schedule meetings i've been in, my personal sense is some of it is conditioned on a little bit of a fear factor with how all the trades are getting on berd and on board and how they are dovetailing in. i'm sensing there's a bit of that and i think some of the mitigation is going to be kind of dispaiting as it some of those activities of those other trades come into focus. >> my other question maybe would be for mark. with regard to the bay america come mraipbs, i would presume that the desire or professional services contracts for design services placed the burden of design on thab buy america

compliant on the designer? >> yes, our plans, we believe, are buy america compliant. we asked the business bidders to certify they are buy america compliant. frankly at this point we are just holding hands trying to make sure at the comply. if they bring up an item that they believe is not buy america compliant, designers can double check and if that is true we will offer a different item for them to incorporate. but a lot of this mass to do with the building mgtd system and the fire management system, a lot of them electronics and electron traik made it hard to design what component was made here, what component was made overseas. with buy america compliant,

if it's an end component it has to be made in the united states. if it's not, it doesn't have to be. now that it's become a challenge lately because a lot of the contractors are starting to submit that information and we're diving into it right away because we want to make sure it's properly managed. >> but our designs would have, based on what we believe to be a main system versus a subsystem and would have been certified the availability of american made. >> the intent of the design was to be buy america compliant but we are asking the contractor to certify, we are asking him to certify time of and we are holding him to that too. >> we're just about out of time, so ted, you want to -- is there any comments on any of this? >> just real quick, i show no members of the public that

wanted to comment on the construction update so i will go ahead and call 19, fred is here with us for the citizen advisory committee update. >> i just wanted to mention that the city's rab rail yard and boulevard study will be up next month for us because they have addressed the second public hearing since it was such a popular hearing the first time. so we'll hear from them and we're happy from the public reaction they have had. we also heard this week from john thomas and denise systems' reports we were very interested in all of that but we were really urging staff, we know they are already meating with all of these sister organizations, but to meet with the police, fire, emergency, as

maria mentioned, but homelessness, we have a large problem with that as well as vision because the traffic intersected on two streets. we just want to make sure we lookedality all possible ways of hapblgtdsing and mitigating each of these situations in an innovative way. we don't want just a typical solution, wrie want to rethink the issues and the problems. we welcomed ron almeda particularly in draetsing -- addressing the milestones. i want to thank maria with this last project with the awning. i believe the project itself is a tremendous educational example and i hope that

therefore wae work with the school district to always use the project for this. that penrose awning is a graphic example of pi and i would suggest, you know, this week is coming up, 3-14, and i hear it's an opportunity for us to always make it current and relevant, as well as all of the engineering and design issues that come up in doing this, let alone a 30-year project and all of the work that each of you do on this. so i congratulate maria and her entire team for bringing this off. we're all very proud of you. >> okay, you are ready to go back into closed says, 54952b, we have not received any indicate any member of the public to address you on the item listed, they can do so now

. >> all right, the tjpa board of directors meeting of march 10, 2016 is back in session and nrs no action to report. directors, that concludes your agenda for today. >> okay, we are adjourned. (meeting adjourned). >> power it's all around us in the sun and the winds and caves waves power that lights our homes while protecting our natural resources clean power will provide power to san

franciscans how about works right now our power is from pg&e from non-renewable systems that comes over pg&e maintained lines with clean power your energy about think generated by caesarean more renewable sources come to our home e.r. businesses to the pg&e lines - >> well, thank you for coming this morning ladies and gentlemen, our city over the past few months had not been grammatic grappling with a crisis in far too any city's between the trust of color and law enforcement in the breakdown of this trustee can most awe kufl the shooting

death of mario woods this past december and since that sdooub incident i've ordered a number of reforms to the use of force policies to prevent police officer involved shootings whenever possible i've proposed comprehensive farmz removes the department of justice own recommendation and the president obama to rebuild the community trust i'm joined by many in our community more calling for an independent review of the police departments policies and of the death of mr. mario woods i've asked and tasked achieving chief suhr and others to submit a detailed plan for further reforms after a series of

community meetings around the city and with stakeholders input this is not been an easy task by any means i want to say first hand a deep gratitude i have to the volunteers of our police commission of who spent count countedless hours working with volunteers from the communities, to make sure that this reflected deserv desires coming from the community as well as professional ideas and today, i accept their comprehensive reform packages it you'll hear in detail in a moment a reformed package that is developed in partnering with the community and already directed any budget direction to incorporate those into the budget planning i believe because of the input

that has been given by countless hours by you are african-american reform and review form and also by a number of conversations i've had not only with this forum but engages engagements throughout the community substantial and meaningful changes to policy to training, and to equipment and they do sdmafkt have agree change in craigslist as to how and when offers use force already, we've seen the benefits of those new tactics earlier this month for example, the police department encountered a man with a knife and the man didn't drop the knife avenue verbal very clear verbal instructions or after getting hesitate that beanbags and pepper stray our police officers

retreated in this incident to create time and distances and eventually were able to apprehend the superintendant without firing the guns our policewoman's protecting did public without using life or death force we are fundamentally reengineering the ways police officers use force awhile at the same time increasing transparent and other within our san francisco police department we already have one of the most transparent process he's and open processing for governing the police the country and this comprehensive reform will build on the foundation and help our sworn officers to strengthen their ties with the community while keeping e keeping the city save this is a time to rebuild and

build and go forward it is a time we recognize we must he'll the wounds and at the same time bridge the challenge between our communities and those scorn to protect them and again, i acknowledge this is no single task it requires the continuous efforts on police reform and job training and violence protection but has to do with education, housing and violence reduction the communities i and many of the other standing behind me representing our communities and our departments h are committed to the work i know everyone here as well is committed i know that more is needed to be done and more needs to be said we'll continue this dialogue and this action

and also wanted to make sure you know that with us today are march and deanthony jones a couple of the youth leader that are part of that process we engaged our youth as ma many along with our faith-based leaders and the community advisory form we've been working hard at with that, i want to let you know this document that is presented to me does reflect what i asked for mayor ed lee and it reflected an approach that i'm proud has been reflected of our community input and, in fact, stat through a couple of the sessions including the one last week to march or make sure they're on track and d to go into detail will be the police commission and police

chief let me introduce exclusively greg suhr. >> thank you, mr. mayor and good morning years we've been working as a police department with the community members many standing behind me and many more that will end up finishing this story to foster trust and good relationships with the community realm in policing without the trust the community we can't best do our jobs that trust was shaken for many recipient especially in communities of color on december 2nd with the use of mario woods and we've been working hard under the leadership of the compamayor an commissioner president loftus to try to get to a place where we can minimize that force with regard to weapons and other

situations we need to figure out a way to reengineer force we've collaborated with experts from around the country around the world and met with people from the united kingdom and members and 3450i67 have been back eatist tries the main goal the sanctity of life for everyone that everybody walks away whenever possible as the mayor stated on the story 90 on february 8 fourth street officers enoccurred a superintendant of 6 foot that mr. plus with a knife in one hand and a key the other and wouldn't surrendered the weapons we tried the tools and were unsuccessful used the language we're talking about the deesclation practices where we wanted to create time and distance to formulate a plan and

tried to deescalate those are makes sen things we've been training for the last few weeks and the day ended they realized what was not going to work and plan b getting an arsenal of the superintendant and wrestled him again sanctity of life, deesclation, proportionality and the time for distance are the basis for everybo everything tweezer talking about with with any weapon short of a firearm the vast majors of shootings that have happened in san francisco by a recent study inside 5 minutes and 19 months create time 15 and distances 15 yarld we can avoid the officer-involved shooting short of a firearm we've made the planning of a

