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and energy goes into this to thank you for delivering is support today. thank you. i too have been very impressed with the level of detailall the time and energy goes into the work that you doi'm very appreciative of that. i know it's not easy to get a project to this point. so, thank you. >>thank you. supervisor kim. >>it would be great if the mayor's office of housing would give us a breakdown on some of our more recent housing projects and we get affordable
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housing the big response that i guess i'm never gonna get that unit.. i think it will be really interesting that you were doing in a redevelopment area plan products as well. one question would ask mrs. around the affordability in other blocks were before he prove the project. blocks 6 and 789 there's other projects and trans bay area plan and we just can cite what levels of affordability we can achieve in this project. >>for blocks 6 and 7 that had 30% of the affordable. block 8
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had 20% and block 9 had 20% >>then there was block 11 which we completed. >>thank you supervisor kim. and will be helpful that i like to add to supervisor kim's request specifically is getting access to affordable at units is understand the racial breakdown as well. that's always very helpful as well. supervisor peskin. >>for black 9 was that 2015? >>black 9 was proposed in 2015 believe the evaluation was in
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2014. >>it be fair to say in this project,there is twice the amount of affordable housing and half as much of the lot >>i would like to propose that we continue this in the april 19 meeting with that i would like to entertain a and that motionis seconded by supervisor
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kim and with that we have a motion we well return to that at that time thank you. mdm. clerk let's return for introductions. >>thank you mme. clerk. this week is the week of the young child. there is one thing that i would like to tell you about an invite you to you if you want to see the cutest preschoolers all in one place you can see that on friday at 10 am where they're going to
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march around city hall to highlight the needs of that age bracket. the 2nd thing is as i've mentioned many times before one of the things that i've done is for district 7, provide a participatory budget program and it is our 3rd year engaging in this type of program where we would vote on and decide what we like to be funded. we just started the voting process. this will go on until april 22 is can be done through paper valid or electronically and if you want to do electronically . go to
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sfpgtv7 at sf god.or so i want to point out that we just started it we already have3 of people voting on it in last 2 days. we have the record for every other district there wasn't any other district that got more than 500. i'm really excited about the engagement of the residence in district 7. i'm having is he a double of that to 1000. >>thank you supervisor yee. >>2 years ago on king street at
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a property and they relocated the community to a navigation center. today amassing the city try drafting legislation to relocate homeless encampments. this legislation was based on ordinance a for indianapolis and indiana is important to note that with indianapolis the
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council there was half-and-half between democrats and republicans as they were able to come to a solution without the politics getting in the way. that is something that we need to be able to do here in san francisco. recently we seen especially on division street many people in these encampments off the side streets and on to people's doorsteps close by many of them did not have a place to go were sheltered as a result shelter available we were and i just would like to thank all those involved with the work in the research of putting this forward does make sure that if were doing a sweep of the homeless
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encampments that were making a notice in the community and coordinating with the community for a plan for the relocation. we want to make sure that were not just moving people from one place to another but moving people to temporary permanent housing or whatever is available. if there is no temporary or permanent housing is available. we should be as a city to be able to provide plantation services as well as a facility for showering and using the restrooms. we should be able to provide this so that we can avoid the public health issues that have arisen in the recent months here in san francisco. it seems like we are in on precedented territories in san francisco
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there's people living in cameron's weather never were before. is an issue over by the infield land where people were fighting place to have encampments are no longer in existence. so they're going to other neighborhoods. it is clear we need to have a sound approach. with this legislation a moment we can move very very quickly the mayor's office is moving quickly on sweeps across the city and to make sure that we have facilities in place to accommodate people that are living in encampments or moving them elsewhere to provide the shelter for temporary or permanent housing people desperately need i'm hoping that we can have a collaborative relationship with a another colleague to move this forward to improve our lives our neighborhoods across
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the city. >>thank you colleagues. it is the last weekend for the japanese cherry festival will go all the way up through post street and end until more the past weekend is the beginning of 2 long events the rain did not stop us. there will be games, activities food activities performance so just stop by this weekend. the other event that's happening in my district is community cleanup for district 5 we will begin saturday at 9 am at
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golden gate park so if you want to help clean up the neighborhood, and pick up trash and beautify the neighborhood, and plants and trees and participate is a great event during nearest together come by our community cleanup on saturday at 9 am at golden gate park at stan union and whahler we had some public speakers earlier to talk about the gun buyback. there will be a gun buyback on saturday from 8 am to 12 pm no questions asked on howard street on howard st., united players continue to host
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these gun buybacks is an opportunity where people can turn in their guns as many guns as we can off the street. the last thing that i have is very personal to me. usually often times i don't do memorandums for family members because mostly you get really emotional but but my dear cousin deserves a memorial here in the city and county of san francisco for all of her work. mrs. jones bree pearson was born in san francisco in january 12, 1948. she was an incredibly smart woman she was graduating from mission high school at the age of 16 and she received her bachelor's degree from phoenix university. she was a faithful member of providence baptist church and she lived in her verna heights for 26 years. she worked as a wreck director
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for over 20 years with a lot of kids in the community at the playground where i grew up as a kid at the playground. she also volunteered for organizations like the economic opportunity counsel that addresses problems in the city like providing resources and childcare for low income familiesin the city's. she provided grants for foster children and was very active with the sfop she received a community service award that she was very proud of. last year she is recognized by the healthy heroes campaign for her extensive community service and healthy lifestyle. her picture
