ridiculous. >> can i have the overhead? first, issue is my name is michaelnulty. one of the main problem we have downtown is air pollution. it is caused by the new cars in the community which are lifts and ubers not regulated. i have a concern about that. i'm not sure which cb ds should take care of that issue. second the issue of the big bins. they are not somebody in a wheelchair or disabled will have a hard time opening them. you are receiving these moneys through the city. because that is what cb ds do

through the treasure's office. i am concerned about a da compliance. to be fair about this. this is the grand opening ribbon of the bins. then the next issue i have is we need to continue to save the small businesses in all these cb ds. i have the same shirt on that i was trying to save the gold dust a couple years ago, but i handed to other supervisors the list of just the partial list of the small businesses in the union square bid that have actually are no longer. many of these were businesses that were legacy businesses, ones that actually had real consumer base and for whatever

reason they are no longer in existence in the community. these are all great losses and the cb ds should be doing something about that. >> thank you very much. any other public comment for these three items? public comment is now closed. i do want to thank our executive directors and staff of our three community benefit districts for being here and thank you for the additional work you do addressing the most important issues in the neighborhoods, homelessness or mental health, street cleaning. it was very interesting to hear about how the three cb ds are working to address the issues and the data. i look forward to the overall group presentation. i am interested in hearing from all. seeing no comments on you

questions from communitity members can we take a motion to move these items to the full board? >> so moved. >> a recommendation without objection. thank you very much. mr. clerk, can you these call items 5 through 24. >> 20 ordinances implements amendments to the memoranda of understanding between the city and county employees. implement a city wide union access to new employees program. >> thank you so much. we have carol who has been spending a bit of time with our board lately. employee relations director for the department of human resources. this is to memorialize code section 355 through 3559 through a single wide union access to the programs to all agencies and

employee unions. thank you for being here today. >> thank you. i am carol i son. employee relations director. the amendments to all of the nonsafety memoranda are before you with the exception of the consolidated building trades mou that will be before you at a went meeting. the purpose of these agreements is to hiis to memoize the requis of 119 adopted by the state legislature to require public agencies to provide access to new employees. the purpose of the legislation was to give the union some tools to deal with what is widely expected to be a decision made

by the supreme court shortly in the janice versus afsme that will likely deprive the labor organizations of the ability to collect service fees from those choosing not to join the union to support the basic activities such as collective bargaining and grievance handling. it put greater emphasis on the need to reach out, to have communication with new employees, explain the purpose of the union and so forth. we spent two months in the fall negotiating an approach, an agreement. it has all the requirements of the state law and adds additional provisions. it has the department of human resources to jump start a new employee orientation program open to all department was the large ones to provide their own orientations. we made changes to the data

systems to make sure the unions have robust data and for them to know who is attending which orientation and the times and locations. it is all in place. this is really the final step of completing mou amendments. we will be back to you with the remaining agreements at a later date. this is most of them, and we are pleased to be able to come here and present this today. thank you very much. >> thank you for all of your work. it is important for the city to be prepared for the upcoming supreme court decision. i am glad we were able to work with our labor leaders on figuring out how we can pro actively allow the union representatives to talk about it and whether it is worthwhile to invest in the union or not.

seeing no comments or questions from community members. we open for public comment at this time. seeing no public comment. public comment is now closed. colleagues may we entertain a motion on items 5 through 24. >> i move to the full board with positive recommendation. >> a motion to move forward without objection. mr. clerk any further business before this committee. >> no further business. >> meeting is adjourned. thank you very much everybodit.

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i guarantee that. >> (clapping.) >> in san francisco the medical examiner performs the function of investigating medical and legal that occurs with the city and county of san francisco from a variety of circumstances in san francisco there is approximately 5 thousand deaths annually i'm christopher director for the chief mr. chairman the chief my best testimony a at the hall of justice on 870 drooint street that is dramatically updated and not sufficient for the medical

chairman facility i've charles program manager public works should a earthquake of a major are proportion occurs we'll not continue to perform the services or otherwise inhabit the building before the earthquake. >> we're in a facility that was designs for a department that functions and in the mid 60s and friends scientific has significantly changed we've had significant problems with storage capacity for evidence items of property and also personal protective if you're doing a job on a daily basis current little storage for prirjs are frirnlsz we're in an aging facility the total project cost forever ever commercial is $65 million the funding was brought by a vote of go bond

