreciative because it was really all of you that brought it to us and why we're here today so with they just want to encourage my colleagues to support the legislation. thank you very much. >> thank you supervisor. so colleagues is there a motion? >> i make a motion to approve. >> can we do that without objection? thank you. [gavel] >> sorry supervisor what was the motion and we did receive an amendment from supervisor tang. >> [inaudible] >> okay. >> [inaudible] >> on the amendment and can we approve the amendment without objection? [gavel] and support and move forward the item with a positive recommendation as amended. >> so moved. >> thank you. without objection. [gavel] thank you. next item mr. evans. >> item two is an update to receive public access to the public utilities commission peninsula watershed and requesting the public utilities commission to report. >> thank you and this is

sponsored by supervisor avalos and scott wiener. we expect to have supervisor avalos. he is running in as we speak. and let me just take the moment to thank sfgtv for televising us and jessie larsen and jennifer lowe for staffing us so supervisor avalos we're now on the energy on public access to public utilities commission peninsula watershed that you cosponsored with supervisor wiener. >> great thank you chair mar and i want to thank my cosponsor for this hearing, supervisor wiener, for coming forward on opening up our watershed in san mateo county that's under the public utilities commission jurisdiction. this is actually an area of land that i am very well familiar with from my travels down on the peninsula but not necessarily familiar

with by having the access i would love to see as i look out to the west from 280. the peninsula watershed is 23,000 acres and it's land has incredible bio-diversity, incredible sources of fanna that is protected but also very important that we recognize that it's there, and there is a real growing need to actually have access to this area, so that people can really enjoy what's there, but at the same time responsible access that we can really protect the sensitive wildlife and plants and trees that are there. i want to thank the members of open the watershed for bringing this issue to the attention of the board of supervisors here in san francisco as well as the board

of supervisors in san mateo county, i think santa clara county as well, and there are multiple jurisdictions that are also going to be involved from the golden gate recreation area and other federal and state jurisdictions as well and i think we have some speakers here from some of them. but most of all i want to thank the public utilities commission for their work in planning the opening of the water front, watershed area in san mateo county. it's something that they have been working on for years and it just so happens we're seeing the confluence of the desire from people who want to have access to the watershed and the public utilities commission having made some solid planning. i think today in this hearing we will explore what the plans are, what needs to happen in terms of environmental review, and where are the gaps that are still

needed to be able to fill in the plan, and i think overall we. to be create access and we want to see if we can expedite access but be responsible to take care of the watershed and everything that is there and the sensitive habitats there so i want to thank everyone for coming out and i know i will give time for the cosponsor of this hearing supervisor wiener to have some words before going on to our speakers that we have from various jurisdictions. supervisor wiener. >> great thank you very much supervisor avalos and thank you for your leadership on this issue and i am happy to cosponsor the hearing request with you, so the bay area is -- we're a densely populated region and we are growing and adding population, not just san francisco, but the region as a

whole, and we're also a region that really values open space and recreational access, and as the region grows it becomes more and more important to make sure that we are having good open space recreational opportunities for our residents. we want to make sure people can get outdoors and really take full and responsible advantage of the natural majesty of the bay area and we in san francisco we fight hard for our parks. we're always in robust discussions with the national park service about access and recreation and the golden gate recreation area and the peninsula watershed in my view is an area that bay area residents and visitors should be able to enjoy and should be able to access for responsible

recreation, and so i am really glad we're having this discussion and moving forward to make sure that we have that recreational access. and obviously as with any recreational access it has to be responsible. we have to do it in an environmentally sensitive way. this watershed is very important. we want to make sure that it is safe and secure and pristine and i know that we can balance the need for recreational access with that need for good environmental stewardship so i look forward to the conversation today and i look forward to working with our colleagues in san mateo county and i want to thank the president of the san mateo county board of supervisors dave pine for being here today as well other groups and people in the community to make sure that we make this a reality. thank you. >> thank you supervisor wiener. so would you like to call up your speakers before we

