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expert on fire prevention in one room we see can figure how to prevent fires from 457ening. i want to thank carolyn [inaudible] from my office who has been working on this and ask for your support >> colleagues same house and call? without objection the ordinance passes on the first reading >> item 33 is a ordinance amending the campaign and governmental code and disclosure requirements [inaudible] who has not qualified as candidate >> supervisor achb lose >> colleagues our campaign laws are based on the idea that the public has a right to know who is donating money to influencing elections and how that money is spent. 4 years ago in 2011 there were what were called general purpose
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committees. one called the draft at [inaudible] and one called progress for all that were formed and they were formed to actually urge at that time the interm mayor to run for mayor, but because they were juneral purpose committees didn't have to file who was actually donating money for those committee to do the work and urge ed lee and influence the public to urge ed lee to bl run for mayor. the ethics commission ruled on this there was no actual laws that actually determined how such committees working to draft a person to be b come a candidate could work with filing who is their donors and so they actually proposed language that would call such committees that are draft committees and drafting people that are elageable to be candidate said to be called primarily formed
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committees which have requirements on reporting. formed committees are about moving to support single candidates and single measure or group of specific cannel dts that are voted on a by a city or stho lecterate. this legislation is really saying that if a committee is formed and wurg to draft a potential candidate who is not yet eligible to be a cadge dt, to run for public office that committee will receive over 1 thousand dollars that committee will be primarily formed committee and will be required to go through all the reporting requirements that such committees would have to doompt to me this make as lot of sense. the oathics commission requested the board of superizvoors look at closing the loom hole a couple years 53 the legislation now is before us to make sure that we can make our campaign, local campaign laws meet what our
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campaign laws should be doing is making the public aware of knhoo whoo is working to influence. >> colleagues same house and call? without objection the ordinance passes on the first reading. item 34 >> iletm 34 is a ordinance [inaudible] reauthorize the san francisco sentencing commission and revice the sunset date >> soim rous houst and call without objection this passes on the first reading >> item 3 fifen is the ordinance to [inaudible] >> same house same call. without objection the ord nnss passed on the first riding item 36 >> item 36 is a motion appointing sawn rr hanes termeneding [inaudible] and feon an hines term ending
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[inaudible] sunshine ordinance task force >> without objection the ordinance suproved >> item 37 is amotion [inaudible] terms ending april 30, 2017 >> same house and call? without objection the motion suproved. at this time i would like to go to the the 2:30 commendation squz today we have one commendation and that will be given by supervisor norman yee >> thank you president breed. colleagues today i would like to honor a group of individuals from the crisis intervention team known as cit who worked tirelessly to development and implement training to police officers in training to help people in mental crises. last
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month the board passed a resolution declarer may national health awareness munt in san francisco. it is now june and i'm still waring my lime green tie and ribbon because this is a important issue we need to continue highlighting and bring up to shadows. the crisis intervention team helps to address the issue of mental health through the partnership with the san francisco police department, emental health and hunl services care system and multiaensh owe agency work group to develop, support and enhance strategies to building [inaudible] in the community and encouraging deescalation tactics. what is remarkable is this a multiagency collaboration. this innovation elite team works throughout the city to provide crisis services
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to individuals with individual disorders, people in mental health and or substance abuse problems 24 hours a day 7 day as week. today through the crisis intervention training program the san francisco police department trained 344 officers in the hopes to reach 425 oufsers by the end of the year. research demonstrates thefectiveness of the program in providing efficient crisis respuns times, increasing diversion from jail jz hospital, assistant with treatment continuity and decreasing police officers and community member injurys. on may 12 the firs crisis intervenshz team was held that scottish right [inaudible] to
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hewner officers who use their training. today i would like to acknowledge retired commander richard curare raw and michael dos former director of the mental health association of san francisco who were ininstrumental in helping to push this program forward. they are not able to be here today because of the other duties. i would like to also honor the training faculty who made the training possibly. the faculty serve and resources serve to the oifsers and remind them that life lines exist when assisting someone in mental crisis to provide a bridge to get them back to the path of recoverry. many faculty members work for city agencies that assist people with [inaudible] on day to day basis. while others are [inaudible] commit purnl time
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the work i want to commend each and every 1 of them for the dedication so san francisco can be the model for culture of trust, compassion and collaboration. my hope is this program will expand so transagys ininvolving those with mental health needs will be prevented. i would like at this moment to invite representatives nof crisis intervention team training faculty to accept this comidation. lieu tenent mario melina of the san francisco police department. jennifer freedomburg of the cit work group and doctor boid smith the chair of national alliance of mental itness. if you would like to say a few words >> this is really exciting for san francisco. we talk a lot about everything going on
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with the police and police brutality and hear we have something that is a very specific program to turn that around when people rin psychoatricate vices to use de-escalation and not force. i'm happy to be here and happy to push for this for so many years >> good afternoon, lieu tentant mario melina [inaudible] who is a [inaudible] we are thankful the supervisors are recognizing the faculty of the san francisco police department mental health providers and community members that are part of this endeavor. san francisco holds training 3 to 4 times a year where we train about 40 officers on de-escalation skills and procedures. this is a great
