. >> all right, good morning, everyone, welcome it our rules committee meeting of april 9, 2015. my name is katy tang, i'm vice chair of the committee. i know our chair, john avalos, will join us shortly and to my left is supervisor maria cohen. >> please silence cell phones and all electronic devices. items acted upon today will be on the april 21 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you, madam clerk, please call item 1, please. >> item no. 1 is a hearing to consider appointing one member to the bicycle advisory committee term ending november

19, 2016 or the tenure of the nominating supervisor, whichever is shorter in duration. there is one seat and one applicant. >> thank you, since we have one applicant for the seat we can call up miss magy up and give us a presentation. >> hello, supervisors, my name is ilyse magy and i am interested in seat 9 on the bicycle advisory commit ee. i work as an artist and organizor and focus on pedestrian advocacy and alternative transportation in both my professional and personal life. i currently work as an organizer with sf advocacy riders, we work to improve public transportation in san francisco. i also volunteer with walk sf, creating projects to bring forth project vision zero. i have lived in san francisco

since 2008. i first moved here looking for a city that had a robust public transportation system, since i came from metro detroit, where we really don't be have one, so for a year i relid on muni because i was terrified of even riding a bike in a parking lot, but slowly i realized biking is a great way to get around in san francisco. i had some good allies that taught me how to ride in the streets and now it's half of my main mode of transportation. so i feel that on the bac i could really serve as an advocate for multi modal transportation. i first heard about the seat opening on the bac through the bicycle coalition news letter and it piqued my interest but when i talked to someone on the committee who informed me there are only men currently on the committee i knew i had to change that by applying. so not only do i feel i could advocate for multi modal transportation users, people

who are maybe otherwise afraid to get on their bikes but could do so with the right encouragement but also women who have specific challenges with biking, i think i could be a good representative for all of those. >> great thank you. and if you can just speak a little bit about are there any specific goals that you'd like to achieve if you are able to be appointed to this committee or like to see the committee take on that they currently have not? >> yeah, i think the bac is really taking on a lot right now. i admire their work. vision zero is something i'm very passionate about. i think that with the bac, too, i think there is a way that they could take more steps in encouraging people to get on their bikes or to use different modes of transportation and i think that it's a little bit easy ier for men to get on their bikes and go into traffic because sometimes it can be a harrowing

activity and i think there are issues they are not seeing, specific challenges where biking is just terrifying. having someone on the committee who can keep an eye out for not just current riding issues but future riding issues, keeping an eye on future problem spots in the city that are not working. >> yes, it is challenging biking in a skirt. okay, great, do we have any other questions or comments from committee members? seeing none, i think we will open this item up to public comment. any members of the public who wish to speak on item 1? please come forward. >> good morning, supervisors, i am peter strauss, i'm on the board of san francisco transit riders. when one is in the position you are in i know you can get leery when faced with

a solo kapbld daes. ilyse should be appointed to this position not only because she is the only one applying but because she is an outstanding candidate. i have known her for about a year, she said she's been working for the transit riders as a consultant and i found her to be extremely energetic, creative, intelligent. she is perfect for this. as she said, she is a multi modalist, i have never seen her in a car but she is very assertive as a bike rider, she is a transit rider and a pedestrian and i think that combined perspective is something that would serve you and serve the bicycle committee very well and i urge you to support her candidacy. thank you. >> any other member s of the public who wish to speak on item 1? seeing none, then, public comment on item 1 is now closed. we are now joined by our chair, supervisor john avalos. welcome. would you

like to take over now? >> let's take over. i thought we all took over already. thank you, sorry i'm late, i had some medical stuff with my family but everything is good so thank you for your patience and thank you, my colleagues, for getting started. so we are on item no. 1? >> through the chair, we just concluded public comment on item 1. i would be happy to make a motion to appoint and move forward ilyse iris magy for seat 9 for the bicycle committee. >> although i wasn't here for public comment, i have reviewed the file and i am fine with that motion. we will take it without objection. i believe we're actually going to be pausing on item no. 2, hearing that last, is that correct? they are still working on amendments for that

legislation so let's go to item no. 3, please. >> item no. 3 is a hearing to consider appointing 7 members for one year terms to be determined by the energy efficiency coordinating committee. there are 7 seats and 7 applicants. >> i believe all the applicants are here, it's an issue of some folks not having all the right letters to back them so we won't be able to move everyone forward who perhaps qualifies today, but we'll get started. why don't we go on to the first applicant, who have been avni jamdar. >> good morning, supervisors, i am avni jamdar, director of emerald cities, san francisco bay area. i'd like to thank supervisor mar and the staff for supervising this staff and getting us to this point.