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was displayed on several buses throughout the city of many of my family members would take pictures of them and tweet them in and she said she and see him because she doesn't tweet so we would have to send them to her on her iphone send it was really something that she deftly was really proud of. my cousin joan has joined her late husband lawrence pearson she is survived by her son lawrence and james pierce and her grandson. she loved everyone. she was an incredible woman with an amazing presence in an amazing voice. she had so much positive energy. in her eyes, everyone was perfect and everyone was beautiful and everyone was incredible and she
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treated each and every person like they were the best person in the world. her spirit was just pretty amazing. she was incredible to be around and she was incredible to work with and she was incredible to talk to. she will be missed by many of san francisco and her family including her sisters denise the, army velma and wade i just am really privileged to be related to such a horrible weekend she was sadly taken by her battle with cancer. we have to really do everything we can to fight that disease to fund the research necessary to find a cure for cancer that continues to not only take away our love ones but to it destroys lives and with that colleagues thank you for your time and thank you pres. >>thank you mme. chair and thank you pres. breed i'm sorry
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to hear about your cousin. i have a memoria also for someone who has lost her battle with camper her name was maria cochran. she lived in severna heights. that's where she met her husband larry cochran in the 20s. they have 2 beautiful children a boy and a girl. they now have 13 grandchildren and 9 great grandkids. sherry was diagnosed with cancer 9 years ago it was one of those
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things where you would never know that she was battling cancer because the way she carried yourself. she was a quiet leader who was always involved in getting residents and pulling courts together for community events. she was always in involving bobby and making that happen her and bobby celebrated their 44th anniversary just this past month. i can only imagine how difficult it must be for bobby who is an amazing human being and he is one of the most lovable people you can meet. sherry cochran was a great support to bobby and and always her children, grandchildren great grandchildren grounded. sherry will be missed dearly not only by her family but by all of the rest and with data and this memorial sherry cochran may she rest in peace in our condolences to your mme.
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pres. >>mdm. clerk can you please address public comment. >>an opportunity for members of the public to directly address
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the board on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board, including items being considered today which have not been considered by a board committee and excluding items which have been considered by a board committee. members of the public may address the board for up to three minutes. each member of the public will be allotted the same number of minutes to speak, except that public speakers using translation assistance will be allowed to testify for twice the amount of the public testimony time limit. if simultaneous translation services are used, speakers will be governed by the public testimony time limit applied to speakers not requesting translation assistance. the president or the board may limit the total testimony to 30 minutes.members of the public who want a document placed on the overhead for display should clearly state such and subsequently remove the document when they want the screen to return to live coverage of the meeting. >>thank you 1st speaker please. >>we had brussels, paris, san francisco. it can happen because the disenfranchised those that are out there on the street that is where the terrorists have chosen the disenfranchised. as long as we keep ignoring it up to a few people where their propositions were i could do 700 jobs people through the navigation center the navigation centers only navigate numb to the sro. the job is giving people a chance to actually work. i am now addressing that. this is a
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real thing. buildings are going up in the air, or that is cool. what if they start going down. you're overlooking people and you're going to wait for some the him before you go into action. i have heard everything from i can't do this, it won't work. >>[timer dings] >>thank you know speaker
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please. >>[undecipherable chatter]
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>>[timer dings] >>thank yo much speaker please. >>good afternoon i am peter warfield executive director of library association. this is the national library week up until april 16 and it includes
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national library workers appreciation day i'm certain that we can think of past and present things we have learned from libraries staff and i am one of those and unfortunately there is not much on the website of this and there's one thing that i would like the library to deal with and that is the exclusion from thousands of people in san francisco of full library service. normally if you get a ticket or an open violation you can go to a judge and there is a consequence but there are ways that can be handled but in the library there's nothing no policy or
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nothing written for the public or librarians on how to handle the problematic findings or fees. at the library if you owe more than $10 you are not allowed to borrow any books. >>[timer dings] the >>more to the point there's 150,000 cardholders who are not able to get full library services because they owe it one library or more. that needs to be judged and you can do it. >>[timer dings] >>next speaker please thank you very much. >>my name is christopher cabal.
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i'm a 14 year residents and if i could get the overhead please. they call these seahawks and here's one sweeping by the federal office building i believe there a pair of red tailed hawks and april
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is there nesting period and i do believe they have eggs i think this could be a convenient hunting range and they apparently have a taste for pigeon and as you can see each of these birds are vigilant and is convinced they are the next target and that's all i have thanks. in this earth month of 2016 in the face of growing alarm in my planet and growing alarm for changing climate it could be a good thing to remember that we might have up liberated these birds
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in the 60s but we stopped. we can do this again. we can achieve world carbon balance. >>leopard timer dings] >>thank you next speaker please. >>i am a leader in my community, the work of my peers that put on a community event to deal with social justice. we do not want more places selling alcohol in our communities because it does not contain in a positive way.i want positive messages in our community. we want decision-makers to know that alcohol density is a problem in san francisco we need to reduce the income of alcohol-related harms in low income committees. i am a young person showing my voicing concerns with you today. alcohol uses a community justice issue. >>thank you speaker please.
