very proud of. so thank you so much for your time. i'll answer questions. >> commissioner safai: any questions for commissioner richardson? >> commissioner yee: no but i just want to make a comment about all three reappointments. it's amazing. it seems like it was only yesterday when they came before the committee to get appointed. so welcome back. >> thank you. >> commissioner safai: any members of the public wish to comment please come forward. >> good afternoon, superrise -- supervisors. i'm here to support the reappointment of linda richardson. you have three fantastic candidates that bring their life experiences and background and stellar credentials including linda richardson as president of adr

continental group, a full servicewomen-owned company. she has expertise in land use planning, workforce training and as a board member of the african-american chamber of commerce and on the southeast alliance for environmental justice she has really brought an important voice to the table. i hope you will approve for reappointment. thank you. >> commissioner safai: thank you. any other public comments? seeing none it's closed. thank you commissioner richardson for all your commitment to serve again sand your wonderful qualifications. so can we entertain a motion? i think it's your turn commissioner yee. >> commissioner yee: sure. i'd like to make a motion to amend -- approving to state that we support for approving the mayor's nomination for reappointment of linda richardson and pass it on the committee with a positive recommendation to the full

board. >> commissioner safai: without objection, thank you. congratulations. please call item number 13. >> clerk somera: item number 13 is a motion to approve or reject the nomination of paul giusti term ending april 28th, 2022. >> commissioner safai: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for the opportunity to be here today. my name is paul giusti. i'm the affairs manager here in san francisco and have been here for 41 years. i had not considered one of my qualifications to mention one of them but i guess considering an earlier item today before the committee i guess i better mention that i'm also a first generation italian american, both my parents immigrated from italy and i'm also a second generation employee for recology

here with sunset scavenger. the first 17 years of my career with suns sunset scavenger was working the routes in san francisco. in the 90s i came into management and served in various xmcapacities d the last 7 years as the community government relations manager. my time gave me a lot of experience in labor, in working with labor and that is one of the most exciting things i think about serving on treasure island as a commissioner there is for me to see the building that's going on in the island, that will be going on and the opportunities there are for job training and job placement. i've been a short time commissioner and had have not had a lot of experience on the commission so far. some of the items we have dealt with in any short time there included

approving the arts, $50 million arts and improving the marina. thank you. >> commissioner safai: thank you, commissioner. any questions for him? seeing none any members of the public wish to comment on this item, please forward of seeing none public comments closed. thank you for your commitment, service and wonderful qualifications. whose turn is it? supervisor stefani? >> commissioner stefani: i'd like to move this item forward.

>> commissioner safai: thank you. we can do that. item number 14. >> clerk somera: there's three seats and three applicants with william hank trout with drawing his name from consideration. >> commissioner safai: thank you. so we have one person with drawing their application. i think margaret graft please come forward. >> my name is margaret graft. i have been a resident of san francisco for over 55 years. still live in the same house in the same district in which i started here. as you are aware i'm a registered nurse and also on attorney. i'm retired from both. i have had a father who believed very sincerely in giving back to the community you

lived in. as such i followed in his footsteps and have been in numerous organizations as a volunteer giving time, energy and what talent i had to where i was. i served at the golden state museum. i started out with thepta. after the pta came what we used to call the recreation center for the handicapped which is now of course the janet palmroy. i worked with children with cerebral palsy. i have been most recently on the committee that wrote the resilient sunset

preparedness guide. this was our guide for the sunset district when there was an emergency, a disaster for local residents so they know how to get ready, what to do before, during and after. i have very personal conscious to the department of ageing and alzheimer's disease and dementia. every morning i wake up ai like at the face of alzheimer's disease. my husband has it. we've been dealing with it for 6 years. i know that horror. every night i go to bed i deal with dementia. i deal with hallucinations, pathe whol

gamut. i have served -- i was asked to be part of a focus group for the dignity fund. when there i learned something, this is a group of people coming from various areas in san francisco with some very angry voices at that focus group. the angry voices said i can't get the information i need to know where to go or how to take care of my ageing parent, my husband, my wife. there needs to be a better dispersement and the feeling our residents have. i