emerald city has been involved in efforts to get to this point. we believe this committee will have great value in creating a more navigable and concerted platform for energy efficiency platforms and resources in san francisco county. emerald cities is a national organization, we work together to advance a sustainable environment by creating greater economic opportunities for all. we are transforming the energy efficiency sector in a high road way by retrofiting building stock, creating jobs and revitalizing the local economies of our region. so i am applying for seat 3 but i could qualify for 1 or 2 as well. in san francisco we have successfully demonstrated a project for energy efficiency retrofit with a community work force agreement that we negotiated with the building trades and community at the table that ensured high road

labor, community on ramps through career track jobs. we work closely with the building trades, work force training programs like the conservation corps, city built academy, housing developers like mission housing and others, investors, community-based organizations like bright line, sf organizing project, city agencies so we have valuable experience in the energy efficiency sector and we know (inaudible) i also serve on the citizens advisory committee of the sfpuc, specifically on the power subcommittee so i am familiar with the energy efficiency programs and policies at the sfpuc so our experience would help inform policy and programs and resources of the city and county. we'll have moving forward, especially with the cap in trade dollars and have a strong community driven perspective so i hope to serve on the committee. >> thank you very much. in terms of your work with emerald

cities, (inaudible) we appreciate your stepping up. thank you. we can go on to our next applicant. i don't have all the names of who is here but i think sam moss is next. mr. moss. >> good morning, supervisors, thank you for this opportunity. i really appreciate being able to come forward and put my name and mission housing in general on to this application. mission housing development corporation, of which i serve as the executive director currently is a 44-year-old affordable housing developer that currently houses and serves over 3,000 tenants in the san francisco area, mainly in the mission district. we focus on energy efficiency and sustainability in all things that we do. most currently in the 10 year program of which we're in the third year is a

preservation project. we're going through approximately 1,000 of our units to rehab them with a focus on energy efficiency, sustainability, and the long-term preservation of affordable housing. i believe that my role as executive director of mission housing and before that the director of asaid management over the portfolio will provide valuable insight to the committee, mainly on using funds as efficiently and intelligently as possible in order to make sure that any upgrades or efficiency standards that are completed also last for decades to come. >> great, thank you. mr. moss, it's been a number of years that mission housing has been actively in the role of developing housing. i think the last project was the valencia gardens that had been started in a previous man

manifestation of mission housing and you are new as executive director, what do you see for the coming years for mission housing in terms of where it's going to put its energy towards maintenance or we're actually looking at mission housing playing a larger role in the development process and, if so, what are the projects that you see moving forward? >> well, certainly as far as maintenance goes, like i said, we do have approximately 32 buildings. and so first and foremost the 1700 units and the 3,000 tenants that we serve, we need to make sure those units are efficient and quality affordable housing. and so we are embarking on that project but also we are an affordable housing developer. so at the moment we are working on our proposal for 1950 mission street, a new 100 percent affordable housing development that is near the

16th street bart station. we're also researching sites down near 24th street in the lower mission to purchase and develop what are relatively smaller sites but nonetheless are just as important in these days of gentrification and displacement in the mission. and so what i see as mission housing's role is that we will utilize our portfolio, our vast and very large, relatively speaking, portfolio to create and obtain the necessary funds and capacity which we will put towards new development because it's about boat, it's about making sure we have enough affordable housing and creating new, but also ensuring that that which we have is never ever lost. >> can you say how you are navigating the current controversy that's happening in the mission in general with development displacement? there's a lot of market rate developments being proposed.

