supervisor kim. >> i'd like to make a motion to refer. >> you want to send it to committee. >> to continue; right? >> motion to refer. >> you can send it to committee. >> refer to committee. >> okay. this item will be sent to committee madam clerk please read the in memoriams. >> today's meeting will be adjoined in the two following beloved yield for the late mr. thomas hooker and on behalf of the supervisor peskin for the last form chair the democratic party mr. a debar jake by colleagues this is the end of the agenda madam clerk, is there any additional business to come before this body? >> that concludes our business for today. >> great we are adjourned thank you, everyone for being

here >> hello i am i can with a week of women voters along with the league and sfgov tv i'm here to discuss opposition h ballot measure before the

voters on tuesday, november 8. the city currently does not have a particular official or central office is possible for overseeing how city departments interact with the public. some city offices provide opportunities for the public to obtain information to court problems were submitted to this request. currently the comptroller is that achieves chief accounting officer and auditor. the comptroller monitor the level and effectiveness of city services. the controller also oversees the city's whistleblower program which receives and investigates confidential complaint regarding misuse of city funds and improper activities. the city's officer of citizen complaint investigates complaints of misconduct and neglect of duties like these officers in a filed as binary charges against officers. opposition h is a charter amendment that would great to position a public advocate. the public advocate

will be elected at a citywide election and serve a four-year term. under proposition h the public advocate would investigate and attempt to resolve complaints from members of the public concerning city services and programs. receive and investigate potential whistleblower complaint regarding city services and programs. review the administration of service programs and management practices and contracting procedures and make recommendations to improve them and appoint an director of the office of citizen complaint words successor from nominees selected by the police commission subject to the board of supervisors approval. the comptroller would continue to handle whistleblower, regarding misuse of city funds in a position where you will make city hall to provide the public advocate was sufficient funding and support staff with at least 25 people. the public advocate may also hire independent experts who could be exempt

from some of the cities contracting rules. a yes vote means you want to amend the charter to grade the position of public advocate responsible for investigating and attempting to resolve of the complaint concerning city services and programs. no vote means you do not want to make these changes. i'm here with john golinger from the campaign and a proponent of proposition o russell joined by marcy berry from the san francisco libertarian party opponent of the measure. thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> alike to start with the opening remark some will go out and start with you, john. he was chartered am here to urge voters to vote yes on proposition g the public advocate is an event watchdog that take the public at sole job will be to make sure san francisco's are getting fairly treated by government. you are 10 a public advocate in office for more than two decades. just the last years the public advocate is a more than 20 times the taxpayer money it costs to run the office. i can go into how they do that were really the public advocate is a truly independent agency rainout you got most of the departments are run by the mayor's office. the supervisors

are in office but they have a broad responsibility and no one has sort of the sole independent job to answer citizen complaint when we are getting falling through the cracks through the theocracy and shine a spotlight when you need with department of public or so other parts are wasting money or not solving problems. that will be the public advocate job if we passed proposition h >> thank you. >> thank you for having us again. i think john mentioned what i was going to mention it number one, yes, indeed, we are creating a whole new department. we already have all kinds of department, all kinds of bureaucracies. all kinds of things that take care of things that fall through the cracks. so it seems like it's creating a whole new level of government a shadow government it is not in our interest. yes, indeed, new york has had a public advocate. the interesting part is that the newspapers are full of indications that this public advocate is completely dysfunctional and has created

more problems than she is worth. also, now there is an outright to remove the office of the public advocate for the simple reason that it simply is useless. we are against this because one, the government is way too big already. 30,000 employees. two, $9.6 billion in budget he want more? no. simply not acceptable. >> thank you marcy. were going to start with some questions in the first question is going to go first to marcy. that is, what function with a public advocate serve that is not or cannot be accomplished by other city departments? >> in my own opinion there is no function. i think one of the supervisors mentioned that this will be a completely superfluous layer on top of what we have right now. so it's not like the board of supervisors are totally in

favor of this. there are those who are saying, why are we trading a new layer when we already have all these things. we have, you know, gazillions of boards. many commissions. what are they doing? why are we holding these people accountable? >> the question to you >> sure. the reason that independent groups like the league of women voters are supporting opposition h san francisco city hall is not working i get we've spent $3 million more in the budget in the last three years. are you getting $3 billion more at of your government? no one is really squeezing the departments to make sure the job gets dumped it marcy says there's no examples. here is one. airbnb the right now 11,000 airbnb units been rented in san francisco. 1600 of them are actually licensed under all. the other 10,600 are illegal.

we called airbnb office every day last week they did not even answer the phone. the authors the mayor sent to enforce out you are not doing the job. no one is really making sure that when the problems that for san francisco's out of their homes if you go down the list of not getting solved. that would put the spotlight on the agency and force them to do their job. i think marcie and i agree the government should be working. the question is how to get it. we say it is broken. so let's fix it could prop h will not assert that every poem but it's early well >> thank you, judge and second question and we'll start with you. given the price-estimate of between 2.8-$3.5 million annually, we feel the public advocate is a good value for the city? >> sure. personal point out the real opponent libertarian party i think is ideologically opposed to most measures on about good i respect that but the real opponents of this measure the real estate industry airbnb, mayor's office, and others who like things the way they are now. the price tag what's on about the 24 measures is $1 billion. the only ones that these opponents are opposing most of

them, are the ones like prop h would scrutinize how the to spend the billion dollars. this would cost less than one half of one percent of what is being proposed without this november under an array of michigan were not spent a little bit of money jews get they should the rest is getting spent properly and i would pushback on the cost. actual cost of passing prop h is 600-$800,000 in. the leak rate for jobs public advocate, deputy into a system. someday if the office go to maybe do the full extent of what we can envision it will cost more money. that is true but as in new york. we'll save in the engine if they do the job and they surely will. >> same question to you, marcy >> yes, it would seem to me i've never in my life seen a government program of any kind kind that cannot expand and this is the reason why the libertarian party at john mentioned, is saying no to most

things because it's an expansion of government that is not providing good value. by any means. so i would say i have a better solution, we have a better solution, then to create a new layer. we just simply need to hold what we have accountable. why are we doing this? why are we not performing our own duties? as voters? as people? who are going to benefit from good services. why are we supporting a dysfunctional government that is governing body ballot measures who is saying we can't agree on anything and therefore within a point out measures and the voters are going to have to decide. we don't want to decide anything. well, it's up to us voters to go out there and say, hey you guys are not performing. we need to do it. we don't need -by the way it is not just 800,000 altered 800,000 is just the beginning. the ballot is the proposition itself allows for 22 people