have no know how to take care of my ageing parent, my mother-in-law, my husband, my wife. there needs to be a better dispersement. we are failing our residents about this. more recently i have taken part as a research subject up at uc san francisco in langlely porter because the research project involved how to help caretakers who are dealing with patients with dementia. it is a depression that settles in and it needs to be addressed. we, again, are failing our citizens in this area. those

are my beliefs. those are my thoughts. strictly mine. they are areas in which i hope to work with on this advisory council. thank you very much. you've been kind. it's late in the day. your attention is great. i am grateful for that. i'd be happy to answer any questions as best i can. >> commissioner safai: any members of the committee wish to ask any questions? no. seeing none we'll have public comment. thank you for your patience. today is a long day. thank you for waiting. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for your time. here on behalf of the supervisor to voice our strong support of margaret graft to the advisory counsel. she has the professional background and personal experience that will be

well for this role. as a nurse and attorney she has a diverse and technical skill set that will be an asset to the advisory council. she's a seen you're and a care giver and understands the challenges and opportunities we have. she's very involved in the community that she's a part of including as a resident of the sunset district. as she mentioned she participated in the drafting in the sunset plan, a plan for residents to prepare themselves for disaster. >> commissioner safai: any additional questions? any public comments? seeing none public comments closed. do we go there all of the -- right. mrs. elinore lurie please come forward. >> thank you, supervisors for having me. i'm seeking

reappointment to the advisory council to the commission on ageing for a 2-year term ending in march 2020. i am serving as first vice president currently to advisory council and also as representative from the advisory council to the dignity fund. i did research for the elderly and i've had over 20 years of service on to the board of community agencies including twice as president of a community living campaign. i have tried to make things work more smoothly and better. as you probably know it's required by administration on ageing money to oversee units on ageing

which here is the department of ageing and adult services and to advise the decision making body, the commissioner on ageing. we visit nutrition sites, reprove the annual plan and we monitor pending and to some extent federal legislation which affects our constituents. my interest in particular at this time is to continue work on the dignity fund and to help it get really established so that we meet more people with more services in san francisco. also to continue advocating such as the built environment and traffic. i'm here on behalf of

people with disabilities. i'll be glad to answer questions. i know it's late and i can talk more but you may wish me tot to talk more. >> commissioner safai: any members of the committee have any questions? seeing none. thank you for your commitment to serve again. any members of the public withish to comment -- wish to comment come forward? seeing none public comments closed. our third application, mr. william hank trout with drew his nomination due to health issues. so we appreciate him applying. we wish him all the best. entertain a motion? >> commissioner stefani: can i say something briefly. i just

want to thank elevator -- for serving for district 2. my father actually died of dementia and it's tough knowing what to do next especially when you don't live as close as you would like to. just going through that i met with some family members about the closure of that unit or the transfer of some of the patients and just hearing from the families. there's just so many heartbreaking stories. i do agree that there's a lot more we could be doing. i really want to follow up with both of you on this subject because i really want to be dedicated to it and i lock look -- look forward. with that i'd like to move both of these applicants forward with positive recommendation.

>> commissioner safai: supervisor yee? >> commissioner yee: i also want to make a comment. i'm glad you two are interested in being -- continuing to be on this committee. i want to say that the issues that you're addressing are issues that i've been trying to push forth for the last few years. i started with my own district when we only had one service provider serving seniors and now we have six in my district. i want to -- i hope that you'll work closely with my office because there's two issues that i'm trying to highlight and maybe hopefully we can address. one of them being that how can the city promote employment

opportunities for those -- not only though with disabilities but also for those that are older. we are finding that older people want to work but they are not finding the opportunities. the second issue that i'm working on and hopefully you'll be interested in participating in this work group or task force or whatever i want to call it to look at reversing that pattern that we have seen in the city in terms of what we are losing, in terms of -- whether it's residential care facilities for elderly or it's skilled nursing bids or any of these that we are losing. i'm really interested in looking at policies where we can start reversing a pattern. we don't want our seniors -- we don't want our elders to -- because they can't take care of themselves or they need help to continue having to move out of

the county. so hopefully you'll work with us. >> commissioner safai: okay. supervisor stefani want to just fix that? so -- >> commissioner stefani: moving forward, seat one and mark to seat five on the ageing advisory council. >> commissioner safai: do we have to say that we are counting mr. william trout? no. >> commissioner safai: we can do that without objection. thank you. mad dam clerk, back to the item we skipped, item number 6. >> clerk somera: yes.

