supervisors for today september 1. madam clerk i would like to make a motion to call item 6 which apparently the sponsor doesn't want continued so if you could please call item 6. >> yes. item 160900 is resolution authorizing the mayor to cast ballots in the affirmative on behalf of the city and county of san francisco and as owner of five parcels of real property which which the board has jurisdiction. >> good morning. >> good morning. supervisor farrell and i am from the office of the work force and economic development development and asking the mayor and designees to cast a ballot in the a55ive in the city and county of san francisco over the owner of five parcels of real property and the board has jurisdiction and secretary to the proposed modifications to the plan and engineer's report of the

central market community benefit district. on july 25, 2016 the board passed a resolution declaring the intention to modify the management plan and engineer's report for this district and issued a ballot process to do so. the department of elections mailed ballots to all property owners in the proposed modifications for the district. the city has five ballots and if the board chooses to with approving this res can vote in the affirmative of the properties. the list is attached and all have total of as listed which represents two and 17 100%s of the total weighted vote. if you have questions i am happy to answer. >> thank you. any questions?

are in any members of the public to testify on this item? seeing none. public comment is now closed. [gavel] this is a very standard resolution that we are quite familiar with relative to casting the city's votes in a community benefit district so if there is no objection supervisor i would move that we forward this to the full board as a committee report with rpz. >> so moved. >> without objection that is would be the order. [gavel] sorry for the misunderstanding. madam clerk can you please read item number 7. >> yes. just for attendance matters can we make a motion -- >> i'm sorry, i can't hear you. >> can we make a motion to excuse supervisor yee? >> we can make a motion to excuse supervisor yee. i will make a motion to excuse supervisor yee from items six and seven for the duration of this committee meeting. >> okay. item number 7 -- >> do that without objection. >> item number 7 is hearing on

the governance structure, oversight of assets, and city funding processes of the fine arts museum of san francisco. >> thank you madam clerk. supervisor farrell, members of the public and the fine arts museums i originally called this hearing when there was some amount of revelations relative to the governance structure of a cherished set of san francisco institutions and i thought it is time for the board to remind itself about the storied history of the fine arts museums and i would like to actually in a very open intellectually honest way try to figure out how we got here over the last 120 years, whether we're in the right place, what process improvements can be made? what we have learned and what we need to

continue to learn? i went back and did a little bit of history. i was just telling supervisor farrell that this arguably starts in 1894 as we get from de young family, the founders of the chronicle and the founders and the spreckels gift of the legion of honor and the assets associated there with and referred to in many evolving pieces of the charter from the late 1800's and i think most recently amended both in the 96 charter but in a more profound way in the 1993 charter. along the way we got the avery

brunage collection from a chicago industrialists that gave the city what is today the asian art museum but at one point part of the legion of honor and the de young. those separate two institutions i think combined to be the golden gate are you seems in the 70's but separate apart from the history we now have a three legged stool that really seems to evolved in the 80's. the fine arts museums of san francisco are a city agency. the head of that department couldn't be with us today but intends to be here for future hearings and i look forward to my second incarnation on the board getting to know him. the assets that we have are truly amongst the most fabulous in the world and i remember as

supervisor farrell does as a young kid and want only enjoying the alligators and the glow in the dark fish at the steinhart aquarium and taken to the asian art museum and the de young which through both city efforts and phenomenal private sector fill trophic efforts was rebuilt and opened in 2005 and i had the pleasure of attending that opening and have been a patron of that institution ever since. so i wanted to start by really having the board and the public and the museum understand how this three legged stool works, what the relationship is between the city department, which we invest i think this current year $18 million of city funds, which is about 25% of the annual

operating budget that this institution uses on an annual basis, understand what the relationship is with co-fam, the corporation with the fine arts museums and the relationship with the 1963 era fine arts museum foundation. there is a lot of overlap and fundamentally learn and understand that our pat money and our cultural assets are being safeguarded that we know where they are; that the finances of this institution are in good shape and transparent and this of course raises some i think very interesting and thorny issues is that we have a city institution that relies in large part on non city dollars as we only cover about 25% of the annual net,

and that second institution co-fam, the corporation for the fine arts museums, a non-profit, internal revenue service designated 501(c)(3) is not transparent and it's interesting of the evolution of which individuals are employed by which one of those organizations, and there is overlap there as well as there are a handful of employees who are actually paid by both the fine arts museum and our city employees but their salaries are augmented by co-fam so with that as a little bit of background i wanted to bring up whoever the appropriate person -- i have not had the pleasure of meeting any of you but i understand that charlie castillo the director of human resources and administration for the

institution -- i will call it the institution for that. i marries all three legs of the stool together. i understand that megan borne who is the executive secretary to -- i will call them the boards of trustees as i believe megan which one are you? you serve two or maybe three. you serve all three as well as richard and if i am not saying this correct, benfield. is that correct? >> [inaudible] [off mic] >> try me. >> [inaudible] [off mic] >> who is the deputy director and cao and i believe we also have -- coo and i believe we also have the interim chief financial officer so with that mr. benafield will you as the senior ranking official of this storied institution like to present? >> thank you mr. supervisors. as you said i am here on behalf

of the museum director max who couldn't be here himself and sorry. he has a long standing commitment to speak this morning at the museums at the annual meeting of the so cent do cents and volunteers that volunteer their time to the fine arts museums. to give you a very brief history to recount a few things you just mentioned. the youth youth was founded in 95 and the legion of honor 1924 and served the public for over a century and we serve the community, region and a global audience with exceptional exhibit ions and public and educational programs and care for the city's esteemed art collection. fine arts museums consistently rank in the top five u.s. art museums with memberships and we exceeded our goal of 1.5 million visitors

for fiscal year 2016. based on attendance the fine arts museums are the largest public art institution in the bay area. the fine arts museums of san francisco are governed by three boards of trustees, the fine arts museums of san francisco, the fine arts museums foundation, and the corporation of the fine arts museums. the fine arts museums of san francisco is a charitable trust department of the city and county of san francisco. its guiding documents are the san francisco city charter and the bylaws of the board of trustees of the fine arts museums of san francisco. fine arts museums of san francisco meetings are subject to open meeting laws and trustees are required to file certain public disclosures on an annual and diannual basis -- >> those are form 700 type of disclosures? >> i am assuming that is true.

