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we'll go over some of the background mostly on the slor sf i get briefed frequently on cleanpowersf but we'll talk about how to link the two programs and thankfully the programs are common goals you'll see on the screen both programs are important to san francisco overall compliment goals like cleanpowersf but the go solar goals were laid out in policy statements that now embodied in city code so those policy statements and directions came to us back in 2007 when the board of supervisors adopted the initiating owners and designated
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puc as the program administrator and asked we appropriate 2, $5 million every year to the program over a 10 year period and directed us to adjust the incentives how they're going the marketplace over the 10 year period and also directed us to cooperate the administration of the paroling program of the go solar with the implementation and administration of the cac program that is now kind of with the cleanpowersf. >> the programs has combotsdz those goals and directions in overall program objectives and that's what you see here very consistent with the goals you know and encourages installation of valor panels and
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jobs for san franciscans supporting accelerator projects for low income households and supporting loca businesses so let's take a minute to see who is eligible the for the go solar program and how the incentives will exclusive those objectives so the incentives are sdielgd to encourage the solar panels to increase the mechanically was the installed we help to pay for the system the bigger the system size which is shown across the top of the slides the column hekdz the birthdays the incentive we provide jobs to san franciscans by requiring installers to be ignite for the payments we support the solar projects for low income households to have installations
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on low income residential properties the eligible for the sizeable add on you see that listed on the column other than the left the blue you see the ad on if it is an eligibility low income household and then we support the local businesses similarly and adds an incentive for city installers the installer must meet the log business requirements in san francisco in terms of eligibility all of the our customers are hetch hetchy or pubically owned utility likely e inevitable for go solar and get g hd power all of pg&e's customers are eligible for go solar sf and with the introduction of clean power sf we'll evolving be enrolled as
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customers in that program and historically the residents of go solar sf funds are now all potential customers of cleanpowersf the linkage is starting to happen as we roll out cleanpowersf so what sources impacts are we seeing more the program we've talked about the objectives and how to get there for the next couple slides will talk about that again incentives have available for the power customers and non-customers so far 3 thousand 4 hundred plus installations completed in san francisco totals 12.3 megawatts of capacity a small portion of those 5 customers were customers of ours through the hetch hetchy customer service offerings of public utility for a small 0.25
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mel was the we've accommodated one and 69 new jobs for sdaejsz san franciscans 39 folks are currently employed as of february 13th we're the process together with the mayor's office of economic workforce development mr. mulligan you heard from earlier we're the process of implementing a shift from the existing workforce requirements the program to applying san francisco's first source hire rules to the go solar sf program that will better align with the city programs so far we've paid out 22 point plus million dollars since the program was initiated in 2008, as you can see how it those payments breakdown amongst the eligible groups and this next
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slide with the largest portions to the residential customers through the residential protecting or straight up recipient or nonprofit residential so we're seeing less reliance on solar incentives than currently than we have in earlier years of the program and that you can see here this is our sort of program wide view what you're looking is the boars representing the kilowatts of installed and the lines shows the total dollars paid out through the years of the program and as you can see that the installed capacity far exceeds the pay out we're go solar is supporting more projects today with less budget and we're seeing less reliance
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on the go solar program to go to solar capacity installed in san francisco so that's our program wide look. >> why is that what would you say. >> i think that is a number of factors one shown the slide we'll go through and that's the fact that the cost of solar harassed come down drastically over this time period if you look at slide 10 as you can see year to year what the total installed cost is the first column or rather the second column and what our incentive contribution was to buy down the cost with the states california solar incentive contribution to buying down the cost and the net cost or was for a system that is a 2
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that the 5 kilowatt system as you can see when you look at the last column the net cost column that the cost in recent years have come down when you go over one dlum to the state incentives that is reduced to zero and the costs are still coming down and as you can see they came down from 2011 through 2015 when you look at the go solar incentive column the net costs have come down with the go solar not because we're getting more money from outside but the net costs have come down and the market is able to thrive even with reductions in the incentive payments both by the our program and by the state administered programs i think there is also a
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contributing factor to the go solar sf program we surveyed installers to get a sense of what the factors are and one of the factors listed was the champs presented by our workforce requirements and that's part of the reason we're modifying our workforce requirements to align with the city's hiring requirement. >> so the last change in incentives for the go solar sf program occurred in 2013 pr and that net costs have continued to decline without the state incentives and the overall the bottom line is that the current go solar sf incentive has helped to create the lowest costs the program history. >> so we've benefit talking
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about what is happening with our program on the last couple of slides overall what is going on in the marketplace slablt to the marketplace the california puc issued a report the majority of installations since in 2014 did not receive a state incentive yet 31 percent of those yes, sir - i'm sorry 31 percent greater than in 2013 there's been worry the marketplace was of the federal tax credit was due to expire and urban certainty where it was be extended that uncertainty is gone a thirty percent federal tax credit extended for that the next 3 empowers and the california public utilities commission was considering changes in the net
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energy metering program that created instability the market but now this is favorable to the terms for customers installing solar this is things are staking out there so with that update i think on the go solar sf program is it so time to start a discussion on segregating h integrating this is an opportunity to give me guidance not an action item we would like to get guidance from you and take that guidance to the stakeholder and solar task force and customers of the program both clean power and go solar sf and come back with potential program changes just to get the dialogue going
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one of your offer arching recommendation whatever changes we protect the goals of the two programs making sure we have affordable, cleaner power in san francisco that we are investing in local prongs and jobs that we continue to foster the program stability we're starting to see we recommend that since we have not changed the incentive levels since 2013 we need a step down on the incentives with the overall project costs that allows us to stretch the program budget some we're hoping to have more uptake with the cleanpowersf program and interested in making changes there we will recommend simplifying the incentive structure to you know when you saw that slide
