>> >> october 22, 2015, >> city of san francisco >> rules committee. >> >> >> >> good morning. today is october 22, 2015. thank you for joining us on our rules committee. announcements?

city clerk: please silence all cell phones and electronic devices and any copies to be filed should be submitted to the clerk. items on the agenda today will appear november 3rd unless otherwise stated. >>supervisor john avalos: chair avalos, vice-chair supervisor tang and supervisor cohen. item no. 1, please. city clerk: [appointments, citizen's advisory committee for the central market street and tenderloin area] hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending august 2, 2019, to the citizen's advisory committee for the central market street and tenderloin areacity clerk: sf 11234 there two seats. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you. mr. hall could not be here

today. bradford paul. next person? antionetta stadlman. >> i have been part of this and would like to stick with it. do you have any questions? >>supervisor john avalos: yes, if you can talk about what your contributions have been to the committee? >> well trying to get decent standards and competing or activating. the words skip my tongue. the various contributions to move out into the neighborhood. i have been in an sro in south of market for 23 years. we are

starting to see a small amount come into our hotel. so i would like to be able to see the results of all this gets distributed down from my viewpoint and the sro community and up and down the street. fixing up market street and doing improvements there helps the spin off on the streets going north and south of it. >>supervisor john avalos: great. thank you. we'll go to public comment. any public comment? public speaker: wisdom intelligence would apply to humanity, to all sorts of charging conditions benefits to

living transients to take care of the young people. also petitions for handling external section with public speaker: my name is ramon smith and i have known him for many years. she is very dedicated to the community and i see no reason not to continue. thank you. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues? supervisor tang? >>supervisor katy tang: thank you very much. i know mr. paul reached out to us and based on his experience

and his current role on the cac i would be fine to reappointing him to seat 5 with a waiver and antonette stadlman as well. >>supervisor john avalos: okay. we'll take that without objection. item 2. city clerk: [appointment, soma community stabilization fund community advisory committee - raymon smith] hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending april 27, 2017, to the south of market (soma) community stabilization fund community advisory committee. vacant seat 3, succeeding m. alicia duke, term expired, must be a senior or disabled resident of soma, for the unexpired portion of a two-year term ending april 27, 2017. city clerk: sf 21234 there is one seat and one applicant. >>supervisor john avalos: okay. it makes our work easy. mr. smith, please come forward. should we have the appointee to advocate on behalf of seniors. i'm 68, i am a senior and

disabled and a veteran. in the from some years i have been here in san francisco i have been involved in improving the public life for those especially in district 6. as you know we have a lot of seniors and disabled in there. in the years i served, i dealt with housing because i share housing community and also continue to advocate for more affordable housing for seniors and disabled people. we have also the sro loan program which have alluded to sro's in that community and i should say that not only would i like to continue to advocate but in the south market. before ada came into being, there was section 501, section 503 and section 504.

i was appointed to evaluate on those eventually came to ada. ada is a good piece of tool to work with but there is so much more to work with especially in the south of market. we have a very large concentration of seniors and disabled and veterans with low income. thank you very much. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you. no questions from the panel. okay. we can go to public comment. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, do we have a motion? okay. motion by supervisor cohen and second by supervisor tang and we'll take that without objection. thank you. next item. city clerk: [appointments, eastern neighborhoods citizens advisory committee] hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending october 19, 2017, to the eastern neighborhoods citizens advisory committee. vacant seat 10, succeeding toby levy, term expired, must be nominated by the district 6 supervisor and confirmed by the full board, for the unexpired portion of a two-year term ending october 19, 2017.

vacant seat 11, succeeding henry karnilowitz, term expired, must be nominated by the district 6 supervisor, and shall live, work, own property or own a business in the "plan area" they are appointed to represent, for the unexpired portion of a two-year term ending city clerk: sf 31234 there are two seats and two applicants. >>supervisor john avalos: okay. if we can call the first applicant. mr. toby levy. >> i'm for rean appointment for the product open space committee. i was former cochair of the western soma citizens task force and i was the first appointed to the eastern neighborhood cac and the eastern neighborhood cac is seen as an over sear of the western soma plan adopted by the planning commission. i see my role in helping the western soma task force plan come to fruition.

i live and work in south of market on south park and i view my role now as a very broad representative for open space as well as the western soma plan. i served there now for two terms and it's especially auspicious since we are getting a lot of development south of market and western soma. thank you. >>supervisor john avalos: great. thank you very much. next applicant is john elberling. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is john elberling. this is a first opportunity for me. i worked and lived in south of market for 40 years. i have been involved in all the planning processes city planning pretty much in soma

for all of those decades. the reason i would like to join this east neighborhood cac. i'm already a member of the soma neighborhood cac and even though the programs are overlapping for pedestrian safety and street sweeps and other category, they don't have much communication unfortunately. they really don't team up. what i would like to do by being able to be on both is really bring some coordination and in their decision making and discussion about what to fund and what are the best priorities over all. i think that would be a help. also the stabilization fund cac has wonderful participation. all the community groups, our agencies they really follow it and come to our meetings and very much engaged with us but

unfortunately cac does not have that kind of extensive participation from soma. it just doesn't yet and it really should. i really hope to, you know, you've leveraged good participation to improve the community engagement in these neighborhoods. >>supervisor john avalos: great. thank you. we'll open up this item for public comment. public speaker: leaders. senators and petitioner and heroes and talents one should contribute for people of population and having true false of internal nourishment of true success. good conscience. destiny. one has courage for life of

destiny, and true meaning and highly noble of nature. one expression for target of goals and principles subnature original possibility and could stand high to be a perfect superior holy person and carrying on ones career. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you very much. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues? supervisor tang? tang tang -- >>supervisor katy tang: i would like to make a motion to appoint toby levy and john elberling. >>supervisor john avalos: we'll take that without objection. thank you.

next item. city clerk: [appointments, park, recreation and open space advisory committee] hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending february 1, 2017, and two members, terms ending february 1, 2018, to the park, recreation and open space advisory committee. vacant seat 3, succeeding nicholas belloni, resigned, must be nominated by the district 4 supervisor from the organizations listed in resolution no. 391-13, for a two-year term ending february 1, 2018. vacant seat 4, succeeding molly park, resigned, must be nominated by the district 4 supervisor and from district 4, for the unexpired portion of a two-year term ending february 1, 2017. vacant seat 17, suceeding toby levin, term expired, must be nominated by the district 6 supervisor and from the organizations listed in resolution no. 391-13, for a two-year term ending february 1, 2018. city clerk: sf 41234 there are three seats and three applicants. >>supervisor john avalos: great. we have three seats and three applicants. let's start with jordyn aquino. >> good morning, supervisors, my name is jordyn aquino, i have been a resident of san francisco since pursuing my degree. i have served as a public aid as a senior and administrative analyst for san francisco public works. i currently serve for application support for information technology where i have the great opportunity to

train and support local business enterprises interim employees and external contractors or our organization electronic contract systems. i believe i will bring great value to parks and open spaces community because i have great faith in my community and leaders and every opportunity to allow district 4 grow and strive as a positive community in san francisco. i currently volunteer for a community clean team, cleaning up waste and around ocean beach and planting across sunset boulevard. i also volunteer for the front yard ambassadors program implemented by the supervisors office which allows homeowners to transform their yards to echo friendly environment. i believe that through programs like this, this sense of community involvementen insures

our constituents celebrate their own sense of neighborhood pride and provides a safe community for children and families to walk, play and even run. as an avid runner myself, i do believe that seeing such civic engagement and such projects come to life in my district only motivates me to find ways to make our areas more beautiful. as a young adult living in san francisco i have always desired to find ways to support the public policy in the city that i felt the most alive with. i have found ways to identify with communities and have found myself most enthusiastic when i'm with colleagues who share that same interest in my community. as i advance my career in public service i have found the experiences that i thrive for and the knowledge that i yearn

fore develop through the involvement and love i have for san francisco. this is why i believe i will make a great contribution to the parks and recreation open space advisory committee. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you very much. i don't see any questions from the committee. we'll go to the next applicant. heather fuch? >> good morning, thank you supervisors avalos and tang. my name is heather fuch. i come to you as a resident for district 4 in the open space advisory committee. several years ago i assisted supervisor tang while i was in

college. it was supervisor tang that reminded me to become more involved in san francisco communities. my proudest accomplishment working with supervisor tang was conducting reach in human trafficking in the sunset as well as the conflicts among state and city laws in regulating these establishments. this was sometimes difficult and frustrating work but it gave me the inside look to capacity of local government. with an academic background in government facilities, it allows me to work in this field. i work for a large law firm downtown and helps me with my skills. my passion lies with government and i plan to pursue a secondary in law and policy. i'm eager to serve my community

in this new role and look forward to this opportunity. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you very much. no questions from the committee. thank you for your presentation. our next up is toby levy. >> supervisor my name is toby levy where i'm trying to get more money to acquire for open space. we are making progress, but as i said with my eastern neighborhood's experience, the funding comes from impact fees which are controlled by the eastern neighborhood cac and there is a very big need for the coordination between the eastern neighborhood cac and prozac. i'm proud to say that we've been working with the planning

recreation and parks and i'm part of the association for 9 years advocating the redevelopment for south park. we have raised over half a million dollars to do this. supervisor kim got us a million dollars on the park fund and we used the impact fees and i'm proud to say we are having ground breaking on november 10th. that is the culminate of all the efforts, but i see my role from improving south park is for the rest of open space in district 6. >>supervisor john avalos: just a question, where do you see the sites for district 6? >> there is two sites. one is

available and the other one is not. both are very expensive. the question i have is can the real development that's happening in central soma, those impact fees just the development of 5 m, the flower mart, the tennis court and south of market western and eastern can have a swimming pool, more basketball courts. another rec's center. aside from putting all of these people there. i see two roles. the private open space but what might come out of all of this massive development. we have an overall plan to meet the needs of the affordable housing coming south of market as well as the market rate. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you, we have a huge need there so we are counting on you.

okay. we'll open up this item for public comment. public speaker: superior goddess having one's loving passion of love affair of fine beauty. one would be so benefit of loving way of relationship enable south nature of passage for loving and union of the two being husband and wife to the point of happiest day of perfection in all aspects of superficial and in the hint of true love of their well being. the imagined three characters can well having way or complete perfected methodology for all aspects of lives. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you very much. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. these items are before

us. supervisor tang? >>supervisor katy tang: thank you very much with all the applicants that came forward. i'm a little biased with our applicants. i would like to appoint ms. jordyn aquino and heather fuch and toby levy. great. we'll take that without objection. our next item is a 12:00 special. we'll convene at noon. please stand by... please stand