megan. >> sunshine declarations and certificates of ethics training every two years and california statements of economic interest. >> is that tier one or tier two mr. city attorney? >> deputy city attorney john gibner. i can look that up. it's probably not tier one -- >> [inaudible] >> and targeted at the type of financial decisions that the trustees make so it's probably more limited but i will get bato you during the hearing on it. >> thank you. >> it's not a complete disclosure. >> if you could identify yourself. >> megan borne with the board of trustees. it's potential conflicts of interest. >> the fine arts museums of san francisco is a self perpetuating trustees we have two ex-officios positions and the mayor and the director of the parks and recreation

commission. >> when i was reading that as i was doing my historic research into this institution. do they attend? >> no. >> do you remember when they last attended? >> i have been only with the fine arts museums for four years and i never seen them at a meeting. >> thank you for that information. >> the fine arts museums of san francisco board may have up to 62 elected trustees. the current number is set at 44. the fine arts museums foundation was formed primarily for the educational purpose of receiving donating and otherwise dispersing funds for the embell ishment and advancement and administration and enlargement of the fine arts museums of san francisco and the endowment fund is held by the foundation and private 501(c)(3) organization. the foundation's guiding document is the bylaws of the fine arts museums foundation. the foundation of is a self

perpetuating board and members are elected by the membership. the foundation board may have up to 17 elected trustees. there are currently nine trustees and one is ex-officio and the former president of the fine arts museums board. >> is that nine include that person. >> it includes the exo fisho and the next one is also a 501(c)(3) and operate in conjunction with and supplement the activities of the fine arts museums of san francisco. cofam is guided by the bylaws of the fine arts museums and the membership is comprise of the fine arts museums of san francisco voting members and the

foundation trustees. the cofam board may have up to 75 members. there are currently 50 trustees total. >> so does that mean if you have 44 plus nine and the ex-officio is part of fam and that is eight and that is 52 so where are the missing two? >> the two exo fisho of san francisco and not included in the corporation board. >> got it. >> good math. >> thanks. >> although the boards and trustee overlap they're separate independent entities and the line of separation between the entities are set by corporate and tax laws. we are grateful for the ongoing collaboration with the board of supervisors and the mayor's budget analyst to arrive at the city's annual funding of the fine arts

museums. this fiscal year city funds comprised 19.$4 million, approximately 27% of the overall budget of the museum and about 50% is for security services. in fiscal year 2015-16 we continued with city funds to the capital work on the roof and exterior masonry on the legion of honor as well as projects to replace the fire alarm systems and failed security shutters. at the de young we corrected drainage issues in the entry court and continued replacement of failed exterior lighting. in fiscal year '16-17 work will continue on the roof and masonry and shutters in the legend and supports on the de young tower. >> and that is within the city's -- >> city capital allocation,

yes. >> which is part of the 19.four? >> yes. >> cofam contributes $46 million to museum operations this year. key budget lines this year are cur torial and exhibition expenses of $13 million and education and other expenses of 2.3 million, facilities and operations at 10.6 million, marketing at 3.4 million and technology at 2.4 million. the fine arts museums foundation contributes about $2 million in operating funds annually to cofam in fy '14-15 it contributed additional funds of $2 million for art acquisitions. the foundation's endowment assets are $123 million. new de young funds managed by the foundation are $79 million. all together the total managed assets of the

foundation is $202 million. the -- >> that is in the 46 million? >> yes it is. >> okay. >> the museum's employ over 530 part time and full time employees, approximately 200 are city employees and approximately 300 are cofam employees. >> i'm sorry can you say that again. the total number is how much? >> 530 full time and part time employees. we work with three yuns and we grateful for the services of more than 500 additional volunteers. >> let me get this right and maybe i am just -- i haven't done this for almost a decade but my understanding is that there were approximately a hundred fte on the fam city side and you just said 200. >> i said approximately 200

are city employees, yes, but part time. many are part time. >> okay. because i could have sworn that what i saw in the annual salary ordinance was i want to say 109. although maybe that's 200 -- >> maybe full time equivalent.

test test test testing captioning. test. >> trained 50 san francisco unified school district high school students. in turn the teenagers engaged 4,000 san francisco school children grades 3-5 in classrooms and in galleries. the fine arts museums are for free guided tours for k-12 use and groups. over 49,000 students participated in year and took advantage of daily docent tours and insight into the collection and our special exhibitions. approximately

270,000 people combined were in the programs for access to education. fine arts museums offered friday nights at the de young for over a decade now and it's free and open to the public and this year we offered free admission to the collection galleries through a generous grant from the hearst foundation. through a across departmental effort and this strategy and the oscar delarenta exhibition had over 3,000 visitors a night. for the year we hosted 33 friday nights and estimated 70,000 people attended to enjoy music, art making, demonstrations and talks and the gal scprees exhibitions. 47% of the visitors on friday nights are san francisco residents and 775 local artists and musicians were employed during the 2016 fiscal year. artists have been

long been inspired by the promise and peril of the american west and this summer's exhibition at the legion of honor and wild west plains to the pacific and the country's last frontier and we have 117 paintings and prints and historical objects and other works from the permanent collection of the fine arts museumses illustrate to the fascination with the west. a counter part to the exhibition at the legion of honor is edward shay and the american west and opened at the de young and lachey was drawn to the west and the role in mythology and this exhibition explores through media commitment to show the landscapes that first inspired him as a young man and that still compel his work today.

featuring iconic posters, period photographs, interactive music and light shows out of this world clothing and avant-garde films the exhibition san francisco summer of love is part of the city-wide 50th anniversary of san francisco rebellious and counter culture that blossomed in the years surrounding the summer of love. that exhibition will open in april. san francisco summer of love sploars the events and experiences that define this dynamic area and draws upon the fine arts museumses extensive collections and from loans from local collectors who are still around. in closing i would just like to thank you, our board of supervisors, and this committee. the fine arts museumses of san

francisco are dedicated to fulfilling our mission and the legacy of service to the city and county of san francisco and trustees and staff and volunteers join me in thanking you and for the continuing support and participation. >> thank you and i have been meaning to come out and see the great american west exhibit. i got back from the buffalo bill museum. >> don't wait and it closes in a week and a half. >> i will be there. you have my promise so i wanted go over a few high level policy places so that as we move forward we can understand what we're dealing with particularly in and around the issues of the structure and governance of this three headed hydra. and excuse my ignorance because i haven't delved into this enough but can you help

me. does cofam and for that matter fam have committees of the board? i believe they both have an executive committee. i understand that much from the charter. >> they have committees, many committees. most of the committees are cofam committees. the acquisitions committee is actually an independent committee under the auspices of the foundation since the foundation controls the restricted funds that are invested for the purchase of works of art and that is a committee at large if you will because you do not have to be a member of one of the other boards to be on that committee, but most, if not all of the committee members are experts in a particular area of collecting or they are collectors themselves. we have academics on that committee as well, but