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>> that you can and congratulation. can we go to roll call for introduction >> on roll call for introduction, supervisor kim is first on roll call. >> before we start i just want everyone to know there is a overflow room in the south light cort if anyone is interested in trying to get into the chambers. we do have a overflow room in the south light cort and room 263. supervisor kim >> thank you president breed. today i'm introducing a alternative vision for city [inaudible] also known as lot a lease today the giants and
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utilized to the parking lot. this is hat @ the heart of mission bay and one of the largest public vacant sites left owned by there city. the site has been writtenben a giant development, this is actually a city development. the partial should not be drirfben by a developers vision of what they want to builds and property from. this is a question of what the city and residence want to build. nob calling for the city to guarantee at 333 percent of new housing is affordable to 60 percent of san francisco residents. this is the first-- >> ladies and gentlemen, we have a long ajunda today so per the board rules if you can sit in the audience and not clap so we can finish the meeting so we can get-if you want to speak during public comment there is a opportunity but if we
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continue to interrupt it will make for a longer meeting so we will get the the item soon. can you please respect our meeting? thank you. before i move on i would like to acknowledge supervisor chris dally is joining us today. supervisor kim if you can continue >> thank you president breed. voters also approved that 50 percent of housing be affordable to low middle [inaudible] it is on public land. if is sometime to stop talking about building affordable and middle income housing as a aspirational goal. let's make this a reatement inwe cannot make probsition k realty on public land we are
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not going to be able to produce substantial affordable housing in san francisco. we have #2c3w08den opportunity on one of the last partials used as a parking law to complete a neighborhood with a mixed of affordable and moderately price #d housing in san francisco. called for development that is 50 percent affordable to low, moderate and middle income families. this is housing for teachers, families, police officers, service works and many white caller office workers. this proposal also increasing the buildable height on the site by 1100 percent while remaining compatible with the neighborhoodthality peeks on [inaudible] providing a variety of height for the sky line. the next partial block one peeks at 160 feet. the proposal called for 120 feet
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and [inaudible] without losing any units of housing. the proposal also call frz study of transit impact on the foosest growing neighborhood in the sit einsureing as we continue to build that we understand the infrastructure needs mitigate the growth 6789 we vacommit to the residence not to just [inaudible] a growing and vam udconcern in the city. measure also calls for a study of shouding impact to insure new open space we built and #3wi8ding are healthy and complete a neighborhood, gets the sun the residence want and enjoy in the parks and reck areational space. this is our land and look for work with the development partner to shireshareathize vision there is a competing measure. futher
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their measure mandates the city utilize our city wide affordable housing to subsidize their housing at no cost for too the developmenter. the fund that can be used throutd the city without negotiate aiz or discussion and leaving the profit from luxiary housing untetched. i'm concerned the developmenter is circumventing the [inaudible] let's talk about the structure of the deal. the term she guarantees a 20 percent annual rate of return paid to the developmenter by taxpayer dollars for infrastruck dhr developed oen the site. that includes the street and sewage system and the new park seen on the mailer sent to your home. the developer measure locks in height without building more housing units. before a public
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process to consider shadow impact on the parks we are building and how to mitigate them. last year another development [inaudible] also 28 ache rbs of public land. this measure ftss supported by elected officials, sierra clobe squaneighborhood oceans. know as propersition f they rezoned to 190 feet [inaudible] the important public process requires and committed to 30 percent affordable housing without $30 percent affordable housing without guarantee of public taxpayer. the giants propose 230 feet [inaudible] beyond utilizing the word affordable in the measure and incoms public funds to build this. critics may call this a [inaudible] which prevent development. our proposal will build as much housing as their
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proposal. most mission bay developers are building at 120 feet. these developers are willing to [inaudible] if we don't do this on public land today we can't spect private developers to meet our goals on private land. let's model the leadership we want to see. giants fans dissever to be able to afford to live in the home towns team. thank you and the rest i submit >> they think supervisor kim. supervisor mar >> thank madam clerk. colleagues yesterday i joined many kicking off the saf rider [inaudible] other leadership in the city to ride muni tw fr 22 days in the month of june. i'm excited to step up to the challenge to make muni every
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day. it is a hardship at times for parent like me with children that sometimes demand rides everywhere, but i know there are opportunities for riding with families and seniors. i wanted to say that my bus line, the 5 fulton rapid which i thank you the mta for getting roleing is effective and efficient. i get from my home from innerretchhand to city hal l in 10-12 minutes. i know other colleagues have had belays by mine veliable. i only have to take 1 bus and don't have to transfer like other colleagues on the board. in the past few days i interacted with seniors and
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families and people approach me and feel it is a good tonight to be more accessible. riding muni every day allows me to take more routes within my neighborhood and throughout the city and looking forward to learning from not only my daughter who is a wizard at using muni and bart and public transit, but learn from her and others as i ride every day. i think it is important that hash tog on board sf is challenging to improve the muni system and getting public official tooz understand from a direct point of voohow riding muni can help the city and environment as well. also, this is the 30th anniversary this year for san francisco richmond district neighborhood center multicultural childrens arts program is this sunday june 7