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that had all the columns across the top those are size you know categories if we did it like the state program was on a dollar per kilowatt basis instead of of the unit size i think we'll have a more simplified program and we propose to simplify the that current table and get hopefully get a little bit less questioning on that by customers in terms of opportunities with clean power sf we'll to go enhance the program for customers of ours both our pubically owned and the hetch hetchy customers and our cleanpowersf customers some of the ideas we batted around providing a additional incentive
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to customers that are customers of ours to encourage their participation the program to reward them as our customers to set aside a portion of cleanpowersf budget for our committees there is dedicated funding available and to establish more attractive net metering terms for our committees than are available to customers of pg&e. >> to that's ideas to get the ball rolling and like to hear our thoughts either in reaction to those or creative ideas you have. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioner courtney. >> that's very detailed and helpful for me you know forgive for saying this but go solar is the pilot program forever so i kind of just not really engaged you on
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some of the workforce concerns but now that we're starting to talk about go solar and cleanpowersf i would like to have very robust communicates about the workforce itself, who's in the workforce, how many hours they work per week pursuant to what agreement, what wage rates with what training and certification components because i think we jason we have not yielded dealt with those issues it is a little bit premature to do that but i think now probably is the time because we can focus on those individuals right here now full disclosure martin is here there are disputes in the private sector in connection with the systems we can resolve
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those last week any project labor agreement kind of i'll wormd but start with the current and get data i know local residents or not to begin the kind of flushing that out i have a strong superstition that people will be curious about what the job opportunities are with cleanpowersf now go solar folks don't work directly with the pg&e; right? so what would be the relationship with cleanpowersf how are those connected it seems like we're connecting them but they can be apples and oranges it is great we'll start to kind of have this confusion but probably just the tip of the iceberg. >> so make a couple of comments first of all, i think we now see
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a connection with go solar as it relates to hetch hetchy as it relates to the power enterprise one we were concerned that western providing hetch hetchy money to be used ton solar installation of pg&e consumers but now since we have cleanpowersf visually all of them could be power provides by isn't that cleanpowersf not pg&e they can be our customers eventually be our customers unless their opt out the second thing as you stated the go solar is not customers of ours it is really a contractors who know how to do the paperwork that will get the incentives and
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off savings to homeland security to get go solar incentives so recognizing that the third thing as it relates to cleanpowersf building its own renewables we had lafco working with us to talk about what projects we can talk about i think those are the projects that we can probably talk about you know if it is union you know what the workforce looks like and definitely talk about that and planning to bring a job report barbara you know people that have that. >> the next month. >> while bring the jobs report bans the actual numbers we'll definitely provide that but i think the main thing is that what is interesting when you
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look at it right now you're seeing more solar installations being insult without looking at the incentives because maybe from what we're hearing it is just more efficient for sun run solar city and folks that have the workforce to deploy them without doing the paperwork is in their best interests we want to hear from you some of the features we'll present and solicit the input we'll like to have a go solar program it is rated for the cleanpowersf folks those are our customers and really had had metering where if for example, over build on their
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solar panels so they can produce more power than can be used we can buy it back added a higher costs so it is an incentive we talked about the limitations that we're hearing also a lot of folks who are not putting solar on their roof they need a relief repair we talked about the bill finance as an option you can remove that as well so you can get you know to the - we were focused on the low - this is an opportunity to harvest more if reremove the barriers so coming back to you those opposed with open to investigate. >> so you know that's it helpful i'm focusing a lot of
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inclusively on the workforce we've kind of been the job it hadn't had that real connection to the utility that's my original comment been the pilot program but once the workers have greater legitimacy within the organization that's when all the question marks come i hope i was clear i'm looking for data on the work and what qualifies the folks to work and are sfthsz component do those components qualify them for other things are they the career pathway or the initial thing maybe we should think about ways to have over laptop with the construction industry i know that is a whole bunch to drop on
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you am i being clear and it's helpful input as i mentioned we're seeing the administration of the workforce component to city build and pat mulligan and his team we'll pull data if the historic practice not relevant to what we're proposing for the future we're making that shift but at least give you a flavor of the history in terms of the data points our q. >> i think there is a question on cac local build out we hadn't fully upcoming packed. >> let's do it now that's the ne freerlg. >> i think that is important on the method cast if he were to
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purchase a local project in the end result is we will buy certainty amount of kilowatts for cost it is up to them to build it and how they build it you life e kind of losses some of the control we may want to talk about the whole thing it may change the way we contract if we want to make sure certain requirements are being met. >> other comments commissioners one thing that kauths any attendance the original legislation in 2007 amended krovrpd go solar with cac and the time enforcement we didn't have a cac and the result was
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3,0006 hundred and 602 customers that have solar panels installed in homes that were penguin customers with the program that was run by hetch hetchy so i looked that number of people you've said as much i want those as customers they have benefited from our task and should be our customers as well we should be aggressively going after them and as go solar go forward as a route part of their signing up additional customers for that sutter program will be signing them up as customers of cleanpowersf that didn't need to be market
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limiting not a burden i hope we could i know instead of i don't know what the percentage 5 out of 36 or 37 but clipping to one hundred. >> thank you. >> anything else commissioners public comment i have one comment card - i hope i said that right. >> good afternoon i'm with bright ryan line i want to make a question public comment on the workforce cleanpowersf the central part of program and many of the stakeholders involved i wanted to get it right from what we've heard from the partners the
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solar industry and the cfos the workforce development program they have been things that are imperfect hopefully what we're getting with this change to the workforce program a single point of contact that is providing candidates i know that is increasing the employer assess we're excited that city build will do that but to realize the vision we need a oewd and ask puc to work with other stakeholders and continue to find ways to improve the we have a motion and a second we appreciate all the work that pat mulligan and 0 others put into this program and looking forward to it xhovz as we go forward.