approved by the voters and the locations is in the neighborhood the awarded contract in 2013 and the i'm the executive director we broke ground in november 2015 and that started with the demolition of existing facility we moved into the foundation and january so pile foundation and then with second construction of the new facility. >> one of the ways that we keep our project on time on budget and we're having quality to have regular meeting and the variety of meetings with construction process meeting as well as cost of control meeting and i'm a project manager for public works the office of chief commercial we want walk the

project site when we sign up and also with a contractor insinuates for a change over we need to verify what or what was instead of. >> the building is 42 feet tall so it is two stories and 46 thousand square feet roughly we're that's a great question to be on time and budget have the roof complete a the exterior moving with the site work. >> and as you can see we've got a lot of the interior finishes installed. >> in an effort of an differentiate the facility that designed to work for 72 hours. >> not taking into account there was a lot of structural updates made into this building not seen in other construction throughout san francisco or other barriers we have friday morning examiners from 8 to one public comment monday to friday

because of air circulation we literally have to shut the doors and so the autopsy is done without staffing being able to come and go or exit the space and literally lock down the autopsy in the new facility we have bio build one door opens and closed behind you you can gown up and go through a second seizures of doors that has its own independent air supply and now in the exterior opt space having that middle space have greater flexibility of staff as they move in and out of the area. >> in the current facility investigative unit has small tiny, tiny place in the area of the new facility is almost doubled in all divisions from

the current facility and the new facility. >> the planning we have here gives them the opportunity to have the pool needs to complete theirs jobs in a much more streamlined fashion. >> we're looking forward to have secured parking to minimize the egress of you know visiting and the members of the public but really to minimize the investigators remaining remains from our advancing and so the facility. >> we have a new visitors area we're building that is a little bit more friendly to families. >> one thing you may notice in the room no windows there is no natural light not good for most autopsy but in the new facility at new hall we made that an

objective they want to insure we were able to look up in the middle of exam and see the sky and see natural lights. >> that's one of the things the architect did to draw in as much light as possible. >> we have staff here onsite we insure the design of the new design enables the investigators and other investigators skiefksz to consider to house on site this meant we needed to design and plan for locker room facilities and shower rooms the ability to sleep. >> third of the construction going into the building has been by contributions of small businesses. >> part of the project is also inclusive to the sidewalk have all new sidewalks and new curve cuts and landscaping around the

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serving 2018. i will remind members of the public that the commission does not tolerate any disruption or outbursts of any kind. please silence your mobile devices that may sound off during these proceedings and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, state your name for the record. take roll at this time. [roll call taken] >> we expect melgar and moore absent today. item 1, 13.1872, at 768 harrison street, discretionary review. at the time of publishing the agenda, it was proposed to be continued to april 19th. that discretionary review has since been withdrawn. items 2a and b, conditional use

authorization and variance, proposed to continuance to may 3, 2018. and items three, divisadero street, conditional use and rear yard modification, proposed to continuance to june 21, 2018. further commissioners, under the regular calendar, items 16 for case number 2016-4490enx, large project for indefinite continuance. no other items proposed for continuance and no speaker cards. >> president hillis: any public comment on the items proposed for continuance? >> good afternoon, item 16287

street. background, the size of the project is changing slightly, and new plans are going to be going in as soon as tomorrow. so very soon. and we are hoping that maybe instead of an indefinite continuance we could get a date certain, maybe a month or two from now, but defer to staff. thank you. >> president hillis: additional public comments? seeing none, commissioner koppel. >> commissioner koppel: move to continue items 2a, 3a, and 16 to the dates specified. >> second. >> president hillis: thank you, commissioners. [roll call vote taken prak ] >> acting zoning administrator. >> continue 2b to the date

specified. >> and 3b. >> 2b and 3b. >> sorry, yep. thank you. commissioners, place us under items for matter 4, consideration of adoption for the draft minutes of march ei8 d march 15. a minor amendment to march 15, that includes a submission, members of the public are entitled to commit up to 150 words and we did not include that. >> president hillis: public comment on the draft minutes? seeing none, close public comment. >> commissioner fong: move to approve draft minutes with addition, changes as noted. >> second. >> thank you on the motion, they have been amended.

