qualifications for reappointment to the san francisco parks, recreation and open space advisory committee. i'm a resident of the outer sunset neighborhood and have lived in district 4 since pursuing my undergraduate degree at san francisco state university. i currently work at san francisco public works as a business analyst for the department's information technology committee or division. two years ago i came before this body for my first appointment hearing and ever since that day, i have forever been reassured that advocating for parks and for the city that i love is something that i always wanted to do. while working full-time and serving my first term on prozac, i enrolled in the master public administration program to develop my knowledge and skills of becoming a better public servant and will soon graduate this upcoming may. through my professional experience, and academic studies, my passion for public policy, strategic planning and

governance has only heightened my desire to continue to serve on this committee for a second term. while preparing for the occasion, i remembered one of the first prozac meetings that i attended in which the general manager presented the recreation park plan. the first word that comes to mind is inspire. inspire public place. or space. inspire play. inspire investment. stewardship and inspire our team. and throughout the process of this strategic plan, i have become most inspired to work alongside the department, my team, and our community stewards to foster change and equity for the parks and open space for the future of the city we all love. in my first term, i have advocated for the historic preservation of the mothers building up the zoo. i have participated in various community meetings ensuring

renovations are completed at the 30th avenue and fulton dog play area in golden gate park. and close to my home continue to work to improve the safety and beautification of the community's open space at ocean beach. in this past year, i was truly proud to collaborate on the working group for defining and developing equity metrics to make san francisco the first city in the nation in which every resident lives within a 10-minute walk of park or open space. the past two years have been filled with growth and opportunity, though i know there is still work to be done and initiatives we can achieve by working together. i am trum inspired -- truly inspired to work along my advocates for years to come. >> supervisor yee: thank you for your work on this committee.

i'm just curious in regards to the mother's building, why is that important to you? and if it's renovated. what are we going to do with it? >> so the reason why the mother's building is important to me is because inside of the building at the zoo, there is actually murals that were established primarily by women. i think that it's important to me because it is part of not only san francisco's history, but the women of san francisco. i think that if we are able to make both short-term and long-term renovations to the building, it can be used as a space, not only for mothers and families, as it was in the past, but also to promote the celebration of the zoo and its animals.

>> supervisor safai: any other questions? great. if we have any other questions, we'll bring you back up. thank you for your service. any members of the public wish to comment on this item? please come forward. public comment is closed. entertain a motion. >> supervisor yee: was there indication from supervisor tang? is this her appointment? >> supervisor safai: it is. and she's in support of reappointing. >> supervisor yee: she is. >> supervisor stefani: yes, there was appointment memo received. >> supervisor safai: yes. >> supervisor yee: i'll make the the -- >> i'd like to move jordan aquino forward for the seat 3 and move it forward to the full board with positive

recommendations. >> supervisor yee: we're so excited to appoint you we're fighting to nominate. >> supervisor stefani: and thank you for your service. >> supervisor safai: without objection, that is ordered and moved. congratulations, thank you for your service. >> item number 4, a hearing to consider appointing one member for indefinite term to the city college financial assistance fund oversight committee. there is one seat, one applicant. >> supervisor safai: unless any initial comments, let's hear from the applicant ms. conny ford. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is conny ford. i'm vice president of the san francisco labor council and happy to be here. i've been waiting for this commission for several years now to be in this status. just a little bit about me. i am not native to san

francisco, but i raised my children here, who both went to public school. my son ended up graduating from city college. my daughter took some of her first nursing vocational classes at city college and that was a nurse practitioner for planned parenthood. i'm a strong advocate of city college and have always talked about, we have k through 12 as a free public education system, and i was always looking forward the day we can extend that for two more years. that came about three or four years ago as you probably remember. city college was in crisis back then, but we worked hard to get it reestablished and then i was a part of a great, great, great team, committed to making it and extending it to free for all san franciscans. took four years to do that, but we passed the legislation here at the board and proudly we passed prop w which helps pay

for this benefit from the city back in 2016. right at the same moment president 45 was elected, it was one of the hopeful signs during those depressing moments after that election. since then, many of us in the same coalition, which is comprised of students and faculty and labor and community and many, many other people have done outreach to make sure that the community knows about this wonderful benefit and probably have seen some of the reports in the paper recently that the students, ftes are increasing by at least 15%, we're almost up to 55,000 after being at a low with 35,000. going up to our goal of 100,000 where it was back in the day when everything was peachy keen and free, of which i was a part of going to city college free at