there are also trustees, quite a few trustees, and quite a few former trustees who are on that committee and continue to serve us in that way. >> but they're committees who are not trustees of any of the three organizations but committee members but not trustees of cofam, fam or the organization. >> there are some but the committee has members of the board of trustees and former members of the board of trustees who are experts in a particular area. >> we will go there now because we're on that tangent. when the committee and foundation make an acquisition that becomes the property of what entity? >> the city of san francisco. >> so in virtually all cases 100% of the collection, art work, objects, et cetera are owned by the city and county? >> there happens to be a small

handful of works that are owned out right by the foundation. >> and presumably that was a function of the seller, bequester? >> it was at the specific request of the donor. >> got it. and relative to the committees that -- so the foundation, fam and cofam all have an executive committee and make decisions without the full board when you need to acquire something quickly when you have an opportunity? >> that happens primarily through the acquisitions committee which like i said is technically a branch of the foundation since it's involving the money, but then those acquisitions are always brought before the full board of trustees in the public noticed meeting to be presented and officially voted as being accepted. >> understood, and what

committees does fine arts museums of san francisco have? >> i will defer to the secretary of the board. >> ms. board. >> the fine arts museums of san francisco has an executive committee. that's the only committee of that board. >> and the corporations of -- >> the corporations of fine arts museums has an executive committee. i didn't bring the complete committee list but i will run down the major ones, audit, finance committee, development committee, marketing, technology, education and the fine arts museums foundation -- it's such a small board that they -- you know a quorum would be essentially an executive committee so they don't have an executive committee. they have a the acquisitions committee and the entire board functions as the

audit committee and the entire board functions as the investment committee. >> so the fine arts museums which employs about 200 people and some number of fte around 109 does not have a finance or audit committee? >> all of those funds are actually controlled directly by the city. >> so presumably that would be the function of our controller? >> yes. >> okay. can i ask a quick question supervisor? >> absolutely. >> when you were talking about the acquisition of certain assets and they're foundation dollars, private dollars then used to purchase assets which for the most part are purchased on behalf of the city and county of san francisco? >> they're purchased and then transferred in the actual vote of the public meeting when they're accepted as gifts from. >> okay. >> again i think this is a

fascinating discussion but from my understanding and i thank you. first of all i thank you for all of the work and especially as a parent of three young kids. your museums are tremendous assets for the city and our families but to be clear they donate them to the city of san francisco. that's the primary course of action. >> that's correct. >> that's set forth in the charter and we give you the buildings and you give us the collection -- >> [inaudible] >> yes. >> augment the collections. >> right. >> and make decisions about the successions things that we're no longer able to care for. they're no longer considered with intrinsic value but that's a lengthy and complicated process that has go before the board three times before we send it off to auction

and the time between the first meeting and the second meeting i think is one year. >> and that goes before the fam board? >> it goes through every board. >> okay. that makes sense. >> it is the most closely vetted process i think that we actually have because divesting yourself something held in public trust is very serious matter so we want every expert opinion before we decide to remove it from the collection. >> understood. and i realize this happened in successive generations but do you have any historical memory that there are some deputy city attorneys who have been here since the 1970's that think they have historical memory but i haven't gotten to the bottom of it. in the old days this was entirely a city

institution and 100% of the employees were city employees and over time we ended up with the dynamic where some 330 are on the private non-profit side and 200 on the city side. do you know how that happened? why that happened? do you have any historical anecdotal -- >> actually i have been reviewing all of those articles of incorporation and bylaws and i can't give you the specific date, but primarily it's because running the museums -- especially given today's museum standards around the world is a very expensive proposition, and the corporation was primarily formed to raise funds to augment what the city was able to

support, so it's allowed us to add a great deal of expertise in many areas with our cur torial staff and the only staff provided for in the city charter are the two curators that run the agen balk foundation. >> what? >> the awken balk foundation for arts and in the city charter. >> so that raises another question insofar we have this mixed institution that has a governing entity that is set forth under our charter, a governing entity that is not set forth in the charter although certainly allowed under the charter. it creates the question of who is ultimately responsible for insuring that

our patmoney is cared for and in tact? i am getting to the issue of cureration and conservationship. seems to me there is not a city employee -- like for instance the arts commission of san francisco is responsible for knowing where every piece of civic art is except for that which is under presumably the fine arts museums, the asian art museum and i would imagine the war memorial as well. how do you -- number one, track and inventory your culture resources and assets and to what city oversight is there to ensure that a city official actually knows that it's being done well and right? >> well, the director of the museums is the city department head, so it is ultimately his responsibility to report to the

fine arts museums san francisco board on those cases, and we do have two -- as charlie pointed out two registrars who are city employees. our collections information data base is quite complex. the files on the works of arts themselves are voluminous. we do regular audits of the collection. what we call spot audits because the collections are over 120,000 works of art at this point to check and see if works of art are where they're supposed to be according to the system and in reverse identifying works of arts and it has all of its records in place and in the electronic system and the paper files. >> thank you for that. and this may be a question for

mr. castillo but relative to the relationship of fam and cofam are there employees that move from one to another, back and forth or is it just -- how does that work? seems like the majority of fam employees are part time or security guards but there are others. >> the employees that work for cofam or for the city that are benefited they stay in that world. we do have employees that are temporary. we have a temporary guard that also works in the store but that's the permanent benefited employees tend to live in those either city or cofam because they're tied to the benefits and they're longer term employees. >> and as to the three employees who are city employees but also receive a stipend from cofam is that public information as to the amount of that stipend? >> on the cofam side? no it is not. >> it's ultimately because of

the public filing of nine nineties. although that's usually in arrears. >> so you're nine nineties which is basically a non-profit tax return only has to show -- yeah, the three highest paid employee , right. >> we actually show more than three. >> so that is publicly available information? >> yes. >> and to get the total salary you added cofam salary on the 990 to the public salary. >> and mr. castillo how long have you been with the institution? >> nine years and proud to say i have been with the city for 18. >> okay. this is a very unique dynamic. i mean generally in virtually all cases the public can see 100% if they are so desirous of what goes on

within a brown act body, and this is a weird one because while 27% of the annual operating budget comes from the public while there is a department head who is a city employee 75% is opaque, and has there been any historic discussion do you know under some kind of a theory if you receive close to $20 million in city funding that the cofam meetings should be open to the public? is there any discussion of that? >> i have never heard any discussion to that effect. >> okay. supervisor farrell do you have any questions? >> nope. >> and what is the relationship between fam and the arts commission? >> we're friendly. we really don't have any overlapping