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justice has found that the original language in article 16 does not provide explicit enough authorization for the office of cannabis to receive access to a person's criminal history information. this ordinance would address that. finally, i would like to request a consideration of a couple of amendments to the legislation pending before you. these amendments further refine the language around receipt and review of conviction history and seek to reconcile the intent of the equity workforce provisio provisions housed in article 15 with your most recent changes to the fair chance ordinance. we should all be aware that an equity incubator does not qualify as an equity applicant, but satisfies the criteria. among those are the arrest or conviction of a cannabis related offense. an employer may inquire about convictions for decriminalized activities when the question is necessary to satisfy the

requirements of the equity program, meaning the employer may ask this question when intended to confer a benefit, i.e., employment under the benefit program. so with that said, i'm happy to walk you through these benefits line by line if necessary to ensure that everybody is familiar and comfortable with them with the hope that you will move these out of committee today. i have been informed that they are not substantive. >> supervisor safai: is that correct, city attorney shen? >> that is correct, chair safai. >> supervisor safai: okay. >> supervisor yee: i request that we don't go line by line. >> that's fine. >> supervisor safai: supervisor stefani, did you have a question? so i think that pretty much is the gist of it.

so the question that i have in terms of the equity incubator is why is that called out in particular? >> what is called out about the equity incubator is they are authorized to ask about decriminalized conviction histories with the intent of conferring a benefit of employment to somebody under the equity program, so it is he he -- it's a very narrow rec reconciliation there. >> supervisor safai: okay. okay. supervisor yee? okay. any members of the public wish to comment on this item, please come forward. seeing none, public comment's closed. we'll call you back up if we have any other questions, director elliott. >> supervisor yee: i'd like to make a motion to amend the administrative code to authorize the director of the office of cannabis to access summary criminal history information to perform permit

and licensing duties and pass it out with a positive recommendation to the full board. >> supervisor safai: we can do that without objection. thank you. madam clerk, please call the next item on the agenda. i believe that's item number 15. >> clerk: item number 15 is a hearing to consider appointing one member term ending february 28, 2019 and two members' terms ending february 19, 2020 to the balboa park station advisory committee. there are three seats and four applicants with one, rezwana christie withdrawing her name from consideration. >> supervisor safai: right. and then my appointee was not able to make it today, nellie selander, so if we could continue that to the call of

the chair. you're okay with appointing? okay. yeah, it's my chair so maybe we don't need to -- but let's hear from the person that's actually here, mr. vigil. for seat number three. >> yeah. it's for seat number three. my name is vigil. i'm currently attending ccsf, and i will come back to pursue my dream school, u.c. berkeley. a mentor of mine has been rekindling that dream of mine, so i'll be back in june. i'm here because i've used this station for my entire life, and i part of my life i didn't use it for is because as a toddler, i was very energyizetic, and ay mom will say, i still am.

i would love to bring my point of view to the table and have a discussion around violence. a few months ago, me and a staff from the youth commission were going to our homes which we both live in district 11 and we noticed that there was one man about to fight three teenagers. there's no security in balboa park station that i can see. it's a very very insecure place. i bring a lot to the table when it comes to youth issue. as a youth commissioner, i'm working on two resolutions with the youth commission all around youth, and if you pass our staff, you'd know that i'm very, very passionate of the work that i do, and i'm very -- i take it very personal. i take my work very personal, and i make sure that i get stuff done, and that is something that i want to bring

to this committee, is making -- bringing someone who's young, who's lived in the district since they was three, who's used this station to go to school or to go to work and you know for their every day lives, and who also loved youth advocacy, and that is something that i want to bring here and something that i want to be able to provide to my community, and it's something that i believe is being mentored to me through d-11's office. they've encouraged me to be a big advocate in my community, making sure that i get appointed here, make sure i bring that skill that i love and am mentoring in and acquiring to the table, not just for me but also for young people in the district. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you, javier. any questions for javier? seeing none, i think we'll

