been taken in this particular matter. i think what's most shocking, it's almost excusable when it's someone who doesn't know the process or new and just learning the process. you could understand that. but this is a seasoned member of the m.t.a. who has been around the halls of city hall for long enough to know what the appropriate outreach strategies should be. first you reach the rules committee and the entire board members, anyone who has the ability to cast a vote for you. i would also like to send a message to folks out there that don't take our votes for granted. we would like to hear from everyone that is seeking an appointment, or a vote, to any kind of lay board or commission. thank you. >> president breed: thank you, supervisor cohen. supervisor fewer? > supervisor fewer: thank you, supervisor breed. i just want to say i addressed

the m.t.a. commission about four budget items, about taxi drivers, crossing guards, language access and chariot shuttles and i only received a response from one commissioner that was commissioner torres. upon these appointments agendized today i have to say a little disappointed not hearing any response at all from these two commissioners up for reappointment or any other commissioner, except commissioner torres, which is really disappointing, considering a person on the board of supervisors will actually vote on the reappointment, four issues, when they take time to go before the commission to express their interest in these four issues to not have any response at all. i'm going to be looking at these four topics in the m.t.a. budget. these are people who oversee $1.1 billion of money. this is a huge budget. and the idea that a supervisor who will vote on their appointment actually came to

the commission to address these four issues and not one has ever responded even via email or a phone call or to follow-up on these four concerns i had in the $1.1 billion budget, i feel is sort of taking our vote for granted. and if i sound a little irritated or agitated in my voice, it is because i am. i have to trust that they are probably very busy, but i am also busy also. serving my 80,000 residents in the richmond district and these are four concerns i felt were so important that i took time out of my day to go up and address their commission respectfully, and i think it's very disrespectful to not have responded in any matter at all around these four issues. thank you. >> president breed: thank you. supervisor fewer. colleagues we have the option to continue the item as well. supervisor kim?

>> supervisor kim: i was going to make a motion to continue for two weeks. the fact no one from this board has heard from the director, even though i support her, i think she should do her due diligence, i was going to suggest two weeks. i feel that's a better amount of time to the board. >> we should just vote. >> president breed: supervisor sheehy? sorry, supervisor kim has made a motion to continue this item for two weeks to the meeting may 15th, 2018, is there a second. seconded by supervisor sheehy. seeing no names on the roster, colleagues, can we take the continuance of two weeks without objection? without objection this item will be continued to the meeting of may 15th, 2018. next item, please. >> clerk: item 25 motion to approve the mayor's nomination

for reappointment of gwyneth borden to the m.t.a. for term ending march 2022. >> supervisor cohen: i support her. >> president breed: thank you, supervisor kim? >> supervisor kim: i was going to make a motion to continue this for two weeks. >> president breed: seconded by supervisor sheehy. i will not be supporting the continuance. i think i have a great respect and relationship with supervisor borden who has been very proactive with my office in addressing issues that are of serious concern to me and my constituents in d-5 on a regular basis more than any other commissioner that sits on that commission. she has done an outstanding job. i'm not prepared to support the continuance, i'm prepared to support her today in moving this forward. supervisor is a fy?

safai? >> supervisor safai: thank you. i do want to say commissioner brinkman did reach out to me and members of our committee and did have the opportunity to come out and speak. >> president breed: supervisor safai. i will need to ask to rescind the vote. >> supervisor safai: i just wanted to say that. and commissioner borden did the same thing. we had the opportunity to meet. i know she met with other members of the committee and so, i think what happened was that they might not have known it was happening, it was being straight to the board. again, that's not an excuse. as pointed out, these are reappointments so there should be an opportunity to sit down with everyone. i'm fine with the continuance for commissioner brinkman based on that. commissioner borden did spend time with our office.

i'm okay with voting on her today. >> president breed: supervisor cohen? >> supervisor cohen: thank you. i just wanted to maybe have discussion why we would continue commissioner borden, why you made that motion. i won't be supporting it, but can you speak to why? >> president breed: supervisor kim? >> supervisor kim: for the same reason continuing ms. brinkman. she spent time speaking to my office as well. we should give both directors an opportunity to meet with all the supervisors who wanted to speak with them. >> president breed: thank you, supervisor kim for that. commissioner brinkman did not reach out to my office as well. hearing some of the concerns expressed by the rest of you in terms of outreach from that particular commissioner and i guess i have to reverse that item to talk about it but [chuckles] following my own rules.