interests other than the fact that we're very happy that the keith hearing sculpture in front of moscone center until the construction began and we're proud it's in front of the de young and we want it there as long as they want to and looks pretty great there. >> in terms of facilities and public assets the buildings obviously belong to the people of the city and county of san francisco and the art and cultural assets. does cofam or for that matter the foundation -- your offices i presume are in what, the de young museum? >> we have offices in de young and legion of honor. >> is that pursuant to a mou or lease or something like that? the same way we had for instance the friends of rec and park had a lease to have an office in

mclaren lodge? >> no. i think de young affords us more office space because it was designed that way. the legend has the curators there that mind the works but 99 other than that. >> and when you were walking in the door and supervisor farrell was around -- around -- as matter of a fact the letter in 2012 was addressed to supervisor farrell when the budget analyst did a performance audit of all of the article five institutions including the academy and the war memorial. were you around for that? >> i was working as a consultant at the time that was going on. i didn't come on full time until september of 2012. >> and maybe supervisor farrell knows about this but in the research i was doing

preparing for this hearing looked at the various comments, recommendations, findings et cetera and was wondering whether or not any of those have been or are in the process of being implemented or if you have any comments about that? and debra if you want to jump in for the budget and legislative analyst feel free to do so. >> do you have the list? >> yes supervisor i can speak to the time clocks. one of the recommendations made is the time we were doing payroll and again this is before emerge because i think emerge also spawned from this audit. we were doing paper time sheet in the museums and we have the over time events and getting messy so one of the recommendations they made in terms of administration and personnel was to implement a time clock which we have so i can speak to that one. we've had the time clock in place

since 2012, the same year the recommendation was made. >> and i think there were a number of recommendations made -- and i was kind of trying to put my finger on this a few minutes ago -- while cofam has a finance committee that there was no corresponding board of trustees finance committee for fam and a recommendation that such a committee exist on the fam side. any thoughts there? >> well, the only thoughts that i could present is the fact we work very closely with the mayor's budget office to develop the budget on the fine arts museums of san francisco's side and i don't know what further added value there would be for a finance committee for the fine arts museums of san francisco. >> well, we will explore this

more in the next hearing and i really want to start with a large overview but relative to the issues that we read about in july i think july 25 in the "san francisco chronicle" that would be a question as to why you might need a finance committee for fam. >> i don't remember specifically what was in the july article. >> can i -- >> sure. >> just a follow up question. given the fact that the controller's office is the one managing -- the mayor's office. >> right. >> what authority -- i mean potentially supervisor peskin as well and what authority would have a finance committee have and body with zero authority? >> that's my point. i don't know if they would have any authority. on the cofam side they have a lot of authority because that's where the major itd of money is raised and the

determination of where it's spent so that budget is vetted through the finance committee of cofam and presented to the board of cofam to be approved. >> thank you. >> i believe supervisors actually approve our city budget; right? >> yes, we do. >> we do. >> all right. well, we can continue down that road. ms. board i wanted to ask insofar i made a letter of inquiry some weeks ago and you responded to that and sounds like some documents will be forthcoming. i thought i would ask you what the status of those documents that sound like they would take a little time for you to collect would be? >> well, one of the things and now that i have met your legislative aid i am looking forward to working with her, but one of our challenges is just

that the sheer volume of them, let alone separating out what would be a city responsive document and what not, but say correspondence pertaining to board of trustees president woolsey. in my emails alone going back two years there is probably 5,000 and compound that throughout the organization -- richard probably has 5,000 and charlie has 5,000 and i'm not sure how we would do that so i would hope that we could work with your office and try to narrow it down to you know just frankly kind of a work load we could manage. that would be --

you know i started to look into this and i keep finding mountains. >> i am happy with you and my staff to narrow and get what it is that we need to do the jobs that we're entrusted to do so we will work with you on that. is that -- you are a 100% cofam? >> that is correct. >> person? >> we don't have any -- we have

>> understood. thank you for that. supervisor farrell. >> i have no other questions. i think this is an interesting history lesson or discussion about how these museums are governed for sure and i am interesting to see where supervisor peskin takes this. i would say from my perspective i think we are incredibly lucky as a city we're able to leverage our own city resources with the generosity of individuals and others that contribute to this to make our fine arts museum an amazing resource for our

residents and visit offe -- visitors and i say thank you to the staff and everyone involved and you're a true treasure to the city and i hope that isn't lost on anyone here. this governance structure is unique and a great discussion to have about it but i say thank you and continue that we understand how lucky we are to have the deyoung and everyone involved in the city. >> let me agree and i will preface by comments going back to the late 1800's and the deyoung family started this and international legacy and joined by the spreckels family and countless individuals and organizations that made the museums the envy of the world. that doesn't i think negate our

responsibility as overseers at the board to have this once a century check in or once a generation check in and ask ourselves some fundamental questions and the questions and the theory of the longest standing member from one of our offices is much of this have been a response to shrinking general fund and hotel tax subventions to the fine art museums in the wake of proposition 13 and so if you go back to the annual salary ordinances of the early 1970's there was 100% of the staff were all city employees and over time and granted the museums have increased their standards, the standards for these kinds of institutions have advanced around the entire planet, and has built an entire new edifice

which was largely privately funded, and so the role of philanthropy is very important but also making sure that fundamentally it remains a city institution that the city retains its oversight to make sure that we are properly ensured that we don't have any financial weaknesses or mismanagement to make sure that our partners, which is a non-profit corporation which we contribute over a quarter of the budget to is accountable ultimately to the duly properly elected oversight body of this great city, so that is where i am going and obviously there are a few revelations back with regard to certain unauthorized or allegedly unauthorized payments which are the subject

of independent audits, the conclusions of which haven't been reached and forthcoming in the weeks or months ahead and we will consider those in due course but let me add to supervisor farrell's words as i said at the beginning. this is an institution that has profoundly affected by life from an early age and i will get in there in the next week half to see the great american west exhibit and with that are there any members of the public to testify on item 7. seeing none. public comment is now closed. [gavel] and supervisor farrell if you have no objection we will continue this item to the call of the chair. >> thank you. >> thank you. thank you mr. castillo we will see you soon. >> thank you. >> clerk seeing no further business before us this body we are adjourned. [gavel]