firearm with the use of force it might not seem significant to a regular person but meeting with the community they want an explanation every time an officer points a firearm and will get it supervisors are not required to respond to an incident to take over and hopefully get inside of the 5 minutes that is the firearm qualification to a - from a one or two basically just confidence for the firearm to a 8 firearm training with the first half of the day everybothing on but ucll force the officers will carry the helmet and explosive and batons anything that creates the time and distances and double did capacity the way of beanbags and climate devices over the

same amount of time we've put-down for the under surveillance nufl cis an activiy and declapgs within the policy an officer against a danger to themselves this is a policy driven but not institutionalize as a policy as from 2011 it laid the deesclation and bans the use of restraint or choke holes and prevents the officers from shooting other vehicles the vehicle itself is the only means of assault and we're asking for additional tools including that training with shields i know much is - on for the the swat teams and phenomenal o only for use when someone is a danger to others and staexpanded the cris

intervention i wish for members from the community withat were helpful 5 hundred officers tracing e training in intervention and every recruit graduates from the academy and the trainers we want to come up with advanced crisis intervention short of hostage norts for an aptitude for preservation there is as call for independent review and the department department of justice the cops office formed an initiative is coming to san francisco they've been here we'll have one meeting in las vegas and other plaza places and asked for a command level that person was appoint and stands behind me deputy director tony can capita r chaplain for the mr. nolan and will speak in a minute on those subjects

and transparency asia accurate data and technology is something else that the community is calling for we'll collect the data in realtime using the web-based whatever and smart phones the officers ahave been issued to process the tickets detentions and field intervienss over time he we believe will come in ahead of the supervisor cohen's bills hoping to improve the transparency, of course, body cameras and hopefully the first body worn camercameras in maybe sooner with everyone the san francisco mr. police department barbecue being a body worn camera by the end of 2016 and opted into the capitol hill initiative we're additionally posting public information on that website with regards to

arrests, demographics within the department and on and on so regardless of there is a disparity the numbers in their transparently posted and working to address any disparities we've tried to identify and improve the culture committee we have the officers sworn and services taken an oath to each sought bias and speak to it but inside the department and outside the department all officers will receive preschool judged training by the end of the year and partnering with the community leaders some will be instructors the training and the indict level captains with the we respected community to identify hot spots and senior officers to resolve conflict where people

might have neighbors in their community that might need special attention doing everything we can to create a devised workforce it is critical that the splpd look like san francisco for the first time pretty much ever we have a 24/7 application process whereas it was not that long ago that was a two week window to apply to be a san francisco police department now pretty much anyone can apply around the clock were we having an 8 human resources credited course to help people fought u figure out what they need to do to become an mrofrd and african-american restrictions have a workshop we have barriers to entry to get to people to a place to become san francisco

police officers i'm going to turn it over to commissioner president loftus to speak about yards in regards to policy and introduce chief capita listen. >> thank you chief suhr and mayor ed lee and sheryl brown community parts on december 9th of last year a week after the use of mario woods the police commission challenged and heard speak a speaker express anchorage, frustration, grief and sadness what they saw the video of the use of mario woods i'll say this again 3 separate investigations that are ongoing into the actual shooting and thorough and complete the commission, however, would not wait for the conclusion before opening a discussion of policies and procedures used regarding use of force on the

police department we commit to joining the naturional forest t ve reengineer the ways that police officers use ellis we've been meeting no small and large groups at the police commission to work with the community members subject matters and commissioners to chart a path forward a lot of what the chief mind is true ear boring context from the achieve from the wants 21st century on task force on 126 policing but it has to fit san francisco in order to rebuild trust it is a relationship and it requires all parties at the table. and the thing i'm proud of in this effort the words on that paper and the path 10 headings and thirty sub blues with the result of communities across san francisco what that takes to

rebuild this relationship of trust in particular i want to thank the young people from the community safety initiative that facilitated those discussions if you were there those were tough and lead by young people prominently the public housing in san francisco who lead the conversation with grace and a real commitment i want to thanks the community members the consortiform the ch african-american forum and those who spoeak out everor come up t myself or fellow commissioners we've heard you all of you loud and clear as a result of the conversations suggests and discussion temple areas of focus as was move forward and it comes down to this regardless of the zip codes everyone deserves to have a relationship of trust with the police this plan recognized that

while there are countless neighborhood cross san francisco the communities they enjoy that relationship many have that relationship disabled and the mayor has directed us to work on rebuilding that relationship that it it will require everyone as the chief mind 10 areas i invite police officers and advocates join us first, as a chief indicated reengineering the use of force the commission has asked the department to redo the policies around use of force in this process what we've learned if we can train the officers with the skills, equipment and tools needed to create time and distance with suspended armed with a knife we can see a reduction of up to percent fewer officer-involved shooting s as the chief indicated month officer-involved shootings happen within minutes of patrol

recording to the scene if we put that poorer at the frcenter tha person might be under thirty years of age the question does that officer have all the training skills and equipment to have the time and distances khacan they create a safe perimeter can decree bye time to allow a senior officer to arrive someone that is crisis interferenventio trained to further preserve life at the heart it is considered now sanctity of life everyone decision is around preserving the sanctity of life and the commission has a group of stakeholders to review the policies and the united states department of justice acholic beverage reform has reviewed the policy and the focus a

accountability you'll hear from con in any chaplain and asked for the staff to support our initiative data and transparency is the next focus on our path forward the commission has directed the department to have a study to disagree gait the studies specifically we need to better understand the gpa disparities in particular the african-american community with the less rates to do better to close the gap the chief said body worn cameras have been a proprietor of the department and the commission we believe in 2016 all officers had been armed with body cameras and the next focus is eliminating bias referred has said it is sometimes a motivatatter of com sense but it is understanding the community your sworn to serve and train on the justifies

will be infected a community partnership to have the confidence that reverend brown discussed in community forum to those hospital to identify the officers that are struggling before they've gone too far and want to make sure it works and the next phone call focus sheryl davis will talk about the process with the young people prominently in this community that came in and talked about the relationship with trust our relationship of trust it can work for one of the ears of focus is the sustained effort to recruit the young people to identify ways to do better the chief talked about recruiting a exists wvng and represents for obama 21st century policing and the last 3 things i'll mention when we had those meetings the community we vaufld them a survey how effective you think that was we heard loud and

a clear we loved you asked our opinion by excuse me. criticisms the ideas will be action and as a result of that we've commit to establishing an academic constitution it actually evaluates plenty of time but the commitment to evaluate it live or die with the results we're left to hold ourselves account and allow the commission to hold the police officers accountability and beyond the scope beyond the scope one is community member after community member addresses if we don't say where a community that addresses the realty that violence destroys communities and in certain communities in san francisco without intervention we opening statement awill havea