>> it's not >> do you want to read it >> i didn't be was if the comptroller says gordon reached 3.5 million were going to reach 3.5 million because that is the nature of government. >> thank you, marcy. organ at closing statements now and will start with you, john >> sure. opposition h is supported by a broad coalition event democratic party. these are groups that really want to make sure san francisco government works the way it supposed to and dispenses dollars wisely. we talked about airbnb being something that's caused in part caused the invention process the housing crisis and we need something to really make sure this is doing to stop to enforce that law and. uni and. the public advocate referee jumped to one, information to make sure people get the information about how city government is working and know what we need to fix. investigation when citizen complaints 3112 the supervisors, directly to

agencies, don't get resolved, which happens every day, they know where else to turn project were they going to cost you marcy one the? no. you're either going to give up or bang their head against the wonky: the same agency that did not help them in the first place in new york and there's no public outcry detriment of the office in new york the last public advocate was a authority became the mayor of newark built lazio. the public advocate would be a court of appeal the people could go to and lastly legislation it if need be, the public advocate could introduce legislation to solve the problem but really its powers are to scrutinize government, squeeze the dollars to make sure they're getting spent to be a place that citizens can go for relief if not getting anyone in san francisco. >> thank you, junkyard closing statement, marcy >> my question would be why are we voters, you and me and everybody in the room are allowing a dysfunctional government that is governing body ballot measures, by putting things on the ballot

simply for the fact of it acquiring power, shifting power from the mayor from the board of supervisors into interest groups and why are we micromanaging to the point that we need to expand government exponentially in order to take care of all the micromanagement that we are imposing. we have a saying in the libertarian party that governments at all levels has a habit of creating a problem and then putting legislation upon legislation to solve that problem. this is a perfect example. we create problems such as for instance a dysfunctional government that we, the people, have elected. then we create legislation to solve that problem. i say, go back. start from scratch. you know, threaten every single official to get them out of office until they behave. i would say that would be a duty of voters. rather than be creating more stuff in hopes of

shifting power for public interest. >> thank you, marcy. and thank you both for your comments and for your time. we hope that this discussion has been informative. for more information on this and other ballot measures in this years election, these visit the san francisco elections website at sf elections.org. remember early buildings of it what city hall monday through friday 8 am-5 pm. you can also vote at city hall on the weekend before election day. if you don't vote early be sure to vote on tuesday, november 8. >> >> >>

>> hello. i am with the league of women voters. along with the league and sfgov tv i'm here to discuss proposition p ballot measure be before the voters on tuesday, november 8. the city has various programs that provide financing for developers to build new affordable housing and rehabilitate existing affordable housing. the mayor's office of housing and community development administers most of these programs. when housing office has funds available for affordable housing project it urges the prescription of the proposed project on its website and invites the developer to submit proposed under current practice of posting describes the criteria used to select the proposal and set the deadline for submission. criteria generally includes, the anticipated cost to the city. how much experience the developer has with similar projects. the financial feasibility of the developer's proposal. the quality of the

developers design an ability to engage in a community design process. and the extent to which the proposal meets community needs. the housing office may then select qualified developers to proceed with an affordable housing project even if it receives fewer than three proposals. under proposition p the city would proceed with an affordable housing project on city-owned property only if the housing officer sees at least three proposed. proposition p would make most current selection criteria part of city. a yes vote means you want to prohibit the city from proceeding whether affordable housing project on city-owned property unless the housing officer sees at least three proposals. a no vote means you do not want to make this change. i'm here with leah blumenthal campaign manager for-and proponent of the measure. were also joined by john fox. ceo of the tenderloin neighborhood development corporation and opponents of

proposition p you think you both for being here. i'd like to start with some opening remarks and will begin with leah. >> thank you were in the middle of the housing crisis and more important than ever to make every dollar count when it comes to building more affordable housing should as it stands today were wasting millions every year because we do not have a transparent, in place, for awarding city money to build affordable housing. a handful of developers who know how to work the system are securing the vast majority of city contracts and they are building these units at sky rocket costs. estimates it should cost $500,000 to build one unit of affordable housing in san francisco but recent affordable housing developers like 490 s. venice cost $900,000 per unit. that's ridiculous. as a san francisco taxpayer i demand better. >> don? >> thank you. i have been

under seal of [inaudible] ivan in the affordable housing world since the early 1980s and i serve on some national boards and so i have a good exposure to how affordable housing works across the circuit san francisco has a great system that is the envy of many other cities in the country. very sophisticated very productive. we produce 30,000 units of affordable housing. i don't know exactly really why the measure is on the ballot. i think it is driven by a misunderstanding of what the cost drivers about affordable housing are. as we get into white affordable housing cost what it cost, well understand better that this measure is a solution looking for a problem. >> thank you, don. i guess my first question goes to the heart of the proposition and why or why not should we have three proposals rather than one

or two? don would like to start by entering a? >> so the way that the city allocates affordable housing to developers if they put out rfps or notices of funding of availability and developers respond. there is really virtually never perhaps never a case with there's only one up applicant. there are always at least to win that creates competition. the real cost in affordable housing has to do with the cost of land in the cost of construction. putting the project out to bid to developers without these are really fixed to developers won't really address what drives the cost of housing. >> thank you. same question to you. why or why not have three proposals rather than the one or two that currently sometimes get through? >> yes. prior to 2011 was competitive bidding where there was three or more bits requested for affordable housing. but as a working-class mother and in san francisco you look competitively whether