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>>afternoon my name is britney rodriguez and i live >>ma'am please bring the microphone close, thank you. >>i am a leader in my community because i want to make it better by not bringing more alcohol or drugs in to this place people of color and latinos are the most susceptible for alcohol-related health issues. [inaudible] for example, i am in a group and it will be sad not to go. alcohol
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use is not a community uses a social justice issue. thank you for your time. >>thank you. next speaker please. >>i am from san francisco prevention commission and i want to see a safe community the with out alcohol and low income people and people of color are far more susceptible to the negative effects of alcohol. i usually go to starbucks and get a green tea coffee. if they start selling alcohol, where do i go? there
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is no place to go. there are various places that are just selling alcohol where do i go to buy something to drink after school. so we want decision-makers to know that i am a young person sharing my voice with you alland i want to see a better community. thank you for your time. >>thank you no speaker please >>i am a young person sharing
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my voice to you from our community. if starbucks starts selling alcohol how will young people feel secure because of that comes a whirring of the behavior of drunk people. because there are so many starbucks in our area would increase the alkyl used in our city. thank you for your time. >>thank you for your time. >>thank you my name is laura smith i'm professor at the medical university usf. 1st of all it is a well documented fact throughout the alcohol restricted literature that the key predictor of alcohol-related warm violence crime unintentional and intentional injury are highly
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associated against the alcohol and liquor outlets. studies show that whengovernments reduce the density of outlets by restricting licenses their subsequent decline in the alcohol related harms.san francisco has the most densely populated counts see it for liquor license the next is orange county with only 2 per square mile. the i worked at the trauma summers several years now and they were so concerned they would screen everyone that came through the center. the resort results they recently published in the journal showed that 59% of patients going through the
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trauma center have a high alcohol blood content. these people are treated by the trauma center surgeons and they're not just anybody in a drunk driving accident. they have to be a car rollover. these are people gunshot winds to the head and chest these are people who are fallen out of high windows. 8% of the people in the sample that we followed died as a result of their injuries at the trauma center. >> [timer dings] >>thank you. next speaker please. >>[indecipherable]
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>>[timer dings] >>[timer dings] >>thank you miss johnson. next
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speaker please. >> tom gilberty it seems like the time that the batter walks up to the batter's box and he clears the dirt from his cleats at the batter's box we can have a police officer parrk his car and go out the door and pop to beanbags and tell a man to lie down and shoot them 7 times. it is ridiculous. esy if he claims he was in danger when his walking into it. this is incredulous it is a complete deflation of our police department policies and its leadership in the whole 9 yards
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we are only lucky that the actual shooting happened offscreen so we don't have to continually look at it. as i said before we do not need more police. we need a championship team. we need 180% turnaround. with the police involved we have to be part of the community we have to trust them. we have to be part of the truth and justice of the community. and, they have to learn about mental health and heart conditions you have to calm the man if the calm the situation throwing that thrower fishing that there were 4 guys there. madison -- maybe we could teach the policeman to learn to lasso maybe we could form some groups of people who
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haven't followed the gunner pool their holster and develop a precedence for our new police chief. thank you. >>[timer dings] >>thank you. next speaker please. >>is that the last day of the sabbath year i believe there is overwhelming evidence that 9/11 is the 6 trumpet. a month before it happened i told people when it would happen is to involve explaining 2 minutes but i will go there it's not speculation to say that 9/11 was a 6 trumpet. it is speculation to say that price
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is going to return the last day that schmidt to and the last day that schmidt that will be december 1 but if that is correct we are one 3rd of the way into the sabbath year right now. we are one 3rd of the way. what if i'm right? really? we all know deep down that we are sinners. but if it is judgment day and everybody is going to die so to speak if it is judgment day. i know the more i read the prophecies in the bible that jesus was the savior. he made isaiah 53 that he was numbered with the transgressors. it is a wonder why all the jews aren't christians. it is a wonder while the gentiles aren't the truth. it really comes down to a man does not want to know the
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truth. jesus said moses wrote about me david wrote about me. nobody ever predicted when he was gonna come up from the grave. that alone sets him apart. he said behold, we go up to jerusalem and all things written by the prophets concerning the son of man will be coming. >>[timer dings] >>thank you any other public speakers at this time? seeing none. public comments closed
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>>[gavel] >>[roll call vote] >>on the remaining items mdm. sec. can you please call the next item. >>those items are adopted unanimously. >>mdm. clerk can you please read item number 27. >>rresolution urging the
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california department of alcoholic beverage control to deny alcohol license applications of non-traditional alcohol retail businesses in the city and county of san francisco >>good evening i am supervisor mar. there is an increasing request for alcohol permit such as places like taco bell and arbucks there is a huge threat in our city of businesses authorized to sell alcohol dr. schmidt just mentioned we have 35 alcohol
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selling businesses per square mile and the next highest is orange county which has 2 per square mile. many of the youth leaders and thanks to patty at home enough to be here with are youth we will resolute produce them in half in 10 years because of the alcohol density policy created by the youth in alcohol and the equity coalition. we do not take public health issues into account when we decide on these alcohol permits. we do not take into consideration ration i want to thank the san francisco department of public health and the san francisco
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prevention coalition and the san francisco friday night live which is youth led groups throughout the state but especially san francisco others make more consistent language for retail food and drink establishments are the businesses we been impacting. lastly, there were changes to the warehouses and a few minor changes for the growing coalition i'm working with. thank you for your support i
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believe there is a growing coalition that i have to make and urges support for the revolution that i have amended. >>thank you supervisor mar made a motion to amend. and that would need to be seconded. supervisor kim seconded. without an amendment this was approved unanimously on the 1st reading >>[gavel] >>this is adopted. >>supervisor kim. >>i think that i want to add my name is i think this is very important to this support of this resolution. >>supervisor wiener.