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>> mr. freed jason fried i'll directing your attention the last 3 believability points the ideas for the rewarding the complerz he fully support that i think you can 20/20 types of the bonuses a cca or smaller bonus that is signed that for the supergreen and give people more incentives for solar on the roof people are better late than never most the green attributes having them sign up for the supergreen we'll get the money for the other build outs that is an extra bonus not doing a large bonus but small bonus and give
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them the incentive and for the second one i fully support i'll take it a step further as the program is shifted to the new workforce model i see more people wanting to use the money that is available like the early years community based after the low-hanging fruit and we had money for the incentives for the money there should be a priority for the crack customers and over the others that are staying with pg&e your prioritizing your own customers of the hetch hetchy system whether it is be po u and get to commissioner, i agree those are good numbers but as the barbara hale said maybe not know what the future is
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sister-in-law we are switching the program over to pat mulligan and may not get the same incentives but incorporated what is changing how that is changing and what are the incentives and how it addresses the concerns that are legitimate and people are becoming unemployed so the comments are very good and with the shifting of the program it solves some of the problems maybe not all but some that existed. >> thank you. >> thank you public comment. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is jennifer i'm the project manager at design the employment training center i've been there around for 40 years we had a apprenticeship with the construction that includes the solar installations train
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component and go solar sf is a program we've been active in since the beginning and seen a lot of our students and our grads hired just to be clear our population as sister program build academy in a sense we're having a training our participants they're also san franciscans but they don't require all the same requirements as if i go into city build our students manltd have their ged with the program maybe driver's license they tend to have more barriers to employment than the academies but have a desire to go into the construction and fields so we've seen like i said a lot of go solar program and the workforce
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continue to grow into the first program and we would like to see some focus on training dollars we've been doing solar training with our own resources and finally people signing them into go solar training without any specific resources from go solar sf into the train program we're not the only ones doing the training other cfos that are doing like programs so i would suggest that that be the step also how can we to our point fully train people to have the skills to be successful the solar trades so i just ask you keep in mind as you're looking at the proposals coming up
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i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you. >> hello. >> thank you my name is jeanine i'm the co-founder with the design builder firm and san francisco's only solar contractor that is a certified b b e the first san francisco based on contractors to become workforce development through cleanpowersf and today to commissioner courtneys comments you know we have 50 percent of our crew leads come to us through office of economic workforce development and the first go solar back office hire that is doing during the expansion to insure that is no boats on the roof but
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incorporated women and others to have pastoring into careers in solar melissa is now has a staff of 3 that she manages and reluctance purchased a home and re-entering we're talking about transformative employment and careers in the best scenario what we've- i'm pleased that the sfpuc is look at the workforce development xhoenlt i agree with commissioner courtney that has not on the whole seen the placement and retention that is really necessary to drive the environmental and social justice components that i think dr.
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jackson wanted to see and expected of this program and holds them account recent to delivering the program so i'm encouraged by that i am concerned and that about replacing a mandate with good faith and while i first experienced in trying to hire through first source didn't work i'm you know have confidence in pat mulligan and confidence in laura to work with the solar employers to improve that process i welcome any comments you have. >> thank you very much any public comment on this item thank you all for your comments next item, please. >> item 11 is the bosco
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report. >> good afternoon, commissioners initiating bosca chief executive officer i have two items to talk about today first i'll calling your attention to may february 23rd statement that is in your packet in our correspondence packet for today, i hadn't planned to give it to you but i'll not reilly repeat it but as you may know bosca monitored the mountain tunnel situation i believe we've pushed to insure that it gets the focus it needs to insure the reliability to all your water customers and to that end i'm pleased that you've heard from
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kathy howe about the inclusion of the mountain tunnel the hetch hetchy cpi so you have the ability to see the progress on the capital improvement plan and one of the things that making piecework like yourselves southerner aware of that raises the issues to a critical nature i'm pleased to see that moving forward one area we're continuing to work on with our staff is the emergency the amounting emergency response plan chase essentially the man plan it says how about the puc provide water the emergency of a hetch hetchy from the mid-town fails how to provide water to the customers that is critically important and mr. richie put together a report from my
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vantage point that is where this commission awareness of it and awareness of what it means when you have such a plan and the relationship with other wholesalers the service area that jointly will be relying on that i hope you'll get an opportunity with a presentation and what it means it is very important i also want to thank mr. richie we've meeting monthly on amounting and give us the opportunity to really talk about those issues and flush them out it a very good model and look forward to the successful resolution of articles if i can have the slides so i the president to give you an update how the service area is in response to the drought that is the lastly data through
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january overall we see the 27 percent savings for the 15 percent cumulative savings it is down we expelled 31 percent it is hard to a safe that much water in the middle of january when the water use it low we'll seeing the numbers trickle down but a good response the ear and one way we looking at this the state has set a target volume of savings between the june 2016 and how much water to save and to date the boca agencies are achieved that by next october so this is a significant achievement and one that really is a test to the fact that the investment and the communities responses and just in total what that
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means they've saved almost 16 billion gallons a significant amount of savings one we're all dealing with the ramifications on the financial side but we want to continue to encourage the customers to do that the absence of knowing what the ohio electrical charges will be next year with that, that concludes my remarks. >> and thank you for all the hard work with the water savings we appreciate it. >> great so looks like we're ready for the consent calendar and he understand that commissioner courtney has a plane to catch we'll excuse them open him and let him go when he's ready and with that, if you wouldn't mind reading the consent calendar please. item 12
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calendar, are considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests in which event the matter shall be removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. 12 a approval amendment to agreement expediting the duration up to 6 months b approve the specifications the word contract number on a in the amount of of seven hundred 20 thousand to the lowest qualified responsive bidders and the specifications the award contract in the amount of of $30 million plus to the lowest quality responsible bidder d approve the modification to contract increasing the contract
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by $2 million plus e approve the modifications increasing the contract by $2 million plus, f the approval of modifications to the contract increasing the contract amount by one and 46 thousand plus and expectation to the contract duration by one thousand plus calendar days and approval the water ascertainment for the third street ocean wide central project h authorize the memorandum of understanding with the modesto and thank you, sir luck in the amount of not to exceed within an expiration date of 2020 that you thank you would any commissioners like to remove any of those items. >> is there a motion to approve the consent calendar. >> i'll make a motion.