purchasing a car, gas prices, were gross could one not do that when you're developing projects and homes in san francisco? >> okay. the other question would be, would proposition p save the money? is that what were aiming to do with this proposition? leah would you like to answer >> yes. currently it's more expensive to build affordable housing than market rate housing. for example, 49 s. venice was $899,000 to build affordable housing. that you could purchase the development the was already developed and turn it into affordable housing. so we are losing money in this process of having competitive eating your allowed to see what are the benefits. engage in the community, offering to allow you to get the best bid for the city to ensure that we are not wasting money in the city. >> don? >> there already is competitive bidding for developments in this is how the mayor's office of is operated

for many many years and continues to. [inaudible] has applied for a 30-35 of the group we've lost the most. and we do win maybe one out of four. so there is ample accommodation among developers. the real cost have to do with the cost of construction. in order to get a good cost of construction we need complete detailed plans prepared by qualified architects and this measure will not lead to that. we will be asking people to make proposals based on very poor women are a plant. in addition, through this measure, we won't have the opportunity to involve the community in helping to inform the design of the buildings. then, finally, this will lead to a race to the bottom if you will. if the cost is the primary driver behind

what projects are selected, we will end up with simple concrete boxes with low-cost materials which is really not in the interest of the people who will be living there. as it stands now, the mayor's office of housing takes cost into consideration in selecting developers. but they also take other things into consideration including the quality of the development team and the nature of the design. >> thank you, don. whether moving to closing statements. leah. >> perfect. as a resident, a mother and a third-generation from san francisco lives in one of the world's most expensive cities, we all know the importance of compared i suggest we look for the best deals at the grocery store. shop around for best quality. we should also do it with our housing options. the city of san francisco should do the same with affordable housing. that's why voters should support 10 past proposition p rather than lining the pockets of path powerful developers feel we should using the money to build more housing units for families in san francisco. i encourage my fellow speakers to vote that

will help taxpayer dollars in put to good use for affordable housing to stand up and vote, yes, on proposition p to ensure that we have competitive bidding for san francisco a formal housing. >> thank you. closing statement, don >> proposition p is trying to do something worthwhile but it is poorly conceived and poorly worded. there already is competition among developers and is competition among construction contractors and subcontractors which really has to do with what drives the cost of affordable housing. many officials, both sen. leno assembly member-housing action coalitions for the democratic party are opposed to proposition p because it's a solution looking for the problem. >> great. thank you both for your, then your time. >> thank you >> we hope this discussion has been informative. for more information on this and other ballot measures this year's

election, be please visit the event what website as sf election battle. remember early voting is available at city hall monday through friday from 8 am-five you get utah's about at city hall the two weekends before election day. if you don't vote early be sure to vote on tuesday, november 8. >> >> >> >> hello. i am shauna-with the league of women voters along with a leak and sfgov tv i'm here to discuss proposition q about measure before the voters on tuesday, november 8. city

law prohibits the willful obstruction of public sidewalks. city law also rises of prominent public health to remove public nuisances which include unsanitary structures. city law does not specifically granted raising tens on public sidewalks. proposition q would prohibit the contents without a city permit. the city would not be allowed to remove world order removal and authorize tenant in this the city had available shelters for all residents of the tenant under proposition q includes city operated shoulders navigation centers, and other city operated housing. before we move were ordering of diesel to remove non-authorized tent on a public sidewalk, the city would be required to offer shelter to all residents, offered to pay

the cost to transport all tent residents to live with friends or family outside of san francisco and provide written notice that the city will remove the tenant in 24 hours. if residents do not accept the city's offer of housing were shelter or do not remove the unauthorized tent within 24 hours of the notice, the city may remove the 10th. after removing the tenant the city would be required of written notice near the area where the tent was look good if you vote yes, you want to prohibit the placement of tens on public sidewalks without a city permit and allow the city to remove unauthorized tent is the city provides 24 hour advance notice offer shelter for all tent residents store the personal property of 290 days. if you vote, no, you do not want make these changes. i'm here with jim lazarus senior vice president of the san francisco chamber of commerce and proponent of proposition q you were also by quentin mickey volunteer for the no on letter to on the measure could think of her being here. i like to start with opening remarks meeting with you, jim

>> the homelessness has reached epidemic proportion. while total number of homeless is remained fairly stable over the last 30 years, recently the number of people living on streets and in parks and skyrocketed. were the worst symptoms is tenant encampments spread it in our neighborhoods in front of homes and businesses. it's not compassionate to allow our fellow human beings to live in tents on the street. it's dangerous and unhealthy. proposition that the housing not tents measure will make it city policy to move the homeless out of these encampments and into shelter and housing. it requires notice and storage of personal property animates it city policy to find emergency shelter for people living on the street. the policy that was discarded in the late 1980s when camp at nose appeared in civic center plaza. allowing tends to remain in place only prolongs homelessness and doesn't help people get the services they need. the board of supervisors won't pass a reasonable regulations. it's time for the voters to do it by voting yes on q >> thank you. quentin?

>> yes, proposition q has a measure that as long history of previous night. there was care not cash. with the insight panhandling measure. with a set line measured. it is a misguided attempt at playing upon people's national frustrations with the poverty and homelessness that exist in san francisco. let's be clear about the title. housing not tense. there is neither any housing within the-nor is there funny for homeless service. more importantly, i think this is actually the danger of the actual measure, jeff kosinski the head of the city department of homelessness, is not asking or requiring up the québec paschal for the actual clearing out against it they're doing that right now. what prop q actually doesn't codify a process that prevents legal

ramifications. right now, the cities were moving in cameras as we speak. they're not waiting for prop q did prop q means if they cannot provide shelter than they can remove this and caymans and that's the problem. >> thank you, quentin. my next question is how is proposition q different from laws that are already passed in san francisco? how will it change things spewing all-star when you become acquainted >> quite simply from our perspective, both the city and state law already cover lodging on sidewalks. there is ample room for the police to remove them. earlier this year on division street the city in coordination with the police department removed in canada long division street. just two weeks ago the removed a large and kim and long-creek. the laws are already in place in the city has every hour it needs good prop q that would take a different tack and essentially codified by mandating that the city cannot remove homeless and cameras unless shelter is provided. let's be clear. there at the last count 6500 homeless