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>> >> october 22, 2015, >> city of san francisco >> rules committee

>>supervisor john avalos: okay. we are back in session. the rules committee. mr. clerk could you please call our next item no. 5.

city clerk: [hearing - retirement board shareholder engagement with and divestment from fossil fuel companies] sponsor: avalos hearing on the san francisco employee's retirement system's progress in protecting the city's retirement fund from the stranded asset risk that global climate change poses to their investments in fossil fuel companies, including their progress in implementing level 1 and level 2 of their social investment procedures, investing in a fossil fuel-free index fund, and divesting from the "worst of the worst" fossil fuel companies; and requesting the retirement board and retirement system staff to report city clerk: sf 51234 >>supervisor john avalos: great. thank you. this hearing was called by myself and supervisor cohen who serves on the retirement systems board. we, the board of supervisors passed a resolution back in april 2013 urging the retirement board to divest from fossil fuel corporations. the reason we had done that resolution because we, the science shows that we already have the oil companies and the fossil fuel corporations already have in their reserves

and it would cook the planet well enough to adapt to. that is available for humans to adapt to the over all climate and we've already added.8-degree celsius in the earth that's already decreased and if we do nothing into what is polluted out into the world that we would already trajectory to increase the world's temperature by another.8 degrees celsius. we are already 1 degree celsius to the degree mark so it's critical how we can prevent humanity from going over the cliff that we are currently on. there are a number of people working all over the world trying to do what we need to do to prevent this cataclysmic

from happening and even though we know we are at the edge of the cliff, very slow going. in san francisco i think we get pretty good marks for having a plan but when you the comes to action i don't think we are living up to the the emergency that is before us today. the resolution that was passed in april 2013 was just one part of the tools that we are trying to create to move into a better future. today we are hearing to see how the retirement board has been moving forward on the work of divestment and how committed they are for that to happen. we heard from a lot of retirement board commissioners over the years interest in moving forward, but it hepatitis been -- hasn't been

the whole retirement board about divestment to happen and we haven't seen how quickly it's been brought forward to the staff and how staff is engaged in the real process of looking at different levels of act that retirement board commissioners have asked staff to engage in. so here today we have the director of the retirement board jay hush who will be presenting on the work of the retirement board. we'll also hear from fred fliesh man, the analyst with 50.org and green century capital management. the main bulk of the presentation will be from jay hush and will talk about the timeline and we'll go into questions that will be broken down into the different

levels of divestment and engagement we've asked for about level one engagement about proxy voting and the engagement about what this process has been and to engagement as well we'll ask about how deep that work has been done and there will be work on the commission board to look at how we might address some of the most egregious polluters in putting up the most carbon from the fossil fuel corporations looking at the worst of the worst in that divestment realm. if we can have mr. hush come up to give us a presentation. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i provided you a very brief timeline of the actions that we've taken, the retirement board has taken since we are presented with the board of

supervisors at the may 18, 2013 board meeting. we have an investment policy that supervisor avalos spoke of. we have three levels. the first level is the active voting proxy with the companies we own related to a specific topic. in this case it would be climate risk or more generally climate risk or fossil fuels. we have a level two engagement which is more activism. we have in the past written letters to the companies we own to urge them to change certain behaviors and in this case we also have the ability to join with other public plans and other public assets and urging these companies to change some of these behaviors. a level three is restrictions to be placed on investment in certain companies in this case and that will be either in the

event of having to sell off all of our holdings in the company and could take the form for identification the worst offenders or could be a restriction of adding additional investments. so following, receiving the board of supervisors resolution in may. october 9th, the board considered that decision and created an analysis of what level one and level two engagement of these companies would look like. we had a meeting february 19, 2014, where we presented staff analysis and recommends to the board on level one and two and that meeting the retirement board adopted level one engagement which is active proxy voting which entails identifying the resolutions coming before those companies

that we own on the list and making sure we are voting in favor of more disclosure, of issues related to climate risk. following that engagement in february for april, may, june which is really the bulk of the proxy season, we provided the retirement with the results of our votes and how we voted resolutions related to climate risk for all of these companies. >>supervisor john avalos: if i can just stop you with some questions related to that it was really good to see that the retirement board did schedule a discussion about engagement and it was actually very difficult to get that schedule in a timely way. we gave the memo or letter to the board in may of 2013. it wasn't until october until that was actually scheduled and trying to get that on for a very long time and things then seemed to move fairly quickly

to have a board on the 19th for fossil fuel level one and would mean for the board to actively engage in climate change and you referred to as act of proxy voting on but on may 15, 2013, that based on the boards representation that there was a moment to engage in proxy voting and it didn't happen. we asked for more advanced notice to be able to evaluate this proxy vote. even the commissioners believe there wasn't that type of advanced notice that was needed. but on the june 10th, meetsdz -- meeting that the board was

retro actively informed that there was a voting on >> chevron and exxon. why weren't those included in the staff report for the may 13 meeting. >> the system is engaged and provided the advanced notice for those coming through. we have since remedied that for the proposed 2015 and what are being proposed for the identify -- 2016 season proxy season type of issues. we fixed that. we also as pointed out on the third page of the presentation in july of this year, we presented to the board an amendment to our proxy policy that would create a first level screening that would say

regardless of the policy approves as our proxy provider would go through an analysis it would be a first level screening that if any of these resolutions dealt with more disclosure, more reporting or dealing with climate risk issues in business plan, that the instructions to the proxy provider would be to vote in favor of those. >> i understand. so looking pro actively that what you believe you will be engaged in the proxy voting. that communication was needed when there was advanced notice why there wasn't that proxy voting happening in 2014? >> from a technical perspective, that information from our proxy provider, proxy service provider was not available in advance for and basically the policy, you know, dictated how they would vote in

our behalf and once through their analysis and the policy that the retirement previously approved and that we were not voting in agreement with the group that we now have an affiliation with and strong support with that we changed the policy to suspend their analysis and voting in favor of these. not to your point, it's was it was not anything brought to our attention but at the same time have the same proxy provider and remedied i believe for the 2016 proxy season to let the board know in advance of what votes are coming up and how our policy would intend to vote on those. >> who would be the staff to make that notification? >> it would be part of our report. bob shaw is the one who works

with the proxy provider. and he is now, like i said we can see on the investor network on climate risk. we can see all the resolutions they intend to file for the 2016 proxy season related to climate risk and we can identify what companies those are going to be filed with and that rob shaw and his team will be responsible for monitoring whether those resolutions actually make the ballot and would ensure we are vote negative -- voting in support of those. >> is it fair to say that it's passed going forward and the third one we'll be finally engaging in terms of active engagement. >> they will run through june

and july. that ended in july. we are prepared to make sure that nothing like this happens in the upcoming 2016 proxy season and we'll make sure that we vote in correspondence -- accordance with the policy the board adopted in july and in accordance what we believe is the board's direction. >> thank you. as of march 2015, board meeting commissioner cohen asked for a chronology of previous divestment and shareholders engagement and i was at that meeting as well. yesterday holsman provided the information given to the board was incorrect when the board actually fully divested from sudan and commissioner cohen asked for an update at the next

meeting. did you have an update at the june meeting? >> i don't recall. >> did tobacco lead to level one, two or three? >> i believe that level one or two would be effective and i believe it went directly to level three. it was the issue of asking companies to stop their main, their principal business. so they went directly to level three. >> to level three. which could be possible for fossil fuel. >> it's too late. we've gone from one and two. >> from this point on? >> exactly. >> how about sudan? >> sudan i believe we went to level two and did a letter writing campaign to the companies we owned and asked them to provide information that would assure us that their

involvement with sudan would not be a risk to the retirement system . that was a level two engagement. there were very few companies that we own that were on that list and we got responses back from the majority of those companies. the companies that did not respond are now on a list of restrictive investments to level three and asking for information to clarify their role against the list that had been generated and some of them i believe successfully were not included on the restricted list, but we have a list that we provide to the board on at least a semi annual basis of companies that we believe continue to aid and a bet the actions in sudan. >> could you explain the levels. >> levels 2 is activism to

shareholders, it could be responses to the resolution and letter writing and to sudan companies, the letter writing of campaigns to give back to the retirement system to say they are not involved or make the board feel there was no risk involved. so that's why the engagement with level two. this is more information gathering. i was not in my position back then, but i was in the board meetings and i believe that was the rational. >> one of the reasons asked for previous votes on fossil fuel shareholder proposals and asked for the votes and information on how burdensome to the companies these proposals were. have you compiled that information?

>> we provided the last report on the 2015 proxy season in june. our provider proxy voting provider usually does a summary of the season, the proxy season and we intend that when that is produced and it will be produced this fall we'll present that back to the board similar to the 2014 proxy season. that will cover all issues, but in particular there will be sections that identify climate risk, sustainability and renewable energy and the at the same time gas emissions and when that report is prepared by our analyst. we did it in the fall of 2014 which was sort of a normal business. that's the timeline for this consultant to come and brief the board on what they believe is coming forward in the next proxy season. we do not have policies to

cover. they will generally make a presentation to say we believe these issues will be coming forward. you don't have a policy, please provide us a policy on how you want us to vote these. at the same time they prepare a complete sort of a revisit of the previous proxy season which is still outstanding from them for the 2015. we did present it to the board for the 2014 proxy season. >> great, thank you. so i kind of cut you off at your discussion of level one. do you want to proceed to next levels? >> also in june of 2014 through your office we were able to coordinate an educational session for the retirement board where we spent i think it was 2 hours hearing testimony related to why it is important for the retirement board to consider the risk of holding these types of fossil fuel

investments and that was organized through your office in part. on the march 11th, we brought forward to the retirement board an analysis regarding our increase in engagement from level one to level two on fossil fuel companies and the policy and the retirement board approved enhancing the engagement to level two. and at the same meeting they asked staff to bring forward an analysis and report on possibly investing in a passive ex-fossil fuel invest fund and asked us to bring it to a meeting which we did. we presented an preliminary analysis and a report showing the impact of a possible investment of, i don't know the amount had been determined at the time but looking into $100 million in investment of fossil fuel free index fund and that