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>> from sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting mr. clerk, any announcements? >> yes, sir. yes, sir. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the september 16th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> call item one. >> for the approval of an determine storefront mergers on one and 99 gross square feet in the special use district 3 includes all lots from potrero hill and slaeflz and community-based sides of 24th street as well as other

additional lots for 12 months. >> thank you today, we have diana from oewd and diego sanchez from the planning department to present you'll start the floor is yours thank you. >> excuse me - all right. good afternoon supervisors my name is diana from the office of economic workforce development i'm here to present on the generally prosecution on the commercial the expectation for the latino cultural district

first i'll provide a quick overview of how the discern prohibition came about so the quatro the latino is part of a marries initiative of 25 commercial coordinators arson the city the vision of this initiative to create thriving sustainable and economic commercial corridors around the city here's the boundary of best of your knowledge in the be commercial corridor around that that came to be the quatro latino cultural district. >> so our process of working with the must not and developing the service centers and identifying the needs this

process was in 2013 those were some of the concerns that the community brought to our attention and around the corridor around the needs we build a programming services and work with the community from the ground up to develop and program so some of these included services for spanish speaking businesses around the corridor had a concern about the expiring short term leases with the increasing rent that created risk for some of the businesses potential to be pushed out of the corridor so the property 88 lawsuits and little market was changing that's a constant concern that and the institutions we have very significant cultural institutions along the corridor and facing some are expiring in

short term leases in addition for the funding and programming so along those lines while we engaged in about developing and creating services and programs to meet the needs of corridor the intent of creating or introducing a tear commercial control meanwhile it provides for the progression to engage with the residents for the businesses and develop some long term special use district with zoning district so some of the intent of this temporary prohibition is will result in preventing the storefront mergers of seven hundred and 99 square feet and larger from meeting those beyond that size will prevent that and preserve an estimated storefronts that the character and the corridor it would allow for those smaller storefronts be

more informational for entry-level businesses and the controls have been active from august 2347d to august 1st, 2016, and extends to august 2017 this is the tuff boundary the commercial corridor along 24th street and others 1k5r9d sites around and it will exclude mission street this is an example of what beer talking about some of the storefronts are in one building that potentially allows for the merger of those storefronts and right now small storefronts in different types of businesses and those a be merged and can be impact the diversity of the block this is another example

it is just kind of the worst that is happening civilians 2013 i mentioned the services in the cultural institutions there was 8 latino resolution that established the district that passed in 2014 and engaged in a community process to discuss had the cultural distinct 9 prohibition concerns and etc. the interim controls were introduced to allow for further development and think with other controls that can urban design implemented to protect the corridor and the district and also initiated a retail study to help to for the potential special use district which will then replaces what the interim controls are now and anticipate that within the next 6 months we will introduce hopefully pass a special use district so right now we are anticipating

>> community meeting on october 2016 to present what will be the end of the special use district those are some of the examples within the two years of some of the services and now have a full-time corridor manager and increased the culture activity and we worked with strengthening special businesses along the corridor priority are the businesses how we can involve and improve their storefronts and others to improve their business hours, etc. this one storefront that drastically changed the way the block looks you'll see the change this is the cultural institution that contains anyone else programming and that to the public both in the daytime and the

evening and that's it. >> any questions. >> no questions so for thank you for your presentation thank you. >> is that it anymore presentation colleagues, any discussion if not open up for public comment ladies and gentlemen, now it the time for public comment on item one to minutes to speak a soft time with 30 seconds before our time expires anyone that wants to speak and talk on item number

one seeing none - okay. please come on. >> so you have here a presentation that should benefit the corridor in the mission district and none of supervisors asked since this process has been going on since 2013 none of you asked for some data to see what process o progress has been made we know and i'm surprised no one is here from the mission district we know that the businesses in the mission district are subject so my question is simple for the people at home as supervisors they don't care what is happening in the mission

district so far as i know businesses are suffering in the mission district not only the businesses themselves but also the transportation the muni buses, creating all kinds of havoc in the mission district thank you very much. >> anyone wants to speak on this item okay public comment is closed. at this time colleagues the matter is in our hands any last minute discussions. >> madam chair this is consist with a number of approvals by the board i suggest we send this to the full board with representation as a committee report. >> we'll accept the motion to send to the full board as a committee report unanimously thank you all right. mr. clerk, call item 2. >> item 2 hearing on how best to observe the lgbt night life space and on

the status of creation of lgbt cultural district and the oewd to report. >> thank you, supervisor wiener is the sponsor and will lead the discussion and we'll have speakers from oewd and the entertainment commission as well as represent in the planning commission supervisor wiener. >> thank you very much madam chair for claefrnd this important item colleagues the item hearing today is to talk about the critically important lgbt night life venues cultural spaces in our community that are under increasing pressure and a number of them at risk of what to do to protect and support them and also to talk about the status of the long delayed western soma

lgbt cultural district which was meant by this board almost 4 years and a not not happened this topic is important to the lgbt community and i'll say it is to me personally as a member of the lgbt community as lgbt night life venues are not simply bars and night clubs people go out to have fun their that but much more those are communicated spaces those are safe spaces venues for many, many, many years decades and decades members of the lubricate community you whether out of the closet or out of the closet or older or younger or whether confront with the status as lgbt or uncomfortable whether they feel safe at home or not those are places where members

of the community can go and find community and make often lifetime friendships and meet lovers and have found and build community in a safe and welcoming space our phone call as a another-year-old as a guy man the first time he snuck into an lgbt night club and in duringing north carolina nothing like i experienced for the first time felt i was in a community with people that are like me and i felt safe and it helped me on my journey coming out and being a full development gay man and generations of lgbt people have had the same experience and if these spaces go away we can have four of them that makes it

harder for members of the community to find community particularly young people we have to protect them and support them we know many there are a lot of pressure on too much off our lgbt night life venues particularly in the south of market from the development pressure and other pressures most recently, we learned the stud was and remained at serious risk even if closing at the current location and other are these hole in the wall that moved to a new space and others that likely will be under pressure and at risk of closure when their lease comes up or other aspects of their situation changes this is as ongoing issue we know the the western selma was adopted by 24 broad 4 years

ago i voted against i believe the lgbt night life it is designed to reduce the number of night life venues in south of market and push them south of harrison street even though the bulk of the lgbt night life venues are north of harrison street we have high seconds i was honored to work with and support and help the business partners in reopenly oasis and creating a wonderful and vibrate night life space that is successful and honored to work and support what i could to the owners the eagle it was saved and the owners and their supporters were numerous they deserve credit as good and even ways better than in the past

doing great but it shows we can succeed we can support and help and protect and save those venues if not have had the opportunity for them to close we have to work hard and be pro-active and can't wait for the crisis to happen we need to be there a few years ago i wasable in the budget with the mayor to create a new focus exclusively on night life and oewd has a role to play here we also wonderful entertainment commission and we need to move forward the lgbt cultural district south of market has evolved and needs to move forward and local leadership that is lacking to move forward and i hope that hearing helps to push that processed forward