open up for public comment? >> right. i have a list of speakers i want to call up and i want to thank supervisor wiener for recognizing san mateo county supervisor dave pine and i have tim ramirez from the public utilities commission but we actually have -- join us a little letter. public utilities commission -- after that will be howard lefet from the golden gate recreational area. dave pine from the san mateo county board of supervisors and is here to speak as well and then we can go to public comment. >> thank you good afternoon chairman mar and members of the board. i am the assistant manager of water at the san francisco public utilities commission. if we can bring up the slides please. i have a number of slides to present here. as was mentioned i will be joined by tim who is the manager of our natural resources and land management's division, the division that only existed

for less than 10 years now to make sure we're really properly managing all of our natural lands in our watersheds. as you mentioned previously our peninsula watershed is about 23,000-acres perfected from 1930 and owned and managed by the puc. there are two watersheds in the peninsula area. they are actually the drainage area that feeds in many different reservoirs in the area so one of the things about the land here as mentioned is the need to protect the water quality in the peninsula and accounts for a significant part of the water source and we want to make sure it's of high quality and it's a state designated wildlife roughage and has easements administered by the group that

is important and part of the golden gate reserve and this has been protected for a long time. we want to make sure it's continued to be protected but at the same time open up to recreation. i have a photo here. this is the canyon that is part of the peninsula watershed so that gives a flavor for it and as you can see a lot of it is heavily vegetated and close to structures so one of the key things about the management is make sure we're protected from fire. this area we work very hard every year to make sure that good fire protection is in place. with that i would like to turn it over to tim ramirez to talk about how we manage the lands and the educational opportunities. >> thank you. mr. ramirez. >> thank you for the opportunity. i very much appreciate it. i will ask steve to leave the slide up and a new picture that the public did take from the ridge trail last summer

and the [inaudible] private and private property on the trail that we own and part of the plans as well that he wool talk about it. how do we manage the watershed? before my arrival we had a plan and have a context to consider proposals rather than dealing with them 111. the document provides specific guidance and broad guidance in some cases how we manage the property day to day and how we consider new proposals. the primary goal is maintain water source quality and protect public safety and preserve ecological resources and provide educational resources as well. the document was adopted by the planning commission. all proposals, puc proposals, caltrans, pg&e, anything in the

property considered goes through environmental review. in addition to that in 2006 we adopted the environmental stewardship policy and calls for us to go over the basic regulations and protects the species and habitats in the property that we own. a quick overview of the plan on the watershed. there are currently 31 miles open trails to the public on the watershed and the crystal springs trail and managed by san mateo county and have ease mentds on the property and -- >> are both of the trails open now for access? >> correct. different restrictions. [inaudible] program three days a week, three trips a day, horses, bikers, runners and hikers and crystal springs is managed by the county and i am sure they can speak about that trail system. >> very good. thank you.

>> sure. >> and when we get to the map if you can spend a moment just tracing where they are so people can see. >> absolutely. the map is the next slide. i just wanted to mention three things on the map that we're have been working on as steve mentioned for several years. the extension of the ridge trail from the 92 and no trail there but the council has long planned for a connection to close that gap and we want to connect the crystal springs ridge trail to the trail itself and we're doing that with the connector here and of course the crystal springs regional trail on the east side of the watershed, so here's the map and i am sorry it's not easily read for folks watching or here but we're happy to talk about it off line and provide the map. everything shown here in black on the trail system is currently open to some extent. sometimes more restrictive than the others but it's open for the public to use. [inaudible] kay hill is

the black line in the middle and that is our do sant program and we run that, the staff does and crystal springs is along the reservoirs of 280 and the reservoirs themselves. we wanted to show the neighboring public lands. it's important to make sure we're working with the neighbors to accommodate interest so that the trail system integrates with everybody else and we have good relationships with san mateo county and the golden gate recreational area so that is the case and there are things that changed in the last years and one that we're showing on the west side to the north in a different color the connector here. this wasn't covered in the plan in 2002 but it's something that was recently described and covered and analyzed as part of the [inaudible] general management plan 2014. we worked with the staff on that description to