april meeting, the retirement board asked us to complete the due diligence and bring the recommendation back to the board on that type of investment and at that same meeting, the board which had approved a staff recommendation which was part of our recommendation the prior year that the board establish and esg committee that would not only look at environmental issues related to our investment process, but also social and governance issues. so at that meeting in april, the retirement approved a commission of the gsg committee. there are four in the committee, so we believe that was an important part of staff's recommendation that had been made the previous year that in fact the retirement board take a systemic look at

not only punishing bad behavior once we have invested through folks through our investment policy but having an in grated approach before we place the first dollar investment. >> thank you, a couple of questions on that. there was a discussion about doing a fossil free investment. was that investment actually made of $100 million? >> it was approved. they asked us to complete our due diligence in april. we brought it back at the july meeting of 2015. they approved an investment of $100 million and passive fossil fuel income and i suspect the investment will be made by the end of this year. it's an approval and the amount is set and we have identified the provider of the index fund, the

manager of the index fund that we are currently negotiating with. >> back in 2013, when the board of supervisors first did our resolution the fund was $15 billion. where are we now? >> i don't think we are at $21 billion but somewhere between 20 and $21 billion. >> so we've gone from $15 billion to $21 billion? >> that's correct. >> how much of that was invested in fossil fuels? >> i believe when we appeared before the board of supervisors when you were considering it, it was about $565 million. and the last time we reported out to the board it was $480

million. i just talked to bob shaw this morning who is traveling and he basically said the stocks are down. so it's probably another 1% decrease. we are below $500 million out of the $21 billion fund that are invested on the list of the contract. >> so without making a real clear decision around extracting sf funds from fossil fuel based corporations we are seeing the diminishment overall in the percentage of funds because the market has gone down, but we have seen the fund over all increase by up to $21 billion and despite that increase, we've seen a decrease at the percentage of what is invested without a decision made to extract funds with the

markets are doing. that's fairly consistent with the reasons why we want to do divestment to financially it makes sense knowing that a lot of the funds that are invested are used for trying to find more assets, but the oil companies have enough assets to cook the planet over and science has shown that we have to keep 75% of the assets on the ground in order to keep it from increasing. based on what we've already seen why do you think it's been challenging to make decisions to go to level three? >> i don't think there has been a difficulty with the retirement board. we both hold these actions in the index fund. but we have our own index fund. how much they have invested in these energy stocks we are

buying basically an index product from them. we also have discretionary investment managers to their reflection and what the market has been related to fossil fuel companies. i don't have any information related to whether there was a sell off of any of these holdings by any of our discretionary investment managers but clearly we have not restricted them from buying these companies or required to sell. that's what level3 is about where we tell them that now you cannot buy these in terms of what your evaluation is to invest on our behalf.

>> let go deeper into level 2, we met last week. i wanted to share with you with what you will be expecting today. when we met last week you indicated you met level two engagement to join incr. can you remind me what incr means and the coalition investment funds, how did they in gauge in the membership through incr? >> sure, i just came from a meeting this morning. karen and i were in a meeting of the west coast part of incr. a group of an organization that is looking at various issues, sustainable investment, including water and definitely fossil fuel. there is a number of work groups that are available for us to join once we become members of incr, it's the investor network on climate

risk. we join the carbon asset investment risk which is the subject matter of the board of supervisors resolution. there is topics discussed as well as activities and actions. we have opportunities to sign onto letters and this represents trillions of dollars of invested money and we believe joining and signing on with that group adds more weight to our signature. so the types of activities that we have are the especially with the carbon asset risk initiative, there are monthly calls and seminars held on the east coast and west coast and we met with washington, oregon, calpers, as members of the incr

we can levee research on what they have already done. there was a lot of discussion to making sure the academic information is available. a lot of those plans have already done that work. so we believe that even though we are relatively new to the membership that we can definitely leverage a lot of the work that's being done and the approaches they are taking. as far as opportunities, we would have opportunity to sign on as cosigners as the resolutions for any members that might be representing for 2016 proxy season. >> as we proxy introduced any resolutions themselves? >> we are evaluating to find out. there is very active plans as you are aware across the united states and they would welcome other incr members to join them in introducing those resolutions. so we believe there will be opportunities for us to represent the sg committee, the

opportunity to be -- cosigners for the 2016 proxy season. >> have there been any letters to the companies? >> we actually had a letter right before the esd committee we had an opportunity to write a letter to the provider. just to your previous point they changed from one 1 year to the next regarding exxon and they wanted as clients of iss a group of public plans representing trillions of dollars to have an insurances from iss to have a consistent approach for the resolution from year to year. those are the types of things that we will now have access to participating in as a group. >> great, thank you. just, i don't know if you said this, but incr is in investment

network on climate risk. >> yes. >> as of march 15th, a wider of level one engagement two activities were discussed. it was recommended the principals and to directly communicate with the companies operateing the proposals. commissioner asked about rankings the companies and targeting the worst offenders and in pairing the implementation plan for it's consideration and approval. at the march meeting i submitted a suggestion implementation plan and timeline and a sample letter to accepted a fossil fuel companies. what is the status of preparing level two implementation plan and timeline? >> we are in the process of

implementing level two. as you will see if i can move on into the presentation on the final page, initiatives that have been taken by staff in particular because you know there was some concern over whether staff was engaged in this activity as reported on the last page or actually it starts on the bottom. no, it is the last page. in july of this year. retirement staff, retirement investment staff coordinated meeting through the seven large institutional investment firms and we wanted it in northern california but washington state wanted to join us and in a series we believe that calpers, cal asters,uc, kaiser and we

tried to limit it to northern california and washington. there could be a lot of sharing information and sharing of ideas. also in september last month, at the end of the month, retirement staff, investment staff helped organized through the common fund which is a large institutional investment managed firm, a meeting of 20 institutional investors from the west coast and again their focus is going to be on exploring alternatives, the viability of continuing to invest in those and the impact of having the risk of stranded asset and looking for alternative investments that would make more sense to present to the retirement board. these are two initiatives that again i believe show the investment staff supports the board's position and my position and this is something that we are actively pursuing.

the esg committee -- >> how often has the e sg committee met? >> they met once. they were created in july? no, they were created in april and they met in july. >> and were the community members self selected or were they assigned? >> actually i believe they were volunteers and i think president accepted all the volunteers. it actually is a quorum of the board. so we actually noticed all those committee meetings as board meetings because four of the seven board members who are on that committee. all four board members were in attendance at the meeting. >> when is the next? >> to the call of the chair which is commissioner my berger. most likely in december because we lost the board

meeting in november because of the holiday. the normal committee meeting would be the 18th of november, so it will be most likely december. >> we don't know if it's actually being set in december? >> it's not established yet by the committee. >> i understand that the establishment is in positive direction and moving toward higher levels of engagement, but also there is a tendency that we see people studying things, people can make committees actually makes it even, that's where you put all the effort, but if they are not meeting, there is no effort. so i am concerned that the meeting, the esg committee doesn't have a meeting scheduled, there is no intention about when it's going to happen. beyond if i don't jondz i don't understand if -- there is

a strong scope of work there or will away from the effort rather making that commitment toward that effort. >> i put in a rhea by staff by the committee. we presented the esg committee with a framework of identifying around sustainable investing and that's going to be a long process. again, we met with people who are taking calpers. we believe we can do it more quickly because we don't have to reinvent it. it's out there. these are specific topics that we were assigned to report back to the committee which we were prepared to respond to. one is legislation now that mandates the calpers and cal stirs back to july 17th. there was a report that came from cal stirs related to what

impact that's going to have on calpers. that's one way we can approach it and that would be to, it's not necessarily a worst offender but certainly thermal coal has been identified by stanford endowment and now by the state as some of the worst actors in this area. >> we are looking at overall investments that we have in fossil fuel companies, coal would be somewhere in the $480 million we currently have. >> we've estimated and i haven't really announced to the retirement board in preparation for the meeting, we estimated that our third coal holdings would be roughly $10 million. so it's not even a significant piece of the $500,000. the connection of the state law is the production of the principal must be presented by

cal stirs and calpers. our preliminary analysis that it would not be a significant piece of the fossil fuel companies if we were to taggel on to say the retirement board would like to follow what calpers and cal stirs are now required to do. we have completed the analysis and the initial numbers are relatively low. >> i think it's maybe just terminology. but i think he gate a date for july 1, 2017. if we were to follow them, we would be doing it after them. we would like to precede that effort and looks like we've been pushing in that direction and we should be able to do that well before that date. >> i meant follow after them. to say this is a reasonable restriction or reasonable entry into level three focusing just

on the thermal coal company. i'm sure we have far fewer investments that we would need to take care of and calpers was and i'm sure if that was the track the board took that we would be divested well before the board would be. >> i'm sure the board can recommend that baby step including other baby steps to add to a large thing, then we can move quickly. i think that staff, i work as a member of the board of supervisors, i'm also on the air district. i know that we are very much driven by what staff produce and that's what comes before us. as staff was to put a very strong and firm recommendations that can lead to board action as well. this is what we want to see moving forward. >> the second time we got from the esg committee is what you

mentioned commissioner make said president of the board asked staff to produce what they would consider a recommendation on the worst of the worst offender. the fundamental issue is there is a constitutional right in -- criteria that there is a 15 list and a carbon tracker 200 list maintained by carbon underground updated and then there are from a series of reports, the organization that we joined, they have come up with a determination of which