[roll call vote taken] so moved, that motion passes unanimously 5-0. places us on item 5. commissions comments and questions. >> commissioner richards: a few things i read this week, and actually trying to get the number, if you think it's more crowded here in san francisco it actually is. the census came out with a revised population, 882,000, 884,000, i think it's 886, the highest it has been i believe ever. a couple of things we had an item on our agenda two weeks ago about change in state law for the san francisco zoning, i understand, i saw in the news the l.a. city council voted 11-0 to oppose sp827. and an interesting article on a ballot initiative around

affordable housing. i read the ballot initiative and kind of scratched my head because i don't understand, it seems to existing laws, the local law and 100% affordable housing and sp35, not producing enough affordable housing it will approve affordable housing. so, i would like staff and like ms. rogers did, tell us what the impact of the proposed ballot measure is. i don't understand it. why -- why people are spending a ton of money on something that looks like we already have covered. so -- and i think that's permissible thing we could do. >> i'm sorry, is this a state ballot measure? >> no, charter amendment to the city. i don't understand what the point of it is. >> ok. >> the other thing is the new york city vacancy rate, we talked about vacancy here in the new york daily news this week the fastest growing neighborhood in the new york city is not one

of the five boroughs, it's actually the vacant units. they grew 35% since the last census bureau housing and vacancy survey and total 247,000 units sitting vacant. a census bureau survey, not sure, john, if that is a federal or new york city thing, but i know we talked about the vacancy report, maybe we can look into it. it shows unoccupied units have ballooned by 65,000 or 35% of new york city housing stock. total of 11% of units in new york city vacant, 11%, even with rents at record levels. so, the editorial talks about how they recommended the city slap a surcharge on temporary occupancy, either the person moves in full-time to the units or pay a charge or give it up, and charge to go affordable housing fund. i think that's an interesting

proposition. we adopted design guidelines last week and there were a couple of things that i think we omitted and i called some folks on staff and said we talked about this prior, one of them was to provide a checklist on all projects to make sure that we understand how they comport to the design guidelines. mr. johnson said, when we did the tour, the purpose was that the -- unless there is an extraordinary circumstance, the project should comport with the design guidelines and we were not going to have stuff half in and half out that we get to about 100% on new projects. i want to make sure we revisit that or adopt it as policy or have a discussion on it so we are all clear on that. lastly, i got something from mission local today and apparently the oldest house in san francisco sits on hampshire street and i don't know if you have heard, the people that used to own a lot of land in the

mission, last name was treat, 1855, probably one of the oldest houses in the city and it was sold recently and actually they displaced the salvadoran family there 35 years, and eviction in 2013 and they moved out and the property is listed. in the meantime, category a historical resource had a lot of work done without permit yet none came to the planning department for review and there were external changes. john, i'll leave this with you for the enforcement team. there is an enforcement act from d.b.i. point of view, but looks like the planning department never knew about it. it's listed today for quite a bit of money. >> commissioner koppel. >> commissioner koppel: echo the request for a little bit more information on the affordable

housing measure. make sure we, especially us, clear what we are looking at and the public is looking at if we are trying to move affordable housing forward, what are we really looking at as far as this language. as far as vacancies go, wonder if we could do a small case study, not to pick on or pick out projects, i was down in the dog patch and going past the project approved, it's complete, i'm curious for that project specifically, is it fully occupied, is it half occupied, a quarter occupied? we hear on a weekly basis we need to move it forward faster and faster. what about the projects done, full, 100% capacity, i think it would be a good indicator where we are really at as opposed to just thinking we know where we

are at. also i wanted to bring up something that came up during public comment last week. there was some comments regarding modular and factory built housing and the fact, whether it complies with local building code or not. i don't see it as a planning or land use issue but see it as inspection issue, and since we have a joint hearing with the building inspection commission hearing in two weeks, i think it would be appropriate to bring it up there and i understand we have a pretty full agenda later on with central and what not, but i think when it comes to inspections and building code issues it's a matter of persons and property safety for the residents and the neighbors. so, hopefully we can add that to the agenda. >> commissioner richards. >> commissioner richards: one comment on commissioner koppel's most recent comment. it's interesting, that would be something i think we could tuck into the discussion why housing is not getting built, is it