bring up the next person, mr. jason chommanard. >> i am applying for the bicycle interest and pedestrian seat. i want to first thank supervisor yee for nominating me, supervisor safai for scheduling the item and supervisor stefani for considering my application. i want to be on the cac because there are many projects being proposed in the area and it is important for city agencies to hear the opinions of neighbors who use the station regularly. for nearly 20 years, i've lived in sunnyside which is one of the neighborhoods served by balboa park. i went to middle school and high school down the street at denman and high school. i bike to balboa, passing by the station every day. when i was going to u.c. berkeley, i biked to the b.a.r.t. station, and took the

richmond station train to get to school. over the years i haven't seen many changes to the routing hub but after attending a few meetings, i'm excited for the projects that are in the pipeline. some of the projects i'm excited about are the new m dropoff which is in desperate need of a knew design that prioritizes pedestrian safety, adding more passenger dropoff zones on different streets so people don't have to use the bus zones to drop off passengers which slows down the buses and also redesign of the station and plaza. this community advisory council serves an important role in informing agencies about design projects for stations that they're thinking about implementing for the balboa park area. when agencies do not seek input from the community, they will often make design chases that are not in the best interest of

the people who use the station. an example of this was in the december meeting when dpw added a barrier at the northwest corner of generva and san jose which forces people to walk outside of the crosswalk in order to avoid an unnecessary long-term. at that meeting everyone had pretty much negative comments to dpw about that change. i hope to continue to contribute to making the station safer, more usable and efficient for neighbors if appointed. thank you again for your consideration. >> supervisor safai: thank you. any members of the public wish to comment on these items, please come forward. seeing none, public comment -- >> chelsea approximated uellard from supervisor stefani's office. i definitely want to express

important on behalf of supervisor fewer for him. he's a balboa high school student, city college student, has lived in the area for a long, long time, is very interested in transportation policy, and supervisor fewer feels that he would serve the community well, particularly the interests of pedestrians and bicyclists on this advisory board. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you. any other -- >> hi. my name is could ily huffmakyl. i'm a youth commissioner, and i just want to say he's extremely passionate about the community he lives and goes to school in. i can't imagine another person taking these issues so seriously. we fully encourage jason to be appointed to this advisory committee. >> supervisor safai: thank you. any other members of the public wish to comment on this item,

please come forward. seeing none, public comment's closed. supervisor yee? >> supervisor yee: yeah. i'd like to make a motion. actually, it's pretty exciting -- this is the first time i believe we've actually entertained a motion where all the candidates are young, which is really great for the city to see. >> supervisor safai: shows the good work we do. >> supervisor yee: so i'd like to make a motion to nominate nellie selander to seat two, javier vigil to seat three, and jason chommanard to seat any objecti objection -- seat six and pass it onto positive recommendation to the full board. >> supervisor safai: we can do that without objection. thank you for your nomination and we're excited to work with you guys. please call the last item. >> clerk: item number 16 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to repeal law enforcement data collection and report requirements

associated with traffic stops, detentions and arrests. >> supervisor safai: great, and i think we have a member of -- officer connolly, the deputy chief michael connolly, and i know you've had professional standards and principle policing bureau. if you would come forward -- oh, leah christie iisti is goi speak first. >> okay. good afternoon supervisor safai and yee. i currently, administrative code 96(a) requires sfpd to collect

data and author quarterly reports. starting july 2018 under assembly bill 953, law enforcement agencies throughout california will be mandated to collect stop data -- stop data and report the data to the california department of justice. ab 953's data collection for stops substantially duplicates chapter 96(a). the state chapter also requires law enforcement agencies to collect much more information for stops than currently required under 96(a). the d.o.j. has taken responsibility of showing an annual report of stop data collection that will provide you opportunities for cross comparison of law enforcement throughout california. however the d.o.j.'s first report will not be available until january 2020. the legislation before you does two things. first is reconciles the differences ab 953 and 96(a) for stop data collections. second we have circulated additional amendments that will require data for ab 953 to be reported on a quarterly basis to the mayor, the board of