that time. way back when. so i'm a firm believer of city college. i feel like it gives people that opportunity to go to school and to continue their education. you know, with all of the vocational arts that have there, the nursing programs, the machinist program, all of the ged graduation opportunities, the life long learning classes for people like me who want to learn about philosophy or go to school to tap dance. that's my goal next year as kathy is the teacher there that teaches tap dancing for seniors. i love that idea. i might come back and do a little tap dance after that. i am embedded with this program and want to the next step as you know is to be -- to look at the oversight committee and make sure the funds are transferred in a transparent, open and honest way.

eye on the prize of expanding this opportunity to more people. i'm proud to be here nominated and to serve on the committee. i hope that you will give me this opportunity to serve. >> great thank you.

>> supervisor yee: first of all, i want to say that i really -- i'm really respectful of all the things you do for the city. in particular city college. so i think we're going to can lucky to have you on this oversight committee. >> thank you. >> supervisor yee: and the -- i didn't realize we were not supporting december classes. and i will -- if you need help in fighting for this, i will join you, because it's ridiculous we're not. you're basically saying to students, why don't you take another year to finish up your courses rather than taking summer classes. so in many ways, we lose money. not allowing -- not paying for the summer classes. and i agree with you that, we have a great system, education

system, that is up to 14, you know, but i want to correct you a little bit. we're not k 14, we're pre-k 14. >> good point. if you look at the school district theirs is pre-k and hopefully in the next few years, we'll make it i to 14. >> i'm with you. >> supervisor yee: let me know when you take the tap dancing class, i'll join you. >> ok great. >> supervisor safai: supervisor yee is an accomplished dancer in salsa, i don't know about tap, but definitely in salsa. >> i'm not an accomplished dancer so you'd have to take it slow and easy with me. >> supervisor safai: i just have -- thank you, just be formal here today, for all your

commitment and dedication to this issue. i know that like for lack of a better term, this is one of your babies and you've dedicated significant amount of your time and life to this long-term goal. and i know you have other long-term goals to continue to keep expanding access to higher education and education for those who don't have the means. so i really commend you for that work. and so kudos to getting this forward and passed. the thing that you and i did talk about was the idea of moving the oversight forward and some of the responses in terms of not getting any funding and we don't want to do anything to destabilize the funding of city college. so some of the ideas that you talk about, can you mention a few of those that you think will be helpful in this situation? i know that committee has not been convened. you're one of the first that will added to the committee?

that's a good first step. we'll get that going. there will be a report submitted to the mayor, board of sfls supervisors and city college trustees. i think there has been confusion in terms of informing people to ensure that they're going through the necessary paperwork and process. can you just talk about that for a minute? >> well, from what i know, which is minimal, and what i read in the paper, i know that some of the invoices that the city college sent to the city have been returned. we want to get to that as quickly as possible and make sure both sides are organized and together and able to produce the information they have. i know that one of the things the city required, which i agree with, is that they produced the zip codes for the students because i think that will be a good way for us as oversight

committee to see which neighborhoods are being served and which need a little more outreach. there is questions about financial aid and things that fall into the categories and those sort of things. i'm looking to blazing new paths forward. >> supervisor stefani: i wanted to thank you for your service and passion on this and reaching out through the e-mail. i didn't have a chance to e-mail you back, but i received it and it's so important that people reach out through e-mail about ever the committee meetings, but i commend you on your passion and thank you for your service. >> thank you, i'd love to have a cup of coffee some day. >> if we have questions we'll call you back up. any members of the public wish to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> supervisor yee: i'll make a

positive recommendation to appoint conny ford to city college financial assistance fund oversight committee clerk of the board. >> supervisor safai: great. without objection, that item is moved forward. congratulations. congratulations.