construction cost, could we do modular, bring things faster, good topic to chat about. >> president hillis: agreed. we'll add that could the calendar if time permits. >> nothing further, item 6, director's announcements. >> no new announcements. >> item 7. i understand no report from the board of supervisors, and the commission did not meet yesterday. no report from the board of appeals either. place us under general public comment. members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public in the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, with respect to agenda items, opportunity to address the commission will be

afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member may address the commission for up to one minute. >> president hillis: thank you. i have a number of speaker cards for general public comment. names. and if you could line up on the screen side of the room, that would be great. mr. brown. >> i would invite you to not give the oldest, the largest, and the baddest civil rights organization of this nation, only one minute. naacp is here representing a large contingency of persons, and i think that out of respect, because of the weightiness and the seriousness of the matter, you should not reduce us to one minute. >> president hillis: how about two minutes here, we have a full house and a full calendar after this also. ok? thank you, sir.

so, reverend brown, you'll be the first speaker. james, kimberly, gwen, hal, oscar, joyce, neola, and steve, and more speaker cards. those folks, if your name is called, line up on the screen side of the room. >> mr. chairman and members of the commission, amos brown, president of the national association of advancement of colored people. i hasten to say i beg you, appeal to you, to not become inheritors of the racist spirit of peter burnett, the first governor of the state, who got the largest, the most far reaching anti-fugitive slave law enacted in this state in 1850

before he left office in disgrace. don't become, please, an inheritor of the spirit of justin herman, who through the design of a so-called redevelopment agency removed black people from this town to the tune of 70,000 since 1970 up until the present moment. no you were not back there, you did not pull the trigger, but when you have oversight and permit your staff members to disrespect this african american community, that through the work, the labor, the sweat, blood and tears of such persons, espinola jackson, as alex pitcher, and many others, came up with a plan, but your planning commission staff met in secret and thought that they

were going to be the speakers for a community. we have grown up. we are no more children. we are full grown adults, self-determining, and i think it defies what san francisco claims to be about, progressive and liberal, to treat one group in such a disparaging disrespectful manner. make sure you tell that staff, stop in your tracks, stop having secret meetings, and ignoring harlan kelly and the p.u.c., be fair. should it not be democracy means everything than us. i swear to the lord i still can't see, democracy means everybody but me, through a democratic process. this community voted the southeast facility would only be a community for education, for

community development and not housing. we are not determined that site to be for housing. thank you for your attention and your time. do the right thing. respect the community and make sure we do not repeat again the age old sins of disenfranchisement, disrespect, honor them the same as you do other communities in the city. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> if we can refrain from the clapping, that would be great. >> president hillis: thank you. >> steve good, the chairperson of the southeast community facilities commission. as a commissioner i'm accountable like you folks to our constituents, in our case the bayview community. mission is to ensure the southeast community programs reflect the local residents and the mitigation agreement with the city. for nearly six years, an open and transparent, engaging with the utilities commission,

southeast commission and the community asking them what they would like to see happen with 1800 oakdale and the community said they wanted a new educational and community facility with a large green space at the 5050 evans location. thousands of surveys, thousands of doors. results were very clear the community did not want housing, they wanted a new community center. now we hear that a private developer has been working with city departments to try and derail this project without any transparent process, strictly happening behind closed doors for city departments. we have emails through a public records request that shows that solely trying to maximize their housing credits for below market rate housing at the site so they do not need to build below market rate housing at the indian basin project. potentially worth millions and millions to them. they have an email stated they

have no intention whatsoever to actually develop the 1550 evans site but interesting in the housing credits. a site in russian hill, a former p.u.c. property that is a reservoir. at that site, the idea of below market rate housing was introduced. that wealthy neighborhood rejected the notion, instead opted for a green space in a park which is happening now. why is it different in a wealthy community that's predominantly white versus the bayview, less affluent community, the situation is not equal and the same. we demand that the planning commission move this process forward and not delay the p.u.c. southeast commissions and the community's plans to move forward. we demand you move this initiative forward. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please.

>> commissioner, my name is al norman, a member of the southeast commission. and also president of the bayview merchants association. you can see, we have many people from our community here and we are working together very much to try to bring a lot of positiveness to our neighborhood like they have everywhere else in this city. in the meantime, most of the population does not want to do nothing but kick us out, saying we don't deserve to be