i also would like to enclosure the possibility through legislation of creating a cac a community advisory committee to formalize a structure to advise our city departments and representatives of the community how we can move the cultural the lgbt cultural district forward and how to take pro-active steps to support the lgbt night life in soma and others ways i look forward to this critically important issue we have as the chair mentions a few brief presentations and then terrific comments from the community here i first want to call up conveniently from the mayor's office of economic workforce development who was hired to fill the roll we create on the service and night life he has done a spectacular job and

jocelyn kane from the entertainment commission and tim frye from the planning department that will talk about the status of cultural district. >> thank you very much. >> great thank you supervisor wiener and thank you members of the public benefiting from the office of economic workforce development as street tree mentioned i'm the business manager for the night life and san francisco is known as a world-class dedication and due to the lgbt night life offering that san francisco the night life spaces are vital and art and political spaces and they're also a key component on the night life economy as supervisor wiener well knows after commissioning in economic impact study it was updated night life is an economic chiropractor $6 billion in spending for the

night life and night life employees over 60 thousand people citywide and night life pay $80 million in tax and a key draw if the bay area and beyond to san francisco again not to sdmish the other vital roles of arts and cultural that the night life has but about the displacement of the businesses we're talking about the displacement of small businesses and that's two our workforce there are real challenges by the night life businesses with the number of lgbt and other night life entertainment businesses and night life sites are targeted for new development and some increased rents or landlord that reduce refuse to entertain long term leases and recognizing the importance the office of

economic workforce development lodged the initiative roughly 3 years a mixture of one-on-one policy businesses to target the existing needs and find growth for night life in san francisco some of the key xhoept of this work number one connecting san francisco night life and businesses to city resources i think that in the past the best came back with the government was no contact at all and want to focus on the business services and other resources we can provide to the night life industry oakland we support legislative and policy issues that advance the policy i'm happy to work with supervisor breed to protect the venues facing not venues and recognizing for the night life spades in you existing spaces

this is key as businesses face the displacement we want to help those businesses succeed in the long term but as the city grows we wanted to see the growth of night life and seeing that jocelyn kane will talk about the central soma and one of the things to try to create new night life and the question how to help businesses for long-term solutions that are appropriate for night life entertainment. >> there are a number of business services through our office and through the partners that help the lgbt night life businesses opening statement we talk about displacement the immediate question is what the length of the lease and what business will physically locate but priorities an opportunity to look at the businesses realistically and a variety of ways to secure the business financial footing and its future for the long term

first of all, as mention night life sector initiative i'm serving as a point of contact we offer a variety of services from sfgovtv.org and a variety of the strategies to help the businesses on terms of one on one the office of economic workforce development working closely with the businesses and the small business development service provides no cost to small businesses including workshops and on topics of budgeting and marketing a variety of tops want to help the businesses succeed in the long term and small business loans to help with the loans if 5 thousand dollars to a million dollar that is a long term strategy and then oh, my god partners with a number of technical service providers if you need legals assistance if they need eyed assessment this

is the sort of services we offer citywide a pilot program in the excelsior on business relocation that will be extended citywide and finally the legacy businesses program can't be under state it is important for the long standing night life businesses to get on the registry for the grants for business owners and property owners to enable them but as a part of registry to help them with the critical roles they play in san francisco. >> just in sum lgbt night life are a critical part of san francisco's if you have been and the economy to the city and such a significant workforce and component to our economy and i'll encourage any night life businesses facing uncertainty if

you don't know about the programs please reach out to me and thank you for calling this hearing on an important topic. >> and sir, if i, ask so i know that we have various resources that are available to these businesses and in addition to the potentially the legacy business registry which i know the san francisco small business commission but a lot of time those businesses you know the owners 345i6r7b9 know even reach out a lot of people are busy running their businesses to survive and make payroll that they may not focus and it becomes a crisis on a lease that comes up or whatever and so what about potentially proactively reaching out to the

businesses to say hey you may things are labor day great now but talk about how to make sure that thanks stay good. >> i completely agree and in contemplating the variety of things to talk about during the hearing lead me to think we need to be more pro-active outreach in the set of services is specifically for night life and lgbt night life businesses certainly intend to do outreach for the lgbt community and the night life community more broadly the history of interaction has not been good so hoping to educate people other side to the government and absolutely and the good part not an imtint universe and actually more organizing happening after

little tragedy at polk night club orlando and a can of worms opened up with the mayor's office and our office they're started to get more organized. >> terrific thank you. >> okay. next i'll ask jocelyn kane from the entertainment commission to come up. >> oh, look how tall that is good afternoon and again jocelyn kane entertainment commission pr before i begin oh, congratulations i want to thank supervisor wiener and the board for championing night life over the

years it's been a pleasure to work with you and your office on the impact studies on transportation and improving the tools of the entertainment commission and good outlining the night life and that can't be reiterated you thank you for working group this studies through 2016 and we know how important in terms of economics i want to take a moment to look at a quantitative look at night life and the possible opportunities to take advantage according to the planning documents san francisco it has a sub culture since the 1920s and considers itself one the night life capitals of the world and the pubs and performance and parades and festivals celebrating the lgbt cultural are a vital part of our city's

night life i want to ask the question does our city have a vibrant night life and gay night life in spite of government how to support our night life nilth you'll hear from great people today about gay venues serve and condition to serve the refuges for the lgbt be community members how they found their mentors and learned about their history in the night life venues and how incredibly important for all the charities i believe our night life has service values for the city is it so hard to make a chart of cultural assets so instead i'm concerned done this before we mapped existing places of entertainment and we mapped a recent look into the

pipeline of where developments happening and looks a little bit scary i don't know if you think so too one of the reasons we did this to move forward the piece of legislation that ben mentioned regarding the legislation from the new resident development and i'm not going to go through all that about you it is working at this time i hope it continues to do its job that is working but in the contemplating at all how to provide opportunities for groelth as our population increases this map i like to use and it is pretty accurate it shows us just how little of city is zoned for entertainment uses green as you can see is as of right the orange required conditional use authorization,

and the white is entertains are not permitted at all the green areas their somewhat substantial are fraught with challenges related to houses inbe compatibility and spaces for certificate of occupancy and affordability it is hard to find space and it is expensive for businesses with small margins if we look for affordable places for night life this is room and consider zoning district to allow night life for example, the central soma plan, which is still in the draft form is the policies 3.6.01 a recognition of importance of having a complete neighborhood it is one of the ways to engage creation for the