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>> second. >> pichl on the consent >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? >> next speaker, please. >> item 13 approval for the agreement authorizing increasing the agreement by 50 thousand and agreement by one and $25,000 and a 3 year and six months time extension for the agreement. >> is there a motion to approve that item. >> so moved. >> second. >> questions comments public comment on item number 13? hearing >> i. >> opposed? that item passes amazing next item, please. >> item 14 approval the amendment to agreement increasing a by $90,000 a time
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extension of 3 years and of months per agreement. >> is there a motion to approve that item. >> so moved. >> second. >> questions or comments from the commissioners any public comment on this item? >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? that item passes unanimously next item, please. >> item 15 authorize a new 7 year lease to extend the term for one year between clem could and the city and county of san francisco. the use of approximately 17 thousand plus office building for the parking at a rate of $38,000 plus per month >> is there a motion to approve. >> so moved. >> second. >> questions or comments any public comment on this item?
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>> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? that item passes unanimously thank you item 16 approve the agreement between the city and county of san francisco active with the public works the state of california of 3 agreements for the sfpuc west side recycling of property on armory drive and authorize the sale agreement subject to the board of supervisors approval to convey the agreements for an amount not to exceed $25,000 motion to approve second. >> any comments on this questions any public comment? >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? >> unanimously approved may i get a motion please to - what are we're going to do go into closed session. >> would you like the other items. >> items for closed session
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mitigated claims city of san francisco for the sf corporation are the irrigation from the city and county of san francisco, conference with real property new york city and judicial exchange for the lot 31 for 180 one jerald in san francisco and destruction price in terms of apartment and restore hetch hetchy versus city of san francisco and items 20 through 29 will not be heard. >> thank you. any comments on the items to be in closed session hearing none, can i get a motion to assert a attorney/client
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section the commission authorized the settlement of 19 no other action was taken can i have a motion as to whether or not to disclose the items if closed session. >> a i move we don't there is a motion and a second opposed the item that item passes is there other new business seeing none, we'll be adjoined at
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good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the to this meeting the this is the regular meeting of the for the land use and transportation i'm supervisor cohen chair to my right is supervisor wiener the vice chair and to my left is mr. rosen's our clerk is awe debris i'd like to thank jessie larson and leo from sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting madam clerk, any announcements? 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 29, 2016 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you very much is there a representative from supervisor yee's office here? no, not yet okay well, let's commissioner low is supported this item we have
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shannon from the planning department that is here to present on his behalf welcome shannon >> good afternoon, everyone. i'm stockton ferguson planning department staff for the landmark designation on san marcus the forest neighborhood can i have the overhead the historic preservation commission added this to the cal house preservation on june 2011 the hpc designation for july 2017 open cement 16, 2015 did hpgsz conducted on exterior and barrier of the property on
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october 7, 2015, voted for the landmark designation one 71 sacking marcus is associated with the henry cal and modern pro percent for the american music for 9 commercial music the 19 tends to thirty and significant for henry's stepmother for the relatively erections department at cal san francisco state all of the cal her influence is the modern design for transitional writers for the music society in the living room of cal house with the acoustics with the performances in mind.
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>> the cal house is significant as the first modern single-family home conducted in san francisco and as a work of natural irving what the designer of the golden gate bridge with the pioneering acre architecture work and collaboration. >> the cal house residences the design that were present when conducted in 1933 as much as the horizontal red week ago siding and elements there is no known neighborhood option to the designation of 171 san marcus after the property owner was unable to attend today again supportive of labor designation you'll find a letter
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of support from her that concludes my presentation. i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> all right. very much let's getting go ahead and take public comment ladies and gentlemen, public comment is open two minutes allocated for public comment if you want to comment please step forward to the podium good morning and welcome. >> good morning or good afternoon my name is ingel i'll speaking no support of landmarking this is an unusual building in san francisco house and it is also very important because there was a very decided influence of the woman architect this building and yeah, he would wish that you would adopt the landmarking thank you. >> and ms. horton were you
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involved the case report for this landmark designation. >> i can't say they used my book in which they used the novel. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment on number one seeing none, public comment is closed thank you so much for your comments. >> madam chair i'd like to be listed a co-sponsor with supervisor yee and move forward to the full board with recommendations. >> all right. looks like this motion. >> man and woman madam chair, i have a connection the next board meeting will not needed until april 5th. >> okay. >> thank you very much you got that supervisor peskin all right. a motion to move to
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the next board meeting to april 5th we'll take that without objection. that motion carries. >> item 2. >> item 2 an ordinance amending the code for concern no fault vibrations or a person that resided in the rent-controlled unit. >> supervisor campos is the author and joined us supervisor avalos well, thank you. >> thank you very much madam chair and colleagues thank you for hearing this item today the legislation before you is about helping families and school workers in san francisco remain in their homes during the academic year i want to begin by thanking the co-sponsoring supervisor kim and supervisor avalos and supervisor mar that builds on prevention that supervisor mar spearheaded
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in 2009 that legislation allows landlords to evacuate families owner move-in the families have children under the age of 18 the scald system and prohibits the eviction during the school year the current legislation expands the existing legislation to include all no fault evictions so that families with children in our system can not be evicted during the school year for evictions related to condominium conversion and substantial rehabilitation the second thing it includes educator and we define educators as people that work in san francisco continentals directing with students and home daycare's both public and private
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this not only includes the teacher a classroom a paraprofessional an administrator a psychologist or security guard or liaison a cafe worker janitor or school nurse we know that san francisco is facing an affordability crisis if this affordability crisis that impacts our education in terms of the crisis in housing the san francisco retirement board provided the data that shows that there were 2000 notices of eviction filed between be marking 2014 and 2015 this is a significance 55 increase compared to the 5 year period before that wrpts with regards to no fault 4 hundred and 38 vibrations were