6-year-old that witnessed hom homicides we do want to work with the police department and improve the procedures and public health response in community effected by violence we can enter keyed the cycle of violence and create save communities for everyone and finally we have asked the mayor to identify the additional resources to help us to comfoer additional police officer in foreign languages that is another way to build trust that's the final recommendation and as we moved in the prelims of those paroles that we have one of the most open and transparent processes for governing police the industcry invitation let's use it to make sure our city lives up to its values thank you >> my job to introduce deputy

chief. >> thank you, commissioner the mission has a new bureaucracy to contributor to excellence in law enforcement but increasing professionalism and maintaining high levels of accountability within the san francisco police department through theus of doj finds the bureaucracy was created by the chief suhr for the policies and procedures and allow and implement changes to bring san francisco police department into the 21st century of policing a major component of that to pass the doj acholic beverage or more process that lets us to see what good and not working with that said, president obama task force in 21st century policing had 48 represents and 91 action items the report the department agrees with has implemented and or will implement all the

recommendations or the action items directly related to law enforcement one of the main point is having additional resources phenomenfor unsolved s most impacted by violence we're committed to take the doj recommendations and implementing them this is a two year process we'll will not wait for completion we intend to begin immediately during the review process itself this way as issues or deficiency are identified they can be creating corrected at the request of the mayor we'll have a dashboard available on the website to monitor the process of implementation of the task force recommendations and keeping with the transparency and the accountability of the san francisco police department if so a challenging undertaking this is a browsureau not before existed this is will be for the whole department and have issues

push the change to them i say what we're doing will be for the good of the city and county and most popular for the people we serve the fact that the chief is involving a deputy chief and bureau it an credandle stick th bureau adds bureaus as part sfpd those vunts i units are the youth community engagement that gives of i us access to proactively have the members of the department y c e opens up the lines of communication between the police and the community to have a better rapport and trust the services unit that allows to modify the certification and training needed for training

with althsd mental states that archives the goal of 100 percent cit certification and gives us our offers an additional tool for time and distance in terrible situations the third and final unit the directed unit that is responsible for facilitating the review, development and publication of the policies and manuals and forms that concludes my report the delivery method to push the change to 9 desire department while san francisco has seen measurable drops in 40e7homicid we've seen the trust that needs to be mended and it will be more community involvement and day to day operations with that, i'll comploos my introduction to the standards and principle relationship bureau are a reminder that, plea police are public and the public it the police i with that, i'm going

to turn it over to reverend brown. >> thank you, very much. dpw chief capita listen mr. mayor, i should like to first commend you for responding to the appeal that came from the wom womb or african-american community that appeal was that we should in times of crisis and tragedy not turn on each other but turn to each other

and because we turn to each other in this city of strans we have really created a dream team team that has been referenced in terms of persons and personalities who came together, secondly, as a history buff i want to make sure there will be no redacting on this matter we will san francisco transportation authority set the record straight chief suhr 20 months ago assembled the assembly hall of

historical third baptist church with his command staff and at that time, the wake of the fallout staten island, ferguson, and many other communities were there have been unfortunate expressions loss of life and violence chief suhr responded to the call of the naacp that we will get involved in a difb active focus intentional endeavor to make sure that san francisco would not be a republic indication of what happened in other areas of the country, however, i unfortunately missed

the process we lost life one mario woods we again were confronted with a apparent grieving, a community disturbed and some folks are getting on the defensive rather than coming togeth together. >> and before i end my remarks i want to say that i am issuing now a respectful, loving appeal to the san francisco police officers association to come to the table, come to the room and

let's sit down and talk we are not your enemy we are your friends. >> we with you, when you're right, we're still with you when our wrong to make sure you get right. >> i did not feel it is disrespectful to make this comment at this time the naacp has unsuccessfully reached out to the police officer organization that put up a firewall rather than to see all humankind as members of the team of our maker and that people tend to hate

each they don't know each other they don't know each other because of a lack of conversati communication it is time i repeat that the police officers association join this dream team and agree to disagree about being disagreeable. >> i pledge to you our dream te team. >> the naacp will be looking, we'll be watching to make sure that these plans, these words will not ring hallow but we are going to in the words of nike just do the right thing

we must move beyond truth telling, meetings, and engage in counters of scene of this accident we are on our way and hold out hope and not let go of justice rose down like waters and rightness in this police department and this community will offer flow as a great moving mighty stream and now i present to you ms. sheryl district attorney's office as she comes let me acknowledge that the moral campus of this dream team is expanded, strengthened and shines brightly we have here the

room rabbis anthony and beth singer of temple manual representing the interfaith community who are standing with the mayor, with the chief, with all people of goodwill and justice. >> thank you reverend brown. >> as reverend brown made his appeal to the piaoa i worked an the appeal to make sure that the voices of community were included i wanted to thank the chief and commissioner president loftus and the mayor for providing that space also that first time want to thank the people that host those xhfgdz to take the reflex to challenge in a space they invited people to come in and

share the magic shawn helped to rally people and boys and girls club in the tenderloin, reverend brown and third baptist that hosted the first workshop and i see others here those were some hard conversations to have and begin i want to acknowledge i know that d anthony jones grew up born and raised in the western edition in a couple of housing developments and morgan ran deep in the hunters point those people leads those working groups and managed the break out groups and the hard conversations they were hard because they were critical this was not a come and sit thouhow t san francisco and the police department let's talk about what that needs to change and what we do to change it i want to acknowledge some of the other folks folks that are here km

african-american young men germany that led the working group working group i love the story of germajeramy a man was accept and the voice was louder and louder and germany went over to talk with him i don't know what 83 he said the man sat down and laughed germany what happens how were you able to calm the moment he had did pins on his shirt and asked him one of the pins frhe skmd asked him what d you know may i angela would do she wouldn't be happy and calmed himself and reengaged those who attended the working groups and sessions appreciate the space to

talk e talk to be heard and respected the youth that facilitated the conversation it provided an opportunity for young african-american youth who are most likely to be impacted a lot of time we talk about be those conversations we're doing the work and forget the voice of folks and it allowed them to have voice to lead the conversation to be part of there were 4 sessions led by the youth kichr, i want to recognize that whasn' reactive those were since this summer and 3 forums that interviewed hundreds of people across the city and two documentary movie how people feel about the police and change the place was an honest critique as commissioner president loftus mentioned people are concerned those will be more conversations that go no where we're hoping

that today is really not symbolic of moving forward but some movement to happen and some may disrepair i'but i'll agree that is a national model to engage with young people and giving voice to communities can shift the dynamics so take the recommendations from community and implement them we can see the change we want to acknowledge many of the young people are criminal justice involved they have been on probation or over probation for them to come in and lead the conversations to be in the room with the police officer is huge and to also feel like those police officers are hearing what they said reverend brown talked about the idea of coming together with visitation e reconciliation that was humanizing on both sides the young folks got to see the police officers as human and police officers got to see

everyone as human we are hoping this is the giving up of more conversations and not the end especially with lead by as you kn young people a comprehensive approach that xfrz the most impacted by the failing system i think we can't stress the idea and notion we engaged the community in the process to define how things can improve will help us to improvement i wanted to hangith the mayor, the chief, president and the police commission for leading the effort and time will tell but based on what has transpired we're looking at a pro tem and hopeful future. >> thank you sheryl and thank you reverend brown and deputy chief chaplain and commissioner president loftus they'll be here

along with others to go into dependent on the package of reforms we've committed to and against with the budget you i assure you that short-term rental and everyone we'll follow-up on every single one of those as the commission has done a lot of work with the community folks we have to honor that and our youth abowill know whether t of the matter we dwekeep our wo by implementing those changes those are not going to be easy this is what i'm getting everyone ready a change that will effect the officers and the training will effect the way we hire and community and certainly the incidents we're seeing are trauma we know of others you're welcome to talk with the chief about other incidents that have already shown the results of those changes take place with the officers and the criticized