well the board's rules. commissioner borden and i have had extensive discussions, not just about this reappointment but mostly consistently about the challenges of things we continuously face in the m.t.a. which is why i'm comfortable moving this appointment forward. i think they are two separate issues, as far as i'm concerned which is the reason i won't be supporting the continuance. supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: i was just going to ask a temporal question which was -- is supervisor borden in her hold-over period -- in other words, would she be able to continue to serve? i'm sorry -- >> president breed: so what i'm going to do, supervisor peskin, you bring up a good issue. because we may need to also

figure that out for the previous commissioner and the continuance as well. >> supervisor peskin: i was just informed they expired march 1st, with a 60-day hold-over provision in the charter means they expire today. >> i'm happy to make a motion to rescind item 24 to a later time in this board meeting. >> president breed: supervisor kim made a motion to rescind the motion on the continuance. seconded by supervisor sheehy. without objection that's been unanimously. we will come back to that because we have a 2:30 special accommodation, that will give us time to sort out some of these details to make sure the

m.t.a. department and its commission can still continue to function. with that, supervisor stefani, you have the floor. >> supervisor stefani: thank you, president breed. colleagues, today i'm honored to commend the students who helped to organize san francisco's march for our lives rally and march down market street to the ferry building. i would like to call up four students from lieuel high school and cleo couldn't be with us today. on valentine's day this year i was sitting in rules committee and got a message alert about another school shooting, this time parkland florida, marjory stoneman high school. as a mother of a 13-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter and

someone who has been fighting for common sense gun laws since columbine, 19 years ago april 20th, news like this absolutely devastates me. i cannot begin to tell you the hope that i felt since watching the reaction of the students in parkland and our students here at home who have said enough. immediately after parkland i heard from jason chen asking for a meeting. supervisor tang and i met with them as they were making plans to march and turn out thousands of people on march 24th, one of the many rallies around the country that day. to say we were impressed is an under statement. they are determined to fight for their lives, hopes and dreams and will not stop until students feel safe in their classrooms. they are places for learning, not places to worry about gunfire and lockdown drills. as one of the students from parkland said, what happened in

parkland could happen in any school and that's exactly why students have to lead this conversation. it's clear no one is safe from gun violence, if adults can't get this done, we will. in the spirit of letting them lead i'm going to stop talking and turn the floor over to them but first i want to thank you four from the bottom of my heart for your activism, your tenacity, your perseverance and your hope that you bring to this conversation. our future is going to change for the better because of your commitment to ending gun violence, this gun violence epidemic plaguing our communities and country and i can't thank you enough. the floor is yours. >> thank you very much, supervisor stefani. [applause] on behalf of all the students involved in this effort, thank you so much for your commendation. over the past few months we have all been working

tirelessly to turn our aspirations of a youth-led anti-gun movement to a reality. we learn through trial and error the challenges of organizing an event of this caliber. we spoke to officials at every level of local government including yourselves and fully mobilized a rag tag group of high schoolers into an impassioned group. from every walk of life all driven by the same understanding this new generation of mass school shootings change needs to happen and it needs to happen now. or our lives as children will be in danger and at risk. never again should we be scared by a fire drill or a backfiring car. never again should we be afraid of staring down the barrel of a semi automatic weapon.

enough is enough. and on march 24th, with your endorsement we marched down market street with hundreds of our peers. it was truly a movement and we are at the vanguard and to say it was inspiring is just an under statement. this is only the beginning and we have continued to further these efforts from walking out of class on april 20th, which was the anniversary of the columbine high school shooting, sending 300 students from over 30 schools to sacramento to discuss with our california representatives about gun violence and what we can do to solve it. we live in a country where seven children on average are killed each day by guns and to be honest, that's seven lives too many. we are extremely grateful to

live in a city where we have paved the way for common sense gun reform and on behalf of all the student leaders we are extremely thankful for this honor and are optimistic for the future of gun control and this youth movement. thank you so much. [applause]