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>>i want to thank supervisor mar i think that i really appreciated the tightening up of the language and i'm very happy to support this. >>seeing no other names on the amendment can we take this house, as house amendment. same house same call. the item passes as amended. as house amendment. same house same call. the item passes as amended. >>[gavel] >>mme. clark can we move on to item 28. >>take that hat off. sorry about thatmdm. clerk. please
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continue. >>[laughing] >>avalosresolution encouraging all members of the public aged 18 to 44 to register as bone marrow donors and help close the racial gap in cancer treatment so people of all ethnicities have a second chance to live through a marrow transplant >>on to item 29 please mme.
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clerk?
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>>on page 3 lines 19 through 21 there is a deletion that recognize the application of state and city bonuses to achieve these healthy balancing goals. >>supervisor tang, to be clear can you say to strike that please? >>talk to when i'm lastly is>>
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i would like to make a motion to amend these which is what is in front you. >>so you want to make a motion to amend what you propose along with the striking of that line. so this is amended by his supervisor tang seconded by supervisor peskin.
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>>[gavel] >>supervisor peskin. >>i what to think supervisor kim for courage and taking this up tomorrow should be taking this up in front of a previous member and looking at 6 major cities in california think that san francisco is leading the way on afford housing and our state delegation of family members and tang as well as
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supervisor avalos i think we continue to leave the way our intern all coalition is notwithstanding and hopefully legislator will hear calls within committee. >>thank you supervisor peskin. for item 30 is amended can we take that item same house and call without objection that passes unanimously. mdm. clerk it looks like we have no more imperative items that we will be discussing today. will you please read the memorial
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>>colleagues that brings us to the end of our meeting mdm. clerk is there anything else before us today? if there is no other business. we are adjourned. have a good day. >>[gavel]. here.
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>> good morning, everyone good morning isn't this a beautiful day yes. >> i'm adrian the executive director of the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs and we're here today to celebrate the fifth anniversary of community ambassadors program and all the people that made it happen so we're very fortunate to have a number of vips we'll announce them as we go along the program first of all, we're fortunate is mayor ed lee is here to open today's event the fact community ambassadors was the mayor's
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vision in 2010 to rational tense it was a that time program in 2011 and today, we're so lucky to be celebrating our fifth anniversary would you please join me in welcoming without the fact leadership vision and support of our dear mayor a police welcome mayor ed lee (clapping.) >> thank you adrian. >> thank you to the was office of civic gave me and affairs thank you. i want to say thank you to the various agencies that have been working with the fact mayor's office with the live and free program that has been instrumental in being a funding sources and a conduit we have organs lifework self-help for the fact elderly addresses the
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neighborhood services our administrator is here working with the fact community ambassadors and welcome supervisor peskin as well come on up supervisor he'll be you are newest recruits for the fact ambassadors program you you know as you may recall i wanted that makes sure we have been knows the fact history that the fact community ambassadors program was born out of a lot of conflict that occur began in the bayview we knew that has roots about peopleism safe in they're afraid community and at this point we had a number of seniors and some them taking muni and doing the work or visiting they're afraid families that suddenly became victims of street violence self-interest the interviews and the aftermath and the interviews with our police department that were trying to prevent this from
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happening and with any community leaderships we felt in cooperation with the fact organizations lifework chinese affirmative action and self-help for the fact elderly a number of community-based organizations like the awe alive and free program we felt if we can have additional eyes and areas working with the fact seniors, working with people going to work particularly on muni stops we can have the fact kind of assistance that people needs and the additional eyes and ears to prevent the fact violence if happening we had a number of community ambassadors that lived and worked and raised the bayview to come and work with us vufrl over a period of time they knew everyone on the street and say high to folks and they were coming to tourists and they
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couldn't get to a police or get just basic information how to assess 9-1-1 or p.i. and basic information and the best routes to get to home or work those ambassadors became very big connectors to ordinary people everyday to what was going on and basic information they've become invaluable to people that haven't been in community before and so valuable that the crime rates around those areas became lower people that walked to work and saw the ambassadors saw them on the streets walking around became a lot more comfortable with they're afraid experience on the streets we rolled this out beginning in the bayview now successful we brought it to mission street and visitacion valley and ambassadors to the tenderloin and to the mission
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and every one of overseeing areas not only has the fact street crime been reduced by r by people that walk the fact streets remain that much more comfortable and secure and having a friendly face in the what i call the buzzing bee colors the fact yellow and black being bright and recognized we identify as ambassadors working things with you're walking practicals and police officers but doing the fact extra services that go well beyond public safety just information sharing has been valuable to everyone who uses our streets so it's been so successful that literally every supervisor and every community has been asking for more of the ambassadors and wear glad to do them when we have a strong economy and have
