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ere enough votes to adopt or not adopt the contract and given the questions it seems like another week would be useful and if it's withdrawn and i don't know if the seconder -- >> without objection supervisor kim decided to remove her motion so we will take that without objection. [gavel] >> okay so i move to continue the item 1 week. >> okay. supervisor wiener has moved to continue the item 1 week. is there a second? seconded by supervisor farrell. supervisor christensen. >> thank you madam president. so it seems to me we've gone into a deeper discussion so we have an immediate question which is the validity of existing budget and the services proposed so those are questions. sounds to me we're opening a broader question and what kind of services philosophically do we want as a board and a city which is a bigger question so we all share concern about immediate security needs so i guess my
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question is for the city attorney perhaps can we by motion at this board today approve an extension of the existing contract for 90 days and direct the mta to report back to us on these issues? is it possible to have our cake and eat it too? >> supervisor christensen through the president i don't believe you could make that motion today. i don't think that is before you. as far as i know the mta is not in the position to make the proposal with cypress or any other provider. >> madam president so we have approved an extension of the existing contract in the past in order for the negotiations to continue. is that correct? >> that is correct, but we did go through the mta board and the budget and finance committee and then approved it here. >> so if we continue this item today until next week the department can excuse me back to
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us -- the. >> >> the department can come back with amendments and about a schedule for altering the contract if that's the determination but we're presuming at least a 60 day process in order to bring a new contract to this board by which time the existing contract will have expired and people would have been laid off? >> the layoff depends whether we can extend the contract through other means. again as i said earlier we need to talk to the city attorneys to find out if there are other contracting means to continue this current contract or enter into a new smaller contract with this current vendor. >> so just for clarity you are -- this continuous will allow you the opportunity to address
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those concerns and next week we can decide whether to vote the contract up or down? >> that's correct. >> thank you. supervisor campos. >> thank you. as i noted before i personally plan to vote against this contract, and i actually think that the best solution in my view is that there be an extension of the existing contract i think along the lines that supervisor christensen was saying have a new competitive bid process and then go from there. that's what i hope happens. i actually think that when something like this is presented to the board it's important for boards to sends a message that this is not how contracting should be done and that's why i think it's important for us to vote against it. i am prepared to vote against it today but i will support a one week continuous if that gives the mta more time to
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figure out the various options that i hear, but i think it's important for us to say we have to do better than what is presented. thank you. >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you. i apologize for my part in bringing forward the resolution i no longer support. i don't see the difference of waiting today or next week. i think it's good with the vote around continuing that mta start the process of another rfp without armed services. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor christensen. >> in light of these conversations it's apparent to me that we don't have the information today to either understand the contract in detail or understand the implications of voting it up or down so i make a motion that we continue this until next week until that information is available. >> actually supervisor christensen supervisor wiener made the motion and seconded by supervisor farrell. thank you.
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seeing no other names on the roster madam clerk can you call the roll. >> on the motion to continue to april 21. supervisor avalos. >> no. >> supervisor breed. >> aye. >> supervisor campos. >> aye. >> supervisor christensen. aye. >> supervisor cohen. >> >> no. >> supervisor farrell. >> aye. >> supervisor kim. >> no. >> supervisor mar. >> aye. >> supervisor tang. >> aye. >> supervisor wiener. >> aye. >> supervisor yee. >> aye. >> there are eight aye's and the no's being listed. >> the motion to continue to next week passes. madam clerk can you please call item 6. >> resolution to retroactively authorize the fire department -- >> i'm sorry madam clerk i apologize it is now 3335 and supervisor mar we're going to skip over the regular business
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in order to accommodate supervisor mar and his commend -- commendation. >> thank you supervisor breed. thank you colleagues. today we're honoring our city's dispatcher of the year and i wanted to acknowledge before mentioning our heroic dispatcher of the year that we're joined by the director of our department of emergency management anne kronenberg and the 911 director and deputy director and officer jerry daniels from the police department as well and i am probably missing a few others that are here. the commendation for dispatcher of the year is a district 1 resident kaley hillcode and i would ask -- and i know her family and people that