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world in deck. the fossil fuel. then on the positive side msci returned 13% in 2014 and is out performing the standard all country world index so far in 2015. to provide concrete examples and you mentioned some of these before, supervisor avalos, we partnered with our portfolio managers to view the equities held by calpers by february 2014 based on their carbon reserves. the total market

value of spers was $560 million. the top seven holdings in particular are informative. these seven holdings alone account for half the total value of spers position on the divest many list. the largest stockholding was $11 million in the past 2 years, exxon declined 7%. chevron with the largest holding and $16 million and declined over 38%. $24 million and the stock has declined 23%. $22 million of rio declined. and holding a $20 million

position and these securities have declined in the past 2 years. so aggregated this is a significant total loss from these seven companies alone. as these examples show, the trend is apparent. each energy company face decline in the 2 years since the board of supervisors voted to divest from these holdings. looking forward, fossil fuel stock remain under pressure. the insight report from this month states the energy sector predicting this report the largest year to year decline in earning of 64 1/2% of all sectors in the economy. in addition china's economy is transitioning toward a consumer led economy and shift for less

global demand for oil and gas as was previously expected. this is a significant threat from institution from alternative and renewable energy sources. important from goldman sachs that may keep prices low for the next 15 years. jeffrey hurey told bloomberg there is a high probability that prices will be depressed until the end of the next decades. in closing i believe the portfolio from divestment will term in the cycle. fossil fuel has reduced over the years. even shell said that divestment is pursuing the market

approach. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you very much. just a big softball question and you kind of touched upon it but as we go deeper into what we can attribute the loss we are seeing across the board and fossil fuel companies success. >> there is a number of factors and they have led to some structural shifts of different parts of the energy sector. so coal, there is been regulatory action with the president barack obama's clean power plant law going into effect which will address carbon emissions from the worst polluters. china is demanding less fuel. these companies are dependent on international demand at this point and there are big structural hurdles that they have to overcome building terminals on the west coast that have been protestors have

delayed the power of or the building of. significant amount of lower energy or lower cost natural gas on the market. there is becoming price parody with renewable sources so the ability to switch and substitute make it an easier substitution choice. >> a resolution that we had in 2013 from the board of supervisors talks about a lot of these actions that have an impact on the success if you will of the fossil fuel companies and shows that as regulations increase, as demand

shifts and renewables become more salient in energy use that we see what is happening with the market. when that resolution was written, i didn't expect it to happen quickly. we are looking at a slow boil and that's what i expect to continue. what are your thoughts whether this is going to be a temporary cycle or these regulatory actions will increase and we'll see greater shifts in usage that would see this downward trend in the oil companies? >> right, i don't think anyone expected the energy company to quite perform as poorly as it has. i think the things that you mentioned, the regulations, kind of the dismantling to opec and flood of oil on the market now have shifted markets

globally that have a potential to look different going forward than in the past. a lot of these other investment firms have looked at in the 5, 10, 25-year periods, the potential for these companies can go very much looking forward. if you hadn't invested in informs you -- fossil fuels would depend on performance but was never significant in either direction and the energy sector is the worst performer in this energy sector in 2014 and 2015. i don't have a crystal ball and i don't think anyone of us do, but there are signs of a structural shift that could stay in place for a while. >> and in general volatility.

>> correct. that it's been the most vulnerable sector in the global economy since 2008. >>supervisor john avalos: great. thank you. that's all we have for the official presentations that are part of this hearing. we can go on to public comment. we'll do generally we'll do 2 minutes per person. i don't have any cards. so if people want to speak, they can lineup on the wall where the doors are and come one by one. please come forward. just identify yourself before starting. thank you. public speaker: my name is andy gillis, a resident. i'm a concerned citizen. all

the science that we have and that continues to come out indicate that climate change is moving more quickly than anyone anticipated. there was a report on the radio this morning about the rapid melting of perm a frost and methane, for me is nothing more than a bureaucratic decision. this is a decision that affects our future. we are talking about survival of our species and i just would urge you to move as quickly as possible to simply remember that this is more than a financial or bureaucratic decision you are making. i understand there is a process you have to go through, but please make it happen as

quickly as possible. thank you. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you very much. next speaker please. public speaker: hi. i'm jack affleck, a retired -- i have my pension and i want to make sure the investments are sound. i have to say that i'm losing patience with how long this is taking. 2 years the board gave instructions, to hey, c'mon, let's divest. like the last speaker said we are going to die if we don't get rid of this stuff. i was just making some notes during the testimony here today. we divested from tobacco for public health reasons and from south africa from social health issues and now we are destroying civilization in

terms of climate change. we should really be divesting for those reasons but there is economic reasons it's a good investment to get rid of this stuff because it's been losing money and doesn't have a bright future. i can say in the state level we just passed sb 350 portion that said we would eliminate 50% of petroleum in california by 2030. think what that's going to do to the oil companies if we succeed in that and we are pushing the goal to make that anyway. we can do all sorts of things to invest in that fuel. try to urge the board to move ahead. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you. next speaker, please. public speaker: hello, chair avalos and supervisors. i really want to thank the

members of the committee for being here and allowing this meeting to happen. i think it's really important to have the facts laid out for the public record. and i would say as active member of fossil free san francisco has been working on the retirement board since the board of supervisors resolution. the timeline has been technically accurate. there has not been a lot of follow through since the action and that's been elucidated today. to lay it out, it took from october 2013 to july 2015 to ensure the level was being done properly with the guidelines. it took from february 2014 when the esg committee was originally approved by a vote to july 2015 when they were voted in a second time and had their first meeting to get the esg going. they were supposed to meet

every 2 months and now they are going to meet quarterly. that meeting is also not video taped. the procedures that level one and two are part of are passed by the full board and procedures by the full board and we believe that tho anything having to do with the social investment procedures should be heard by the full board and particularly that it is well, it has a quorum of the board it's not video taped or available to the public after the fact. to point out that sudan was a 6-month period of level two before moving to level three and tobacco moving to level three and there is a status quo that in the last 50 years will determine the next 50 years but that's not how it will work with finite resources and lost opportunity cost in not investing in over that time

which lost already over $100 million. thanks very much. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you. next speaker, please. public speaker: thank you supervisor avalos for initiating this divestment procedure and keeping on it for what is starting to look like a 3-year process. the word glacial used to mean really slow and the retirement board seems to understand it's in that sense. even as glaciers are melting in the world. i wish i can be as gracious about them as i am about you. this is so crazy, the bureaucracy, the doubling back. we gave them an early push to divest and they are just going in circles and creating committees and they are

stalling and reluctant and won't push forward. we need to see better performance. it's the will of the people of san francisco, a worldwide significance san francisco has been a great environmental leader and to see nothing being done is dismaying. >>supervisor john avalos: next speaker, please. public speaker: good afternoon. i'm kathy sheehan, a retired environmental engineer and currently a member of the san francisco labor council representing the international federation of professional and technical engineers, local 20. first i want to start by

thanking supervisor avalos for your incredible leadership. it's been a much longer hall -- haul and i appreciate supervisor cohen's leadership and helping us move this forward more than what we've been able to now. i think it's been adequately pointed out that the san francisco board does not have to go step wise through the layers of divestment. that we have other examples as have been mentioned for tobacco and sudan which has gone much more quicker than this and it's clear that investor meetings, networks and studies are no substitute for actions. they accomplish nothing in and of itself.

now it is time to act. i believe the staff needs to step forward with proposals to the board because the board has not done enough to promote the actions needed on what the board of supervisors have passed. i would like to see the board move forward with the worst of worst partial divestment which was suggested in march. the tar sands because of their intensive carbon foot prints and specifically the exxon imperial oil and shell divestments which are owned by sf, which have been previously stated. the time is now, we need to act. thank you. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you. next speaker, please. public speaker: thank you, supervisor avalos. my name is aaron lang, the chapter of 21

in this city. i want to thank you for holding these and keeping pressure. i have been new to the process and i wanted to just support things said before but i want to bring up a couple small points. one, we talk about value in investment from exxon went from 196 million to 96 million. we didn't hear if they were the same number of shares but the dropping of funds. if we keep the number of shares, we have not invested. second about the retirement system about hedge funds and how they are going to be trying to invest. accept that we know that hedge funds are and they are not

telling us what they are going to do. third is what we talked about regulatory cost with fossil fuel, i think there is a very large liability here in the country in particular about fracking. the way we've been poisoning the water supply around the country and like the science of the tobacco company. if this continues we will have a big cost. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you. i appreciate the reminder of fracking as well which is not too far from what's happening today. anecdotally there is a small town in texas where fracking was king and now they have no water because of fracking. it's when we talk about that kind of

extraction. thank you for bringing it up. public speaker: david williams as a member of our retirement community representing 65,000 members of all of california and 13,000 of them being miscellaneous city workers and a number of private non-profit workers in san francisco has taken a position that we want retirement boards, sf spirs and all to divest in fossil fuels. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you very much. and anyone else would like to comment please come up by the wall and speak next. public speaker: good afternoon, thank you for this opportunity.

i'm pete albert, a retired member of local 1021. i am not a member of sf spirs. a member of retirement system, a retiree council of our union and work with the chapter west bay chapters and david williams. i want to repeat what david said about our union representing 55,000 in the public sector all over northern california have taken the position to oppose fossil fuel investments in the pensions in california where our members are involved. that is sf spirs and calpers. we are in seven retirement systems in california.

so this policy that our body has applied to in the nine public sector systems and we are encouraging all of our members to advocate to this system. we have members who serve on the trustee board in mendocino and alameda and marin county and called snackers and they had a major presentation at their spring conference on esg issues and our trustees are working within their board to pursue esg issues and fossil fuel divestment. i want to expand on what david said to give you the bigger picture on our our union is involved. >> thank you very much.

perfectly timed. >> do i get a prize? >> check with the clerk for that. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. if we can call you back up to close out our hearing. i want to thank everyone from the public to be being here for watching closely the decisions that are being made here at the board and of course at around divestment and engagement, and just to close out, really we are trying to impinge on staff and board members that we would like quicker movement on the effort around engagement and to level three divestment. clearly we have seen in terms of the success of what we are seeing in terms of a downward

trend on the fossil fuel corporations going done and shows a fiduciary responsibility to make sure that investments are down and to make sure that we have a place for structures to move this conversation and decisions forward really are meaningful and the committee to move as quickly as possible to have the board before them proactive engagement effort to lead to the trends you want to see in terms of what our overall engagement of the market is going to be. i want to impinge upon that. with this hearing i'm going to schedule to the call of the chair to get a report back maybe a year from now to see how we are doing. we had an

example with sudan and south africa. the stakes were high then but not as high as they are now with climate change in front of us. i would like to look forward to seeing you to report back on this level of the effort being one that has actually amounted to real change. >> understood, thank you. >> commissioner cohen? >>supervisor malia cohen: thank you very much to the board and staff. first the all, we have unique relationships with the entire board. there is a reference and comment that the board of supervisors are giving direction to the retirement board, i just want to correct that it's the non-binding

resolution is a statement from the board. the retirement board is under no obligation. thank you for helping me find my words. under obligation to implement that. with that said, there are members on the retirement board that have taken, it's taken time for them to be educated on exactly the subject matter in weighing up the options. now, i understand and can certainly connect with the level of frustration heard from folks that came to public comment that it was a glacial case. yes, it is a glacial case. usually when you are moving that much money and there are many things that need to be considered. also, what's also unique about