individuals in the city could not including youth and families. there's only 1200 adult shelter beds in the city. so this idea that we can suddenly offer shelter to everybody and they would be off the streets in a homeless encampment problem is going to disappear overnight it is simply not. which i think is one of the reasons why the chronicle recommended no on proposition q it is something ugly to change anything. more importantly, is going to tie the hands of the city department on homeless and the city hired, the mayor hired jeff kosinski sam dodge a talented team of people to actually really dress homes. this is a very cynical measure that is simply not adding value to its happening in the city when the city is really trying to come together around a very challenging issue. in a rather play upon people's fears for what we think is and we just political gain. >> thank you quentin same question to you, jim. >> currently doesn't cover

every seconds and you have a public of issue or a [inaudible] but the board when i passed the voters had to some years ago. at the time limit is required by law. so you cannot move somebody at midnight editing cam and that's blocking a sidewalk. this legislation will give the police department and the city and our social service departments, the ability to identify those in cameras that need to be relocated, give proper notice, secure locations for personal property, and turned around a growth in homelessness on the streets get we don't have 6000 people on the streets every night. we have 6000 identified homeless in san francisco. and we have probably 2000 that need to move into shelter. this will make it city policy approved by the voters. towing city hall create that shelter them a tip people off the streets and out of the parks. >> thank you. the second

question is, how do we ensure the services are available given that right now they're weightless for shelter beds in san francisco? >> there's empty shelter beds every night in the city. there's no doubt the city has to do more good we had more shelter beds 30 years ago than we have today. under emergency base. where we have been successful as outcomes. supportive housing. cities building hundreds of units of supportive housing right now. the city is building new navigation centers right now. so there will be the means to move people off the streets and out of parks. the of vigilante justice out there. the home was killing homeless in golden gate park. we prostitution in tents. we have stolen property. it's time to really get serious about taking homeless people and treat them as human beings and get them off the streets out of the parks, into programs and this is just one more step, one more opportunity, for the voters to tell the elected

officials another is enough. you can see meetings in the mission and south of market and northeast where businesses and residents are coping with really difficult circumstances in their homes, in their neighborhoods. the homeless need to be served but not in it tends and kim and. >> thank you. quicken, same question to you >> i'm very clear about this. if we wanted scuttled treat individual six parenting homelessness as humans than we would stop with the stereotypes of prostitution, rape, on homeless murdering homeless. i can flash back to 14, 15 years ago when then supervisor newsom put forth care not cash and the basis of that campaign was inciting these stereotypes about the poorest people in our city that i think shame on this campaign. shame on proposition q for even saying or implying that is the reality that's what

happened on the streets right now. there's nothing right now in proposition q as jim talked about all these long tensions, that is not already happening. we just created a department of homelessness. we just hired jeff kosinski. we're trying to put funding into truly addressing homelessness in the city and yet were taking a step backward for apparently supervisor farrell on the intent. it's unclear how this adds value to this conversation at all. a time when the city is trying to come together we are once again, dividing the stereotypes that i think are very unjust and unfair to those individuals were expensing. should the people should be frustrated with what's happened with homelessness in this. people should be frustrated that this tent and chemistry let city officials do their job. they're doing it right now. they're certainly not waiting for proposition q to pass before they do it. >> thank you, quentin. are going to move into closing the market will start with you, jim.

>> thank you. we need proposition q because despite without opponents a no current law truly addresses tent and cameras. the opponents argue that only housing gets people off the street and they are right. every night we have taken shelter beds and over the next two years the cities building 300 new supportive housing units and six new homeless navigation centers. but don't take it from me. kathy black, the executive director of the casa-the city's oldest organization that responds to provide help to those of victims of domestic violence the chronicle op-ed piece just a few days ago. i have it here. rate is right in tent cities. this is not some kind of campaign rhetoric. these are not people by and large good just lost their

home. the criminal activity on the streets in front of people's homes and in front of businesses. seven rapes in the first six months of 2016 although. she says tent cities are not as a place for an injured little on vulnerable women to live. nobody should have to live in fear period. pop q should make our cities say. kathy black. so we urge the voters of san francisco to support proposition q >> thank you, jim. quicken, closing remarks >> yes. i think proposition q is more of the status quo. important our city has engaged in over the years. rather than truly trying to address homelessness and poverty, we criminalize it to be stereotyped it. do so for unfortunately political purposes. i think that we have an opportunity by rejecting proposition q to send a message different message than with jim wants to send to city hall that we can do better as a city and we need to. we should be housing people. we should not people living in tent and cameras but the way of doing that is leading the city do their job at a time when they

are investing in good staff. they are investing in funding supportive housing. we don't have enough shelter to meet the demands of proposition q in the city is already committed to the fact that they want to remove those tent and again it's good that is an opportunity for the city to see through what i think is a very cynical measure and hopefully address homelessness in an honest authentic weight rather than a politically. >> thank you, quentin and think you both for your common sense on. we hope this discussion has been informative. for more information on this and other ballot measures this year's election, please visit the san francisco collections website at sf election stopword. we member early voting is available at city hall monday through friday from 8 am-5 pm. you can also vote at city hall on the two weekends before election day. if you don't vote ea