response team with that, i'll open up to a couple of questions and i invite you to follow up with the individuals yes, ma'am. >> (inaudible). >> we don't have a total amount we've already i've gone this document is being reviewed now with the police chief and the commissioner president loftus with kate howard and we're the beginning of the budget we have cost factors for all of those hthat will be implemented we are adding this to what i've already been committed to i have a robust it program the interrupt policing and the community organizing that has been successful over the past few years in reducing

the number of homicides but areas of our city we've yet to reduce that dramatically this is where i challenge the reduction program leaders to take this opportunity to come in with us and see what can work more we're in a good trend but have to do more in education there is more than ideas they're implementing ideas we want to have reflected in the budget the community based violence reduction are key but the rec and park in making sure we have a spring and summer so the kids can be active because i doness will not help and in education we're always trying to find alternatives to additional education that didn't reach all our kids i belive that we have a very good conversation in both public and private resources

that hopefully can be aimed at the health crisis in our african-american community as was stated earlier the trau traumation of kids who see this over and over again, we can't dismiss that as being simply a scientific later xrerpt that effects kids going to school people we sadon't want to drop t we can reduce that and make sure we have healthy environment that takes a lot of coordination and cooperation no objectithat's wa this takes everybody and the youthism about being a village it is true everyone has to work at higher levels in order to get a better result. >> (inaudible). >> well again and here's where i will accept the criticism i'll

be deliberately slow in talking about tasers because i didn't want othut of respect for all t communities input we don't believe that tasers is the panacea the answer to reducing violence we don't believe that that is a truth here it is one tool it can be valuable in certain situatio circumstances but time and distance, retraining, backing off and having other alternatives are more than being studied they're actually being implement that is why i want you to talk to the chief about other things that show really good life-changi league of wom life-changing results. >> (inaudible).

>> well you know, i think reverend brown respond to it let me add we respect the poa and the officers need to be represented but like we said on those crisis situations we have to come together and figure out we have to go forward not accusing each other of having different views but having a commitment to a overall goal of reducing crime in the city the poa has a very important role in rebuilding trust this is what we're trying to do with the collaboration we have retirement boaverend brown >> thank you, mr. mayor >> the cleric said no men and women is an island into

themselves as the bell told us is tolls for thee now it is unfortunate that the poa took issue a life was lost that should be the busy business of all we're all part of human family i hope they'll rethink that position the board members were expressing sympathy and support for the mother it was not to condone the actions of this young man at all and i think what we are doing as a team would indeed less even

and stop this unnecessary force that destroys human life i hope we'll not phone cafocus on tase it is about trust, it is about police officers getting into the community and the community getting to know the police officers and working together as a team and i wiant to acknowledge the presence of shawn richard that put his life in hormonarm's way the midst of this great tragedy and that is we're saying to the police officers association don't relate to us through the past come and sit down and talk with us as weave sat down and talked with each other over those two months 20 most. >> one last question and i'll

over offer you the opportunity to talk with everybody. >> first of all, let me say this ever life it is lost is a very big tragedy and while that is under investigation i want to appeal and join our commissioners and our police department and community members we have to reduce violence the circumstances here call for our community to come forth with any information they might have in order to assist us in making sure the individual or responsible wiare held accountability it is break in in a neighborhood we are embraced with trying to change for the better and have a lot of challenges the fillmore and this

is obviously a tragedy and this represents the reason why we have to keep and have strong group of people to prevent those tragedies and getting the guns out of the hands of folks that will misuse them and making sure that people have a way to resolve their differences without shooting each other and making sure we hold those individuals accountabilile and is a young person a 20-year-old was a victim and how much time have we eaten even that and have to work more conservatively with that, i invite everybody to follow-up with the members of the community thank you, everyone for beingtest.

>> good afternoon leaning be the meeting will come to order this is the regular meeting of the land use & transportation my name is supervisor cowen the chair to my right is supervisor wiener the vice chair and to my left is supervisor peskin our clerk is ms. alicia. >> thank you our friends at sfgovtv phil jackson and others for broadcast in meeting on sfgovtv madam clerk, any announcements? today. >> yes. electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk.

items acted upon today will appear on the march 15 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you, thank you very much for the announcements can you please call items one and two together. >> item numbers one and two an ordinance claire declaring the tension of james alley as port of chinese hospital for the settlement and quit exclaim deed for the easements thank you. >> supervisor peskin is the author of these two items. >> thank you, madam chair and colleagues these are two instrument necessary for helping the chinese hospital move forward the first is a resolution of intent to vacate a street actually truth be told a half of a street 6 and a quarter of wide wide by 37 feet deep 90 necessary for the completion of

the incredible many decades effort to rebuild a size administratively chinese hospital in district 3 in chinatown you first of all, want to commend the many individual that have been revolved in the rebuilding of this facility i saw a reactor facility and wanted to acknowledge the effort ever rose in particular but also have thousands of donors and the construction team headed by david limping and many, many people in the community for whom this is been a long, long sought after dream that is finally coming to fruition on april 18th a formal celebration of opening in order to move forward james alley which lies on the east side of the hospital needs to be

vacated as a matter of fact there are a number of underground facilities underneath the alley and the state of california insists the cyber alley be vacated by i city the document that are the item before you actually require as a condition of the agreement that the alley forever is open space so that public nanlt will continue to exist albeit it in private and not public hands open to the public and the chinese hospital will be adding a number of community amenity to that area with that colleagues subject to public comment there are a few install amendments we need to make to the resolution on page 2 at line 19 there is a blapg there for a public hearings that is required for street vacation

that blank should be filled in to be april 5th of 2016 and the title of the measure should also indicate at the end of the title that the public hearing will be set for april 5th of 2016 so i'd like to move those amendments. >> thank you public comment. >> yes. before we take the amendments. >> subject to public comment. >> all right. ladies and gentlemen, any commenters on items one or two public comment is closed. thank you so supervisor peskin has made a some amendments excuse me. this is an amendment to number one. >> number one amendment. >> sound good we'll act on these agenda will be one and two

full board with a recommendation a motion to accept the amendments. >> motion by supervisor wiener and we'll take that without objection. that item passes and i'd like to move number one with recommendations as a committee report for hearing by the full board tomorrow march 8 and refer item number 2 without recommendation to the april 18th board of supervisors. >> we'll take that without objection. that item passes. >> m can you call item 3. >> item 3 a resolution arthur the placement of the plaque with the sidewalk of washington with square park and accepting the gift from the friends. >> supervisor peskin. >> hebrew was a beloved member of the north beach telegraph hill hill not dimming the lights for you herb and herb one of the

many things that herb did in his life before he passed was to really do everything with the community to help make washington square everything that can be he was a friend of mine i want to thank the friends of washington square particularly june for all her work in coming down to have a commemorative plaque installed on columbia and unity herb was an architect a pioneer the lgbt and the neighborhood movement and was beloved and respected despite his rough and grumpy exterior i'm delighted we are joined by one of the family members jane here today as well

as folks from the department of public works and the rec and park department i want to thank in my staffer connie chang for her work and friends of washington square and thank the friends for coming up with the funds for a plaque that sdlifrz to be there and left, right or center north beach and telegraph hill and residents and merchant everything or everybody replaced her this resolution before us will urge the department of public works to waive the cost associated with the permit ate installation of the plaque after public comment i will have one small amendment to the resolution is there anybody here from dpw or rec and park that wants to testify mr. spur. >> good afternoon