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strong members of the community philosophically funding a number of the programs for a number of years so popular that today, we are happy to say we're launching this community ambassadors program with the support of your local supervisor the chinatown and that is a great (clapping.) - great addition they are bio cultural and bilingual be they're afraid incentive tied toe people that use the streets, in fact, those ambassadors have been so good they recognize people going to work and coming from work by their first names and they're recognized by they're first names i wanted to say that is another example of the community engagement that the office of immigrant rights does that's why we place the fact ambassadors
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program under the tool because they're a lot of people that come to the city that simply don't know how to assess the services so from understanding the municipal id card and getting information whether the events are happening, have access about the ever changing route asia time that muni might have, to where are things happening and how can i get access to the fact senior services and that wear using our community-based organizations from which to recruit residents of the neighborhood they serve i can't think of a better job to be in your neighborhood speaking languages that rehabilitate the fact culture of our district and doing to great service of not only safety but information and
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everyone feeling that once you have that yellow jacket all of a sudden the community is there and feel pretty special as an individual residential or visitor this is two can that combined engagement backed up with our law enforcement personnel is engaged and in fact, each of the ambassadors do glow several days training with the police department so they can help if anything maples they'll be there they'll be the fact first with ans to assess the emergency calls saying i need respond on the street and if you don't speak english the ambassadors will be that bridge they're true ambassadors to for what that name means and they'll work to make sure that everyone feels safe so i want to say congratulations to the fifth year of the community
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ambassadors program thank you for expanding it to chinatown where a lot of tourists and local residents a lot of seniors and everyone else needs to have that assess and needs to have a quick response but hopefully nothing ever happens but people having fun and american people caliber allergic time in the streets 24 will improve every single corridor and alleyway for people to know how to assess the information and get the fact information so congratulations adrian and congratulations to everyone that is associated with the fact community ambassadors program (clapping.) >> thank you, mr. mayor we want to take 80 a moment to thank so many people that made 24 possible from the fact early
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days dr. supervisor yee marshall and susan for ethics commission and eddy and sharon hewitt and most importantly someone that is our champion supported us if you wonder why the fact ambassadors are the bright iefrmz suggested it he's your hero police chief greg suhr (clapping.) so next up is somebody who is we're pleased to welcome back to district 3 it is exciting a have aaron peskin for all the residents the district 3. >> supervisor peskin as you may know was reelected to the sgrvrz and his leadership definitely been a positive
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diversities in enfuss spirit and energy into our procedures thank you very much and please welcome supervisor aaron peskin (clapping). >> >> (speaking foreign language.) good morning and thank you adrian and mayor ed lee city administrator naomi kelly and chief suhr is a pleasure to associate meaningful with the mayor with the first decade i'm delighted it the community ambassador program is coming to chinatown to augment our already rich our integrate web of neighborhood services provided through incredible nonprofits like self-help for the fact elderly thank you, andy chang autopsy and thank you for the fact work you do the fact fact
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all my colleagues want community ambassador programs speaks to the success of mayor ed lee and adrian program ether the last half decade chinatown needs those resources this is the densest community in an dense city and, yes we have elevated crime and, yes we have unfortunately terrible pedestrian safety within death in and around this community a community ambassador program will help with all of those things in conjunction with our san francisco police department and in conjunction with our rich web of neighborhood certifies providers i'm delighted thank you, mr. mayor and administrator kelly for bringing this to chinatown. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (clapping.) thank you supervisor is good so have you back when we start the
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fact community ambassadors we had a small team ambassadors out in the the fact bayview and now 5 years later a team as the mayor said all over the city one of the reasons we grow the program is a steady support and leadership of our city administrator naomi kelly she's broken new ground a great role model we're fortunate to have her please help me welcome naomi kelly (clapping.) and. >> thank you adrian. >> what a beautiful day to have this to celebrate the fact 50 anniversary i want to personally take the men and women in the yellow jackets they've done a wonderful job and deserve a round of applause i know many of i've visited with you and done
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great work the tightened and the bayview and the valley they're from our community they're afraid residents and what everyone said earlier they know everyone by tare first name and vice versa he love the fact jacket they're afraid bright and yellow and they have the city feel on the jackets notice that you know they're the ones working for how and the community and the fact community ambassador program has so many contacts with the community about 33 thousand more or three hundred thousand contact over the life of the program - three hundred and thirty thousand over the life of the communicated sgraug with the fact community and what's nice they know all the city agencies and working closely is 311 and the
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department of public works and the clerk will take the roll with the county clerk's office many services within the city government i want to thank commissioner president suzy loftus, andy chang and commissioner marshall for the great work in training our community ambassadors so they know how to deescalate situation they run into and know what great services are thank you to everyone (clapping.) >> thank you, kelly now a nationally renowned invention preservation expert we wouldn't exist watt united states boys and girls club headed by dr.