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really understand the critical role that her and the hundred dispatchers play in the city but i would ask if she could come forward and anyone else that wants to join her. we're pleased that our department of emergency management has this amazing group of people that work everyday protecting our city often invisible from sight. i wanted to say this is i national day, a national public safety telecommunications week where around the country many other major u.s. cities are honoring heroic that 911 dispatch -- dispatchers do everyday and we have hundreds of folks in the department and on the job 24 hours a day, seven days a week and answering 911 calls and coordinating police officers and firefighters and the first responders and paramedics and they're the ones that go often
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unacknowledged often and unlike the police officers and firefighters and medics they're the ones that we don't see and work hard everyday and provide help and reassurance to people on the worse days and hairy situations. they give directions for cpr and medical assistance for people, blifer babies, giving information to people that deliver babies and give the first responders critical information to get to the site and keep them safe. we're recognizing kalely today because of incidents in the last year where she provided clarity and precision keeping people safe and supporting police officers and in extremely
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stressful events and include helping an injured officer in chaotic situations. during the evening of the giants winning the world series for example she really helped ensure that police had all of the adequate support and information to safely manage joyful and happy crowds but at times unruly and i saw the donuts and everything happening and the different activities in many neighborhoods that spread to the streets and all over the city. also in response to ferguson in many ways and protests lead by black lives matter and many others throughout communities here in san francisco she provided strategic incites and recommendations to support police that benefited from this overall response to keep people safe but to be respectful of protesters as well. through the most chaotic of situations she made officer safety and community safety a priority and
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maintaining control and situational awareness as well and joined by family and friends and dispatcher s and the senior staff of our department of emergency management. she volunteers with animal welfare and control and spends time with dogs and other animals displaced because of emergencies and has been an outstanding employee for 10 years and we honor her today and as we put a human face on the many people that staff that san francisco 911 office and thank you to her and keep our community safe and supported and please honor kaylee hillco. [applause] >> thank you supervisor mar. 10 years ago i saw an ad for the
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position of public safety dispatcher in the examiner. i was lucky to make it through the selection process and secure a seat in the academy but when i started that training program i had no idea what i was in for. everyday in that room is different and comes with its own challenges. team work is vital and i am proud to work with skilled and compassionate individuals who strive to do the best for the public safety partners and the citizens of san francisco everyday. we put our personal emotions aside and pull through intense situations together. the incidents mentioned by supervisor mar are no different. i may have been a voice in the chaos but i was assisted by numerous coworkers who were logging and forward critical information, make calls, notice the allied agencies of crucial updates and helping to dispatch fire and medical response along the way.
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dispatch is so often a thankless job. it means a lot to us to be recognized by the board of supervisors during dispatcher week. thank you lieutenant daniels for taking the time to represent the officers that we know as a voice on the other end of the radio. thank you for everyone that pushed me to learn, made me laugh, allowed me to blow off steam and provided a shoulder to cry on at the end of the particularly brutal shifts. thank you to my -- lastly thank you to my family both my blood relatives in the uk and my chosen san francisco family here today. i couldn't do it without you. thank you. [applause] >> i just wanted to ask anne kronen burg or any other would like to make any comments? >> thank you supervisor mar. we are so proud of kay lee and all of our staff who are the
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unsung heroes of the first responders in san francisco and we thank the board of supervisors for allowing us one day out of the year to come and highlight the best of our best so thank you. [applause] >> thank you and
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congratulations. madam clerk can you please go to item 6. >> item 6 is a resolution to retroactively authorize the fire department to expend a grant in the amount of 1.5 million for exhaust extractor systems in fire stations. >> madam clerk can you call the roll. >> supervisor avalos. >> aye. >> supervisor breed. >> aye. >> supervisor campos. >> aye. >> supervisor christensen. >> aye. >> supervisor cohen. >> aye. >> supervisor farrell. >> aye. >> supervisor kim. >> aye. >> supervisor mar. >> aye. >> supervisor tang. >> aye. >> supervisor wiener. >> aye. >> supervisor yee. >> aye. >> there are 11 aye's. this ordinance passes unanimously. next item please madam clerk.