the retirement board is that it's really moved by the loss of money and in this particular case not necessarily a political opinion or political pressure. whereas with the board of supervisors we move oftentimes under political pressure. the strategy to move an agenda item on the board of supervisors is different from this change on the retirement board w that said, there is some truth to status quo which i heard also described and that goes to the level of education and outreach. i do want to acknowledge jed hoelzeman who has been taking the time to educate people and he will share i'm sure candidly to those who have not been as enthusiastic to the education

that he can offer. truly it's through his diligence and coming to the retirement board speaking in 3-minute intervals on many different items. he's done a very decent job. jed, i want to encourage you not to be discouraged. keep up the good work. it is actually working. however, maybe not to the pace you would like, but there is a change in the thinking that has occurred with some of the board members. one thing i do want to bring publically actually to ask mike may burger to schedule a meeting in november to continue to move forward and continue the discussion. i myself do not want to be considered and hope to be considered an

obstruction. i do want to be a helpful hand in moving the conversation forward. i think that's all the remarks that i have, supervisor avalos. what's the motion? >>supervisor john avalos: continue the call of the chair. thank you, you remind me. i appreciate you wanting to schedule the meeting in november for the esg committee. i was just reminded if it takes too long to get the horse to water then it takes longer to drink outs of. if we can have a motion to continue to the call of the chair. >> so moved. >> we'll take that without objection. we are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >>

parks and places of communicated and thanks to the mayor and the department of technology and supervisor farrell and google. we had a very very unique partnership that was able to bring wifi to our most heavily used parks and squares. >> parks in particular are really important way of life and quality of life and so is connectivity. bringing those two things together in a project like this is right on target with what san francisco is and wants to be. >> it's all about breaking apart the divide. the people with expensive data plan can have access to information and economy. this is really breaking down the digital divide and giving people across the spectrum the opportunity to information and giving them mobility and freedom.

>> particularly by investing in connectivity in park spaces we are also ensuring the connection to digital inclusion opportunities and parks are designed for all neighborhoods. >> people are on the move. they are no longer chained to their desk tops at home. people can accomplish a lot and we prefer them being here an enjoying the outdoors and nature. given all the mobile community and mobile information that's available. we thought it was important to make it for our parks acceptable for everyone and give everyone the opportunity to live and to work and be at the parks at the same time. >> our full mission in life is to give them access to the internet, give them access to information. in san francisco you don't have to be bottled up in an office. you can be around and

enjoy your work anywhere. it's great for the local community here and it means a lot to me. >> in the park, you are people that can teach you about the trees in the park and you can go to parks and recreation .org and having wifi in our parks makes it more accessible. if you want more information about how to enjoy wifi in san francisco parks, go to px

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feel their own creativity. >> this really is a place where all people can come and take a class and fill part of the community. this is very enriching as an artist. a lot of folks take these classes and take their digital imagery and turn it into negatives. >> there are not many black and white darkrooms available anymore. that is a really big draw. >> this is a signature piece. this is the bill largest darkroom in the u.s.. >> there are a lot of people that want to get into that dark room. >> i think it is the heart of this place. you feel it when you come in. >> the people who just started

taking pictures, so this is really an intersection for many generations of photographers and this is a great place to learn because if you need people from different areas and also everyone who works here is working in photography. >> we get to build the community here. this is different. first of all, this is a great location. it is in a less-populated area. >> of lot of people come here

just so that they can participate in this program. it is a great opportunity for people who have a little bit of photographic experience. the people have a lot, they can really come together and share a love and a passion. >> we offer everything from traditional black and white darkrooms to learning how to process your first roll of film. we offer classes and workshops in digital camera, digital printing. we offer classes basically in the shooting, ton the town at night, treasure island. there is a way for the programs exploring everyone who would like to spend the day on this

program. >> hello, my name is jennifer. >> my name is simone. we are going on a field trip to take pictures up the hill. >> c'mon, c'mon, c'mon. >> actually, i have been here a lot. i have never looked closely enough to see everything. now, i get to take pictures. >> we want to try to get them to be more creative with it. we let them to be free with them but at the same time, we give them a little bit of direction. >> you can focus in here. >> that was cool.

>> if you see that? >> behind the city, behind the houses, behind those hills. the see any more hills? >> these kids are wonderful. they get to explore, they get to see different things. >> we let them explore a little bit. they get their best. if their parents ever ask, we can learn -- they can say that they learned about the depth of field or the rule of thirds or that the shadows can give a good contrast. some of the things they come up with are fantastic. that is what we're trying to encourage. these kids can bring up the creativity and also the love for

photography. >> a lot of people come into my classes and they don't feel like they really are creative and through the process of working and showing them and giving them some tips and ideas. >> this is kind of the best kept secret. you should come on and take a class. we have orientations on most saturdays. this is a really wonderful location and is the real jewel to the community. >> ready to develop your photography skills? the harvey milk photo center focuses on adult classes. and saturday workshops expose youth and adults to photography classes.

>> i'm warren corn field and we are doing a series called stay safe, we are going to talk about staying in your home after an earthquake and taking care of your pet's needs. ♪

>> here we are at the spur urban ken center and we are in this little house that was built to show what it is like in san francisco after an earthquake. we are very pleased to have with us today, pat brown from the department of animal care and control and her friend oreo. >> hi. >> lauren. >> could you tell us what it would take after an earthquake or some other emergency when you are in your home and maybe no power or water for a little while. what it would take for you and oreo to be comfortable and safe at home. >> just as you would prepare for your own needs should an earthquake or a disaster event occur, you need to prepare for your pets. and i have brought with me today, some of the things that i have put in my disaster kit to prepare for my animal's needs to make sure that i am ready should something happen

and i need to shelter at home. >> what are some of the things that people should have in their home after an earthquake or other emergency to help take care of their tasks and take care of themselves. >> i took the liberty of bringing you some examples. it includes a first aid kit for your pet and you can also use it for yourself and extra meds for your pets. and water container that will not tip over. we have got both food, wet food and dry food for your pet. and disposable food container. and water, and your vet records. in addition, we have a collar and some toys. >> yeah. to keep oreo busy. >> he needs toys and this is san francisco being a fruity city and come on oreo. this is your dinner, it is

patte style chicken dinner with our foody seen here. >> what they say now is that you should have at least a gallon of water and i think that a gallon of water is small amount, i think that maybe more like two gallons of water would be good for you and your pet. >> does the city of animal control or any other agency help you with your pet after an emergency. >> there is a coalition of ngos, non-governmental organizations led by the department of animal care and control to do disaster planning for pets and that includes the san francisco spca. the paws group, the vet sos, pets unlimited. and we all have gotten together and have been getting together for over four or five years now to talk about how we can educate the public about being prepared for a disaster as it involves your pets.

>> a lot of services. i understand that if you have to leave your home, we are encouraging people to take their pets with them. >> absolutely. we think that that is a lesson that we concerned from karina, if you are being evacuated you should take your pet with you. i have a carrier, and you need to have a carrier that you can fit your pet in comfortably and you need to take your pet with you when you were evacuated. >> i am going to thank you very much for joining us and bringing oreo today. and i am go >> good afternoon. everybody welcome it the budget & finance committee. wednesday, october 21, 2015, my name is mark farrell i'll be chairing this meeting and joined by supervisor tang thank you jim

smith all leo from sfgovtv for covering this meeting and mr. victor young mr. clerk any announcements >> completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the october 27, 2015, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated okay. thank you madam clerk call item one. >> mr. chairman would you like to take action on 7. >> yes. happy to do so you. >> the department of public health to amend 360 for approximately 3 o thirty thousand clients and i understand there are technical things we have to work on, on this item i'd like to propose to continue this item for one week i said your bftd and department

okay with that i want to take public comment anyone wish to comment on item number seeing none, public comment is closed so if it's okay to have a motion to continue. >> all right. so moved. >> motion by commissioner tang. >> that item passes with supervisor mar being a little bit arrest; correct and mr. clerk item one. >> amending the planning code for the firearm dealers to have records of all ammunition sales to the police department. >> thank you mr. clerk this is an item he introduced over the summer we have a significant public safety issue happening in san francisco on our streets over the course of the last year and a half i've held 4 safety tells you i know the community is vulnerable we can't do enough to promote go public safety on

the streets here at the board of supervisors and in this brisk we'll finance more and more officers on the streets but doing everything we can from the budget prospective and the, of course, o legislative prospective to make public safety as a top priority in the city in terms of this legislation itself you know individuals not only in san francisco but cross the state and country continue it have easy access to guns and ammunition it is a contributing factor to senseless violence across the city unfortunately, we continue to see since introducing this legislation mass shootings the most recent one up in oregon everyday in this country close to one hundred people are killed in our country's because of gun violence and even though our

city and state have some of the toughest laws on the books our congress fails us in gun safety and left to jurisdictions like ourselves in order to place laws on the books to make sure we have the safe it cabin laws in our country there are gaps that exist in federal, state, and local laws a so in response the legislation the item before you that i authored will require first of all, the videotaping of all gun save and the electronic transition of electronic ammunition on a weekly basis to the san francisco police department we need to do everything in our power as a city to make sure we have the evict i did gun safety laws to have the public safety of our san francisco residents come

first so the details of this legislation the first portion is going to require that the videotaping of all gun and ammunition sales in the city and county of san francisco that will be made public to the police department after a search warrant who also apply to other critical areas of business preemptors that sells guns not to exceed where all guns and firearms are sold or transferred and including all cabinets and parking lots and so forth currently no federal or california law pose security requirements or action committee for women in prison ethics commission sellers to have videotape simple having all this will help to defer those that seek to

purchase guns legally and use them more elicit purposes this is existing everywhere the status of gun violence violence over 75 percent happens with illegal purchased guns 80 percent of the shootings in our country 80 percent have occurred with legally purchased guns a vested from interest in san francisco and quite frankly across the country to have regulations with newly purchased firearms and secondly, it is to give our police department additional research tools to be able to investigate crimes to the best of their ability i know and i see people in the audience that have been at the board of supervisors for years frustrated with our inability to prosecute

or investigate crimes this hopefully b will provide additional tools for the police department currently the bureaucracy of alcohols and firearms and explosives didn't check the hundred and a 38 dealers across the city i want to give it city all the tools possible with the atf they're lucky to do one random check of licensed dealers in. (off the record.) the washington post as a result of inadequate staffing they are disconnected 10 percent of the dealers on average their inspected once a decade dealers and palm brokers with were the biggest traffic of guns and the licensed claelz have access to dealers makes