developers in the central soma this cultural night life into account should be incorporated into all new area plans in this not in conclusion this is negative one of the venue saving one of in after the next from gentrification and keeps us in the space or we'll be gone and let's turn the page to offer new opportunity for san francisco great, thank you for your presentation. >> any other remarks or thoughts. >> no, i would like to thank you, mr. cain and bring up tim frye from the planning department to talk about the status of lgbt. >> good afternoon tim frye from the planning department just to step back i want to give

a working definition of a cultural district court month folks associated with the particular geography a cultural heritage district is how we've been developing them with communities or stakeholders like in the japantown community and coordinating and most recently in central soma with the filipino community is really a more of a strategy it is a collection of tools that we can develop to help the communities preserve and promote a particular social and cultural heritage what is associated with the geography or this particular neighborhood especially in the harvey milk cultural heritage district we are looking at citywide one of the biggest benefits of the cultural benefits a catalyst for the vision one vision on

short time and long term goals how to achieve seconds related to the vision and obviously strategies take on a variety of forms the strategy that japantown has vemthd may not necessarily align with the goals that the coordinating develops or the lgbt cultural heritage develop in the future so developing those cultural heritage district are a collaborative processes as you've heard from other agencies we the planning department is one player or one member of the team that works with the 12rr8d group and the process always has to be lead by the stakeholder group this so important because we found is the majority of strategy while some questions can be regulated through the as

to his regulatory fraction the majority has to be policed by the community and that can take on many forms whether 3 policing through a neighborhood group or a merchants association or the nonprofit that oversees the goals and objectives the majority has to come though the community not something that is in the planning code or other city codes so as supervisor wiener you mention. >> question. >> so i mention at the beginning the possibility of the advisory committee not lirmentd to the cultural district but you more broadly for night life lgbt night life including this. >> absolutely. >> would that be potentially helpful in moving forward. >> i think the preliminary piece we need to move forward right now we've done outreach in

soma we know that the members of the board of supervisors have done the same once we feel a solid group we can initiate and start discussing schedule and outlining what the process will be. >> and then just in conclude or just to reiterate some supervisor wiener's comments as you may know that was proposed in the western selma in 2011 and since there the preservation community the lgbt context statement was adapted in 2015 and as part of draft central soma as mentioned theres published in august of this year we have decided to move beyond justice soma and looking at 4r6b9d cultural heritage district for the whole city this is a a better approach based on

the context statement and zone some outreach as well as the historic preservation commission done outreach and in our next upcoming fiscal year budget we will apply or ask for whatever sources for the staff and implement facilitation of the shareholders group but before we a hear about the folks and their overall goals we have not moved on anything else to date. >> at this point is the cultural heritage district is it stalled. >> i mean this is one way to put it we've been actively seeking paternities but not moved on scheduling updates i

mentioned a great deal of of coordination with other city agencies and you know other example like the most recent filipino cultural district the supervisor i guess support a resolution that had a timetable we're actively pursuing to meet the timetable that was the reason because the stakeholders were identified once we have the group identified we can move forward quickly. >> do you have the funding to active move forward. >> we have a instead of member that would help facility this initial process but likely need another staff member in the next budget to do so. >> in terms of not move forward until next summer. >> if we were to receive the position yeah we will be fully

committed to the project. >> yeah. i want to express frustration this is not necessarily directed at the 34r579 by this process is three or four years later not move forward and we're at risk of losing the stud there are other venues that will be at realistic in the near future or are at risk so delays is consequences so we'll definitely be working with you to provide you with the support you need you have any commitment on that to make sure this can move forward and not just about obviously this is somewhat citywide there are obviously a coup of neighborhoods or 3 neighborhoods with a lot of the lgbt establishment but want to make

sure we are focusing on all the neighborhood they all matter so thank you. >> okay madam chair there is other presentations and at that point i wanted to open up for public comment if that's okay. >> thank you that's a good idea and one public speaker card ms. audrey we'll start with you first if anyone else get in line behind here. >> i'm adu country joseph there is a anecdotal data that 25 percent of the adult population of san francisco is lgbt hundreds of thousand of people come to your city every year that are lgbt overall san francisco is the home of lgbt movement and the

initialing space new residents and employees that come to our city needs places to go to decompress and socialize and night club and bars have been community centers where people meet each other and discuss politics and use those spaces as if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer theming venues certainly in san francisco this is true right now no women's bars in the lgbt community we are losing spaced at an alarming rate i am here to urge you to do something to get this heritage district going and also to consider some funding options that will help those communities

as venues like the stud to be able to survive going forward thank you. >> thank you. >> this is a reminder you'll hear a soft chime with thirty seconds remaining i have (calling names). >> supervisors thank you thank you, madam chair for calling the hearing as an individual who is instrumental in bringing political will to the conversation to create an entertainment commission i'm very cognizant of the need for a community to colonel together and find a reason why it should save something that is threatened by a change today, we're threatened in the lgbt community by a wave of movement in property values preliminary the stud is being

moved as a result of property values increases i'm being foshsz out of the south of market and moving to lovett and the bay area and many of the broken are no 9 as effort having to leave the city we can't underestimate the economics of this so the zoning will be one of the critical areas we need to do i think the complexity of the topic requires the cac approach and think by talking with the few people i asked to be at that meeting ask them if they've have the outreach about the cac i'm concerned heard from them they've heard nothing about it i will urge that the planning department up their game accountant and include nor members i have no interest in being part of that but glad to share the 20 or thirty people i

dedicated about today's hearing to make sure the community is involved i'm a tenderloin rat from the bulldogs to the place i owning and operating to 9 commissioner crews theatre and charles you name it the tenderloin was a happy birthday to you u hub as we think of south of market being a hub and the castro street let's not forget to include everyone in the city. >> thank you j.d. >> (calling names). >> i'm j.d. in san francisco for j years and want to see i'm very much in support of this thank you. >> thank you. >> mayor. >> hi, i'm.