>> hello. i'm shauna-the league of women voters could along with the league and sfgov tv i'm here to discuss opposition-about measure before the voters on tuesday, november 8. the city generally requires developers of market rate housing of tenant units or more to provide affordable housing. the developer can meet the requirements in one of three ways. one, pay and afford housing fee. two, construct off-site affordable housing. were three, construct on-site affordable housing. on-site residential unit houses affordable for low income households that it is affordable for households earning up to 55% of the area median income and on-site rental unit on zero affordable for middle income households that is affordable for households earning up to 1% of the area median income. the city uses federal income standards to determine the maximum allowable rent levels for the affordable unit. the

rent is updated each year. opposition u would change the department for development on-site husband it would increase income eligibility for on-site rental units for all new and existing 41 housing units. under proposition u and the rental unit counted towards the affordable housing requirement must be available for households earning up to 110% of the area median income. opposition u would increase the gross income of households to be eligible for affordable housing. from 55% to 110% of the area median income. it would also set the vector unit at 30% of the household growth income is always that household is up to 1% and 10% of area median income. this proposal applies retroactively to rental units those under the affordable housing program. the rental price for each unit we calculated annually based on the households gross income if

you vote yes you want to increase the income eligibility limit for on-site rental units for all new and existing affordable housing units to make them affordable for households earning up to 110% of the area median income. if you vote, no, you do not want to make this change. i'm here with leah-campaign manager for yes on u and opponents of the measure were also joined by peter: that oh director of the san francisco counsel community housing organizations and opponents of proposition. thank you both for being here. were there to start with opening remark some begin with you, leah >> be taken in the face of the worst housing shortage that san francisco has ever seen, the city has rightly focused on resources for low income to have affordable housing. as a result san francisco middle class and many people like myself, have been largely ignored. they're struggling with the high cost of market rate housing but currently do not qualify based upon the ami limit. if you make $60,000 or

above you do not qualify. these residents are artists, construction workers, food service workers and mothers and parents that are then pushed out of the san francisco. proposition u will help families like myself and others stay in the city that they love because we all deserve to stay in san francisco and added value. >> thank you, leah. opening remarks? >> yes, i think we need to start with who actually with this measure on the bow. this measure was designed by input on about by the san francisco realtors association. the campaign for the measure is being funded by the national association of realtors and the california association of realtors. the question is, what are the realtors such a great interest in san francisco and what is essentially changing the exclusionary housing policy which was established back in 2002 by then supervisor mark

leno. with this measure does effectively, we is reverse the measure that was just passed by 68% of voters in june of this year. proposition c which increased our cities requirement of private developers to provide affordable units. we increased it to 25% of the units they have to provide but also most importantly they now have to provide both low and middle income units. this measure would eliminate the low income units and make all inclusionary middle income. >> thank you, mark. the next question in creasing amount of people that would be eligible for affordable housing, how's exactly is that going to affect our housing crisis. is it going to help it or is it going to hurt it? >> is important to number doesn't increase the people who are eligible for affordable housing. there is no knew of for the housing units that are accreted by proposition u to developers have to create the exact number of units. what it

means they can target the pricing for these units to a higher class of people than they currently do. as i mentioned, we currently have as of this past june's proposition c which was passed by voters, to tears. a low income portion of the increase and a middle income portion. the planning department was asked by the department of elections to opine on this measure. they called it very simply, this is a lemonade in the to tears when creating a single tear of inclusionary just for middle income. so it doesn't create any new housing opportunity. it just changes who gets them. >> same question to you, leo >> yes. this proposition would increase the income limits. those who are making $60,000-$100,000. does your middle-class people like myself. i grew up as a middle-class san franciscans. every christmas and hauling my mother worked because they were middle income. they do not qualify for anything. get to

work for time in half and overtime on every holiday. my father worked at an usher at the giant game as well just to make ends meet. they do not qualify for affordable housing. discount recology were any programs for their children. they barely survived in san francisco. this will allow san francisco not to be a two-tier city where your low income and your height income. middle income individuals are working-class san franciscans that i'd love. this is taking 2% of the housing stock and adding the income limit to allow those who are able to pay a little bit more to add to the 04 the housing development to make sure they're able to survive in san francisco. many of the families that were pregnant with myself have left

san francisco because their middle-class and can no longer afford to stay here. >> thank you, leo. the next question is, it proposition u form passes we increase the amount of people who are eligible for this affordable housing, how do we ensure there still enough housing for lowest income neighbors? >> yes. this proposition will increase the income limit amount on the ami limit. currently evidently a for the lowest income amount is around $54,000. many san franciscans who are in the edge would allow them to qualify but would not be taken away what taken away from the logan. is adding for middle income san franciscans so that they are able to stay in san francisco were very diverse city and it allows for that diversity and housing and resources for them as well. >> same question to you. >> sure. the way it increases housing for middle income families is by taking it away from low income families. that's inherently the cynical part of this measure is that it hits now families against each other based on the income level. the current inclusionary housing policy the city has, pale portion that is dedicated for income households for them

before that about 100,000-$110,000 a year. that exist currently. with this measure would do is take the portion that's dedicated for low income service worker families in a lemonade that allow middle income families to have all of the pipe. >> thank you. closing statements. leo, we will start with you >> yes. a thriving city depends upon qualified teachers to help student. nurses to care for the sick and first responders to save our lives. but our approach to housing has caused a crisis for middle income families. they do not have resources get as a result, between 2009 and 2015 san francisco's lost over 15,000 middle income residents. from san francisco. if this continues, we will be a two-tier city the rich and the poor. what will happen to our middle income? do they not deserve to live in san francisco. i believe they do.

the people like myself, my family, and many of the people that i know in san francisco. in order to preserve our middle class and also engaged with our low income we need to pass proposition u to help our middle-class stay in san francisco because our families just like me. >> thank you, leo. peter? >> aborts it with this measure also does is exacerbate the displacement crisis we been having in san francisco. that displacement crisis has been no worse than in the african-american and latino communities. 100% ami which is a proposition u will make all inclusionary housing for is above what the african-american and latino populations in san francisco make on average.

middle income is not the same across all of our communities of san francisco. the terribly divisive aspect of it is the communities that need it the most to stem the tide of displacement, are being priced out by the policy under proposition u. that's why this measures opposed by the united educators are teachers, is opposed by the american federation of teachers of city college. debate was opposed by the labor council coalition of san francisco neighborhoods by the neighborhood network by the democratic party. it's opposed by spur which is a very centrist policy organization. this measure is not good policy. the realtors are not trying to do this in the best interest of either low or middle income san franciscans. he was thank you. thank you both for your comment and time. we hope that this discussion has been informative. for more information on this and other ballot measures this year's election, these visit the san francisco election website@sfelections.org. remember, early voting is available at city hall monday through friday from 8 am until 5 pm. you can also vote at city hall when the two weekends before election day. if you don't vote early,

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room. >> i think it is the heart of this place. you feel it when you come in. >> the people who just started taking pictures, so this is really an intersection for many generations of photographers and this is a great place to learn because if you need people from different areas and also everyone who works here is working in photography.