so for the i came to really discuss some of the installation features to the plaque itself. >> sure. >> i'm not completely sure exactly of the permanent location that was identified by regardless of that wherever to be installed to mountain the planning plaque in a safe way that will keep it in its location for a long period of time. >> i don't know if you want me to discuss the cost associated with that and the maintenance and upkeep. >> sure absolutely the public school and members of the panel should know. >> in order to mount the plaque we need to cut a 36 by 36 portion concrete and cement to a couple of studs on the back of

the plaque put washers and fix it to the cement the ongoing up keep the oncofor it it minimal and to shouldn't take too much for us to do that in order to get if installed $3,000 us to cut out the cement and pour back for it i will say that will be a generous estimate. >> i understand the plaque has passed the slip resistance test. >> it has some raised features and should be slip resistant yes. >> thank you, mr. spur is abigail from the rec and park department here? >> thanks for taking time out of your day. >> thanks good afternoon and chairman and supervisor cowen and supervisor wiener and

supervisor peskin i am abigail with the rec and park department on our partnership team and on behalf of rec and park i would like to share that we support this authorization placing this plaque on the walk only union street we felt the proposed location on union street is a fine location and adjacent to the park we're all for it i would like to make note i've been working with the friends of washington square and pubically express my appreciation for working with them they've been committed to work with rec and park and expelling and this commission i think this is a wonderful way to honor the gentleman and hope so it inspires the people from the north beach community and criticizing to roll up their

sleeps sleeves to get involved. >> thanks to and your colleagues and the folks at sdpep for working with my staff and the friends of washington square and colleagues when you go to washington square and see the lighting set up that was herb at work madam chair can we open up for public comment. >> please join us public comment 2 minutes you'll hear a soft chime come up. >> you'll have 2 minutes. >> thank you. i canned add much to what airbnb said he's a wonderful imply and friend of mine for 35 years and a neighbor and z done incredible things for

washington square i hope we will succeed in getting the installation costs waved. >> thank you thank you for all your hard work june appreciate our perseverance and jane. >> thank you in my cousins was passionate about many changes e things family and architecture among them he served as a family patriotic amongst the last of his generation in our family and will find by all which includes 4 generations his friends were considered family to him and the circle herb loved his work as a architect and didn't retire until a year brother he died he loved washington square park as you know he was the founding member of the friends of

washington park and was involved herb knew so much people that was impossible to walk to washington sequoia and not stopped several times to be introduced to the police officer and merchant and other neighbors pga by herb's commitment of many decades to the preservation of the neighborhood and community should be pubically recognized and celebrated on behalf of his family we're great to have to plaque to honor herb's legacy and serve as a reminder to everyone of the importance of being actively involved in communities wherever you are thank you. >> thank you jane. >> is there any additional public comment? >> on item 3 all right. seeing none, public comment is closed. >> a motion. >> so madam chair i'd like to on page 2 line 11 insert two

words permits and so for the resolve be it therefore resolved that the board of supervisors hereby urges the department of public works to waive all costs with the permits and the installation of commemorative plaque. >> thank you very much it is easy. >> is there a motion to accept the amendment all right. motion made we'll take that without objection. to accept the amendment is accepted thank you. >> and i'd like to send this matter to the full board with recommendation. >> we'll take that without objection. that as well thank you madam clerk, is there any further business before this commission? >> no, that concludes our business for today. >> thank you ladies and gentlemen, our meeting is adjourned

>>[gavel] because good afternoon everybody and welcome everyone to the board of supervisors meeting march 8, 2015. mdm. clerk, please call the roll >> supervisor diablos, present. breed, present. campos, present. cohen be present, farrell, not present, farrell be present, kim not present, mar, not present, peskin,,

present., tang, present. wiener, present., yee, present. you have a quorum >> ladies and gentlemen these join us for the pledge of allegiance. >>[pleage of allegiance] >> mdm. clerk any communications? >> none to report >> any changes to the federal 2nd 2016 whether board meeting minutes? seeing none, is their motion to approve those minutes? moved and seconded. 20 past can we take that without objection? without objection the can we take that without objection? without objection the motion passes. can we take that without objection? without objection the motion passes. was meeting minutes will pass after public comment unanimously.

>>[gavel] >> let them cook please call the next item >> today's special order at to copy him is the appearance by our hon. mayor edwin lee. there be no questions omitted from the eligible districts the mayor may address the board for up to 5 min. >> welcome to the chamber mr. mayor. you have the floor. >> good afternoon supervisors and also to the members of the public. i did receive any questions this month but i'm going to take the opportunity to address our city's response to homelessness. i know that earlier today it was a media event calling homelessness a-quote, crisis. that event did not offer solutions. novo no new philanthropic partnerships. no new sites for navigation centers no path forward. but it did offer rhetoric. in my years of public service, supervisors, never governed in search of

headlines. i do believe in real results and i know that those who are homeless also count on him. back in december 3 of last year, i too, said homelessness and reached a crisis point them up but my response included substance. substance like 522 new units of permanent supportive housing in the last 7 months. expanding the national shelter modelmy administration created, the navigation center good ending chronic homelessness for veterans. a new 180 bed shelter at cure 80. 80. el niño shelters to cover 700 people thanks in the collaboration and cooperation of interfaith council. helping hundreds of

homeless people out of a public health emergency on division street and into shelter without having to make a single arrest. $20 million for a new bond funding for homeless shelters, creating a new courtney did on this department, a billion-dollar funding commitment with a goal of subsidizing 8000 homeless people by 2020. i've held several meetings with sec. julian castro and obama's homelessness director. last month, i led a west coast mayors funding effort to get more resources to solve homelessness. so much we agree on, but i believe we have a vigorous disagreement over allowing people to inject heroin and meth to literally destroy their bodies and their minds in a city funny sheltered as some have proposed. we

should, instead on expanding successful residential drug treatment facilities. look, we need to build more navigation centers and i share the frustration of those are critical of how long our efforts are taking to bear fruit. but anger does not help and cooperation that does. so, to those who are actually in interested in cooperating, genuinely willing to work together, we're great opportunity. in the 6 months since i've announced plans to double our navigation centers, i have received very cooperative responses from about 4 supervisors. you know who you are and i want to thank you. you've demonstrated your leadership for the people in your district and for the cities homeless population. my administration identified more than a dozen potential navigation center sites spread around the city and working with the interfaith community

and city departments with surplus land. today i'm announcing a new dedicated project manager. a partnership between our whole office and public works apartment with the sole focus of getting new navigation centers built as quickly as possible. we have already begun community meetings and what we hope will be our next to new navigation sensor sites. one year. 80 and one in the south of market area. 2 supervisors, who want to help solve this work with me , work with public works, work with the human services agency, and certainly, without public health department and at least 4 of your colleagues of already begun that work with me. work with us to get these sites community by in your work with us to make this happen. this supervisor's, is a true test of

our resolve and hope you stand with us in the months ahead as we build the centers, as we staff them up and as we give real help to our homeless people in need as they deserve. thank you. >> thank you mr. mayor. we will continue with our agenda. mdm. clerk, these read the consent agenda. >> item 1 through 13 are on consent. these items are considered routine. if a member objects and item may be removed and considered severally. >> seen-supervisor wiener >> i don't remove anything i want to make a comment. specific to item 10. the legislation we passed unanimously last week to increase the tobacco purchase agn san francisco. from 18-21. as you probably saw in the press >> supervisor wiener it'll be appropriate to remove it from the consent agenda to discuss it. >> sp removed it