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at richmond district neighborhood center from 12 to 3:30. join us for the many families who participate in the program each year and ol the supporters. work shops teach contemporal and contemporary art from mexico, japan, hawaii asian and africa. different teachers likegeny louis who started with the program in the 90's and now retiring have poured their lives and speernts in the program. in the 10 years as a director mrs. lieuer doubled from 24 to 54 different workshops for young people and diverse mix of kids. i absolute the richmond district neighborhood center and m cat and hope people will come to join us celebrating 30 years of a great program. the rest i
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submit >> supervisor wiener >> thank you madam clerk. today i have an in memorial for a leader in the lgbt community who passed away [inaudible] who was the chairman oaf the empyreal court of san francisco which as you recall celebrated the 50 anversity. the empyreal court is a critical part of lgbt community civic identity and fur nando was a key part of the institution and great leader in the xhunty and we are deeply saddened he passed. he was born in 1969 in red wood city and moved to san francisco in 1991 and lived here for the last 24 years. as i mentioned he served as chairman of the
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empyreal countsal. in 2000 he was elected mr. gay san francisco and there after he was elected by the knhunty to be the 32 empper of the empyreal court of san francisco. heef was a life long advoicate of lgbt rights through had empyreal counsel and his leadership in the community. he was a manager of the gap flag ship store in the aearly years of the company. he loved hosting parties and making people laugh. his smile was infexs and one of the warmest people you can meet. know when he walked in the bar they play love was in the air and throw napkins. survived by mother 3 sisters and 2 mothers. he wasy are spected leader in the xhunty and deeply missed
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and request we adjourn the meeting in his memory. in addition today colleagues a few week uzigoi mentioned we were wucking on this legislation and today introducing tenet notification legislation to make sure tenets in illegal units receive notice before landlord applies for demolition permit for the unit. currentry when a lands lord or owner seeks to demolish a legal unit insuch the tenet living in the unit is required to receive notice so that the tenet can take whatever steps necessary and exercise whatever rights they may have to contest the demolition. however, for illegal units and we have 10s of thousands of san francisco residence libing in illegal units whether a in-law unit or other unit, currently if a
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landlord desires to demaunsh a illegal unit, no notice is required for the tenet chblt you can have a situation where a tenet is living in a unit for many years and raiser their family there, the owner gets a demolition permit and the tenet finds out about that demolition perm only after it is issued and after it is too late to do gng about it in terms of contesting that permit. we are at a point in san francisco of course where we in the midst of the housing crisis and job one is keeping people stable in the housing. we should chbt have situations wrapeoples homeerize demaunshaled and did want get notice. this legislation will treat illegal units the same as others that if the property owners wants to demaunsh they must alert the tenets ahead of
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time to allow them to cun tist the demolition. the rest i submit >> thank you supervisor wineer. supervisor ye rks you are up next. supervisor avalos >> colleagues today i am introducing for consideration for this ballot or later next year a tax on electricity for non renewable sources. this measure creates additional 2.5 percent utility tax on natural gas and electricity from whether it is just non renewable sources that use gas or diesel that is often used in electricity generation. the control [inaudible] this would generate 14-16 million a year.
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if we bond against this million we can fund 140 to 160 for capital projects like affordable houses or renewable sources. this will also include exemptions. if a person is a clean power sf customer that person is exempt from the tax. the tax continues the broad exemptions in 24 utility using tax. for instance, all tear one customers customers that use a smaller amount ofinary are ex. and that represents 40 percent of the residential customers mpt also care customers and customers in the family lecterate rate are also ex: those are based on income requirements so low income people are exempt. part of the environment now is considered who is responsible for
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allocating the funds within city government with the priority of the funds going to projects that leverage matching funds from the state cap and trade program and other sources. the department of the environment alcaitds the funds subject to supervisors approve to the categories of programs. affordable housing programs in areas served by public transit, renewable energy resources, naerj efficient and urban force projects. this is something i have worked closely with a lot of groups in the xhun squaeae and splust u just in the process to do that and spect to move this to committee in the summer [inaudible] all the people that have input on the tax that would be essential to be a tool to promote prenewable energy and also generate funds
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that can be used for many projects that expand housing and eare newable resources and also ways to green our city and actually take had burden off property owners in other ways if they had to pay for managing trees and other parts of the forest close to thrair property. i look forward to your support and consideration as this moves through the public process and this is just the staurt so my office will reach out to many of the stack holders across san francisco to talk about this proposed tax. thank you >> thank you supervisor avalos. president breed uare next jrshz colleagues today supervisor cohen and i have a in amemoriam for jiarichardtion born may 18, 1955 and moved to
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california in 1960. he attended high school at sake railroad heart and part sthof west coast basket ball champ. jiawent to dioblow valley and transferred to cal stateese bay. he found [inaudible] hieroglyphics perturnty with [inaudible] later became known as jiaand friends. he has given back to the community working at african american culture complex where i sunch as the director and help to create programs that kept people involved in music and arts overall. jiaplayed jass music at the fill more farmer market one of the only markets in san francisco that had live music and performed at the
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