that's what's mostly being proposed and there's also been a great number of families, i'm hearing recently that the number being thrown around of around 7,000 latino families being displaced. where does mission housing fit in with that. >> one, our portfolio, making sure our units are open and affordable for those who qualify. second is looking for the small sites i mentioned. it's very great that there's an rfp and funds to develop a new large affordable housing project at 1950 mission. however, as we look at the current situation, that isn't enough and mission is trying to put its capacity and its resources towards establishing new ways to develop affordable housing, perhaps grouping together a few small sites and creating the economy of scale that's necessary to develop the housing. we're also talking with our

community, those 3,000 tenants, as much as possible to get their viewpoint to see what they are focused on and what they are worried about because we are a trustee for those units and we are a trustee for those people and i would like there to be 6,000 tenants as soon as possible. 3,000 is great and it's been an awesome 4 1/2 decades, but we're focused on the next 4 decades and whatever we can do using the portfolio that we have developed and maintained very well to increase the amount of housing that's available. >> then where do you see mission housing stockfitting in with the level of energy efficiency that's already in place? do you see the vast majority of buildings needed that work for retrofiting and renovation or do you see you are ahead of the curve? >> i believe that, i think we're ahead of the curve in the sense we've been thinking about ways to accomplish the retrofits for a while now. but

it's both. everything we do, anything is do is focused on efficiency and the long-term preservation because in affordable housing we're constantly trying to do more with less. funds aren't as readily available perhaps as the market rate developers can obtain, so we are retrofiting our buildings and first and foremost it's to create the efficiencies that perhaps weren't as prominent decades ago. but also in our new developments, in our new projects, whenever someone comes to us and suggests anything, one of the first things we ask is about energy efficiency and sustainability and not just because it sounds good now, but because that is truly what we believe will give us, put us in the best advantage to keep our buildings up to par for another 4 decades. >> very good, thank you. i appreciate you responding to my question. >> no problem. >> i see given the work and the stock that mission housing

has that you could be a good fit for the energy efficiency committee here, but i do have, i have a lot of history with mission housing. i know you are new but that history i think has really, you know, things change and the sun rises and sets and new things happen. i am hoping your presence at mission housing can lead it back to where it was, being a big driver for tenant rights in the mission and elsewhere in the housing have hope for more housing to be built and a real strong pathway towards developing housing under your auspices. >> i look forward to showing you that you are correct. >> okay, we'll go on to our next applicant, is holly kaufman here? >> good morning, supervisors,

i truly appreciate the opportunity to be here and to put my candidacy forward for the energy efficiency committee. i am a san francisco native, my mother was born here too, she grew up in the mission in the fillmore district. i grew up a lot in my grand father's shoe store on 24th street in the mission when it was an irish catholic neighborhood and we were some of the only jews there. so i really experienced the whole evolution of the city because i'm older than i ever expected to be. so i've also been very active in my city, which is the city that i love dearly, and i also happen to be both a tenant and a co-owner with my family of a 10 unit apartment building in the inner richmond which was my mother's business that she ran for about 40 years. so i think what i would bring to seat no. 4, which is the seat that i am apparently most being considered for and am the

most interested in, is being able to bring a perspective of being both a tenant and an owner of small buildings here in san francisco. because i understand that multi family buildings are the largest component of our housing stock -- no worries, i hope everybody is okay -- the largest component of our housing stock and where most of our residents live and i've also been involved in environmental issues for over 40 years. so i would like to bring both my concerns about the environment and energy efficiency and my concerns about san francisco and its sustainability for the people who live here to bear on this committee. my very first job involved doing energy audits of buildings back in the days way before eye pads when we had to go measure crack spaces around windows and doors with tape

measures and then go back and figure everything out by hand so i was doing that in the 1970's here in the bay area. my very first time dealing with the supervisors in the bay area was 40 years ago, i was horrified to learn when i was putting my notes together, in the save the stanislaus campaign. i also was the coordinator for mayor diane feinstein's urban forestry task force where we worked with 16 city agencies to get them to collaborate to change the concept of street trees to urban forests and drafted the first legislation here.

