n june 16th the small business commission network is having their gala and congratulations commissioner white and another commissioner you'll get acknowledged commissioner white the small business advocate of the year and commissioner adams is the small business commission advocate by a notary republic small business congratulations to both of you and friday june 19th is the centennial and any new business items emily from working solutions has requested to come and make a presentation to provide you with an update of the city's micro loan program and how many loans they've not been here in a while she felt it was overdue to

present with that that concludes my report. >> awesome you made it just under the wire. >> next up my report. >> i have nothing to report other than the fact. >> we need to have the commission secretary read into the record into. >> the item 10 president report my congratulations to everyone involved in the small business commission week and pleased to see everybody come out in various ways to support is it it was really, really great i've not been to the class second degree and i went to one or two and punishment the times to be instructors at the event that's fantastic that's correct. >> vice president report.

>> you need to say the item. >> item number 11. >> one work i was at the small business week activities which i enjoyed i want to go on record to give a shout out to the companies the metro was packed and i you know flavors it was hatred and the coordination and they continuing do a really good job every year so. >> awesome. >> item 12 commissioner report. >> any commissioners have any report. >> i have one. >> all right. i attended the small business week and saw some of you there and on the 19 i attended the aap i working group at the pacific heritage museum and organized by tom at the s.b.a. and sponsored

by east west bank and s.b.a. and it was sold-out on the third day anyway i was asked to speak and talked about our commission, the was of small business and the small business assistants center and the business are proportionately and serve people asked about me about the proportionately and the center i hooked them up with the new case manager and people were impressed with the services we provide and the 20th i remember to the small business reception it was attended well and commissioner dwight z did a great job >> for the paul and mark show.

>> it was a crazy day something happened. >> all right. anyone else i want to congratulate our commission white for being nominated as well as steve adams it is kind of an honor to have it out of 7 recognized by the small business task force so congratulations >> thank you. >> and ivy want to read into the record it is quite expressive. >> all right. new business anyone want to proposed any new bids brighten to be clear we have closed captioning to people that are hard of hearing can follow along on the agenda and where we or so that's why it is

important. >> so, please read what i said. >> item 13 no business. >> item 14 adjournment is there a motion to .

>> good morning today is june 8 2015, welcome to the rules committee i'm supervisor farrell's i'm not join by supervisor cowen and shortly by supervisor tang our clerk is alisa miller please have noichlt. >> completed speaker cards and

documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the jungle 16 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you and today is meeting it broadcast by sfgovtv staff jennifer lowe and charles kremenak thank you for your service marking call the first item. >> a motion pointd rita to the treasurer oversight committee. >> very good is she here >> a bottom i have to push no good morning supervisor avalos and supervisor cowen i'm rita the chief financial officer of the instead of and i'm here as the superintendents nominee to be designated to the treasurer oversight committee just to give you a background i've been with the cubit for 12

mrs. years the budget director tore the last 6 years and the newspaper cfo since january of this year i have a 20-year background in finance i've previously worked in the banking sector an mba in finance and accounting and - the treasurer oversight committee has in its chapter a designee to be appointed by the superintendent or the person from the oversight committee that's a critical role for the school district to be represented because i'm sure you're aware of the we participate in the investment pool that the city monitors and

invests in our funds for the district constitute about 7 to 8 percent of the total city investment portfolio and it is very informational for me to - for someone from the district to be on the committee we constitute a large share of the investment pools and would like to be obviously familiar with what is happenings with the funds and the returns on the funds. other than that went up participate with the city on a consultant and cooperate with the city on our financing for this general fund and the city is a venue for us to voice our if there are concerns and know and get familiarity with what the economic condition is for

the foreign market i'll be happy to answer any questions >> thank you and thank you for your presentation so in the past the superintendent has served as a member of this committee was that the superintendent allowed to designate someone else to be in his place. >> as the last 10 years the superintendent has designated the chief financial officer i've taken over from thank you retired and we have continuing that pattern. >> so i've been partnering on the committee hfa as rshz. >> i've been environmentalists until my son mansion happens. >> supervisor cowen. >> a followup

to that statement so the body is comprised of the treasurer the controllers a representative from the county superintendent a chandelier of the public school do you occupy the chair before taking on this superintendent. >> no, when i assumed the cfo position i attended 2 meetings but because i'm not a confirmed member i attended as a member of the public. >> didn't vote on the item only observed on the meeting. >> was the superintendent at the meeting. >> no, he wasn't. >> okay. >> so the seat was just vacant the seat was vacate. >> yes. >> who was the designee for

the or the appointed to this body thank you. i'll call think you - that's okay. >> no, i don't. >> not a think there is a request for waive a rentcy waive; is that correct you answered any main questions have the attended a meeting. >> thank you and thank you for your work school board this seat was assigned so for the superintendent or the chief financial officer and given our economic vision it makes sure to serve on the committee despite the responsibilitycy wavier i'm

happy to take part in waving that. >> i'm happy to support ms. >> ma heaven and thank you very much. >> we'll do public comment first. >> okay. >> thank you. >> hello supervisor avalos and supervisor tang two conditions for the funding problems for the full investment in the japanese and chinese and germany and french those are interesting for the people's young people the teenagers see so to go beyond our american cult it is higher level of culture thank you. >> i'd like to invite the woman that had the answer to the

questions on who the appointees are maybe during. colleen >> colleen from the treasurers office ron is in the college serving as a designee. >> the member of the public is amy bro. >> and how that person selected and . >> we invited people to apply and came back to the committee with the person that was most qualified. >> so i'm unaware this is a member of the public that speaks to who - where do you go to advertise. >> i don't know the process. >> how long has this person served and the terms p are 2017.