them a public safety violation this legislation will make sure we have evidence when necessary for law enforcement and the section portion of the legislation requires the electronic transition of the sales data with the san francisco police department the goals of this legislation itself are to insure that the dealers in san francisco about not be detrimental to our public health and safety and protect illegal public trafficking by the dealers and employees provide the loss and theft and a protective sale to persons that are prohibited from probation officer those items i believe this passage is necessary and simply common sense reform and additional protections here in the city of san francisco since introducing this the legislation has

gardened an incredible amount of attention for two reasons won the last remain gun store in 0 it has decided to close down in response to the introduction of this legislation and also, because of the unfortunate number of things that have occurred in recent months, in terms of mass shootings if we can't act as a congress and country after what we witness on the streets i believe it is shameful and we will continue as local jurisdictions certainly in san francisco to make sure that in lieu of federal regulations we continue to pursue this this line of regulation as vigorously as possible and sells in terms of the last remaining gun store in san francisco closing down if we want to close down because of

legislation so be it and more power to them at the end of the day i'd rather see a preschooler and coffee shop or some other neighborhood serving incite that electricities to the vitality if that's the result of the legislation we will be better off colleagues, any questions or comments so i appreciate our indulgence a matter of claurtd but no legislative analyst report if anyone wants to comment i'd like to ask alison to come up there's a number of people involved in this top u topic so i want to thank you for your advocacy by i wanted to thank you for your time to thank katherine and steve i didn't

from any staff is involved in the action i see a shirt in the front right now thank you for you'll see groups one of the things we've learned i'll tell you this city is mobilized around sandy hook a lot of people in the city and other incidents that have claimed lives locally but it is amazing what a village around the issue and we have a long way to go this is but a step locally but anyways thank you you'll all your commitment and kathy republican on a personal level thank you for being here and i'm alison from the laws center to prevent gun violence this helps law enforcement to solve crimes and keep gun stores employees and purchasers safer and get guns away from people that shouldn't have them we're

honored to work with the city and county of san francisco for over two decades to draft a enact sensible gun laws the gun sales will help the law enforcement officers to help identify crime but the purposeers from committing crimes like using false identification or robbing a gun store employee 8 other cities including el cerrito and oakland and santa cruz have gun sales despite from the vocal minority of people in recent months, those laws are revery popular a 2007 poll find 91 percent of gun owners said that videotaping be gun sales make no difference to purchase their guns from a gun

store or make them likely to pretty much a gun responsible gun owners want to buy from responsible dealers it's a critical tool that law enforcement used to get guns out of the hands of people that you been shouldn't have them a similar ordinance in sacramento allowed 56 people that purchased ammunition from having them hundred and 4 had pressure convictions and as a result 4 dozen individuals were convicted of a crime we have assaulted weapons and thousands of round of ammunition la has a similar law and people purchase 10 thousand rounds at least at

county keep records if you allow me 10 more seconds those laws are permissible and constitutional they authorize the locals government's to go above and beyond and nor do they violet the second amendment in fact the instrument said the commercial sale of firearms is a regulation thank you, again supervisor farrell and the city of san francisco for leading the effort to reduce americans epidemic of gun violence >> thank you. i have a few other speakers (calling names). >> if you guys want to come on up. >> i'm claire i want to thank you very much for introducing this legislation i reside in bruno heights i worked for over 20 years as a

nurse practitioner at snflz i felt the human to have gun violence this last december it hit me personally this is any only son his goal to be a san francisco firefighter as a emt in the south bay and went out on december 7th to brunn's open 20 and mission to celebrate when he was leaving the club that night a 21-year-old unknown to him crossing fired two shots one killed my son so this not only changed his life but mine completely i think whatever he didn't make the news we see it from the news whatever brakes we can put on pass th gun violation epidemic a health epidemic in the country and if

it can save one persons life that's the world who's life was ended along with any son that day thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> and anyone else either i called on speakers are welcome please come on up. >> hello this is sandra combrord glad to be here in support of gun control and i want to thank you supervisor farrell for being so such an very long for us i'm in support of gun safety for all citizens not only in the city and county but the country so i support the ordinance for videotaping any transaction with firearms or bullet as you said to please continue on this

pathway to make it safe for all of you say in the city and county of san francisco and by setting the example to other cities i hope they will do the same thing thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> excuse me. >> never prepared. >> my name is pallet brown i lost any son ab before he 9 years ago august 14, 2018, and i want to thank you supervisor farrell for your leadership and the audience of recording and videotaping all transactions of gun transactions i want to tell you why i support this. >> i like to use the overhead my

son a aubrey was murdered august in 2006 a 200 and $50,000 an award but still no justice for my child it gun ordinance about o will monthly help my child but innocent victim he died safeway someone else's life he hollered out on his way to work for bruno heights city and county of san francisco i had to walk across the stage as he parents to get his diploma i've been on the battlefield for any son next week next year will you be a decade he carry those signs i need people to see how i feel gun arms with the third leading killers of age 17 my son was 17

when he was ms. short a homicide that happened on in our area and these mothers i stand with i also stand is it with other mothers and farthest that lost their which were to homicide and they don't want to come out i want to let them know that ordinance will help so mothers like myself wouldn't hurt i die daily this is my son it left on a journey this is what gun violence do to all the mothers and farthest 0 out there we want justice for your child and this ordinance passed. >> thank you ms. brown. >> yes. i'm pamela we want to say, i applaud supervisor farrell for his courage and

leadership that what is it takes in this epidemic with gun violence and it is a health epidemic my son was shot 42 times here i stand what it is going to stop when and the fact i had a gun pulled on me last year with our courage and leadership that begins local if we start local as the city and county of san francisco which is already been a leader this is choosing our lives over economics i heard you on the statement on the television in an interview when you stood up and said that we need more elective like that when you vote for the elections he need to vote for people that stand up for your lives over economics we've had too many lives over hundred and 5 will 45 mass

shootings on xhauz campuses i support this ordinance whorling and hope that the jurisdictions about listen and save our lives over economics where did the gun come from so we can get to the root of the problem and not chase it's those who are responsible you're not responsible you won't mind being videotaped so itch support this ordinance and the bravery of supervisor farrell and the other supervisors that stand up i'm a member of the council with jewish women we're against violence we've had enough of that people come here from all countries for safety so thank you very much. >> thank you very much anyone wish to comment on item number on this item? okay seeing none,

public comment is closed supervisor tang. >> thank you so much for everyone that come out and thank you to supervisor farrell this is a really tough issue to talk about especially in our country i agree with all the public commenters supervisor farrell was brave to take a stand i stand behind you want to see this ordinance so be it if our last remaining shop closes down in san francisco our city will be better for that and indeed serve as an example for other cities throughout the country with that, i'm happy to make a motion i move we send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> i want to say thanks to all who came out with people as a parental of the 3 little ones i came back can't imagine this is a personal thing and we'll

continue to fight here so thank you we'll be voting on this next week at the board of supervisors so motion by supervisor tang to forward this we'll take that without objection. >> that is passed without objection mr. clerk, call item 2. >> item 2 ordinance for $25 million plus consistent with $20.8 million in, 6 hundred and 65 costco settlement procedures and $42 million to the port commission to support the completion of the port commission capital improvement plan. >> i believe we have someone from the port here today.

>> morning i'm megan the director for the poster of san francisco to increase the ports fiscal year 2015-2016 capital budget about $25.7 million for a total of $38.5 million. >> as you may know the port of san francisco covers 7 and a half miles ever of dpoofs waterfront and therefore a lot of needs ranging from maritime to abilities and equipment of parks to historic structures including sheds and bulk heads and sub structure and but along with that need comes a great deal of investment

we've got a $969 million backlog over the 10 years up to $1.1 million and this is estimate is simply for renewal not code improvements or seismic or the seawall this chart is the structure deficit the issues in terms of funding the capital needs 40 and $50 million to cover our renewal requirements as you can see the blue line our spending is lower than this how have the supplemental makes an in rode getting close to our desired investment so the supplemental includes

$75 million because 1.3 pg&e payment for cable that will run approximately $3 million offshore and $5.5 million for the fisher 2014-2015 this is a combination of surplus operational and expenditures from personnel and non-exceptional and 14 point plus it was previously approved and closed out we found potentially found potential funding to cover ada improvements we've incorporated those costs into future projects and not able about $700,000 of the funding is the costco settlement that occurred in 2011 in response to the 2007 oil spill under the banging. >> the port is funding 16

projects just to go back to the capital needs the budget is to repair and replacement requirements that are specifically you know called out in the capital plan $8.5 million is an enhancement project that will generate additional revenues to louse allow us to invest in capital and port staff identified the 16 projects based on is objectives you know remaining from health and safety to generating revenue. >> so go through the list of promotions 5 key projects that improve safety and reduce risk on the waterfront the terminal repairs if china baseline this installed in 1999 we need to install new equipment to insure safety store the public ladders

and skylight pier 39 an investigation with contamination those will help us with a deeper dive into the translation and the fund is a a supplemental that allows us to have cash on hand for example, a fire at pier 39 this the funds to match our insurance support. >> additionally seawall assessment this is the project i alluded to we have 5 hundred thousand invested start a study of the seawall and marginal works this million dollars will louse allow us to continue that assessment and ultimately determine the investment requirement of seawall and build it into the capital plan over the coming years.