>> i worked for the new york city mayor office in economic development. i teach economics now in the design mba program at california college of the arts. my children going to school. i learned about the eastern neighborhoods a couple of years ago given my children's school expansion. i spend a lot of time in this neighborhood. it was my first exposure to san francisco. where i worked on project including the barclays center in downtown brick lynn, the revitalization of time square as well as lower manhattan after

9/11, i'm really interested in how the city of thinking of wholesale neighborhood in this space. over the couple of years, i've watched the population of the area has grown and changed and how new housing and retail has come in. as the space gets more active in the space of city life i'm interested to see how the city collectcollects input. we're building housing, as you probably know, but i also have my students out in the neighborhood much more than i used to. they interviewed hundreds of homeless residents in the fall. you know, from the perspective of students who spend a lot of time in this neighborhood, it's changing quite a bit. i think we're currently the only middle school. as we look at the changing landscape of the neighborhood, we think about things over there in the context of crossing the streets, open space, parks, we

are a school that's grounded in civic engagement. we think a lot about the ways in which our students go out in the community and serve the community. it's an interesting moment to me in san francisco and this is the most exciting neighborhood i kind of wish i lived here actually. i'm really excited to hear more about the 16th street plan. i would like the idea of the from' very much. i think the warriors are a very interesting opportunity. i'm interesting in traffic and street crossings and things like that. it's a really important neighborhood we get right as a city. so i'm delated to be here ask to present my qualifications to you guys today. >> what's the name of the school your kids go to? >> live oak school. >> ok. >> great. >> any questions? supervisor sheehy has joined us. do you want to say anything? >> well.

>> are you here for this item. >> she's my appointment? >> for both. >> you can say you came for that? i'm just kidding. >> i ran down. i met with sarah. her experience in new york and her background makes her extremely well qualified for this position. as a fellow parent, i think her commitment to kids in this city is important as we start to talk about how we build out our neighborhoods. the perspective is powerful. >> great. thank you. thank you for joining us. >> any other members of the public wish to comment on this idea. public comment is closed. entertain a motion.

supervisor stephanie. >> yes, i move -- now i'm going to get the move wrong. sarah bahat to c7 on the eastern neighborhoods citizen advisory board with recommendations. >> great. and that motion is seconded. congratulations and approved. >> thank you. call the next item. >> item number 6 is ordinance waving refunding investigations fees imposed for persons registered with the office of cannabis. >> great. unless there's any initial comments from committee members, i'd like to hand it over to supervisor sheehy. i know he would like to say a few words first. >> sure. i want to recognize nicole elliott from the office of cannabis and what this legislation does is really try

to rectify a consequence built into our regulations. we wanted to get everyone, this really relates more it's not about the retail operations. obviously for those of us, stefani you were lucky you were not here for cannabis legislation. >> we can make some amendments so she can participate. >> maybe some public comments, et cetera, et cetera. we wanted to bring the supply chain into compliance with the city regulations, city rules and they largely were outside because there was no pathway for them to be functioning as a legal business. unlike the retail operations which were able to function

legally as medical cannabis dispensaries. in doing that, they're all coming in seeking licenses and permits for the city, but especially where it goes to land use questions, they haven't been up to code so department of business was there and obviously because they weren't part of a process of getting legalized in the beginning, a lot of code violations are being discovered. now, given the way our rules were, cold violations including fines on top of fixing the violations. this is something they cannot wave. we don't want these punitive fines to be a barrier or obstruction or deterrent to

businesses coming into the legal market and complying with all of our rules and regulations. so what this legislation does is wave those fines and penalties so that we can continue our work, which i get, i salute director elliott in what must be unimaginably complicated and difficult work getting all these businesses into compliance. we would like to -- what this does is removes the fines and penalties for these businesses as we get them into the legal -- appropriate legal framework and in compliance with the rules and regulations in the city and county. >> we thought it was important enough to pull it out of another committee and get it on here. >> thank you. >> you are welcome. >> we felt like that was a necessary move essentially given the fact that the whole

conversation, as you've said, when we were drafting the legislation, was to pull people out of the woodwork for lack of a better word and we want to give them the incentive to come forward and be legalized businesses and that process we don't want to penalize them to come forward. so i see a great value in this and i think the trade off is a small amount in terms of what we get in return because director elliott were talk about bringing them out of the shadows allows us to then create revenue for the city and job opportunities and work with them to expand their businesses. so, director elliott, did you want to speak on that? >> supervisors, thank you for having me here today and again, thank you for the efforts made to move this out of another committee into this committee so we can move it forward more quickly. as you mentioned, every day these dollars don't go