>> they expired together. >> okay. great thank you very much appreciate it. >> thank you any other public comment is closed. we can have a motion to approve. >> so moved and as well. >> residency wavier. >> so moved and approval the person for the waive we'll take that without objection. >> next. >> resolution for harlan to an indefinite term for the district water authority. >> okay. we have our general manager from the pubs commission ron keeling. >> hi, i'm harlan kelly the

achieve the san francisco water i want to thank you for the interpretation terminate of the regional finance authority ucsf the puc provided waits to 2.6 millions folks in the san francisco bay area between the retail customers and wholesale in the alameda, sacking arrest san mateo kontsdz this regional financing authority was created as part of the city bill 1870 jackie spear to make sure that san francisco is serious again investing in the water system and if san francisco were not to invest in a water system this financing authorize was a was for it to be 23i7bd so although we meet every 6 months no action was taken but an active board so

with this reup to the time i'll continue to participate as one of the agencies that is responsible for a 1/3rd of the water use. >> so you said you meet every 6 months no action has been taken no action required to be taken or what is this actual nature of the meetings. >> well that is really in case san francisco doesn't finance it and we've invested over $6.5 million and wholesale customers the rate so if san francisco didn't step forward with the $3.6 million and refused to invest in the infrastructure this financing authority about r will raise the money to do the required

repairs. >> thank you so you're already participating in the body only the reappointment and we're happy to make that happen. >> i'm happy to make the support. >> so open up for public comment is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak please come forward seeing person with disabilities do we have a motion. >> so moved. >> we'll take that without objection. >> congratulations. >> thank you let's go on to our next item please remain standing please. the charter amendment for the 16 and 7-year-old election on november 3rd, 2015, very good this is an item i've been working with the youth commission for about a year i believe but the youth commission

has been working on this for a very, very long time i want to thank josh from district 11 this is spearheading the effort looking at 16 municipal elections at 6 and 17 youth a can participate in san francisco be something that has to go to the voters through a chapter amendment which is what we have bra us i'll let the youth commission talk about how this work and what the meeting behind it is this is an item that i've done and requested the youth commission and i was actually grateful to asked to be doing this by the youth commission over the years the youth orchestraer have been involved with young people vociferating and actually was able to do that

in marin county and seeing young people getting involved in the initiative on the ballot andgalactia h great to see we're talking about going to the next level and how we can take part in the local elections of without further ado i'd like to invite the young people to speak and before you start we would like to hear our work. >> hello members of the rules committee i'm the district 10 youth commissioner i'm here with josh of district 11 and joyce from district 7 and representative from district one about the research have learned voting age to 6 before i began

thank you thank you for your time and consideration and thank you to the committee members this is the beginning of summer break we explicit ask any students to come out but, however, those who are here i appreciate their time and support now we'll begin the presentation so - >> where the aspects begin 3 effort on the voting age was passed by the youth commission in 2005 the idea surfaced we felt the strong participation on the november 2014 ballot as well as a lot of issues that primarily effected you there was a great deal of interests a from the young people that couldn't we in on election day we could hosted a successful forum with balboa high school over hundred people turned out

we learned from this there is a great deal of of interest by contrast there was a small voter turnout about 53 percent and this was the large number than the 229 percent last summer we are that pleased with the potential of 16 and 17 years old voting we passed is it in january. >> commissioner. district attorney's office i represent district 11 i'm josh the young voters in the growing national and international conversation there's a growing national

conversation and we've seen increased voter efforts in voter id laws those specific effect young people of color and seniors as well as young voters and students the recent supreme court decision that instructs down the voter rights past the way for more voter efforts and same at the same time, we saw the chicago primary maryland and other central voters in useful elections and currently cities in massachusetts and vermont are going to follow suits and 16 and 17 years old are voting in austria and norway and some parts of unit kingdom this issue

caught our attention with the 3 percent of central voters registered to vote in the - 85 percent went to the polls recently in california our state senator senator leno has had the amendment to allow the youth to participate in the election. >> the slide sorry about that the national picture how unfortunately, the united states has poor voter turnout 40 percent vote during the midterm elections and this is not compared well to the nations that average to 90 percent turnout nationally our turnout rate is the lowest since world

war ii and we have the lowest in the age group with 2008 presidential election recent years it's been at the all-time low 56 percent voids last november and 29 in the november before the june elections are lower still in san francisco voter turnout is the lowest in the two neighborhoods that have the highest concentration of families the bayview and visitacion valley many children are living in household their families don't vote 29 percent were born outside of the united states and most have immigrant

parent overall san francisco has been up and prolonged to reach 47.6 by 2025. >> next to slides are maps from the presidental election turn in november term elections you'll see this in the next slide the neighborhoods with the most with the highest concentration of young people in the visitacion valley and other areas had the lowest turnout in san francisco we account on the contributions of the youth and each participated in heavy issues on the ballet