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on record if you ask the advocates the number will probable be do you believe that number the impact on families with children raises concerns many families who are veektsdz can't afford to stay in san francisco and therefore are forced to leave san francisco but not just the families themselves from the family is evicted the impact can be felt if an educator is evicted not only of that educator and his or her family by the students that are educated by his or her that's why this legislation make sense and to put it into context of what it means to a school worker let's look at the salary for a full kre7b89d teacher is less than 3 thousand 4 hundred conflict of interests a month that teacher has to if they want
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to stay in san francisco facing an eviction they have to deal with the market where a one bedroom apartment the medium rental prices for the one bedroom apartment is 3 thousand 6 hundred and 20 more than the entire money they make within a month the issue is worse foyer a paraprofessional here in san francisco a paraprofessional their average salary is $2,083 a month imagine living on that when you have to pay 3 thousand plus for a one bedroom a december 2015 professional survey by the educators of san francisco that represents payrolls and teachers found that 70 percent of all responded to that survey and 59 percent were concerned with the high cost of living in san francisco this is impacting the educators
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of our city x baiting the issue san francisco, california ray and nationally a school teacher and staff shortage problem pursue the number of people enrolled the program has dropped if a 45 thus to fewer 20 thus and that is between 2008 and 2013 and at the end of the school year last year we have nine hundred openings the school district alone and an insufficient number of substitute teachers we had a hearing pointing out that because of the high cost of living that we have the school district unable to hire all the substitutes it needs this ordinance about help mitigate the impact of displacement of educators and families 2 will be something simply needs jeer we
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can know that city has taken steps to help the educators those findings steps require that we actually it takes time to do some of the things we've talked about we have programs to create housing for teachers that it takes time for those findings projects to have an impact unless we act now and today by the time we do something we will have los lost so much of the educators i take the opportunity to thank you the staff hillary and my legislative aid that has worked on that for quite a few of the i want to acknowledge the critical role that the midnight educators lee the audience and others if usf and particular i 2079 acknowledge the work of dean preston the decker the
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tenants together this is actually something that came out of the work that dean has been doing in his neighborhood it's been dean's brainchild working with the tenants throughout the neighborhoods and communities that issue came up and that solution that dean came up with and brought to our office important i also want to thank the youth commission for unanimously supporting the legislation and acknowledge the board of education sandra fewer and matt haney who is here today i know they have drafted a resolution that will be kcmo about the board of education at their meeting tomorrow colleagues, i believe we need to act now to address this crisis because that housing crisis unfortunately has created another crisis i respectfully ask for your; is that right and
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unless questions or comments i'll turn to public comment. >> thank you supervisor campos for your opening remarks especially ladies and gentlemen, we allow public comment to happen right here come and share your thoughts with us. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm the director of the pacific primary which is a school for early child center and schools that has two sites at barker and grove the school is over 40-year-old and serves parents a few day around the school serving one and 55 children i've been the director for 20 years and have been an educator in the city for 40 years and this is teacher crisis is the worse i've seen the city
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norman if we put an ad out for a teacher 10 to 20 applications zero resumes this legislation is essential and i want to thank preston that has done an offered amazing support for the teachers at 1.4 teachers were facing homeless they have evictions and i strongly support this legislation we have teachers right now that are driving into the city from vacerville and ann took 3:30 the morning to get here it is really impossible our teachers are afraid of what will happen next and the children and families the city will be absolutely being affected now and what is ahead
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is terrifying i holy hope you'll support this legislation and know that is one step among many steps for this serious crisis thank you very much. >> thank you, thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors chair cohen i'm the executive director of the james center we are a new development agency the mission district and provide off-street parking social and meekal support the visitacion valley and serve one youth and children a year we are seeing as the last speaker said a marked increase in the hardship that our teachers go through i want to talk about the impact on the opportunity community as a whole
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james town is unique we try to serve the kids as long as potential not just the year we hire our own participants when they're no hostile and support them after they graduate this past year 14 of the state of dissatisfy that graduated from college this is racket most from protecting african-american and latino communities a fairly low graduation rate the reason we support in our paternity and stand-off while they're working for james attain and a piping into the san francisco unified school district of bilingual teachers that have the relationship already because we come from the community so i'd like hope that you, please help us do what we do and try to stem this community crisis by the
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way, we're losing teachers and seeing the loss outcomes for the youth thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please come on up in need a water queue up automatically. >> thank you supervisor avalos and all supervisors for your renewal and thank you for the support of this bill i'm with the ancestry providers association i work with providers the centers and family childcare across the city we've been struggling with the wages crisis that effects them knowledge and working here with the children i'm grateful the two speakers before me shared their works i'll go over those findings and reemphasis that early childhood make half of what the was this are already lower than was this so any workforce supervisor
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avalos i'm pleased to see they were included with educators all other educators in this bill so thank you and i look forward to your support. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm the president of the non-compliant educators to everything urge my choerld support and thank you for supervisor avalos to bring this pardon first of all, as educators we support this legislation is expands the rights of families of the students that are faced with the affordable crisis, and, secondly, i'm important to us a concrete step that the city can take we hope takes to provide a degree more security for the educators in the city i'll give you two example really the last week not a week has gone by since i've taken the job
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in august getting e-mail address from the educators that are facing an out right eviction or translates into an eviction important one teacher and veteran teacher serving 25 years facing an eviction now part of progress and the other from a teacher her living in a critically important field and trying - a computer tech teacher said i'll not know what i'm doing april tloth that legislation will present lots of a degree of security it will serve as a center for our educators and thank you very much. >> hi, i'm josh i cook for