>> the next i'll walk from north to south pier 29 is near your crews terminal this was as america's cup venue and currently vacant had the major fire in 2012 we were able to rebuild the super structure that is the bulk head and shed in the front of the facility this seven hundred thousand will supplement fund to a 2 plus million dollars for rail space and increases the revenue by $600,000 the belt line building a cute facility in front of the cruise terminal that is in the back and unfortunately an older picture not highlighting the beautiful but we envision this for rail

and passenger space they'll come out of terminal and visit this this will be a small generator and generally in the area we have 3 projects underway the addition of pier 39 and the beltway building but we're seeing the construction climate really having costs coming in higher than estimated this mom and dad's will serve to adjust based on the bids that come in on all three of those projects. >> pier 23 was also america's cup viewpoint an historic structure the roof was replaced in the 1970s and they continue to repair this is for replacement and allow us to lease out this space for approximately $700,000 a year

sorry that's noting net in 10 years. >> and further down the waterfront the central baseline off of pier 70 you may be familiar with that the forest city project a shipping facility with the da important for jobs generates our nerd to equally take in cruise ships to federal ships any large vessel coming along the pacific coast this is a critical location we're working with the army engineers to dredge the says that the port needs to spend within 1.6 and $2 million to match the federal fund and the da will put in their match right next to the shipyard is the park off of crane coffee

park is contamination is about supplement to complete that cap work. >> be building one 02 part of project but current trofrments supplying the where green superintendant guerrero empower through the shipyard the tropisms will create a new power source this is part of our workforce to move the project forward the back land is a critically project that is the enhancement project i called out earlier as you can see we're forecasting $8.6 million net revenues over the 10 years as a result of grading the space and preparing

it for industrial uses that compliment the southern waterfront and a great opportunity for the port to enhance the revenues we're generating. >> the street project you may be familiar i brought in september and expends to one million dollars fund will allow us to complete the scope of the project and fully repaving the roads previously only partially repaired and power you may drive along 280 and see delipidated piers failing into the waters numerous are on the waterfront the staff as identified funding sources and entrants and army co-sponsorship funds down the road to meet the needs an

additional effort for pier 84 and other piers that is in the next slide the park the last terminal that very slim pier sticking out next to the park this project is funded by the cost could development funds and specifically will be completing engineering and design to stabilize that shoreline you'll see areas the sediment is deteriorating so how to preserve that in fill that serves as a habitat for birds in summary thank you for your time this is a $25.7 million we see a lot of opportunities to addressing the 10 year capital needs and improving the southern waterfront and other key things excluding progressively the ports financial position we see

the construction climate as a cost hike up we do see a need for contingencies i'm here with elaine forbes our cfo and other folks for questions. >> thanks nothing mr. rose, can we go to your report on item 2. >> yes. mr. chairman, and members of the committee on page 5 we have a tackle one that identifies each of the $25.7 million of funding sources that included ♪ proposed supplemental and on page 4 we have table 2 which identifies the 16 port capital projects that were described by the department and on page 5 we also note that as shown in table 3 the estimated pay back period for 5

of the 16 projects capital investments is 6 years generating $16.8 million in new net revenues over the next 10 years to address and fund the ports capital project backlog we recommend you approve this legislation >> thank you very much mr. rose if no comments opening it up for public comment monoanyone wish to comment on item number on number 2 seeing none, public comment is closed. >> all right. through the chair thank you to the port your presentation was thorough and all the information we definitely see the needs and you can visually see it today i'll be happy to to forward this out i move we send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> we have a motion by supervisor tang thank you for the port being here we'll take that without objection.. >> that that item passes with supervisor mar being a little

bit. >> correct. >> mr. clerk, call item 3. >> item 3 ordinance for the appropriation of $3 million plus of the city and county of san francisco taxable goegd and fiscal year 2015-2016 the mayor's development. >> thank you. i building we have someone to speak on this. >> good morning from the controller's office to speak on this item just to give you a little bit of background the seismic safety program was approved under prop a in 1992 for money to provide loans for the seismic strength of the buildings frament the

city issued go bonds and the cost going back to founding those on may 23, 2015, the seismic committee approved a loan for the building on pier 70 and in jill of 2014 the board of supervisors authorized the sale of this million dollars for taxable go bond for this project the bond were solid in august of this year and 2014 a if you notice the line between the time that the bonds were originally approved by the board and finally sold a delay in the project eventually the project was ready to be funded in the time between the loan that was being the bond sales approved in

2014 and the sale in 2015 the original amount that was authorized for the loan a reserve a total fund that of authorized 20 point one million dollars for the project and a $3.2 million reserve that make up the balance that made the balance of this million dollars so the authorization of the bond sale and the actual sale the city negotiated favorable terms for the bond sale and this resulted in lower borrowing costs as a result that reserve that was being held for market conditions is largely available from the mayor's office of housing and community development would like to reappropriate the remainder towards the project costs and

loan it for the seismic improvements so the ordinance will deappropriate and appropriate $3 million plus which represents the reserve and some of the issuance costs targeted towards the projects that will be looped to the developer and go back to pay for the issuance of the bond the fiscal impact to the city will be minimal to none and as the costs of go bonds and the depth from the developer to the city i also have ann ramer if the mayor's office of housing and community development if you have me questions about the particulars of the loan. >> thank you very much

no questions at this point to mr. rose, can we go to your report for item 3. >> yes. mr. chairman, and members of the committee supervisor tang on page 8 of our report in table 2 the actual $24 million bond sales are total costs this includes the initial bond issuance in the mr. writers discount instead of the $3 million plus so this results in the savings of $3 million 4 plus on the bottom of page 8 in may of 2015 the seismic comet approved the revised amount for the $24 million for the historic project on pier 70 if you approve this ordinance the project will then receive a

$.22 million we recommend you approve the ordinance. >> thank you, mr. rose. >> seeing no questions open up for public comment. >> i have one additional comment to make that this is a technical amendment it is my duty to suggest to the committee line 4 for 2014 that is around artifact of them being approved but sold in 2015 series 2015. >> is that the only of only line. >> other listens they were referred to famous designations those are correct designations but we're entered in 2014 those with correct. >> we'll entertain that but get to our checker the revised legislation by 9:00 a.m.

tomorrow. >> okay. we're getting to the data from the budget committee. >> anyone wish to comment on item number seeing none, public comment is closed. >> tharl i'll make a motion to amend the legislation line that had and any other references and replace that with series 2015 a and sends are forward to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> john gibner, deputy city attorney. >> yes. you need to amend the title even though there are other references to 2014 that is the way it is coded the amendment in the title line change it. >> okay. >> yeah. >> a motion by supervisor tang and mr. gibner's exemptions and to make that adjustment and approve the underlying item we'll take that without objection. >> okay. thank you very much

mr. clerk, call items w4r5e together item 3 passes with supervisor mar absent and not to exceed 8 hodz hundred thousand dollars for the city and county of san francisco go bond clean and safe neighborhood bond 15 c and item 5 the authorization for the sale of not to exceed $43 million plus a principle amount of the city and county of san francisco go bond and park bond 2012 and series 2015 b. >> thank you mr. clerk week. >> good morning, again i'll be presenting items 34 and 5 for the clean and safe neighborhood parks bond in february 2008 the voters authorized $85 million for park

improvement projects sponsored by rec and park department and the port of san francisco to data hundred and $76 million plus bond have been issued before you an item 4 the resolution for the sale of the $8 million plus from the 2008 authorization of the total the one homicide $85 million railroad allocated from the rec and park department program and the balance of 35 plus million dollars was allocate and the final issuance to continue the program under the 2008 bond in november 2012 proposition b another hundred and $85 million for the project sponsored by rec and park and the port and to date $71 million plus in bonds have been issued from the 2012 authorization the resolution before you on

item 5 approves the sale of the bonds not to exceed $43 million plus for both rec and park and port supported park projects. >> of the total precedes approximately 13 plus go to funding the port projects and the reprimanded and retrained 31 plus towards rec and park projects based on a total amount of 2008 and 2012 bonds of $542 million and using the conservative interest rate of - the annual debt service $42 million over the total amount 200 and $86 million and $36 million to interest on the bonds. >> the interest annual property for assessed property value for properties that are

assessed at $700,000 the city charter has a debt limit that equals 10 percent as the property in the city net exemption and the go bonds are the net assessment for 2015-2016 from the board of supervisors approves this issuance of those clean and safe bonds it increases from .01 to a 4 well within the 3 percent limit and additionally the boards approved the policy constraint on policy bonds that insures the city bonds program will not be increased above the fiscal year 2006 but the proposed sale of those safe neighborhood bonds is consistent and will main the property rates blow the fiscal

year 2006 we're expecting to price and close those bonds sales this goes toward 4 park including the citywide parks and programs and waterfront parks this will fund the capital improvement across the city in the effectual an earthquake or in poor position or they ability to meet the recommendations the citywide program category bond fund will help to fund community-based initiative and playground forest city and trails and will be used to expand the scope of projects that can't be met to at funding sources the citywide parks program allocations the bond to 3

citywide parks the golden gate park john mclaren park and park merced those are iconic parks enjoyed by san franciscans and 2012 program to dedicate the funding in their natural areas additionally the san francisco waterfront is for the greenway and the constituent parks and as well other open space projects i can speak to any questions you may have regarding the specification of the bonds or questions about the details of any of the individual projects fund by the bond we have stacey from the rec and park department and eelena from the forbes they're ready to present. >> thank you, mr. shaw for being here in questions or comments yeah. thank you. >> no, that was extremely

thought-out mr. rose, can we go to your report on 4 and 5 please. >> yes. shown in table one of our report of this $42.6 million in bonds 850 plus to the project costs and one plus to the audit fund and 73 to the 0 cost of issuance and 4 hundred plus to the reserve that allows for market fluctuations with noted item 6 file 15102 on page 15 i've included the description of the estimated bond projects for the r and port on page 12 as stated the total debt service is $82.8.42 over the owners of bones and we also note as stated

the increased property tax on seven hundred thousand for instance, with the homeownership's exemption is approximately an additional $15 bus u plus but stated the additional property tax will be offset by the outstanding debt that is retired by the vote and property tax basz base we recommend you approve both those resolutions. >> thank you very much mr. rose. >> seeing no other questions or comments why not move on to public comment anyone wish to comment on 4 or 5 seeing none, public comment is closed. >> through the chair thank you. the presentation is thorough you hit all the points so thank you very much those bones and the parks bonds have done amazing things for the city we're happy

to see all the projects come to fruition through the sale of the bonds all to forward out i move we send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> motion by supervisor tang also want to say thanks fewer hard work and definitely to get those projects completed we'll take that without objection. >> that that item passes without observation with supervisor mar absent. >> item 67 appropriation for 6 hundred plus precedes from 2008 clean and safe neighborhood park bond and c and $43 million plus precedes from 2012 safe neighborhoods bonds second series 15 e to the rec and park department and the port commission and the preappropriation of one $.4 million to the 2013 a for the ramification parks and open

spaces and facing $52 million on reserves pending the sale of bonds in 2015-2016. >> okay. >> welcome back. >> thank you. i will keep this brief the intent of this ordinance to simply appropriate the proceeds of the bond funds that will be resulting from the sale of items four and five with the market uncertainly of 4 hundred plus the rest of the proceeds for the costs of issuance. >> thank you very much mr. rose mr. rose, can we go to your report for 6. >> yes. mr. chairman, and members of the committee and supervisor tang on page 60 of our report a table 3 the proposed proclamation of $8.7 million for the park and