>> so we will remove item 10 and on the remaining agenda, adam clerk please call the roll >> supervisor yee aye, avalos, aye, breed aye, campos aye, cohen aye, farrell aye, kim aye mar aye, peskin aye, tang aye wiener aye there are 11 aye >> the items are passed in the first reading and adopted finally passed and approved unanimously. >>[gavel] >> please call item number 10 >> item 10 and ordinance woman the whole code to bring it tobacco retailers from selling tobacco products including smokeless tobacco electronic cigarettes to persons age 18, 19 or 20 >> supervisor wiener >> i apologize for not severing it to begin with.

colleagues, last week we pass this important public health measure unanimously and thank you for your support. i look forward to passing again unanimously today. as you probably saw 2 days after we passed it, in an unexpected development, the state assembly passed pending state legislation to increase the tobacco purchase 8 221. it was unexpected because tobacco measures have frequently died in the state assembly that this is a wonderful step forward and the state senate will take up again this week. we don't know what the governor is going to do. i hope you will sign it. this is the kind of law where potential preempted by the state can be a really good thing. we are monitoring this carefully. we don't know what is going to happen exactly and when it comes to state legislation it isn't over till it's over to so, i like to move forward. i with this

legislation and if the state passes legislation we will evaluate whether our legislation is complementary or conflicting and then if we need to suspended or amended we will certainly do what is needed but for now i think it's important to move forward with this trendsetting legislation and i want to thank you colleagues for your support. >> bt. colleagues can we take this item same house, same call can we take that without objection? without objection the motion passes. e ordinance is finally passed unanimously >>[gavel] >> adam got go to our regular agenda. first item >> item 14 and ordinance to amend the planning code to require conditional use authorization for the removal many residential units whether authorized or unauthorized exceptions. units received prior planning or approval single-family homes demonstrably unaffordable or unsound and to amend the building codes require that notices of violation under the filing of an application to legalize an authorized unit in certain certain circumstances improve the planning departments ceqa determination in making

appropriate findings >> supervisor tang >> last week i do not support the legislation but since having more conversations with the planning staff i'm comfortable with supporting this today. i want to for the record state that >> thank you. see no other names on the roster, mdm. clerk, can we do a roll call vote on them >> item 14, supervisor yee nay, avalos aye, breed, aye campos aye, cohen aye, farrell aye, kim aye, mar aye, peskin aye, tang aye, wiener aye there are 10 aye and one nay with supervisor yee in the design >> the ordinance is passed >>[gavel] >> item 15 >> item 15 resolution to

authorize the opposite contract administration to enter to a multi-year contracts with golden gate petroleum to spy city to province with a renewable diesel for the term of april 1 to a multi-year contracts with golden gate petroleum to spy city to province with a renewable diesel for the term of april 1, 2016 to march 31, 2019 in the amount not to exceed $60 million >> rollcall vote >> item 16 supervisor yee aye, avalos aye, breed aye, campos aye, cohen aye, farrell aye, kim aye, mar aye, peskin aye. tang aye. wiener aye. dark 11 aye >> the resolution is adopted unanimously >>[gavel] >> next item >> item 16 a resolution to actively authorize the treasurer and tax collector to accept and expend a $315,000 grant from the mott foundation for extending our reach and family engagement prekindergarten through college

through august 31, 2017. >> colleagues can we take this item this resolution same house, same call can we take that without objection? without objection the motion passes.'s adopted unanimously >>[gavel] >> next item >> item 17 resolution to approve the agreement for coming storage and disposal of abandoned and illegally parked vehicles. in an amount not to exceed $65.4 million to march 31, 2021 with the option to extend for up to 5 additional years. dick supervisor avalos >> i want to recognize the budget committee further work on this measure. since the budget committee liberated we also had a hearing that was looking at fees and court fees and how they were impacting the working people. through that, we heard a lot about the towing fee and how much difficult it is for our people who are low income were struggling economically to be able to pay for the fee. how the inability

to pay for the fee could be 2 people losing their vehicles can not having the ability to get to work, which often is beyond public transportation, and putting them in i cycle with area are actually not able to escape poverty poor economic distress. so, idea makes a lot of sense that we look at paring back these fees. to actually make it easier for everyone to survive in san francisco during our economic crisis. in 2009-2010, the board of supervisors had all the fees of the city before street i recall in budget committee that those years having pages and pages of these that were ramped up in both years. i don't think we have actually is a city recovered and we actually have lower fees now that our city is doing better economically. so, it makes a lot of sense that we

actually have a real discussion about what we are trying to do with our fees. to actually recover costs. to bring more revenue into the departments. to curb behavior that we don't want to see. or to salvage resident. all of those things are things that happen and seem to be goals that we have as a city. it makes more sense that we have some clarity about those. idea makes sense to start soon, to start right away. we have before us the auto return administrative fee that is part of the whole contract we have before us today. to me, it makes sense that we give the mta a little bit more time to reassess these fees, still giving time to actually approve the contract before us before the expiration date of much 31st. so, i would like to see we can find some, a

lower feed costs that would stop residents much less than the weight of fee currently does. i realize that toe is there for people who actually have an infraction or break the law, but i believe all of us make mistakes. i have made mistakes and have my car towed in the past. it really hurts. i am doing okay economically depending on your point of view. there a lot of people were doing much worse economically. for them, a total would be devastated to their pocketbook and devastating to their ability to pay rent or stay in the city. i would like to come after a short discussion on this measure, motion that we continue this item to next week to allow the mta board to give us a better

sense of what the administration fee can be. that way we could save residence some money and economic distress . it could very well be the mta is not there for that of 4 board meeting next week, so we may need to be continued again i like to continue this for one week so we can have rated discussion about how we could save a lot of residence and san francisco economic distress. supervisor avalos has made a motion to continue its item one week to the media march 15 20 system. moved and seconded. supervisor kim >> i want to rewrite many of the comments made by my colleague supervisor avalos. we did actually cosponsor a hearing on municipal fines of which total away fees were included in that discussion. i think there has to be an overall conversation on this board as a legislative body to really consider how we generate revenue to pay for government

services, and what are the appropriate sources of revenue, and how do we charge our reverence for it. a $600 on average tow-away fee impacts are residence different. the penalize agent of that the impacts are residence disproportionally. for some of us, it's an incredible inconvenience for others, it hurts our monthly budget. for others, it is a decision between paying rent and buying groceries were getting the card you may need to get to work and to keep your family in order. i just believe-this is a comment i made back in june when i voted against the six-month extension of the auto return contract-pcs are just too high. this is a topic that came up in our budget subcommittee meeting in 2011 and 2012 where asked sfmta to re-examine our ministry to the that have gone up 150% since supervisor avalos came on the board of

supervisors. yes, there's a time and place in which we can look at examining increasing fees and certainly the recession was one of those times, but now we are doing well again in terms of revenue. again, i think more political question is, what is the proper way to pay for government services and how much do we charge for get i think the cost recovery conversation is one we've had with sf mta for quite a while. i was quite surprised to learn that in cost recovery that we include things like painting curbs and also a director salary in cost recovery. i don't think we have a consistent policy for how we charge cost recovery because the other times it came out is during the commuter shuttle bus debate in 2013, when i also asked at mta i did you come up with a dollar per stop we pick in that scenario sfmta kept it as affordable as possible. i'm not sure salary was included in