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joseph marshall that serves on the police commission he's also an awful radio host a lot of fun so dr. marshall has been key in teaching our ambassadors and community for non-violation is the fact way dr. marshall (clapping.) >> check. >> okay. my radio voice is back so - >> this is great 5 years 5 years you know i don't want to
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underscore the seriousness of which the ambassador program was created you know you heard the mayor talk about it was serious at that time, there was i remember particular asian elderly that was i think attacked and other woman was thrown off the fact train it was tough it was really tough that he i remember the fact rallies at city hall we were concerned and we knew we had to do something that was creative and hoped we'll do small business week that worked sometimes you get a lot of people together maybe you can't come up with something but with a few of us in my offers and the bayview i was concerned the fact police commissioner and we met in my office i remember about
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you know several meetings and one dwayne jones and vincent's should be here affirmative action this guy was in the city administrator we sat down and what can we do what can we do we went through a few things the light popped on maybe we can create an urban peace corp urban peace corp for the fact community ambassadors and really the ambassadors go out interest and everyone everything from wal-mart walking people out of the houses from the fact train and question didn't know if it would work but it did it worked very, very well san francisco has a lot of programs and not a lot of them are love but this is this one universally
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loved program the city everyone loves the fact ambassadors (clapping.) i am proud that is one of the things i'm proud of i go around the fact country and talk about the fact ambassadors i'm surprised is the cities don't want to grab adrian and the mayor how could be in our city that's why the fact folks the jackets i'm close to them supporting them on the streets they have to go through me they're great i want to make sure they're prepared to deal with the challenges they face and passed the fact test very, very well, so 5 years later chinatown who knows pretty soon maybe oakland will time community ambassadors so great adrian and mr. mayor and supervisors and everyone that is part of this thank you and the reason we want to commend say
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you're part of this let's celebrate and celebrate celebrate 5 years of community ambassadors keep is going (clapping.) i'll introduce this guy chief suhr she's great this helps him in his job let me i turn this over to the chief. >> thanks deputy chief joe i want to tell you i was probably other than the fact bayview community the fact biggest beneficiary of the 3456r9d i love them i see them i can't help but hug them those jackets are getting more yellow i have to calling your attention to barbara she runs the fact bayview opera houses remembers how difficult 4 years ago, it was not going well when the fact ambassadors were born and coming
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in we talked about with them it got better overnight a completely different place the way that people get along and mergers the communities and doing no so moved small part to the ambassadors it made since the mayor traubd i talked about growing the program yes, yes, yes now coming to chinatown that is awful and the fact job they're talking about is that that you see them thank them they're really to put themselves in situations they make a safely and i have to tell you 5 years ago there were sort of restored a sense of calm immediately and that's the way it is god bless you please be savvy hope it continues to grow
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(clapping.) >> thank you, dr. marshall and joe affordable housing and chief suhr sorry. >> (laughter) i'm the queen bee so the fact next speaker is such a special leader and an inspiration to all of us trooerd the fact epitome of compassion and self-less and caring it was her vision to bring this to chinatown they working hard with the fact council to make sure that happened please help me welcome any dear friend and known as the mother teresa is a annie chang ceo of the self-help for the fact elderly (clapping.) >> thank you adrian
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and good morning, mayor supervisor peskin and naomi and chief suhr, dr. marshall and richard and my friend sarah on behalf of the apa council i council that sarah and i represent we went to the mayor two years ago and said mayor, we know you run a very, very successful community ambassador program but i think that is time; right? to bring it to chinatown because the fact problems we were seeing so i said to report back to you during the fact lounge of the ambassador program sarah and i walked the fact chinatown all over and later when i go to the house to see the fact reception we asked supervisor peskin to help us and the captain lazarus for this district because of the heels right outside of shop house smoking and gambling we couldn't run the fact programs
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inside i don't know with the fact china team does now now they were able to convince people to move ant farther so our students inside and the fact elderly will not bracket the fact smoke we want to commend thank mayor ed lee and the chinatown team to do their utmost best he loved you (clapping.) and as you walk around my staff will, having a self-help die they'll stop by the one time community center to make sure the fact building is safe and go up to the houselights clubhouse ape walk to the alleys i drive around schpt they'll be helping seniors crossing the fact centerpieces an stockton street and represent the fact best of the city hall and so mayor ed lee thank you for bringing this
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program to us and congratulations ambassadors 5 years (clapping.) and adrian and richard thank you. this program >> thank you, ann i didn't and members of the apa and want to recognize a few people from the fact community that helped to have the program in mission and the bayview and silicon valley that's it barbara from the fact bayview american people are house and laura from the fact mission center and marie from visitacion valley thank you so much. (clapping.) >> so the community ambassadors are out there the most vibrant and dangerous areas he helping residents and workings sea visitor and community groups and merchant they report crimes and inform of the people of the serves and volunteer the community and live in the
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community and they care about people they serve the city they live and work for so it is my pleasure to introduce the fact ambassadors team the fact team is led we want to commend redistribution two individuals that exceptional individuals that helped me building the houses of engagement to what is today wouldn't have been possible i need they're afraid help please give me it up for deputy direction richard (clapping.) and your cap immigrant rights commissioner (clapping.) and now to introduce the san francisco community ambassadors the ambassadors are led by 4 team leaders raise your hand t. >> who is a little bit hard to
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spot in public junior (clapping.) eddy (clapping.) miss cha have on (clapping.) and alton (clapping.) speaking on behalf of all the fact ambassadors this morning is our chinatown team led mr. alton moore (clapping (clapping.) >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (laughter) all right. good morning. i'm alton a chinatown i member born and raised in general and went to woodland been born and raised in san francisco you get an understanding of diverse community and he at this time that was all everywhere in america until i