reimbursed to these operators is a day that they have less money to meet compliance we're asking them to meet. registration process was meant to serve as an amnesty process for operators to start working with the city towards compliance and ensuring that we see these operators move towards compliance and providing a fair pathway for them to do that is the only way that we can be successful in creating i legal market place in san francisco and reducing the unregulated market place that previously existed through no quality of their own. it is in the best interest to do this so i want to thank you guys for considering this today. i want to give a shout out to the many inspectors who have participated in this process and supervisor sheehy, these are fees being imposed by operators

by the department of building inspection and by their inspectors for work done without a permit and so they do not have the authority to not issue these penalties so this ordinance would give them that authority. we're also being joined by inspectors from the department of public-health, the fire department and my office. up to 12 inspectors are visiting these sites on a daily basis. it's been an enormous undertaking and proven to be helpful in preventing life safety issues we're seeing at some of these operators' locations and in starting to move them towards compliance in a fairway. with that, i just want to state that this ordinance was heard by the building inspection commission last week and unanimously supported by the commission so they are also in favor of waving these penalties. with that i'm happy to answer questions you may have. >> i think we'll call back up. i have a series of about 50 questions -- >> i'm prepared.

[laughter] any members of the public wish to comment on this item. seeing none. public comments closed. any last words supervisor sheehy before we make a motion? >> i just wanted to thank you and the committee for considering this and for taking it on to expedite it. >> you are welcome. >> entertain a motion on this item. >> norman. supervisor yee. >> i'll make a motion. >> to cause and recommendation to the full board. >> i think that's all we need. >> does she want it as a committee. expedited. >> no, no. this is good. positive recommendation. >> ok. thank you. do we need to -- that's a good question. do we need to send thought as a committee report to go? >> no. >> it will make the next report.

>> ok, great. >> ok. >> so the motion is to send it with a positive recommendation. secondedwithout objection that item is ordered. congratulations. any other matters before us today? >> that concludes our business for today. >> we are adjourned, thank you.

>> good afternoon. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, february 27, 2018. madam clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk: thank you, madam president. [roll call] cohen not present. [roll call] [roll call]

tang not present. madam president, you have a quorum. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> madam clerk, are there any communication s communications? >> clerk: yes. supervisor tang requested to be excused. >> is there a motion to excuse supervisor tang? can we take that without objection? without objection, supervisor tang will be excused.

madam clerk, let's go to the next item. >> clerk: approval of meeting minutes for january 23, 2018. >> supervisor breed: colleagues, can we take that without objection? those meeting minutes will be approved after public comment. all right. let's go to the consent agenda. >> clerk: items 1-11 on consent. these are considered to be routine, however, if a member objects, an item can be removed and looked at separately. >> supervisor breed: seeing none. please call the roll. [roll call]

after supervisor cohen, we'll good to supervisor fewer. [roll call] there are 10 ayes. >> supervisor breed: approved anonymously. next item, please. >> clerk: would you like me to call 12-15? >> supervisor breed: excuse me a second. the president recognizes members. so if you want to be recognized, put your name on the roster. before we move to the next item, we just for clarity approved the consent agenda items 1-11.

supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: you called supervisor farrell, but never supervisor stefani. >> clerk: my apologilapologizpa. >> supervisor breed: can we take that without objection? madam clerk, on consent agenda, items 1-11. please call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] there are 10 ayes. >> supervisor breed: those items

are approved unanimously. madam clerk, please call items 12-15 together. >> clerk: items 12-15 are being called together. these items comprise four ordinances. item 12 is an ordinance to approve amendment to the mission bay south redevelopment plan. item 13, mission rock and i-i13 for financing district two. item 14, development agreement between the city and for 28 acres east of 3rd street for mission rock mixed use project, waving certain parts of the planning code. and item 15, ordinance to admission rock special use district and the ceqa determination and make

appropriate finding for all four ordinances. >> supervisor breed: okay. i see no names on the roster. colleagues, can we take these same house, same call? without objection, those items are approved anonymously. madam clerk, let's go to item 16. >> clerk: ordinance to public works to enter into agreements regarding competitive biddings and requirements for procurement and personnel services relating to shelter crisis sites. >> supervisor breed: colleagues, can we take this same house, same call? without objection, ordinance is finally passed unanimously. items 17 and 18 together, please. >> clerk: two ordinances that authorize settlements, lawsuit filed by donald spadini for