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be more creative with it. we let them to be free with them but at the same time, we give them a little bit of direction. >> you can focus in here. >> that was cool. >> if you see that? >> behind the city, behind the houses, behind those hills. the see any more hills? >> these kids are wonderful. they get to explore, they get to see different things. >> we let them explore a little bit. they get their best. if their parents ever ask, we can learn -- they can say that

they learned about the depth of field or the rule of thirds or that the shadows can give a good contrast. some of the things they come up with are fantastic. that is what we're trying to encourage. these kids can bring up the creativity and also the love for photography. >> a lot of people come into my classes and they don't feel like they really are creative and through the process of working and showing them and giving them some tips and ideas. >> this is kind of the best kept secret. you should come on and take a class. we have orientations on most saturdays. this is a really wonderful location and is the real jewel to the community. >> ready to develop your photography skills?

the harvey milk photo center focuses on adult classes. and saturday workshops expose youth and adults to photography classes. >> >> be good i'm todd rufo economic and workforce development for the city of san francisco we are here today to announce a new report detailing the impact of the healthy retail [inaudible] design to strengthen small businesses and improve access to healthy foods in our community that need it the most. we are here at blue

market and i want to thank our host, lisa even for hosting us and this even today. in addition to mayor lee we are also joined by thomas [inaudible] from the department of public health. a key partner on this program as well as mayor rogers. a community member and key local partner on this program. we will also be joined shortly by supervisor mar whose cosponsor of the key jail we tell registration a couple years back you join cosponsoring the legislation with supervisor melia cohen supervisor for this district by district had reportedly was not able to be here today. now i want to take a quick minute to talk a little bit about some of the findings of the report before i headed off to the mayor. healthy retail sf report was a joint venture between the office of economic and workforce development and the department of public health one highlight a couple key findings. the report found that through this pilot program were then 20 stores saw an increase in sales by more than 25%. this

totals more than $5000 for each store and that's real in terms of total sales. that's real value that's real impact for these businesses there taken this effort to increase the amount of healthy food they sold in their locations. that is also increasing access to healthy food. within 6000 units are produced are being sold now at individual stores and in total, communities have access within 11,000 units are produced. one of the things that is most important thing the mayor would agree, is that instead of signs promoting alcohol and tobacco no signs promoting healthy produce and access to fresh food. so i want to take this moment to introduce and handed over to mayor lee is a champion for small businesses and based on my recollection and knowledge is done more invested more in our neighborhoods and small businesses than any mayor i

know. with that, mayor lee. he was good morning everybody. welcome to the bayview. >>[applause] you know the bayview has been a good area for us to invest in all over the city. we know for many years the residence that lived in and around this bayview area had felt isolated from the city and as we started the investment with the first light rail, we realized we really had a gem to help awaken this neighborhood, other neighborhoods in the city, with transportation, with housing them up with investing in small businesses and today we are in one of those small businesses and while the report is titled, healthy corner stores, technically, while this is not a corner store, this is still a corner store. in bayview because bayview along with the tenderloin along with outer mission are dotted with many stores that because there's a

lack of larger grocery stores become the only place where people can buy their groceries. over a period of time i lee, who's the owner of the store and many other store owners, they felt well the market seems to indicate you've got to sell chips, liquor, candy and that has become really the staple of a lot of the smaller stores. a couple of years ago the supervisors and our office teamed up to say that these so-called food deserts could really get some help and introduce them to more healthier foods for the entire neighborhood. that conversation took place with our health department thomas is here today representing barbara garcia and the entire health about. i want to say thank you for working together where office of economic development in our small business commissioners and all of our folks helping invest in neighborhoods to really make this ordinance that

supervisor cohen and supervisor mar put together about how to bring more healthier foods to our neighborhoods. you can't just say it should happen. were you can just criticize people for not having it. you've got to actually make it happen and the way we made it happen is through investment. you take a store like this and you start talking with the owner and say what can we do to help you? is that things like refrigeration? is a maybe new shelving? is it your point of sale systems? is it marketing and education? is that the visibility of these things? with all these help he used to the had and he just told me that when you come into the store it used to be the first thing you see were chips and candy. that doesn't represent the healthy part of what we want to sell people and so we removing that you can

still sell it you can put it in other parts of the store, but how about fruits, vegetables and the things you really want people to buy right at the front as soon as you walk in. that's good marketing. that is smart. that represents what all he wants to do because with this report says if you do these kinds of things and if we work together with our small businesses, the increase in the actual sales for the stores will increase. on average, by 25%. that's incredible. 25 for small stores like this that means an additional $5000 a month. so it's smart. it's economically sustainable. it's healthier and it builds as the report says, healthier communities. the people in bayview deserve better services

good they should get it. they should get it at the grocery store. they should get it with government services. they should get it in transportation because it should never be any different than any part of san francisco. this is what we are trying to do by investing in the neighborhoods not investing in entire corridor. so the report substantiates that may be on average a $20,000 investment in the stores-and we done about average of that in about nine stores across the city-will have a return of an additional 25% increase in a unit of sale for all things but in particular, vegetables, fresh fruits, the things that really allow people to be healthier. i'm excited about this because my wife has been on my case with the chips bags that she sees once in a while. once in a while. the soda cans. once in a while. that she wants me to be healthier and obviously, we have some longevity challenges that all