that cost recovery. it would cost recovery, let's have a consistent standard of how were going to do it. san francisco should absolutely not be in the business of impoverishing our residence and that is what we are doing by the singular mistake of telling their cars away. yes, we want to regular driver behavior. we don't want cars on the street on their street cleaning sticky john edwards clean and healthier, when we need to regulate traffic during rush hour. we have these rules in place for a reason. but, we also should not be in the business of impoverishing our residence percent either the states. nobody is trying to get the car towed. in fact, most people i talk to did not understand the fine, missed an alarm, most people are trying to follow the rules and then get slapped with a 6-$700 tow-away fee. i like to work with the sfmta over the next 2 weeks if supervisor avalos and peskin on the

ministry today which i think is exorbitant and certainly the increases we've seen over the last few years. i'm not sure they been justified. 2, i think we need to look at the number parking lots we are renting. this is an issue came up at our municipal last week. do we need to have 2 parking lots to store our vehicles? 3rd, but to look at the storage fee. for many residents come up with 6-$700 on the date the car gets towed is very challenging to do. we read some of the stories in the chronicle article that came out this morning. perhaps we should give more time to our residence to come up with the money and not charge them additional fees for the storage, which in many ways is the moment the car arrives on them i like to look at a hardship program. we do have residents that simply cannot afford to pay this

dollar amount. the city of chicago has managed to figure out what to do archer program. i know it's challenging. sfmta doesn't like to income means testing but i think we look at the chicago model is a variety of factors we can look at the people can submit as evidence that this a form of hardship. either prove that they live in public housing. that they're free and reduced lunch. better on food stamps. that the house was in foreclosure. i think there are multiple documents that can be submitted which is what the city of chicago does to prove this would be a hardship for you to pay could finally, i would just add we need to make this program as affordable as possible and still regulate behavior. i still think it is there in place for a reason. but i just don't believe that what we are doing today is right or fair in terms of us impoverishing residence. again, to pay for our transit system. i look forward to working with sfmta and my colleagues on reforming the system before we both his contract and >> speeding up. i would like

to associate myself with your comments but i also want to also add that one of the things you forgot to mention is the actual ticket that folks get, which adds to the expense of the towing fee. supervisor wiener >> i'm glad were having this conversation. i am very sensitive to the fees that are charged when cars are towed. the guard towing fees, when you look at the aggregate of what people are often required to pay, are quite high and is creed a hardship for a lot of people. i think it is a good idea to take a look at how we can lower these towing fees. colleagues from as your call from last year, my office worked for several years with the mta and with the auto return , really with the mta, to figure out how we could provide relief to the owners of cars

that are stolen and then towed. we had a situation where people who nothing at all wrong there, sadly stolen and dumped in san francisco and then towed and they may not find out where it is for days or even a week and all of a sudden they're hit with 1000-$1500 in fees and fines which could be worth more than the value of the car. some people would actually abandon their cars. so, we work closely with the mta, methodically in a way to provide relief to the owners of these towed stolen cars, and also to minimize the financial impact on the mta.. i want to thank mta for working with us. mta did work with us or grade period of years. it was in a last-minute request the contract came up. we worked for several years past and

resolution by this board we know our exact position before contract negotiations began, and mta listen to us and hurt us and came back with a really solid change could i have that multiple people approach me on the streets to think the board of supervisors and the mta for providing at least. my car got stolen and i today very large little to get it back. i appreciate that you guys do this. so, with that said, i am sympathetic to people get the car towed and then struggle to pay. i'm also sympathetic to the needs of muni riders, many of them who do not own a car in the need to have reliable transit service to get to work, to get to school, to get to the doctor. when muni is not adequately funded and when service struggles and suffers, there's a lot of people who do not own cars who have significant hardship. that's why, i, and i know others have focused extensively on making sure we are protecting the money that muni has poor

service, per bus operations, for rail operations, and increasing the amount that muni has. we know that muni has a structural deficit. we know that for the 2017-2018 fiscal year, muni already has a $25 million projected operating deficit. so, the choices we make here and the mta board makes in response to this board to reduce the towing fees, while that might be a good thing and something i could very very much get behind, that means money that will come out of muni operations, directly out of muni operations that means directly out of bus service, directly out of subway service, directly out of maintenance. that's exactly where that money comes from. i

want to make sure that we as a board of supervisors, when we are making policy choices like the very legitimate policy choice of trying to lower towing fees were not doing it at the expense of muni and we are actually paying for those choices. understanding that there are trade-offs when it comes to the decisions about what lowering towing fees. so, today i'm making a drafting request to the city attorney's office and the controller for a supplemental appropriation from the general fund to the mta to compensate the mta for any reduction in revenue that the mta experiences. that muni experiences, as a result of any towing fee change that this board demands of the mta. colleagues, we should be putting our money where our mouth is. it were put to make this demand, we should find a way to pay for it and not just take the money out of muni operations which so many of our residents rely. so, i've heard various ideas of what this reduction may look like. we ask mta to copulate with the cost would be good the high end of the cost that we occurred would

be $3.2 million per year and so, the supplemental i'm requesting is for $3.2 million as a general fund contribution to muni to make muni whole. of course, ends up being less than that i will adjust the supplemental to a flat the ultimate amount. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor peskin >> colleagues, when i first became a member of this board, the administrative fee on a toe was $25. when i left 8 years later, that had risen to $50. that was 7 years ago. it has, in the last 7 years, risen by over 430%. that is just, frankly, outrageous. while i do understand that muni has a need

for operations, i also note that we have attempted to create, abby some supervisors, flexibility in muni's ability to use certain fees, like the old transit impact development fee. today, the transportation sustainability fee, not just for capital, but also for operating. there are many ways that the mta can address this issue without soaking those 42,000 individuals who have their cars towed. i think the public policy questions raised by supervisor kim as to having a uniform policy, and by the way, 100% cost reimbursement come up is a very dangerous thing for the city and the mta and this body over things we

have control over, to do because if you are over the 100% mark, it is no longer a fee. it's an evil evil tax that has not been approved by the voters. i think out of an abundance of caution, should never put it at 100% good i think supervisor canady raises some very good questions. how can you justify an 87% administrative fee? how can you justify an 80% administrative fee. and the answer is it's loaded up with all sorts of things i'm including the cost of those toes from individuals who had their car stolen. that do not appropriately responsibly along their. listen, this new contract, which nobody has an issue with relative to the operator, relative to the rfp, both of to the new way it is structured, which is as a management fee, why are we

paying and subsidizing the cost of various mta staff when that is what the management fee is for. so, i question why a portion of the director of the mta's salary is being passed on to these individuals who get their cars towed to objectively, 87% administrative fee is usurious. we should all recognize that and delighted in the next week or 2 the mta will rethink this wrongheaded policy and bring those fees down for those unfortunate individuals for help have their cars towed. eject bt suburbia supervisor yee >> there's been some interesting issues raised in this discussion that were not raised at the budget committee. i guess, one of the things i

want to hear a response from mta in terms of some of the issues that are been brought up . is that possible? >> is their representative hear from mta? >> good afternoon. steve lee from mta. i'm here to answer any questions. >> supervisor yee you have a specific question. >> there's been several issues raised in terms of an administrative fee. some more specific issues raised. can you answer, do you have a response to these issues? for instance, do we need to charge up to 1% as supervisor peskin [inaudible]. should we-again,