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joined. >> the united states navy so it is an honor to have been born and raised in san francisco having served my country on national level it is beautiful to be able to serve the fact community i live in which is now chinatown i want to thank mayor ed lee, supervisor peskin, sxhaush and definitely the mothers teresa of chinatown annie the fact ceo and self-help for the fact elder thank you on behalf of all the ambassadors you made it only to us to serve our community and make a desists not only this community i want to thank you on behalf of all the fact ambassadors to give us the opportunity to change lives and thank you tore listening now
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>> (speaking foreign language.) >> and if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer them afterwards thank you (clapping.) >> thank you so much everyone so this ends our anniversary event and press conference blood cell foul the ambassadors to the clubhouse. >> thank you, everyone and thank you, mayor ed
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>> all right. combgs welcome back to the land use this the regular meeting schedule at the land use & transportation i'm chair and to my right is commissioner weiner and to my l will be clerk andrea ashbury and thank you sfgovtv phil jackson
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and others for broadcasting this meeting madam clerk, any announcements? >> 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 april 26, 2016, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you, madam clerk supervisor wiener is the author and make the london breed remarks. >> i'm sorry you want me to announce item one. >> an ordinances amending the police code entertainment commission procedures. >> all right. thank you, thank you very much and thank you for calendaring this item colleagues this legislation updates certain entertainment procedures thank you for supervisor president london breed and this legislation first codifies the criteria and
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procedures for waving the filing fee for loudspeaker permits amplification permits currently the criteria are not codified the legislation will allow for the waiver by the entertainment commission of the fee for loudspeaker permits for mroontsdz planted when declare a hardship for nonprofits and neighborhood associations the cost of permit is more than 25 percent of the cost of the overall events in addition pubically funded events the legislation clarifies how the neighborhood notice should our and replaces an antiquated requirement with be reminded to post notice at the proposed location in addition to send written notification to all neighborhood associations and merchant associations in the
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area legislation strikes a balance continue covering the administrative and enforcement costs making sure the waivers exist where amplification permit represents a true financial hardship that will have a positive activation of the public spaces and allow the neighborhood to have great outdoor events madam clerk you don't say listen cane is here and if no, i see supervisor peskin is on the roster. >> yes. supervisor peskin thank you through the chair i appreciate the updating of this ordinance i was around and one of the sponsors or co-sponsors
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of the proposition f with the entertainment commission back in the day i had a number of small questions and because we're not allowed to communicate with each other we constitute a quorum i had to call you and read the file i get to do it in public the 43.1 a provision that says no filing fee shall be required in the permit application for angle event that receives funding and that raised questions in my mind many organizations that receive the city funding organizations that get the funding actually events that receive the funding and raise the question in my mind you shouldn't regardless of the source of revenue or income is why would we treat them definitely so that was my first
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question. >> so ms. kane is at the lectern i'll ask her to respond we worlt with the entertainment commission. >> supervisor thank you ms. kane i got our e-mail but didn't read it until saturday. >> no problem we were doing our best to define a group of possible things that could come forward there is implementation we might refine a little bit trying to sort of engage all of the possible scenarios as you may know we done this informally and waved the fees internal but trying to come up with a sit-down we looked at what is making people ask for a waiver and where are those kinds of
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finks that make it fair across the board that's what we're aiming at. >> so through the chair to ms. kane i i don't mind you having the discretion to waive but the notion that we are waving just because there are city fund doesn't seem to make policy sense i mean nor do i understand the actual terms in the legislation which is events that receive city funding organizations that can debt events let's make up an example range contribute to the chamber of commerce to hold the chinese nuru parade that is an event from the city to an organization not to an event per say
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and starts to get us into the scenario our organization got $10 from the city now we want an event on grant avenue and you don't have to pay the fee the way it is written is - >> i see that it maybe better said defined as event in particular even though wears city funding the organization or that again, it was an attempt by the city attorney to get get our arms around in total the issue i don't have much of an explanation other than i think you understand the language - >> i think supervisor wiener has some insight. >> i want to make sure i understand the concern supervisor peskin through the chair you're referring to the
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43.1 a filing fee. >> correct. >> i read that as no fee shall be required unless a city events. >> that's what it said city events do receive the funding that the organization. >> the intent if this is city funding connected to the event when a - yes organizations that receive the generic fees but frequently organizations would receive city funding specific to an event here's the grant of 10 theorizing to help you put on whatever the event might, so - >> yeah. i feel. >> it should be - could be i
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mean, we could quibble with that. >> it needs a little bit of work but the intention is clear supervisor you understood that as the example indicates as such to make it more clear. >> yeah. i mean, if we can define the word event and also is i mean is an organization - my worry an organization gets a dollar the city funding and hold an event oh, we comply with that provision oh, you don't that's not the intent the way it is written you can think between a rock and a hard place. >> if i may make this is not some sort of broad waiver of fees for an event this is for one specific permit that is $200 or three or four hundreds. >> i just want to and should
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have gone over this in my opening remarks every office gets this with you small community event that not the mega events community events that are trying to do something for the neighborhood low budget volunteers and all of a sudden a 5 housing unit dollars fee they want to have a microphone or play you know whatever the case might be they're hit with a fee and the entertainment commission has put in a spot do we wave it not wave it do they meet the criteria the criteria can be further defined if there's a way to define is better i don't have is a problem with that but this is you know really about trying to provide some better guidance to the commission when they
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should wave the fees. >> through the chair to supervisor wiener i'm 100 percent supportive of the language that you proposed in 43.1 subsection building inspection commission 2 makes a lot of sense the provision that gives the director of the entertainment commission the authority to exempt various organizations from fees i just worry that the lunge in 43.1 a - i think just not to put two fine a point but number it is everything you need done and if you're amenable i'll make a friendly provision to strike the 43.1 language from provided, however, and just stick with the very broad ability it is being granted to the director of commission in 43.1-b sub two.