that's from 2008 cleaning safe neighborhoods bonds monies and then table 4 on page 17 of our report shows the appropriation of $43.8 million for the port projects and that's from the 2012 bonds so the 2008 and 2012 on page 17 table 5 shows the proposed the deappropriation and reappropriation of $1.4 million for the port that's the 2012 clean and safe neighborhood bond projects again, this was a companion to the other two items we recommend you approve the items. >> thank you very much mr. rose seeing no questions or comments anyone wish to comment on item number on item 6 seeing none, public comment is closed. >> all right. through the chair make a motion to send forward 6 with a positive recommendation. >> we have a emission by

supervisor tang we'll take that without objection. >> that item passes with supervisor mar being absent. >> that's correct item 8. >> resolution 30 years the amendment which extends the original license beyond the time for antenna and related space on jones street with the jones apartment association california corporation at $11,000 plus monthly. >> okay. thank you we have real estate here to talk. >> good morning supervisor farrell and supervisor tang i'm the assistant director of the real estate this office an amendment between the city and the new property owner associations the city's continued occupation of rooftop space and other space

in the building necessary for the department of emergency services public safety radio and communication systems project the equipment is several antennas in the equipment room briefly we have someone to talk about the project if you need more information the site is nearly irreparableable the department of emergency replacement seeks to renovate, upgrade and provides better coverage for the emergency systems and the board of supervisors board approved it approximately 20 yoorlgz years ago when the systems were incorporated choose 9 sites a web of coverage if one is taken down they all need to be taken down part it renewing those lowe's lazy think there are 7 of them so the sites what remain within the system and coverage

is maintained the city and counties city's r city has leased the space since 2008 and it expires in 2019 this allows to continue to 2 and continues 4, 5 year option we can stay there for thirty years an you could of equipment or allows the experiment to come out of the site and the price to go down if he do that so technology changes we can change was there and allows allows for dual equipment to be at the site with no extra cost city currently pace 9 thousand a month under the new lease the city will pay 11 thousand plus a one-time fee for the total first year rent of $23,000 you plus

the rent increases until 2019 and the utility are in the rents those rents and increases are compatible with similar tell coming leases and transactions and one plaza in the bayview and 555 california unless you very specific questions regarding the project on behalf of the department of emergency services we ask you recommend and forward this to do board. >> thank you very much supervisor tang. >> just one really quick clarify the increases in the rent is it are for the market or because of increased space that we're leasing. >> increased equipment at the location during the years certain things and upgrades were made and not reflected in the rent. >> okay. thank you.

>> mr. rose, can we go to your report on 8. >> yes. mr. chairman, and members of the committee supervisor tang on our last point he note on the top of page 34 the city paid rent to the clara jones this is from the december 1st, 2015, through the existing license terms of january in any event 2019 and this first amendment will increase that rent to 449 an increase of $86,000 or 24 percent an december 1st through january 31st, 2019, that is shown in table 3 and the reason for that there specifically is because since 1999 the city added equipment to the site not reflected in the origin license the rent to be paid by the claire jones association through

the prompt first amendment for the 24 most to the extension from december 1st, 2015, through january 31st, 2019, a $2 million plus that is shown in tackle 3 on page 35 of our report we recommend you approve this resolution. >> thank you very much no other comments we'll move on to public comment. open up for public comment be anyone wish to comment on item number on 8. >> public comment is closed. >> i'd like to send this auto with a positive recommendation. >> we'll take that without objection. >> that item passes with supervisor mar being absent. >> correct item 9 a resolution for relieving authorized the public defender's office to accept and expend from the state

c for the purpose of implementing the jewel accountability measures. >> do we have pd and yes managing interest of the public defender's office good morning, supervisors supervisor farrell and supervisor tang i'd like to thank supervisor campos for spors this resolution for over a decade we've received grant fund for the re-entry attorney position she carries a caseload of well over hundred youth on any given day and to expedited the youth from detention into placements and also in developing rap services that meet the needs of kids when they return omen from the county came and for the past 5 years i

maintain the data we've been able to keep recidivism down for our clients in defined recidivism as any new delinquent offense this is a successful grant award i hope we maintain the arrogant funding with the department of corrections. >> thank you very much. we'll move on to public comment anyone wish to comment on item number on item 9 seeing none, public comment is closed. >> thank you. >> through the chair thank you for the presentation i'd like to make a motion to forward this out with a positive recommendation and we have a motion by supervisor tang we're on track. >> that that item passes with supervisor mar being absent. >> yes. mr. clerk, call item 10. >> item 10 resolution approving the landscape maintenance with

the state of california point of privilege permitting the responsibility for state highway of san francisco. >> dpw is here. >> good morning. i'm rep public works. >> the proposed resolution for authorization to enter into a landscape maintenance with caltrain the city has sponsored work to improve the landscaping with the state his or her 101 and i 280 in the landscape agreement the estate has permitted those through individual state encroachment permits from the do you want a highway and to consolidate those under a single agreement to assure the improvements pursuant to the permit no fiscal impact as

maintenance work and city operation is reimbursed by caltrain there the agreement and other locations maintenance is provided by community groups or local businesses using their founding r funding and staff okay. >> thanks very much no budget analyst report so move on to public comment anyone wish to comment on item number seeing none, public comment is closed. >> okay through the chair this looks at fine i'd like to make a motion with a positive recommendation. >> we'll take that without objection. >> the that item passes with supervisor mar being absent. >> correct mr. clerk items 11 and 12 and macarthur park to the memorandum of understanding between the city and county of san francisco and firefighters local 798 local one and 12

adopting and amending to the 2018 memorandum of understanding between the san francisco and the local firefighters local 2. >> okay thanks the gentleman is here from our d hr. >> through the chair i'm martin grand employee relations director with the department of human services i'm joined by the excessive from the fire department and we're presenting you today two mou amendments regarding the mutual aid deployments around the state office of emergency services request that individual fire agencies assisted other local agencies in fighting fires especially in northern california we tend to be called the san francisco fire

department has responded to 7 fires since july 1st and the given dry conditions throughout the state we expect this to be continuing about the pace of mutual aid requests reimbursement for the labor cost of those deployments for decades the state has project gated reimbursement rules and reimbursement policies that recognize reimbursement on a portal to portal basis this is what the firefighters leave san francisco and through from that time all the way back to they get to san francisco and prepared to go out to service for san francisco vents the two mou before you are the merrily summons documenting the current policy the state requests a

written document acknowledging this practice so we are presenting this to the board so we can maintain the current state reimbursement practices and continue to pay the employees on that same basis while their deployed on mutual aid calls this is a no change for the city by insures to continue to bring back the reimbursement dollars that allows us to continue to fight fires in northern california and do so with the reimbursement from the state. >> okay. >> thanks very much seeing no comment or questions. >> sore r sorry supervisor tang. >> thank you, mr. grant i want to clarify we had received from san francisco or sorry from the state we've received those reimbursements that we've recently been asked to put it to

memorialize our current practices. >> that's correct and in terms of the timing of those before us now really just because the state asked. >> yes. the state requested this and deadlines triggered by the comments we've experienced this year so we are doing this to make sure we can capture the reimbursement dollars for the july fires. >> thank you. >> okay nothing from the fire department and none in the schafrm we'll open up for public comment and close public comment. >> through the chair i would like to make a motion to forward items 11 and 12 with a positive recommendation. >> motion by supervisor tang also we'll take that without objection. >> the that item passes with supervisor mar being absent. >> correct mr. richie any other business today. >> that completes our business for today. >> thank you ladies and

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desires, from hand made ice cream to organic cakes, artisan chocolate and cupcakes galore, the options are endless. anyone out there with a sweet tooth? then i have a great stop for you. i've been searching high and low for some great cookies and the buzz around town that anthony's are those cookies. with rave reviews like this i have to experience these cookies for myself and see what the fuss was all about. so let's see. while attending san francisco state university as an accountinging major, anthony's friend jokingly suggested he make cookies to make ends make. with no formal culinary training he opened his own

bakery and is now the no. 1 producer of gourmet cookies in the biarea and thank you for joining us on quick bites. how do you feel? >> i feel great. >> so i want to get to the bottom of some very burning questions. why cookies? >> it was a recommendation from a friend. hard to believe that's how it all started. >> why not pies and cakes? what do you have against pies and cakes, anthony. >> i have nothing against pies and cakes. however, that was the recommendation. >> you were on the road to be an account apblt. >> actually, an engineer. >> even better. and it led to making cookies. >> in delicious ways. >> delicious ways.

>> this is where the magic goes down and we're going to be getting to the truth behind cookies and cream. >> this is what is behind cookies and cream. >> where were you when the idea came to your mind. >> i was in my apartment eating ice cream, cookies and cream ice cream. how much fun, cookies and cream cookies. their cookies and cream is not even -- it took a lot of time, a lot of fun. >> a lot of butter. >> a lot, a lot, a lot. but it was one of those things. all right, now behold. you

know what that is? >> what is that? >> cookies and cream. >> oh, they are beautiful. >> yes, so we got to get --. >> all right, all right. we treat the cookies like wine tasting. i don't ever want anybody to bite into a cookie and not get what they want to get. we're training staff because they can look at the cookie and tell if it's wrong. >> oh, here we go. >> you smell it and then you taste it, clean the plat palate with the milk. >> i could be a professional painter because i know how to do this. >> i can tell that it's a really nice shell, that nice

crunch. >> but inside. >> oh, my god. so you are going to -- cheat a little bit. i had to give you a heads up on that. >> what's happening tomorrow? these cookies, there's a lot of love in these cookies. i don't know how else to say it. it really just makes me so happy. man, you bake a mean cookie, anthony. >> i know. people really know if they are getting something made with love. >> aww >> you know, you can't fool people. they know if you are taking shortcuts here and there. they can eat something and tell the care that went into it. they get what they expect. >> uh-huh. >> system development and things like that.

>> sounds so technical. >> i'm an engineer. >> that's right, that's right. cookies are so good, drove all other thoughts out of my head. thank you for taking time out it talk to us about what you do and the love with which you do it. we appreciate your time here on quick bites. i hope you've enjoyed our delicious tale of defendant 93 and dessert. as for me, my search is over. those reviews did not lie. in fact, i'm thinking of one of my very own. some things you just have it experience for yourself. to learn more about anthony's cookies, visit him on the web

at anthoniescookies.com. if you want to watch some of our other episodes at sfquickbites/tumbler.com. see