$120,000 approximately, involving alleged negligence of doctors, nurses and staff. and for item 18, lawsuit by david zeller for $290,000. both ordinances contain other material terms, that state the co-defendants, regents of university of california will pay other certain compensations or reparations. >> supervisor breed: supervisor sheehy? >> supervisor sheehy: mr mr. givener, could you help me with language for my disclosure? >> sure. supervisor sheehy was employed by the university of california and continues to receive benefits from the u.c. and, therefore, our laws require that disclosure on the record prior to the vote, but has no conflict and can vote.

>> supervisor breed: thank you, mr. givener. can we take these same house, same call? without objection, those items pass unanimously. all right. item 19. >> clerk: resolution to authorize the corrections partnership sdek tifr committee to spend local innovation sub account funds or housing for justice-involved people between ages 18-35. >> supervisor breed: can we take this item same house, same call? without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. next item. >> clerk: item 20. modification 4 to air train operations and maintenance contract with bombardier holdings inc., exercising the one-year option to commence march 1, 2019-february 28,2020

and new contract amount not to exceed $130 million. >> supervisor breed: same house, same call? without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. please call 21 and 22 together. >> clerk: two real property leases for five-year initial term for base rent with 3% increases for $93,242. also reimbursements $38,000 for tenant improvement, utility, services per month and first right of refusal to purchase the building. and item 22, amendment of lease at 390 market street with brcp llc for use of department

of public health for the cost of $1.8 million with 3% annual increases for three-year term through november 30, 2021. >> supervisor breed: can we take these same house, same call? withouted objection, adopted unanimously. >> clerk: retroactively authorize the site license with tristar for installation of microwave antenna located i in stanislaus county and to make the appropriate ceqa findings. >> supervisor breed: can we take this item same house, same call? without objection, item adopted unanimously. >> clerk: item 24, authorize the

san francisco department of health behavior all health services to enter into a contract agreement for substance abuse treatment for fiscal year 2018-2019/2020 for $26.5 million grant for a three-year term through june 3, 2020, and authorizing the county drug administrator to authorize. >> supervisor breed: same house, same call? without objection, item is adopted unanimously. >> clerk: 794 square feet at 901 fairfax avenue for nominal base rent of zero dollars reimbursements up to $100,000 for tenant improvements and additional $800 charge for utilities and services per month for 15-year term to extend for one year and adopt the ceqa

findings. >> supervisor breed: same house, same call? without objection, resolution is adopted unanimously. >> clerk: retroactively authorize the department of environment to accept and expend $500,000 funds from a grant from the association of bay area governments to perform energy efficiency program as part of a pay area regional energy program through december 31, 2018. >> supervisor breed: same house, same call? without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. all right. let's go to the next item. >> clerk: motion to impose an additional tax on the gross receipts from lease of commercial receipts to fund the commercial rents tax act forerliy child care.

madam president, we're in receipt of a memo from supervisors withdrawing their ballot initiative with this item. >> supervisor breed: supervisor yee? >> supervisor yee: this item is still on. >> clerk: correct. consideration for this item to be tabled. >> supervisor yee: okay. i want to make a few comments. as you know, this is a topic i bring up all the time in need for our working families whether low income or middle income that they need help. and the process of going through

this would be a great way to submit to a ballot initiative. unfortunately, we just have no time to complete everything that we wanted to complete this through process. at the same time, we still have 2,500 children 0-5 waiting for childcare slots at this point. this initiative would have served another 2,5 hun h00 chil 0-5 that would be and making up to 200% a.m.i. and in light of the fact that there's a great need and this is going to be one solution that can be met, not over one million years, but once this passes, the

solution to serve another 5,000 people that want to go back to work and for our kids to have quality early education and for our professionals in the field to have an increase in their salaries, could be met with this particular item and that the people out there could collect signatures over a two-week period in which many people were skeptical over whether that would happen. lo and behold, they collected twice the signatures as necessary. so we would like to table this item. >> supervisor breed: supervisor yee has made a motion to table this, seconded by supervisor