>> president breed: thank you. let's give the next generation of leaders a hand. thank you all for your advocacy. [applause] march for our lives was an amazing event and you did an outstanding job. thank each and everyone of you for your leadership and advocacy on gun control issues. with that i would like to go back to our agenda. madam clerk, let's go to our next item. item number 26. but we will return to 24 and 25 shortly. >> clerk: thank you, madam president. item 26 is a motion to amend the rules of order of the board of supervisors by adding rule 1.3.2 regarding political activities that are prohibited during public comment at board of supervisors meetings and the authority to enforce the rule. >> president breed: colleagues, could we take this item? same house, same call?

without objection the motion is approved unanimously. next item, please. >> clerk: item 27 is a motion to appoint gisele rainer, term ending february 1st 2019 to the park and recreation advisory committee. >> president breed: same house, same call? without objection the item is approved unanimously. next item? >> clerk: item 28, motion to reappoint e' leva hughes gibson and zea malawa. >> president breed: same house, same call? without objection the motion is approved unanimously. next item. >> clerk: [reading item 30] >> president breed: approved unanimously. next item.

>> clerk: to approve or reject nomination for appointment of gail gilman to the port commission for term ending may 1st, 2022. >> president breed: supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: thank you. as one of the three members of the board that has part of the port jurisdiction in his district, i wanted to make a motion to approve the mayor's nomination of ms. gilman for the port commission for the term ending may 1st, 2022. and let me start by saying the obvious, which is unlike the previous discussion we had, i believe ms. gilman has been driving us all crazy, so no lack of contact. in all seriousness, ms. gilman who hails from the third supervisorial district has steeped herself in port policy and i have to say i have watched her in her role in the

building inspection commission and when she indicated to me she was talking to the mayor's office about potentially becoming a port commissioner, i said do you know the public trust doctrine of the state of california and she was honest and said she didn't know it yet, but weeks later, she was able to recite the intricacies and nuances of that complicated piece of public policy backwards and forwards, which i doubt any other member and i mean no disrespect to mr. adams, can do. for those of us watching our emails and letters, the breadth of support that ms. gilman has received has, i think, spoken volumes. so i am honored to make a motion approving her nomination by the mayor. >> president breed: supervisor peskin, you are making a motion

to amend to approve. >> supervisor peskin: correct. >> president breed: supervisor peskin has made a motion to amend to approve seconded by supervisor kim. >> supervisor kim: thank you, i also want to add my words of support for gail gilman who currently serves as an inspector, i first met gail in 2010 when she came onto fill in the big shoes of jeff kazizsky also in the audience. i just have to say over the last seven years gail has been one of the most tenacious and persistent advocates fighting for supportive housing for formerly homeless residents, and she is someone who is smart, she does her homework, she works hard. she comes to meetings early. she comes to every meeting, she

goes to every community event, she is there to listen and discuss and this is what i want to see from our commissioners. she is already doing the work in the community and i know she will give her all to the port commission. i think it could be frustrating when we hear sometimes of commissioners we put in these very important seats to hear their attendance or punctuality isn't great. i'm sure she will do the work, the port does a number of things that are incredibly important and land use has become one, this hasn't always been the business of the port. but as the port's role has changed in san francisco, they have increasingly become a body that has been building housing. as someone who has done a lot of work around business housing in my district i want someone

who understands how development works and also fights for affordable housing. we want to make sure developments built on public property actually meets the needs of our residents and affordable housing is one of those needs. i want to strongly support gail gilman today. i think she will be an outstanding member and there's no doubt in my mind that she won't give 200% to this commission. >> president breed: thank you. seeing no other names on the roster, colleagues, can we take this same house, same call? without objection the motion as amended is approved unanimously. all right, let's go back to items 24 and 25. it's my understanding the two commissioners in question are here and are happy to potentially answer questions from members of the board. i would like for members of the board to know if they are not moved forward today, they will not be able to sit at another meeting for the m.t.a. until we

go through our process, which could be potentially problematic and i would like members of the board to, if you want to ask questions, or if you still want to continue, either one of these particular appointments, i think we are open to discussion at this time on these two items for either or. supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: thank you, madam president. going back to my original comments i just want to send the message going forward. and was not trying to hold them up today. i think the board has spoken with a single voice relative to the concerns that, i think, we all share and what i would like to do going forward is to invite ms. brinkman to come visit with me and all of us, but i'm prepared to vote for both of these items today. and i think we have delivered the message. >> president breed: thank you. supervisor peskin.