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the kids in the preschool and a the chapter for tenderloin one we represent custodians and school secretaries and cafeteria workers and people that do safety inspections it is our mix about $1,700 a month so the crisis is not a secret especially for the members and important we have a little bit of security because we're the folks after school in the morning we keep the kids fed i'm pleased to see the cost workers were included in terms of the ongoing operations with the district it is crucial we be able to support the educators that are serving the classrooms and make sure that the school itself is running so people can focus on the class thank you very much. >> hi
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jennifer with the san francisco tenants union and little mapping promotions we wholeheartedly support this legislation and while i wish there was a ban on no eviction by providing community establishment we have similar legislation to protect the families this think an intelligent decision to capitalized it keeps the classrooms stable i support the government interventions to help our vital educators. >> >> next speaker. >> >> afternoon mediating president of the board of education want to express my strong supports for the legislation and thank you to supervisor avalos for breaking and entering it forward at the at least we can insure our educators work hard with the youth i don't have to face the threat of eviction or losing their home the middle of the
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school year as president of the brown act board i get to see the schools and this is to be routine by the planning commission, and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote issue that is coming up more and more this morning i was at jean parker long-term supervisor peskin district and the principal told me when we can do to better support the school he didn't say more books or resources do something about the housing crisis we're facing a way that our teachers what live in san francisco and stay without a threat of eviction if we're being asked asked to build the community that are stable that are necessary for all the children to be successful it takes creative building solving that allows us to have quarters that can create homes here and have establishment and build school communities that you are
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successful so i'm strongly supportive personally our school board is considering a bill tomorrow evening hope to report back from the entire school district and thank you for the hard work of the folks behind us this is the least we can do and i'll be supportive thank you. >> next speaker >> supervisors thank you, madam chair and supervisors especially supervisor campos and especially for including family chaffering seven hundred and thirty licensed childcare happening half own and half rent the renters are afraid the process of being evicted and we're provider can and educate the youngest children almost all are working families i don't know how the city will work with
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the stable quality of the childcare for agriculture division those findings kids you mentioned time we don't have that much time and this is moving if one country's to another and have to have providers and families stay in san francisco thank you, very much i hope we can do that quickly thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> my name is michelle sorry. >> and i'm a retired family childcare provider from glen park a program for 33 years this is one of the reasons i can be here when other childcare providers can't you know i'm fortunate to have bought any house when it was $35,000 in glen park and that allowed me to have lower fees for the kids but so i'm fortunate but just very you know
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alarmed at how many childcare providers are losing their homes you know the 50 period of time that rent we care for the youngest and often the most vulnerable and so, anyway i want to thank you, very much and especially you supervisor campos for including us thank you. >> thank you supervisors and especially supervisor campos for introducing that i'm depa and in any years of being an eviction defense lawyer i've seen first hand benefits the children bend from the existing law and transitions or calmed the panic and were able to enter the school system without a crisis in that - i've seen first hand
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time after time the panic here that people experience when they get an eviction notice and to be able to keep for the entire school community the costs to mitigate that a little bit makes a big difference not all we want to see in terms of of tenant protection but you can do it now to make things a little bit better thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors dean preston district 5 a parent of school-aged children and tenant advocate and thank you supervisor campos for offering this legislation and to the co-sponsoring to supervisor mar for planting the seeds in 2010 hopefully, the board will expand upon i hope we can come together on that i think everyone recognized the crisis in teacher housing as
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well as single-family homes sf in san francisco we need to ask ourselves wharf of a city if we can't house our families and can't house our educators while we'll built plans for the affordable housing for educators in the future we need to protect those findings who are affordablely housed doing everything we can as supervisor campos legislation does to protect educators from evictions i want to echo something depa said the enormous amount of stress eviction folks are under and the amount of centers the families and educators are already under even without an eviction so far educators would low salaries to struggle to afford the city and hard work of taking care of and educating our
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youth a adding an eviction on top of that makes that stress unbearable and the least we can do make sure that didn't occur and disrupt the school community >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm 101 restraining order less represent the senior action there's an excellent book by the late frank called teacher men an excellent book gives us appreciation for that profession i grew up here and went to various schools to enlivening peabody and george washington we had teachers that had a stake like by the time my teacher as george washington high school that lives in the community my writing any career as a
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writer i owe to the entertain the fact teachers are consulting out of town and walking up at 3:30 in the morning they need consideration for the priority why else will they take a job that pays so little unless they see a need for fulfilling a need like that i appreciate supervisor campos for bringing up to legislation and again, please read the book teacher man by frank la court about the thirty years in taken care of in new york city and give you a very poignant graceful sniebt into teaching in that job. >> good afternoon, supervisors my name is kevin bogus work a
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nonprofit and san francisco native born and raised i'm here to ask you to support support is it teachers play a vital component in presenting the students and in fear of eviction is something they don't need to suffer an as negative impact and as someone that attended san francisco schools we had a lot of teacher turnover your favorite teacher about varnish has an negative impact on the kids i want to ask you to support this and continue to take steps to prevent the working-class families from being evicted in san francisco thank you. >> afternoon supervisors supervisor avalos thank you for this legislation my name is a connie ford the
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vice president of the council no way i'm here to represent the council fully behind this legislation a beautiful and wonderful piece of legislation we're trying to entrap emil with the economic disparities in san francisco i thought i'll tell you both of my children were born and raised and went through public schools i remember the day any girls kindergarten teacher had to leave it broke her heart she didn't want to go to school i have a granddaughter going to betsey carmichael is in love with her teacher if he left it would be hard to pick up the pieces so children who need the support and love not only of their families but of their
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institutions so we're grateful for this legislation to keep over families together and to keep our schools supporting our children so thank you very much for this. >> thank you thank you connie my colleagues reminded me how heartbroken i would be yes, ma'am ma is one year ahead of me (laughter) sorry fred go ahead. >> i love the small towns i'm sarah from human rights committee we were a kid we had to move around and most years my parents were able to wait for the summers i remember the awful year i was behind on everything.