supervisors, police commission and the human rights commission. the frequency of reporting is imperative in identifying trends within san francisco for stop data. to achieve more frequent reporting than required by state law, sfpd will have to build a new reporting mechanism to issue quarterly reports for tap dat stop data. in order to provide sfpb to build this reporting system, the first semi annual report will be due may 2019, and there will include data collected under ab 953, and the second will be due in august 2019, and will include data from january to june 2019. each report thereafter will be on a quarterly basis with the first quarterly report due in november 2019. i would also like to clarify that reporting requirements for use of force are not changing and will continue to be reported on a quarterly basis. here today, i have deputy chief michael connolly who will provide additional details for

stop data collection under ab 953 and further explain the timelines to build a new report to report ab 953 data more frequently. some documents that he will be going over have been provided beforehand, but he has extra copies, should you need them. i am happy to answer any questions that you have, and thank you for your time. >> supervisor safai: any members of the committee have any questions? seeing none, deputy chief connelly? >> could i have the overhead, please. great. in essence, what wasn't said here was that in the absence of conflicting data collection, we have to build systems to adhere to senate bill 953, so that's why you will have a lag time approximately 11 months where you'll be hearing what would

normally be the # 6(a) quarterly report under the new format of 953 -- assembly bill 953. this illustration here on the screen just represented the two major obstacles that we have to overcome, and one of them is working with the state to see what their reporting mechanism is so that we can build out a more techno logically fluid system, much like we have today with the 96(a) reporting, which is reported to our smart phones. and then secondarily, we have to look at what the reporting mechanism looks like from the data that the state is collecting. i can entertain questions, and i have staff here to answer any questions that you may have. >> supervisor safai: my first question in terms of what they've put in this in terms of the first report being due, will you be able to meet that? sfl will we be able to build out a system and have it available to that? yes.

>> supervisor safai: they asked for the first report to be sometime in 2019. are you able to do that? >> we're collecting data from july 1st, so the data goes directly to the state. they are responsible for the reporting, and then, we will grab the data back and create a report here for the mayor's office, the board of supervisors, police commission and human rights commission. >> supervisor safai: actually, i see in here the first quarterly report is due august 7, 2018. is that right, miss chisti? o [ inaudible ] >> supervisor safai: yeah, so when is it -- in your amendments here, when is the first report? i see a lot of different dates, beginning july 1, 2019, human rights commission, august 6, 2019. >> so the first report for the period from july 1st through december 31st, 2018 will be may 7th, 2019. >> supervisor safai: you guys based on what you guys have put

up on the screen, will you be able to meet that? >> we believe so. >> supervisor safai: okay. that's it. that was my only question. >> to clarify your earlier question about the august 7, 2018, that's for the -- this is for the current report for 96(a), so the current data that we're collecting will expire after our last quarterly report for our local level august 7, 2018. >> supervisor safai: great. okay. thank you. if we have any other questions, we'll call you back up. any members of the public wishing to comment on this item, please come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed. members of the committee have any questions or comments? seeing none, can we entertain a motion? >> supervisor yee: i'll go ahead and make this a motion to pass this on with a positive recommendation to the full board. you know, when i first read the title, i was shocked, not

understanding why supervisor cohen was doing this, and when i got the explanation, it made a lot of sense. >> supervisor safai: thank you. >>commissioner stefani: i believe there were amendments. >> supervisor safai: do you have some amendments that you needed to talk through, miss chisti? >> i talked upon those amendments in my talking points. the amendments were the semiannual report, so the first two semi annual reports, and then quarterly thereafter. >> supervisor safai: so we would say then send to the full board, this ordinance as amended with positive recommendation. we can do that without objection. thank you. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor safai: any other matters before us today? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >> supervisor safai: thank you. we are adjourned.

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 here, move to richmond, antioch, don't deserve to be here. color of our skin is making us a very dark welcome.

so -- we are coming here to ask you to give us a break and let us have an opportunity to have some manifest destination what we want our community to be about. main concern are our children and the education they need to receive. we are already engaging some of the large corporations around here creating career opportunities, not job opportunity, but career opportunity for some of the finest of our young who got education and continue to be educated so they can participate. and positive input from the corporations in our area that want to come and help our children get educated and career, not just a job, but career. and do positive things. thank you for listening. please move the project. we have been