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>> so what i'll suggest because you know, i think that was carefully crafted i don't know it was random we put it out of committee after public comment and that maybe over the next week we can talk with work with the entertainment commission to see if there's a moifrtd version to the full board that will satisfy the concerns raised i'd rather not stick is out - >> or if i may through the chair to director kane do you feel that 43.1-b sub two to the provision that gives us the ability for exemptions those organizations set forth in the -
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is enough. >> well from where we are anywhere will be great i think we inclued it for a purpose if someway to move this along and satisfy our requests i'll appreciate that. >> relevant to staff time don't have to make a determination and understanding they receive city funds or make a detector or finding they're not the proper organizations or community group i think everything in that money language in sub a is going to be in sub b two so i don't really see the differences for staff time in fact it modesty take more time to figure out in we get the city fees if they're a nonprofit or community association and that way we won't end up in a situation people say we get a buck for a
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city and you have to wave the fee. >> through the chair if you look at the b two, that doesn't fully encompasses what is in subsection a could could have a situation people get $75,000 or $3,000 for an event or - yeah $3,000 on an event and 5 hundred loudspeaker fee is less than 25 percent therefore not waved therefore i think happy if you want to over the next week after we pass this out of committee to see if there is a way that can clarify that satisfy supervisor peskin concern without stripping it out i think that is the
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better way to precede. >> i'm amenable to that. >> parking garage madam chair, i have a second question. >> okay. >> i certain agree that the language been there since the last time i was supervisor outdated and out mooted i agree that the language that supervisor wiener is suggesting by enrevoking the code section d make sense but i'm not sure why that will have the historic noticing regime for residents whether commercial are residential a notice for those things within wrfd and 50 feet may not be members of an association we did that in the planning code i'm not sure why we're taking that out you if i
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might we wanted to update because the language in the code raw right now was very much like the best effort and we wanted the come compliance with that so we thought that is a better way again not only require the notice on the building itself but we also have our own guidelines for what we call meaningful outreach and those do include door to door not a leaflet but trash on the ground. >> it was out mooted and out dated but as far as supervisor wiener's legislation is relying think planning code definition relative to outreach is not relying on the and for those of
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you in the public we're not dealing with loudspeaker permits but applications for place of entertainment and it seems to me it seems to me it is unfair for the city to say that a neighborhood organization that is on the planning department list an individual residents or individual commercial tenant may or may not a member i understand there is signage but if we're going to rely 0 on planning department definitions they require mailed notice to individuals ntsdz area services that provide that function so i will respectfully ask the sponsor that we include the planning code provisions that any commercial or residential occupant within one hundred and 50 feet receive notice.
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>> can we include electronic as well. >> electronic. >> i thought the electronic in the legislation seems to make great policy sense. >> so through the chair supervisor peskin can articulate the exact amendment since the entertainment commission has to administer those responses i would suggest that the noticing provisions set for under section 311 of planning code be invoked the three hundred feet radius be reduced to one hundred and 50 feet. >> can you articulate our
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rational outlet. >> i'm going with the rad as the entertainment commission has used for the last dozen years so i thought i would stay with the one hundred and 50 feats that are provisions in the planning department that used one hundred and 50 and i this one hundred 50 feet for a place of entertainment is appropriate and that's been the historic radius i thought we would use the 317 four the three hundreds feet radius and reduce it 200 and 50 feet. >> supervisor wiener. >> so ms. kane you mentioned electronic notice i'm not sure how you do that but i'm curious to know. >> well, i mean again, we don't know exactly this is a little bit tougher if we require the mailing the way the planning department does it to try to not
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pile on an applicant we use next door that works well and we are the ones that have to 10 establish this is done so we're upcoming the low standard to a higher standard to confirm what is accomplished if we're going to go to something where we'll require mailing notice the way that planning side we have to do this through the service and labels and the way the planning department does it we'll have to mail. >> the way the planning department does it and the planning department staff are here for another item they took that bonus only the applicant and through that applicant can file an affidavit. >> i think. >> sorry so it sounds like
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we're putting undue financial burden on people that are going to do small neighborhood events. >> this is the place of entertainment not loudspeakers. >> this is micro are and the application process is expensive so our hopes not. >> what is the cost. >> close to 16 hundreds for a place of entertainment permit. >> supervisor wiener. >> i'm not prepared to sort of thank this on the fly over the next days several an opportunity for conversation perhaps when emission cain as access to her staff and we're able to approach this in an amendment to the 90s that make sense i'll be happy to support that but not on the fly
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this is the first i'm hearing of this the brown act supervisor peskin you've noted not allowed to communicate outside of the hearing and events of the hearing but perhaps the next 8 days supervisor peskin and you can talk about had is possible. >> absolutely. >> you know i want to make sure that will be going to be doable. >> yes. >> supervisor wiener. >> is there - >> how do you want to handle it. >> i know i would - my motion i'll make after public comment to i move we send it to the full board with a positive recommendation understanding over the next 8 days we are formulate some amendment. >> thank you, very much for the comment. >> thank you, madam chair i'm sure there's a good answer that
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same session sub h that says that gives the commission the ability to extend the 9 months deadline up to 3 years my question ms. kane the supervisor wiener the maker of the ordinance what brought that about my life example or statistics why that 9 month timeline is two short and years to 2 years or 3 months an additional year that's a pretty long extension time. >> it does and anticipating that question i have a couple of examples you might be familiar primarily with things under heavy construction where in the past easy to get contractors to come or the entertainment commission turned over without a
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lot of physical change but as we see whole places like such as paradise lounge taking long time they strip. >> you all about the walls eats entertainment commission can precede with the plan it they will get a conditional grant but taken a a long time and not that close and we had to very informally give her extensions that's one e example and another one with a build out a bunch of those kinds of things in all parts it is primarily when people tear something down and redo it it takes longer the city department tells them what they need to fix and go out and
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get bids it takes more time than 9 months. >> through the chair to supervisor wiener how would you feel about better defining good costs. >> what. >> more specifically defining what means a showing of good cause. >> i actually have a lot of confidence in the entertainment commission in terms of the work they do with the permittees and i don't need to add additional definitions i think we the entertainment commission is the person responsible a thousands of variations and i'm comfort with the way the language is now. >> subject to public comment make