would you like to -- supervisor cohen? >> supervisor cohen: thank you. i would like to hear from director brinkman? supervisor? >> supervisor kim: i want to correct the record, i forgot about the interaction. the director did reach out to me. >> president breed: thank you, supervisor kim. supervisor cohen? >> supervisor cohen: i already asked my question, i would like to know why you didn't reach out. >> thank you, through president breed, supervisor cohen. >> president breed: please identify yourself. >> sorry, cheryl brinkman, currently not on the m.t.a. board of directors, hoping to be reappointmented. i'm terribly sorry, i did think i had until at least the next

board meeting to reach out, as board member safai noted i did reach out to the rules committee and supervisor kim but then the time just got away from me, it's unforgivable, i apologize. i stand warned and i think that our entire commission will be on a much firmer footing in terms of reaching out. i will absolutely pop an email to everyone again, i apologize i did on monday when i found out i would be here today. i reached out 24 hours in advance, which is absolutely not enough for busy supervisors, it's not enough for anybody, really. i will reach out again, provide my email, offer to come in, serving on the s.f.m.t.a. board of director is very important to me. so i really hope that you will see fit to look over this total misstep that i made, complete misstep and allow me to

continue to serve on the s.f.m.t.a. board. >> supervisor cohen: how long have you been serving? >> seven years. >> supervisor cohen: how many processes have you been through? >> this will be my third because we are limited to three terms. >> supervisor cohen: it's safe to assume, certainly for the first one you did your outreach, the second you did your outreach. >> for my second one i believe i sent emails. it was four years ago, it is a little blury, i don't believe i actually met with anybody then. when the newest round of supervisors was elected, i did send emails providing every office with my cell phone number, i always make a point to say i'm absolutely reachable by email, cell phone, people can text me, email me, and i apologize, just as you know things get busy, there's been a lot going on at the s.f.m.t.a. board. i feel that i do a lot, obviously i don't do enough outreach to the supervisors.

i spent a lot of time going to community meetings. i have visited so many divisions and visited the paint and signal shop to meet with the workers there and hear about the struggles they go through, the p.c.o. division, the parking control officers, excuse me. the proof of payment fare inspectors ride alongs with meter maids, i've spent a lot of time on internal outreach, making sure they know the board sees what they do, we appreciate what they do, we understand how difficult their jobs are and what a difference it makes to our riding public. i always take the opportunity to brag on the successors our agency has achieved in the last customer service survey we had 70% rate us good or excellent, it may be i fell down on the job but we are not falling down on the job. >> president breed: thank you. and commissioner, you said that being on the commission is important to you.

can you explain more details as to why? >> absolutely. i came to even think of serving because i was one of the original organizers of sunday streets and actually reading through my original letter i sent to mayor newsom to ask to be put on the board of directors. in the letter i talked about how i felt sunday streets was the most important thing i had done in the city. imcome from a background of pedestrian and bicycle advocacy and neighborhood livable streets and triangle market association, octavia c.a.c. but the work on sunday streets, allowing the city to open up the streets to families to enjoy on foot, bike, to connect with neighborhoods and community to remember what is on offer in their own city was so important to me. if i had a chance to do that on

a wider scale we have embarked on really impressive equality- [please stand by...] . >> i think that people call them

fare-dodgers. we say it's a proof of payment -- proof of payment policy. >> supervisor breed: oftentimes those persons that receive the tickets come from the community of concern and we spend a lot of money to address that issue and on the other side, people are riding muni that don't feel safe. so there is concern that we're not providing sufficient support for safety for people in stations at on muni at the bus stops. could you please help me understand what your thoughts are around those particular issues and why choose to go after people who are evading fares. why are we not choosing safety first? >> absolutely. so when we started the policy a few years ago, we knew that our buses speeding up, we needed to