without knowing what were talking about, what percentage we are talking about that goes into the 2nd of director's salary, things like that are unknown to me. can you answer those? >> absolute. the 100% cost recovery methodology with regard to the administrative fee was a i would say a policy implemented in 2010 with regard to this program. so, the 100% cost recovery includes all of the costs to run this program. with regard to the 86% supervisor peskin mentioned, is the overhead rate that's applied to the direct cost and the old red rate or overhead percentage includes in its salaries for hr, accounting, our insurance, our rent tomato field costs that are included in parking control officers. the rent that is paid for at

the enforcement building. my costs and my staff costs are not included in the direct charges, so all of this is considered overhead. >> i guess it would have been helpful if we-do you have during the budget presentation that weren't specific line items that i was aware of. do you have those? >> certainly. the intake cost related to this program, the entire program costs $24.1 million. of that, 12.3 is the contractor fees included with regard to fees and a very low cost. $9.1 million is mta costs and 2.7 is rent. of the mta

costs, the 9.1 million, of that the direct costs are related to parking control officers. our hearing officers as well as a couple of work orders dept. of emergency management, sfgtv and those cost altogether with the overhead rate to the direct charges are enforcement and hearing officers is $9.1 million. >> those numbers i saw in terms of the bigger overall numbers. i guess, what is being questioned are more specific line items of different people's salary. what percentage of the salary. does it make sense. is a higher percentage than what you usually used to fund the program. or is it determined by the size of the program, what percent you take of of administrative

salaries. those types of things we actually do not see. >> the overhead rate is a consistent rate. it's used or applied across all recovery programs. that is calculated through our accounting folks determining what is the size of the operating budget related to these programs. so, the 86.7% is a constant percentage used among all other recovery programs. eject thank you. speak >> thank you. i didn't be helpful if we had it was broken down more. it seems there's a lot of questions about some of these issues not hitting but certainly it would've been helpful to have specific really dollar amounts just to see what it looks like. i understand the ministry of overhead. i understand administrative fees. but even when i was running programs of my own organization i could tell you within that 50% of

administrative fee take i could say this goes to that that and that that's what up not hearing. thank you very much. i also want to make a comment about what supervisor kim mentioned in terms of those that cannot pay. whether not we have a program like chicago's. it's really intriguing for me especially for talking about setting up a program for those that paid the lease for the first time they actually make a mistake like this. i would support something where you keep on pain if you get towed if you keep on pain if you get towed towed it 10 times any. i am open. supervisor avalos, to have a continuance >> thank you. supervisor kim

>> supervisor peskin made this point for me but i want to reiterate it's not a question about charging our drivers more were charging on the unique writers more. it's not an either. designer transit first policy either. it's really a question about what is the appropriate and fair way to generate revenue to pay for government services like muni. is it progressive taxation we pick is a flat progressive healthy in exorbitant penalty which disproportionately impacts poor and working-class families who have to make a decision again between paying for rent them a pain for food, and getting the car they need and depend on out of the tow-away law. i would even surmise that those that have higher incomes are more likely to star their cars in parking lots and garages and therefore may not be as impacted by tow-away signs on our streets as well. so, if we want to look at making up for the revenue loss, i support that. in fact,

6 members of this board said we want our developers to pay their fair share based on the size of the development they built a commercial buildings to help pay for muni. not working-class and poor families with these exorbitant fees on tow-away charges. it's not about whether we want to fund muni adequately or not and if we lower the tow-away of the were suddenly taken a money wait for muni riders. the question is what is the appropriate source of origin was the fair source of funding that pays for government services and services like muni. what i'm saying is that in exorbitant flat progressive penalty like our tow-away charges not the appropriate source of funding we should be able to look at other sources of revenue to make sure muni is running efficiently frequently and when purging our transit first policy by making it easier for people to ride on public transit. >> thank you. supervisor wiener >> i completely agree

supervisor kim it's not an either or. we can lower the towing fee and we can keep muni service intact, but the way that you keep muni service intact while you're lowering the towing fee is to find an alternative source of funding and that is why putting money in the general fund to backfill the amount were taking out makes a lot of sense. so we both that is the way to do that, but i think it's important not to take money out of muni without putting money into muni to make it whole. >> thank you. supervisor avalos >> more than wanting to have the last word, i actually just want to emphasize that last week we had a discussion about funds for the mta, for muni to our transportation sustainability fee. supervisor tan peskin mentioned that his

comment] it was also discussion about how we could use that psf to cover operations but that was something that was being refused by the makers, some of the makers of the legislation we have before us. so, we have lots of sources we can use and soaking residents for that doesn't make a lot of sense. if we are trying to get full cost recovery from people drive vehicles, who get their vehicles towed, and have impacts on riders, why are we not willing to charge developers a little bit more to get some greater cost recovery for the impact the development has on her chest rotation system in san francisco ? we missed that opportunity but when it could be coming back again it's important to mention to this discussion today >> thank you. seeing no other

names on the roster, on the motion to continue this item one week to the meeting of march 15, 2016, madam clerk, please call the roll >> supervisor yee aye, avalos aye, breed aye, campos aye, cohen aye, farrell aye, kim aye , mar, aye, peskin aye, tang aye, wiener aye there are 11 aye. this item will be continued to the meeting of march 15, 2016. >>[gavel] >> madam clerk go to the next item, please >> item 18 resolution to authorize the dept. of pub. health to accept and expend $2.8 million grant for active transportation program funds to the metropolitan transportation commission safe routes to

school grants program for the period of september 1, 2017 to august 31, 2019 weaving weaving indirect costs and to delegate authorize agent to execute these agreements to any amends the director of health. >> can we take this item same house, same call can we take that without objection? without objection the motion passes. adopted unanimously >>[gavel] >> next item >> item 19 is a ordinance to create a cash resolving fund for the office of clerk to keep up to one dollar synthetic-ish petty cash in making nonsense of branches to a stylish cash results in city department. same house, same call can we take that without objection? without objection the motion passes. the ordinance is passed unanimously on the first reading >>[gavel] >> we are past 2:30 pm and now it is time to go to our 2:30 pm commendations. we have a commendation from supervisor

katie tang >> today i would like to call up someone who's been part of our city government for about 3 decades and is like to invite up to the podium mr. richard lee who served in our san francisco public about if we can give him a round of applause, please. >>[applause] >> so, today i want to bring richard here because unfortunately, he's leaving our city. he is retiring. i believe at the end of this week. is that right. he is already retired but made him come back on tuesday. sorry about that. i first met richard at the dept. of pub. health obviously a lot of our work with the massage industry and a lot of the legislation working but through that process got to know richard and some of the work is done through dept. of pub.

health. so want to take this time to honor him for his incredible service to our city. so, richard served as the acting director of environmental health and he also start working with the city in april of 1987 as a senior industrial hygienist, where he initiated new programs in the bureau of toxics and safety services such as dph emergency responder program but san francisco fire department hazardous material program. 2 decades later he was promoted to the director of environmental health to go to reprogram and there, he managed all the promoting programs in environmental health branch, including massage, food, water quality, and healthy housing. in june of 2013 richard became the acting director of environmental health results incorporate the health branch into the new population health division. some of his colleagues are former or current