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>> and how much i was bullied in school a new place that was totally different and hundreds of families with kids it come into our office with the human rights committee and it is really scary to help them fight evictions and the choices to take care of their children and the status show that moving the middle of the year and pulling u pulled out in general sets kids back months in schooling increases the risk of smoking before their 18 and increases the risk of teen suicide i don't think that is too much to ask the lrpdz left hand to wait for a no fault eviction i wish the kids could stay no matter what when it was about
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money but we don't seem to be able to do that so let's help the children. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors and chair malia cohen my former student with katie tang we could have a reunion one of the beautiful things of being in a big town smaller city to retain the communities between classrooms and teachers and other school staff when people can afford to stay in town so back in ancient 1985 i taught with a nice studio apartment with 15 and gerrero housing was not an object of solicitation today, we know a change in
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housing in san francisco and that there is indeed a crisis and this crisis is exacerbated by the fact that has been noted a national state and local crisis in the teacher shortage how is sfusd going to be able to recruit the best and bright i did have university students to teach in san francisco if they can't see a way to dig down with roots in the city and maybe have the audacity to raise a family almost a growth the number of omgz is seven hundred in 1906 perhaps the worst housing crisis in history this city historians note radical around the disposed and the homeless in tents and
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the tripod communities and we rebuilt this city burn ever brerg into a historic gentrification and disruption of school community that is a great piece of legislation it is one - >> thank you to my left is. >> san francisco free market affordable housing for our teachers why not build the the police force own their housing village no four story high poor village and can't provide
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housing with the teachers low income or free housing just for teachers see as a teacher they will work like a nonprofit organization career see with our children of the energy the activities something with full fullness and achievement they guarantee themselves their security especially, when they live close to the colleges schools for time to prepare for the curriculum and students thank you. >> thank you supervisor campos thank you for bringing this measure i'd like to add my name if it is not on it. >> you're not. >> thank you. please add me i want to acknowledge the educators thank you for coming
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and sharing our perspectives on the urgency supervisor campos is there anything the you want to add. >> if i may madam chair thank to the amazing speakers the people that took time out of they're busy schedules all the folks that spoke you know just made the point better than i or anyone should but we talked about the teachers and paraprofessionals it is critical not just them but a lot of workers that play a critical roll in the education of our children's and thank you for your support. >> no more if you remember public comment public comment is closed. let's see supervisor any other future discussion colleagues supervisor wiener. >> please. thank you, madam chair i'm happy to support this legislation i think that teachers and
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educators in general are in a unique progression and having disruptions the mid of a school year in addition to the observance terrible bureaucrats on the educators impacts our children and we need to make sure our kids are referring all the education and 2014 and so forth they need i'm happy to support. >> is that a motion. >> yes. pile move forward to the i make a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> we'll take that without objection. that madam clerk, any other business before this committee? >> throw the baby out with the bath water thank you leakage this meeting is adjourned this meeting is adjourned clapping
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>> i want to welcome everyone here today and today, we are signing this very important piece of legislation and let me begin by thanking supervisor wiener so far his instead of leadership the sponsoring the legislation that will raise the minimum angle for anyone purchasing tobacco products and e cigarettes to the average 24 and that will take effect on
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july 1st of this year i know that supervisor wiener along with his co-sponsors supervisor mar and supervisor cowen and supervisor farrell and ultimately the entire board had a adopted this and this i know that the supervisors with working closely with our duty 0 who has been documenting why it is showing so important to continue our efforts as a city if not as a state to continue be rooiktd the access to cigarettes particularly at journeying or younger ages that is advocated by the groups like the tobacco free coalition i want to thank them they're not just here in san francisco but the entire region and all over the country working with the health department making sure that
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supervisor wiener and not only pay attention it the science and data it is going on but that we do our best to end the suffering that is brought by by long-term smoking that obviously is the cause of cancer and asthma and heart disease we do our best to educate the public in doing so if not the industry that sells overseeing products and ultimate our kids are your family when in their 18 and 19 is shown that the coalition has shown over and over you're putting that some 95 percent of long term smokers had begun smoking at the age of 18 perhaps younger and as certain under the age of 21 those habit are so hard to end voluntarily
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so that's why we have to go to many other front to try to do this and that's why i think that the supervisor wiener has found a person cause and public health health cause if the violation kriebs the department of health to make sure that we do what we can to end our these diseases as much as we can to make sure that we also reflect as the mayor of the city if we can save a lot of money if we are able the medical systems we have to have in place it treat cancer and asthma with smoking is an incredible experience to the public safety the cleaner air with the coalition work on families that
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second-hand smoke impacts this has another critical reason why we want to do as much as we can and i think we're on the overview we know that supervisor wiener is already in contact with the governor's office as we are and with his the 1184 particularly senator leno and senator henry's to insure that the state which maybe hopefully in our minds the second to join hawaii to end the sales of tobacco products and less people under 9 age of 21 it doesn't make it right because your 21 you buy tobacco products wild to end it. everyone hopefully with the adult level of age 21 that people make better health decision tore themselves and