>> merry, merry department i'm going to give an update on the project we started working on 2007 at the corner of 8 and harrison street the improvements we're talking about underground of the utilities and creating a series of arts components that will underscore the importance of alley to the lgbtq community we in 2014 got a one $.8 million okay. from the cac and the planning commission to take some of our improvements funds and dedicate them towards fixing the ring and part of improvements that will start in light next month a significant art component really a lot of the work was done between 2007 and 2011 with the help of jim that

passed away a real advocate for elevating the level of explore that the ring 0 got and not forgotten it is great news those dollars are available to fix up the street and like to see the ribbon cutting thanks. >> thank you demetri. >> thank you to the committee members i'm demetri the director the fulton vents and here to speak about what the. >> merry is talking about i've been working with other communities members on the lblth historic kind of walk that. >> merry has been spearheading we were lucky to find developer that is interested in our input and we've been given feedback in what we on the community might want to see

hopefully in the next year or so a historic walk and that is on ring 0 between 9 and 10 to help to fill some of the cultural historic elements that we hopefully don't want to forget and we could have that i want to again speak to the government agencies might not be keeping up with the pace we as the community has to jump on the coattails of developers that are interested in working with us if we don't get our voices heard and speak up with the developers we'll be left behind thank you. >> hello commissioners. i'm mike with the sf eagle. >> i wanted to talk about what

the sf eagle is doing in order to help preserve the let the record reflect community we've continued our business in providing if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer thems but gotten help from the businesses across the street from the plaza you're familiar with that's on the road and will be potentially board of governors in the near future as demetri said we had to just this on the coattails of developers we can't wait for this to happen we are losing a lot of very quickly and that's all i have to say thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> darcy. >> hello, i'm darcy one of the owners of sf o a with others

jeff and i'm here representing all of us in really saying how for this is to us we've been open almost two years now night club a performance venue and what was quickly realized a real community center we have people come to us every day on the street and thank us for opening the spate and reminds us how for those spaces are were fortunate we had a short opportunity to go into a business that was a gay club and we had la jolla help from the community a lot of help from the people in the room and not every organization and every bar and every night club will have all of the connections it is crucial there is something set in place they don't face

with the stud a facing i think it is really important to keep the community vibrant as we watch from the 8 box close and potentially losing the stud and if we lose the other lgbt q spaces in a neighborhood it makes the neighborhood less safe, it makes the neighborhood less vibrant for our functions that are existing there so we wholeheartedly support this and hope this moves forward eastbound quickly. >> public comment on this no other member of the public public comment is closed. >> all right. so supervisor wiener any thoughts >> great. thank you very much madam chair and thank you for scheduling this item and

colleagues thank you for hearing this item this as you've heard from members of the public who have shown extraordinary leadership in safety clubs working with the developers even with when the city not engaged to provide the leadership we see people in the community that are by sheer force of will because they want to happen make it have it come into place we and the city government need to step in there needs to be leadership to fulfill the vacuum coupling of this building around particularly in western selma to the lgbt venues and so this is

informative hearing and i am let's say i'm right now drafting the legislation to create the community advisory committee i mentioned and several public speakers mentioned time to have a body representative of the voices in the communities to drive forward and provide the planning department with the support it needs and make sure this installed out cultural heritage is for the lgbt didn't stay stalled for too much longer than we're drafting it as moving forward as quickly and madam chair thank you and i would like to move to file this hearing. >> all right. thank you is there a second seconded by supervisor peskin and without objection this item is filed. >> okay.

>> madam chair if i may on item number one i actually had intend to decedent from that vote so i'd like to rescind the vote on number one and rescind. >> i'll second that so mr. clerk rescind to item one and take up another vote please recall item number one. >> number one the extension of the mergers in the proposed mission district for this matter received to the board of supervisors as a committee report. >> i make prior to the reinforcement it seems to me the thrust of this interim control really is about merger of retail spaces that has been a

successful tool not if you want to but explain by your desentd i'd like to know. >> i pointed out i voted against this item when it was first adapted as a does remember i said if this creates a conditional use process i would have been happy to support that but as a matter of policy i typically don't support bans not saying it is impossible to ever support never say never but i don't support bans but it provides no flexibility and so that has not changed here and i also said at the time complimentary of 24 i think they've done a lot of terrific work i met with them and talked about the interim controls they were proposed by see things definitely so not coming

condemning but i stick with the vote. >> i appreciate that historical backward. >> e background. >> on that motion supervisor wiener. >> no. >> supervisor peskin chair cohen. >> that motion carries. >> thank you very much mr. clerk could you call item 3 please. item number 3 resolution for the public utilities commission for the trails in the peninsula persistent with the protecting the water supply and the quality of area. >> thank you we have supervisor avalos he's adjourned us would you like to make opening remarks. >> thank you very much chair cohen first of all, i have a

member of the whole asking the committee to introduce and on in front of the tv set and a copy of the changes as well this is actually a resolution that has been in the works for a very long time we actually had this resolution drafted earlier this year and held off knowing there is a lot of community input that is required for us to feel comfortable moving forward and that community compute continued to the weekend a meeting last friday with my office and the audubon society and others and organizations to talk about the line to put in essentially the overall goal to create greater responsible public assess in the peninsula water shed this is work that has

been going on for decades in the early 2000 supervisor tom ammiano talked about this and led to a program the program is important to continue but we also want to see how we can look at the feasibility to encourage and make happen on unsupervised assess under a permit program possibly with the corridor with the public utilities commission has done a great deal of work working with stakeholders and the public as well as government stakeholders including g and the san mateo parks and others that will make a presentation on the work with the commission and with these stakeholders as with tim i'll call them up in a second we want to commend

summarize quicken essentially we are making the language amenable to be more better so we can talk about explorer the feasibility of access we know i'm actually - and there are a lot of politics in the roundness with that geography of increasing assess we can look at how to protect the flower and a lot of endangered sprees that inhabit the peninsula and make sure we are protecting water quality it is the highest priority of the public utilities commission to do that and make sure we creating assess that we are protecting wildlife and we're protecting plant and trees and for the most part the water nothing that takes away we here i'm concerned made a resolution

this bill is thoroughly supporting and talk about whether this should be you know on today or sent to the full board or continue to next week i'll let the committee decide that might be necessary i have a doctor's appointment i do apologize i know that a lot of people have come to this and going to the peninsula i talked about this to the public i have to leave around 250 i apologize and have mr. ramos coming up u come up and supervisor wiener may are comments this is the resolution is piggybacking on a meagerly we've done last year about the water shed we've heard the first presentation perhaps supervisor wiener would like to

chime in before mr. ramos you thank you supervisor avalos i'm happy to be a co-sponsored of this resolution this water shed sew absolutely specific last year, it is so close to san francisco and part of san mateo county and i think it is important to strike a good balance in terms of allowing recessional assess unfefrtdz assess not that people do whatever they want we want to protect the natural resource and the water shed and the equality and the plants and the animals in this area and we also want more recreational assess we can achieve that balance it is not the first time that we've

achieved that balance we know that marin and other water sheds have expanded the access state your name has worked we should do so here the bay area is growing it is going to grow 2 million people in the next few years most people in san francisco and other areas don't have front yard or backyards and some of the places i know that some of us had access and played as a kid and your parks and opinions those are people's backyards people and families go to enjoy recreation and to have a place like the water shed right in the heart of our community which is by and large closed off does make sense