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>> item 7 a categorical exemption for the san francisco international airport plot 700 development project. >> colleagues same house same call. without objection this resolution is adopted unanimously. item 8. >> item 8 for a real property lease at 100 blanken avenue with celestina and alan salvador jimenez co-trustees for a portion of the ground floor and one five year option to extend. >> same house same call. >> i'm sorry president president. >> supervisor kim. >> i wanted to reiterate some of the comments at budget committee about the number of years this leefs month to month and therefore doubled in rent expenditures without any type of negotiations. i know the comments were already made and i want to appreciate and reiterate the comments and i hope we put something in place that doesn't allow a department to go month
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to month and around evictions and major rent increases and major taxpayer dollars over the years and i hope we have a system to prevent that in the future. >> supervisor farrell. >> thank you president breed and supervisor kim we're working on legislation and we will partner on that if you're interested. >> colleagues. same house same call. this ordinance passes unanimously. item number number 9. >> item 9 modification for the terminal equipment maintenance and operating agreement and the san francisco terminal equipment company and the city for $3 million to support the patron and document verification services for new total amount not to exceed $21 million for a agreement term expiring june 30, 2020. >> same house same call. this ordinance passes unanimously.
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madam clerk can you please call items 10 through 23. >> items 10 through 23 are the resolution declaring the city to reimburse these future bonded indebtedness to the related documents to the california debt limit allocation committee for the multifamily housing revenue bonds for it is following addresses and amounts. item 10 at 462 duboce avenue. item 27 25 sanchez street not to exceed 33 million and 12 is for 1150 scott street. item 13 for 939-951 eddy street and for 14 1880 pine street and for item 15 100 appleton street and item 16
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for 255 woodside avenue. for 990 pacific avenue and for 18 for street bonn not not to exceed 21 million and number 19 1068 oakdale street and 798 jerrold avenue and not to exceed $108 million and item 20 for 345 arguello boulevard. for 21 for 491-31st avenue not to exceed $20 million and for 22 666 ellis street not to exceed 32 million and for 23 430 turk street not to exceed $32 million. >> thank you. supervisor campos. >> thank you madam president and i am one of the cosponsors of item 15 that deals with 100 appleton street and holly courts and i will
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be supporting these items and it's important to note and supervisor avalos and i will be calling for a hearing on this. one of the things that i have seen in the last few days and today i think a number of us were visited by some families that came to our offices to express a very real fear that these families in public housing that once they're relocated to allow for the work to be done there's a real fear that somehow the families are not going to be allowed to come back, and i had the pleasure of visiting constituents at holly courts over the weekend and we had a conversation about the proposal and the various changes that are being moved forward, and the comments that i received from those residents were very much along the same lines that there
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is a very real tangible fear that these residents have that once they're relocated that somehow something will happen, something will not be followed through, and that they're going to find themselves on the street, and i know that from sitting where we're sitting it's perhaps difficult to understand that, but i think it's very real, and i think that we have a responsibility because i know that we're all committed to doing the right thing to address that fear, so i just want to put that out there and i will be supporting this but i think i want those families and folks to understand that i understand how real that fear is and so i just wanted to make that point. >> president breed.