of us face because you know, that is why i'm joining melia cohen on things like the sugar tax because we have to have people-we want people to be more health. we have to devise ways to do it. i am glad that this report is out. i'm glad there's a partnership. ali is one of one of nine now but i think we have many more partnerships to really create and establish what we want to do and i know the businesses will feel the i think the support that they have from the community. there will be kids watching and smiling with her parents saying, hey, let's get something that are grocery store and let's not send the kids down just for chips and soda and ice cream. we got more healthier foods to represent your. i'm proud of the program. i'm glad were bringing it in to so-called food deserts but we are on a roll. [inaudible]

opened up not too long ago and we were there. it's a great grocery store with a lot of vegetables and fruit and at really good affordable price. for this entire neighborhood i think within a bring a whole revolution of foods in the way people eat the way they treat their own health. again, i see supervisor eric mar. thank you for introducing this and making sure working with our offices, do we make sure we actually implement it in a way in which it will be sustainable and really, set the standards for future stores all over our city to really have a good healthy array of products for the residents to benefit from. so congratulations, ali,. thank you to you to the store owners to all the stores along third street for paying attention to this. in addition to the actual things you sell, we are helping with the size. were hoping with the sidewalk looks much cleaner this month icd dpw trucks-have

you seen him this many times speak yes. >>[laughing] very much into this. anyway, thank you everybody for collaborating and coordinating. >>[applause] width thank you, met as the mayor mentioned this legislation was sponsored as supervisor eric mar was joined a second supervisor mar. >> thank you so much to ali and the businesses are making our community healthier. i want to say that reports are important in documenting best practices but doesn't capture the spirit of the food guardians at bayview hunters point struggling for healthier communities. changing from a culture of fast food, of alcohol, and cigarettes and junk food to a culture of healthy communities were small businesses are the key partners and the backbone of making a culture of health in our community could i want to just think especially, the

coalition, not just from the bayview but from the tenderloin housing corner sword: jessica estrada and others that come into the program really bring that sense of justice for my lowest income neighborhoods and now with the omi and other neighborhoods i feel like one of the spew out [inaudible] food justice movement has given birth to and my efforts especially nick gotto who supported for over two years the work on the advisory committee put together by christina kota suzanna hennessy and the great department of public health staff have been incredible to work with as well. i want to also just acknowledge that our food justice coalitions are critical in ensuring that we expand not only 29-10 stores but we double and triple and quadruple that i think the funding that my office and other offices advocated for to double the budget this coming year after

work out some wrinkles, but michael we are looking at ways to expand this beyond only $120,000 for example. i also want to acknowledge that the 75 healthy retail reps are important but it's the hundreds of food justice leaders to come from our communities that are most important part about healthy we sell as of the vision that came out of grassroots organizing for the last ligaments the families, the seniors, the children the others that come from our neighborhood that benefit from a culture of health and shifting towards that. so it's not only the transformation of corner stores to healthier stores and great partners with our community but it's lifting up out of poverty many of the leaders that are here waiting to just lead our communities to a culture of health. i want to thank my co-author were cosponsors melia cohen jane jane kim for their bravery for the bayview to the tenderloin brother neighborhoods and enough for healthy communities

can also, as we developed our healthy food weedkiller incentives program is really blossomed but it didn't start here. from less open to brooklyn, two other neighborhoods, they been developing the model as well. i note at san francisco claims credit for a lot of things, it's really the grassroots and it is also united in solidarity with other impacted neighborhoods. i had to drive all the way from ocean beach where i live in the top northwest of the city to the south east but it is beautiful and it's great to see the flowering and the rising up of our neighborhoods from our small business leaders like miriam [inaudible] who was also in on the advisory committee on the arab american grocers to african and latino committee standing up for healthier to make it thanks to mayor lee and many others for this amazing report but it captures the spirit of our movements. lastly, i'll take a moment to

say that the passage of proposition b the sugar and beverage taxes critical. it will help fund fund so many programs in our city so we can expand not only healthy retail sf but many other programs to gift our communities out of poverty and to fight for a culture of health in our communities. thank you to tom todd solo oewd [inaudible] and the department of public health for their leadership but especially the grassroots leaders from all our communities. thank you. >>[applause] >> thank you supervisor mar. as i mentioned this was a partnership between the office of economic and workforce developers and the department of public health and the share believe we can improve and support small businesses and promote healthier communities. one of them right up to maas from the department of health. >>[applause] >> good morning. my name is battled health officer of the city and around the public health division or the health department. i want to start off by telling you i grew up in the mission district and i grew up

next to a corner store. one day and the people who ran the corner store or to chinese immigrants. i went one day and i asked them, how long they have been in the store because i was a kid. they had been running the store for more than 30 years and i asked them, how come you are here every single day. they were there seven days a week for 30 years. they said because they love the community. they never talk one day of vacation. that's how committed they were to the community. for me, that had a really lasting impression on me as a child.. seeing somebody committed to the community. i just want to say, thank you because the what you are doing here impacts the whole community. the little kids that come in here, they are going to see this fresh food until you are impacting their lives. you are having an impact that goes way beyond what you are doing here today so, thank you so much. when thing i want to just do is give you a really quick message from

a public health perspective. there are three things i want you to remember. i want you to number three, four, and 50. three. there are three core behaviors that lead to 50% of death in public health. so we worry about poor diet. that is one kick fiscal activity is the other one. and then, access to alcohol and tobacco. that is the third. that goes with those three. those three things lead to four categories of diseases could one is cancer, cardiovascular disease. diseases of the heart, hypertension, etc. diabetes and we know with a québec epidemic of diabetes in children and the last one is pulmonary disease. so three behaviors lead to those four conditions that result in 50% of the deaths we see across the united states.