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their family so i take this opportunity to thank the coalition i know that in looking at the data as they have done in working with us this year was a strong sense interest the data it the smoking rates are higher amongst people of closer and amongst the let the record reflect community and other xhucht we rank it with a hard impact sales work that is done by tobacco industry the may or may not lgbt community that's where we really have good data to show that the more we do to educate your communities be about this the better off we'll be so with all that background i want to say to supervisor wiener you have again showing the good leadership i'm going to give the pen avenue we sign this your
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accumulate more pens than anyone but thank you for your leadership and also working with such important groups like the tobacco free coalition supervisor wiener i'd like to invite you up here to say a few words >> thank you, mayor ed lee i'll give that pen to the advocates and the district for they're really horroric work tutor sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; 24 legislation in a way that highlights this critically important issue san francisco for many years has been on the cutting-edge of public safety whether around hiv or led pant and sugar sweetened beverage whatever the case weave been from the forefront and once again we are in the fire hydrant
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of what i hope will be a tile waive of proving health legislation that eliminates tobacco use in this country this is a huge problem we've been involved in a 50-year struggle but with the tobacco city that produces a product with no benefit whatsoever that kills a half a million people every year 34 is a serious issue and serious punting kiss i'm proud we live in a city where we can be on the cutting-edge where the politics of this city allows us at city hall to make good progressive policy i also want to say we know we're up against a very well financed component the tobacco destroy
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for decades has fought ever effort to try to control tobacco use and enemy linkage between their pursuit and the health we know that hillsborough tried to do that they have spent their legislation after an expensive lawsuit by the tobacco industry we in san francisco are willing to fight that fight that is amount about our city thank you to the department of public health we sometimes don't roles e releases how lucky with the best putting department that supports our efforts to make good laws that vascular critical exercise an amazing agency and our advocates for give us the political spouse space to to be able to do this and as the mayor
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adu u. >> you allowed we passed that legislation a week and a half good and the law jam the state assembly broke we that republicans willing to raise the tobacco age to 21 to pass senator leno's forward-looking bill to make sure that cigarettes are tobacco are still a way to get addicted to nicotine and will you the tobacco tax it is a huge step forward i hope goes to the governors desk thank you, everyone (clapping.) so are we ready to safe so far lives i'll add one mount reason not in my notes or the legislation but it is about my history
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about 10 years ago a mayor asked me to pick up cigarette butts as a public works decorator i say to all the public works staff that work hard if there was less settings that's another reason to sign on the legislation; right? yes all right. (clapping.) (laughter). >> today's date is - >> 16. >> that's it all right.
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>> at the san francisco recreation and parks department we offer good quality day care of your child will love, including outdoor adventures, aquatics, and programs for children on the optimism -- autism. >> it seems like everyone in san francisco is talking about housing san francisco housing prizes are among the highest it tops anyone million dollars and rent rise unfortunately, this is not the first time housing has been in the news thought california the cost of a home has made headline the medium prices for a house in the the
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$207,000 in california it is more than twice that amount and the laura u bay area is higher it's more than doubled the states so while more than half of the americans can afford the medium fewer in california and quarter in the bayer and now fewer than a 6th of san franciscans can afford it so why it housing in san francisco so go cheven condition tharz the obviously a high demand to live here the city is known for cultural diversities that attacks new residents and the credible opportunity our city diverse and will daytime committee grows jobs as a result we estimate the number of jobs is at ann an all-time 0 hive of
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6 hundred thousand in the 80 the population was 6 hundred and 75 thousand now, it's grown steadily and quickly the recent estimate is 8 hundred and 40 thousand the highest in the city's history and it's not only san francisco it is greek the bay area has $2 million for residents and jobs then in the 80 and the growth is expected to continue by the year 20403.9 million people unfortunately, our housing supply does not keep up with the demand i might not realize the majority of construction is housing that's been suspended for years due to the 2008 recession while population is increasing the housing is only increasing that
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i 9 percent if we don't pursues housing the cost of housing about only increase how do we plan the regional allocation identifies the total number of housing unit by affordable level to support the new residents san francisco incorporates it into the housing elements that guides the housing policies the arena data places it in the investment plans for the growth throughout san francisco those plans developed by years of community planning laid the ground work for the construction so the city he e sets the goals in broad terms the private sectors builds market rate housing and non-built affordability housing that majority of housing in san francisco as well as throughout
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the country market rate houses built by private developers within guidelines of the city some below market rate you howls paid pie public and private dollars and prized to be variable to certain population housing is considered affordable if it costs less than 1/3rd the medium income for a 2 percent householder is $70,000 this householder will have to pay no more than $7,150 to be affordable san francisco has see long applied federal, state and local money often built and nonprofit tint for individual families the news cities in california what the inclusive program requires that 10 or ottawa more units to certain
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blow income levels or contribute to the fund that supports the blow market rate unit almost 25 thousand have been supported by city funds and more than 6 nous thousand of the unit were built between 2000 and 2012 what you can't afford a million will home you're not alone in response san francisco mayor ed lee has set a goal of creating thirty thousand now e-mails homes by the year 2020 most will be in outreach of the san franciscan with federal and state funds drying up the san francisco ethics commission is, taking an iv i of actually roll is providing housing across all levels we're working diligently for everyone to live here and mr. chair protect the
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