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>> thank you supervisor campos. supervisor cohen and i last week were at alice griffic with speaker pelosi and speaking of the build out of alice griffin and what is exciting about what is going to happen to public housing all over san francisco is the fact that the mistakes of the past that happened are things that we are doing everything we can to make sure they don't happen in the future. i grew up in plaza east and when we were rebuilding plaza east my family -- we were moved out and it was really difficult getting back in, and one of the biggest problems was they had moved a lot of people outside of san francisco. a lot of my friends and family and then when the time came to return there were a number of excuses as to why they were no
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longer welcome to return to their units and that's why when we pushed alice griffin through we made sure people weren't necessarily moved outside of the community but a one to one replacement and worked with the community over the years to prepare them for what is to come in terms of that change. not only changing the physical structure of these places but changing people's lives through supportive services. we are committed to that and one of the things we can't do is build a structure and not necessarily help the people that are in these facilities with an opportunity to succeed so we are committed to that. we have been working very closely with the mayor's office of housing to make sure there isn't displacement and people aren't afraid. i have been going into the units in my district specifically because i know families that still live there but the problem is bigger. we
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get $10 million annually to repair 4600 public housing units, so the sad reality is the conditions that i grew up in with the roaches and the cracked walls and the toilets not working and using to use the neighbor's house for certain things because the sink doesn't work that stuff is going on today. we can't do things the same way and wait for the feds to give us $10 million and we're going to repair over $200 million of needed repair in our public housing facilities. the folks who live there have suffered long enough. we're trying a new approach and there's a lot of fear out there and i just want to make sure that people understand that it's understandable because of what's been done in the past and we have put safeguards in to make sure people are not displaced that we're working to rebuild
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but rebuild with the existing communities and make the communities better so we want to put that out there. thank you supervisor campos for bringing the points up and we're committed to doing this and i am excited this is finally moving forward. >> okay. colleagues can we take those items same house same call? without objection those resolutions are adopted unanimously. madam clerk can you call item 24. >> item 24 is an ordinance to amend the planning code to permit certain exceptions from off-street parking and loading requirements on lots that curbside transit lane or bikeway for lots and residential mixed district and bring into conformity with yard, setback, and other building requirements
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and what is principally permit ted in the van ness special use district modifying other floor ratio provisions and affirms the planning department ceqa determination. >> colleagues same house same call? this ordinance passes unanimously on the first reading. item 25. >> item 25 is an ordinance to amend the planning code to require the planning department to monitor and department annually to the board of supervisors between the balance of new market rate housing and new affordable housing for strategies to maintain the housing balance in accordance with san francisco's production goals and making the required findings. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. as many of you know i represent a part of the city that is rapidly growing both in office development and residential development. it's absorbing the vast majority the density in the city today and as we see this growth it has been
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a priority of mine and my office to make sure as we grow we grow in a balanced way that is affordable to the majority of the city's residents. preserving existing affordable housing and building new affordable housing has been a priority, not just for me but many of the folks in this room. the legislation before us today is one of the outcomes of the housing balance discussion which began last year. when i introduced this ordinance, an ordinance that would put into place affordability to be one of the considerations when we approve developments in the planning commission last spring. after that introduction our office and the mayor's office spent time negotiating what it would actually mean to build 30% of new housing as affordable to the vast majority of resident and we
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need an accountability mechanism for us and developers that we're building housing that the residents can afford and not expensive luxury housing that 60% of the residents can't afford to live in. the mayor has a goal of 30,000 new units and 1/3 must be affordable. we know currently that 60% of residents qualify for affordable housing under the federal hud guidelines, 60% of the residents it is qualify for affordable housing here in san francisco. in the discussions last year we agreed to commit to 1/3 new housing in the plans to be affordable a goal we set for example with the new central summit plan in the planning process right now. we agreed to pursue revenue measures to build more housing or protect housing and the housing bond which discussions are under way for the ballot and we passed
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unanimously thanks to the board of supervisors the interim controls to make sure we're not losing manufacturer and art spaces to commercial office and while we plan parts of south of market. the executive director directive was memorialized by the voters with the passage of proposition k last year and part of the commitment to the voters. this legislation ensures that we the city have the tools and data to understands if we're reaching the goals or how much we are from reaching the goals. how much affordable housing are we building? how much luxury? how many rent control units are we losing and are we staying in balance? this provides the planning department to provide a report to the board of supervisors and calculates the new board of supervisors defined as housing affordable for housing making between zero and 120% of the median income within the 10 year rolling time frame
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and require that we calculate how many rent controlled units and affordable housing units that we lose. the planning department must monitor the progress towards the goal and publish the information on the website, report to the board of supervisors on the data as well as other land use regulations that may impact the ability to build affordable housing. (change of captioners).3
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sfgtv-full board of supervisors-second half 4-14-15 i don't want to be the last generation in my family to live in san francisco. we talk about how to plan each neighborhood and there is a lot of debate how to plan neighborhoods like the mission and in the mission community advocates said only 7 percent of the new housing building in the mission neighborhood is affordable to the majority thf rez dnss that live there. this data didn't come