up to the present day where i serve on the revenue bond oversight xlit on the san francisco public utilities commission public utilities commission and by the way i have already checked with the city attorney's office and there is apparently no conflict of interest for me being able to serve on both committees. i will briefly mention some of my other relevant experience. i have worked at the state level on ab32, our notable and progressive climate change law, including on the 32 percent renewable portfolio standards for the california wind energy association and for the energy foundation i worked on interviewing all of the various constituencies to identify what capacity needs they have to help pass the provisions of ab32 that were important to that community. at the national and

international level, i was a member of president clinton's climate treaty negotiating team. so just want to bring that back to the fact that i think i could bring to this wearing both the hat of somebody who's a strong energy and environmental advocate and the fact that i am both a tenant and a landlord in san francisco so i can help figure out what would be practical to really advance energy efficiency in this important part of our building stock. i did review the mayor's 2012 renewable energy report, which i understand is one of the main charges for us to help implement the recommendations in that report, and at first i thought, well, why is energy efficiency committee supposed to be helping implement the renewable energy report and i was very pleased to find be that the report emphasizes how important it is to work on energy efficiency and achieve that to the maximum extent possible before working on solar or any other sorts of

renewable energy. so reduce before produce, as it says in the report. so i look forward, hopefully, to working collaboratively with you and other members of the board of supervisors and other members of the committee to promote energy efficiency in san francisco. thank you. >> great, thank you very much. i'm very impressed with your range of work and your conversations for this work that we have here before us. i'm also very interested in you said you work at the san francisco conservation corps? >> yes, i did, i ran the summer program sometime in the 80's. >> i think, supervisor cohen, you are on the board? i used to work tr myself. >> so, i love that organization. >> i was there as a recruiter for 1992 and 3. >> i think i preceded you. >> you weren't there when i was there. we would have known each other. great, thank you for applying for this position. >> thank you, i appreciate it.

>> we'll go on to our next applicant, megan kirkeby. >> she withdrew her application this morning. >> she withdrew her application? okay, james bryant. mr. bryant, please come forward. >> good morning, supervisors, i am obviously james bryant. i am coming before you today to apply for the seat no. 5. i currently have in front of me two of the three recommendations i thought i would have the third, but i think it is forthcoming, but i think most of you, i think two of you know my life. i've been around here for over 35, 40 years, almost, in labor. i

continue to actively be a part of the afa brand institute on the national board representing west coast states from colorado to california. i am very interested in the energy efficiency coordinating committee because it's one of the areas that i studied as a while being the president of the afa brand institute where we had at one time wanted to partner with richard heath associates. i don't know if you know who they are, but they are the state facilitators of the energy efficiency programs. and so we went through a very

tough education process ranging over many years, knowing all of the ins and outs of the energy efficiency business and the most important or interesting piece was the piece about jobs and how we deliver jobs and how we coordinate between the energy efficiency requirements such as restructuring places like public housing, restructuring places like the many buildings that are not meeting the energy efficiency rates. but, again, the most important piece is how we connect a group of workers that can be part of this process,

how do we put together teams of folks, you know, locally that could be, you know, educated in that area, developed spin in order to do the basics of energy efficiency work such as, you know, checking homes such as applying the requirements of fixing homes and such as being part of the community that they live and work in. my many years of labor has come and gone, so to speak. i have retired from the city after some 35 years, but i am here, willing and able to broaden the education that i

have with the energy efficiency with working with the community and with working with the connections bringing both energy efficiency and community together. i have three recommendations outside of the other qualifications of i would like to give to you and i'll put them over here and i'll give you the copies of it. one is from the hunters view mothers and fathers committee from hunters view i think you all know. one is from the alliance for jobs and sustainable grow *t , and the other is from bright line. >> do you have any questions? >> yes, i do have a question. one of the requirements is to receive a letter of

recommendation from the mayor's office economic development. right? >> correct. >> and i think in your remarblgs you said you had two out of the three. >> yeah, i have recommendations from a construction committee and the other one is a letter. i think that you have received something, but i don't have it in hard copy so dwropbt to say that you have received something and you haven't. >> i understand that it needs to be from the director and it's signed by tom russo so i don't know if you're going to have a problem. >> i haven't zb the letter yet. so to the city attorney, what do we do with this matter, can we continue this particular seat or do we have all the documents? >> deputy city attorney andrew

shen supervisor cohen, i think this is in transit but unfortunately it's not here yet. >> one of the legislative aides indicated it might have come from the city administrator and not the mayor's director. i just want to keep everything clean and move as quickly as possible, so my question is are we able to accept a letter if it's coming from the city attorney's office -- from the city administrator's office, even if the specific requirements must come from a department head. >> yeah, so think there may have just been some communication. the city attorney's office the letter can be put ph a seat but what's required is a letter from omd which we don't have yet. >> i