peskin. >> supervisor kim: thank you for partnering on this ordinance with our office. it's been a pleasure to work on this and i've learned so much about childhood education through your advocacy. over the past 40 years for this important issue. we have qualified for the june 5 ballot via signatures and i want to thank our team and supervisor yee for leading that effort to make sure that we got double the signatures needed. so we won't need this vehicle anymore, so i will support the motion to table. colleagues, i look forward to getting all of your endorsements on our measure that will be before the voters on june 5. >> supervisor breed: thank you, supervisor kim. there's been a motion to table. theres been a second. colleagues, can we take that without objection? without objection, the motion passes unanimously. item number 28, please. >> clerk: item 28 is an ordinance to amend the planning

code to establish geary-masonic special use district and make the appropriate findings. >> supervisor breed: supervisor stefani? >> colleagues, i'm happy to bring this project forward after two years of effort. 5 want to thank our neighbors for many so forward-thinking on this project. also want to thank the developers and labor for supporting a project in a neighborhood that hasn't seen any new housing, which i know is challenging for many neighborhoods. i'm very much looking forward to working on these projects going forward. through this project, we'll welcome 95 new families to the neighborhood. the initial project was for 21 june its and it's increased to 95 with the building remaining

the same size. it allowed it to go from 3 to 22 and that's more units than what was planned in the original project. so i'm really proud of this, to carry this across the finish line for mayor farrell and look forward to more collaborative projects like this in district 2 in the future. >> supervisor breed: thank you. can we take this same house, same call? without objection, the ordinance passes unanimously on the first reading. next item? >> clerk: item 29 is an ordinance to amend the planning code to regulate restaurant and bar uses in jackson square special use difrt richt and to require a conditional use permit for uses fronting pacific avenue and affirm ceqa and make the findings. >> supervisor breed: same house, same call? without objection, passed unanimously on the first reading. next item? >> clerk: liquor licenses, would

you like me to read 30 and 31? >> supervisor breed: together, thanks. >> clerk: limited to verve holdings at 2358 fillmore street will serve the public convenience and item 31 motion to verify that cafe envy at 1701 yosemite avenue has completed the requirement for the new, transferrable special on sale general liquor license. >> supervisor breed: thank you. supervisor cohen? >> supervisor cohen: thank you. i'm pleased to have this before us today to ask that you join me in support. this is a unique request.

it's for a victor application, as you heard, from cav y-- cafe en envy. there's a cap on the number of liquor license applications due to an historic proliferation of liquor retailers. type 87 licenses are now a new type of liquor licenses reek endend ly -- recently adopted by the legislature in 2018. the goal is to help restaurants who help their surrounding neighborhoods and they help them in various ways of supplying jobs, reducing blight, bringing foot traffic to the neighborhood and keep dollars circulating in the community. i hope that you will join me in supporting the license application. >> supervisor breed: thank you. can we take these same house, same howl kaul?

-- same call? without objection, approved unanimously. >> clerk: campaign and government conduct code failure to file forms 700s and to modify the ethics commissions reporting requirements regarding the filing of form 700s. >> supervisor breed: supervisor stefani? >> thank you. this item came before rules and we discussed a few amendments. they've been passed out to everyone. thank you, supervisor peskin. page 3 lines 13-23, i would like to add a provision that a member of a city board or commission can seek a temporary waiver from the executive director for extenuating circumstances. while the waiver is pending before the executive director, member or commissioner shall be

disqualified. this was discussed at rules and intended to address issues in filings, particularly when a commissioner comes on board and has to file the office form. and i believe that supervisor peskin has an addition to this. i've incorporated amendments suggested by supervisor safai that would require notice of failure to file. this amendment can be found on page 4 and 5. >> supervisor breed: so just for clarity, supervisor peskin passed out amendments and those what you are referring to? >> yes. >> supervisor breed: okay. so, colleagues, is that a motion to amend? >> yes. >> supervisor breed: is there a second? seconded by supervisor safai. can we take amendments without