so what you are doing here today is having a big impact in public health. it's people like you that really helped to protect and promote health. so it's really about making a healthy choice, the easy choice. that's what ali is doing is making a healthy choice the easy choice. health is so important because health makes everything possible. thank you, again, ali. great job. >>[applause] width thank you, thomas good small business owners are some of the most courageous people i know. they take risk. they were tied asleep for the business. in the make investments in the future is what the community could i want to invite up a lead site to speak to that now iq. >> first of all, i would like to thank everyone to make this happen. it was really great job what we have done here. i am grateful, you know, for the opportunity [inaudible] healthy

we delegate san francisco. this program has provided important and excellent support to my business operation as well as to the community. by providing healthy food to the residence of bayview and our community, thank you very much to everybody coming here. thank you so much mr. mayor, for coming here today. and i commend you on this program [inaudible] your city. thank you very much, everybody. >>[applause] >> healthy retail sf is a partnership between small business owners, residents, the city and also community single is on the ground. i want to invite up my rogers in the bayview coffee zone next. >>[applause] >> growing up here as you know corner stores are stapled to this community and so if

focusing on helping them both be better businesses as well as providing important service to the community-excuse me-one of the biggest things about this program that i feel like should not go away. i wish i really look forward to this programming expanding and creating an opportunity for more businesses like ali two for both improve their façade and the appearance of their business as well as products they serve. thank you. >>[applause] >> now before we have the mayor and others for the store and i think make a few healthy purchases, i do want to take a moment to thank and acknowledge a number of key folks. [inaudible] we bus project manager from oewd. what team

tourist from clean sf neighborhoods. angel cardoza small business development and thomas lee from oewd also susanna has a and jessica estrada from the department of public health. the tenderloin healthy corner store food coalition and bayview field zone gabriel [inaudible] for the small business to bowman center where he [inaudible] from the acetone was mike it is was all the numbers of the healthy food of the retail sf advisory committee. with that i want to thank you for being here today and i think everyone in attendance is required to by some healthy food out from blue market. thank you so much for being here. >>[applause] >> >> >>you.

>> as a voter you have a choice on how you can vote you might cast your vote by mail or vote earlier in city hall if you choose to vote earlier you'll go to our powell plays might be a church or in regards garage they'll make the voting as uncomplicated as possible yes what does 3 take to be a poll working and what exactly does a poll work working do letting meet some. >> aim jack. >> i'm co-author la. >> i'm tiffany and charles and my name is elizabeth i'm jeff i'm bruce hi, i'm karin a

full-time student addressed city college i've been a pole working for 10 years. >> for 13 years your 10 or the 9 or 10 years. >> those poll workers and thousands are an essential part of election day 31 they provide the safeguarding of democratic processed there's a feeling in the poll place you're a feeling of something that has a special place in the world the democratic process in the united states is model to the rest of the world. >> it's a relay sequence e sense you're part of that history and being able to keep that going and it is really does feel good. >> i feel overhead this is a great civil dude and get a different idea. >> in my residential area i

dale feel i'm transbay joint powers authority to the community as a wloel in the communi community. >> so san francisco poll workers have a service based mission the first to protect the voter rights we make sure they understand the rights on the ballot and the right to an essential polling place and many languages around english. >> it's like someone that didn't know how to read i'm more happy to help you like i'll help you. >> the second part to serve the voters like workers and language they respect the voter and finally the last myths is offsets the which i see to come to the polling place. >> this takes a lot of pole

working for each election they higher 26 hundred pole workers to staff over 5 hundred polling places this chose 6 senate victories and thousand clerks and high school students. >> look at the address of our polling place on line or visit it a day beforehand. >> every pole worker has been trained the election department holds for one hundred hundred clads a month before the election they vary into one and a half to 3 hours and classes focus on the right to voters including language and other access right for voter and step up polling place and equipment and procedures for voting and vote and mail. >> the election office is constantly streamlining the

process so there the good of the training in order to tap into the continuing better process in their creating. >> pole workers learner about clothing procures like completing the posted ballets and transferring the memory packs and others materials for the traffic officers or deputy sheriff. >> i like how the training every year improves. >> so as the inspector the first is all introduce user to the collect and assign them their job cards. >> a polling place nodes someone to supervisor and that pole working is called an inspector and responsible for that four or five clerks they get hands on experience. >> you're also going to be doing other things at 12 o'clock and 3 o'clock to the inspector

needs to hang into this. >> the inspector makes sure that the polling is smooth and greets people in a way with respect to make sure they're going to the procedures so not only in the step of that but in the actual process during the day and the process of breaking the equipment down and tab latino making sure all the numbers gets to the sheriff's deputy and to the city and county. >> they're a key holder on election day they wear a i can rove that hat audience this is the voting machine. >> after the training inspections pickup bottles and other supplies their polling places need on election day. >> this is for the briefing. >> inspectors are responsible for the chain of custody of

ballot they sign for the battles and have you ever had your deposition taken transfer it to a deputy sheriff's at the end of the day. >> that's one of the things i thought attracted to this to learner about the voting process and knowing that at the end of all this we take great pains to make sure that the routes are secure and save and delivered back to the ballet department. >> their seals rewe having to put occupy the equipment and make sure that carry the key it secures the ballot machine so we have to be keen you know i'd say and areas open on dale what was going on election die when the voter voted if they messed up we've got to void that we have to keep track and get for every step as well as the procedural exponent to transfer

the battles at the end of the nicest to the sheriff's detective and the memory card and data make sure those don't get tampa everyday with. >> each inspectors manual excludes the cards that lifts different pole workers dudes. >> there's one person that sets up the booth and others that set up equipment and again, we follow it step by step. >> we willfully with such culture diversities san francisco has many languages spoken everyday to meet of diverse challenge the department of election assigned chinese pole workers spanish speakers to 2 hundred and 17 predicts and filipino to one hundred and thirty predictability and vietnamese and japanese to 7

priblts and there's a lot of chinese speaking people so there's been at least 2 people on staff that speak chinese and really comes in handy. >> they choose that pen. >> i'd like to say that 70 percent of powell workers come back election after election that's inspiring they're returning. >> many people are glad to see us we know we're in the predict we are there in the election before. >> i know people expect to see me now it is a regular occurrence so oh, you're working this one yeah. >> there's a sense of trust they believe in us and they'll be protected. >> working as a precinct worker learners about the process. >> once you see the process you

gain a new respect so i'll encourage 80 anyone to get the experience. >> the department of elections needs new workers they're looking for new powell its go to sf election.org >> we're on okay. >> good afternoon i'd like to