objection? objections pass. supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: thank you, madam president, and thank you to the chair of the rules committee, supervisor safai, and members yee and stefani for forwarding this piece of legislation with recommendation, which will, i think, encourage the late filers and a tiny percentage of nonfilers of form 700s out in the land of our commissions. as supervisor stefani indicated, i have an amendment to the amendment on page 3 at line 13 to insert the words "for cause." a member of a city board or commission may seek a waiver, insert "for cause." >> supervisor breed: i'm sorry,

supervisor. what line is it again? >> supervisor peskin: line 13. in other words, they have to have a justification, not for any reason like, the dog ate my home work. >> supervisor breed: got it. so there's a motion? >> supervisor peskin: yes. >> supervisor breed: seconded by supervisor safai. can we take it without objection? amendment passes. colleagues, with he can take this same house, same call? without objection, the ordinance as amended passes unanimously on the first reading. next item, please? >> clerk: item 33, motion to approve the nomination for

milicent johnson to the planning commission. >> supervisor breed: same house, same call. approved unanimously. >> clerk: to reappoint kathleen dooley to the small business commission. >> supervisor breed: same house, same call. approved unanimously. next item. >> clerk: it's not 3:00 p.m., so we'll skip over the special orders and go to roll call for introductions. supervisor sheehy? >> supervisor sheehy: a hearing to receive the family violence council's report. i'm a member of the council. a couple of highlights. over the last 11 years, the city has increased funding for violence against women services way 262% for $1.83 million to

$6.77 million. community-based organizations on the frontlines responding to domestic violence and child abu abuse fielding 21,000 client calls and serving almost 14,000 child abuse clients in 2016. the report finds 53% increase in 911 domestic violence calls involving a gun and 87% kaulsz involving a knife. almost three times as many lesbian, gay, and bisexual high school students report dating violence, as opposed to heterosexual peers. black victims account for 1/4 of

the victims supported. so i look forward to having this report presented to -- full report presented to committee. thank you. the rest i submit. >> supervisor breed: supervisor stefani? >> colleagues, last night i stood on the rotunda steps with many of you as we celebrated the lunar new year with san francisco's chinese community. president breed made remarks that resonated with me as she mentioned how lucky we are to live in a city so diverse. how our different cultures make our city so vibrant and how all of our communities must be celebrated. as a proud italian-american, i'm introducing an ordinance today to celebrate and recognize everything that the italian-americans have brought to this city and continue to bring. this ordinance will recognize the second monday in october as

italian-american heritage day, as well as being known as indigenous people's day. we celebrate the cultures and rights of italian-americans the parade is the oldest in the nation, celebrating its 150th anniversary in october of this year. it's my hope that on this day, the city and county of san francisco can celebrate the rich diversity and contributions of both indigenous and immigrant communities. we owe a great deal of gratitude to italian immigrants that have contributed to our city, landscape and culture and history and we need to tell them that. first, our beautiful city is named in honor of st. francis of assisi. his compassion for service led to them to act in times of

extreme poverty and we reference him all the time. italian-americans have had a long presence here with the first arriving in the early 1800s. italian immigrants built strong traditions in fishing, winemaking, and ghirardelli started. and a college was founded, today 19 as the university of san francisco. in aftermath of the 1906 disaster, bank of italy set up a desk from two barrels and wooden plank to help provide financial resources. the network and institution expanded to what we know as bank of america. the city's reputation as a vibrant, world-renowned center is built on contributions by

artists, singers, dancers, filmmakers and philanthropists. for example, first resident opera company was established in 1923, which in collaboration with other members, led to the creation of the san francisco opera association. the oldest surviving opera company on the west coast. he also organized the construction of the war memorial opera house during the great depression as a monument to veterans of the first world war. free open spaces for poets, authors and book lovers across the world. san francisco inspired the nation with great italian-american athletes such as joe dimaggio, and tony lazari. some of the biggest contributions are in public service, including three

italian-american mayors, who led san francisco through momentous times. mayor angelo rossi, first mayor of 100% italian descent to manage a major u.s. city. mayor joseph aliotto, steered the city through the 1960s and 1970s, and through projects like bart and transamerica. mayor george mascone fought to keep the san francisco giants here. congresswoman nancy pelosi became the first woman to serve as speaker of the house of representatives in 2007. those who live, work or visit san francisco are fortunate to experience traces of the earliest contributions and creations of san francisco italian culture in businesses, shops, daily lives through