speed up fare-evasion practices. before everybody went in by the front door. everybody paid the fare. it was the bus driver's responsibility to make sure that people paid their fare and bus drivers got into altercations with people trying to be that policing role, which was not appropriate. with all-door boarding, people are coming in all doors. the bus driver is removed from the responsibility of being the fare-inspector. i'm happy and proud that we've decriminalized youth fare evasion. in addition to offering free muni to low and moderate income youth through 18, we've decriminalized fare evasion. it doesn't have to go through the criminal courts. it's an administrative fine. i've done a ride-along with our fare inspectors, and they have a tough job, but they walk a fine line they're fantastic men and women.

they're people of heart and spirit. i know that on their job every day, they make a lot of difficult calls about when do you ticket somebody and when do you not. i do have every confidence that they bring to that job the full scope of the knowledge of the city in which they work. so many times at the sfmta board, we have to make decisions that are difficult that we have control over and make some people very unhappy, other people happy. the decisions that we have to make over areas that we don't have control are even more difficult. i'm thinking of the vehicular housed decisions we've had to make around oversized vehicles. and safety on our buses is one of them. we're the sfmta. we cannot solve social issues.

all we can do is address the issues that happen on our watch, parking spaces, where we might get oversized vehicles. a lot of people find if they are unhoused in our city, if marginally housed in our city, that unfortunately for some of the other riding public, our buses might be the warmest, safest place for them to be. >> supervisor breed: commissioner, i'm going to stop you there. the question, i should be more clear. it's really, why are we choosing -- why is mta choosing to spend money, spend dollars, on the san francisco police department to address fare evasion, rather than spending money for the san francisco police department to address issues around safety? why was that decision made? >> they should be addressing most. most of the fare evasion is

handled by our own proof of payment inspectors. sfpd should be riding muni to help people feel safer. i don't have the exact answer on the exact breakdown, but can i reach out to your office and we can talk about it further. we're conducting our interviews. >> sorry everyone has to listen to it. >> supervisor fewer: thank you for reaching out to my office yesterday. i want to talk about the timms that concerns the items in your budget and plan for those items to be addressed. i believe that my staff will reach out to you for a meeting, so we can follow up that conversation on the four items that i spoke about before the commission since i didn't hear a response at all, but thank you very much. >> thank you, supervisor. >> supervisor breed: thank you. i don't see any other names on

the roster. so i think we're done. thank you, commissioner. >> thank you, president breed. >> supervisor breed: seeing no other names on the roster, it seems as though there is no one asking for a continuance, so it looks like my colleagues are prepared to vote on these items. item 24, do we want to take that item same house, same call? without objection, motion is approved unanimously. item 25, same house, same call. without action, motion is approved unanimously. congratulations, ladies, and please continue to reach out it our offices, even though this has been affirmed. thank you so much. all right. madam clerk, let's go to our 3:00 p.m. special orders. we're going to have both of those hearings sitting as a committee as a whole. please call items 31-34 together. >> clerk: items 31 and 32

comprise board of supervisors sitting as committee as a whole for a hearing scheduled pursuant to a motion m-18-042, approved on april 10, 2018, for a hearing to consider objections to the report contained in item 32. the report of assessment costs submitted by the director of public works for inspection or repair of lighted properties ordered through the sidewalk abatement program, paid for out of the plight abatement fund. item 33 and 34. pursuant to m-18-043, approved on april 10, 2014, to consider objections to report of assessment costs submit bid director of public works for sidewalk and curb repairs through the sidewalk inspection and repair program, costs thereof, having been paid for by the city out of the revolving

fund. >> supervisor breed: thank you. colleagues, today's two committee hearings are being conducted together to consider objections to report of assessment cost submit bid director of public works for inspection and/or repair for the blight of properties and sidewalk and curb repair through sidewalk inspection and repair program and to consider approving the underlying resolution. let's open up this hearing. and we'll first hear from the department of public works. >> thank you. good afternoon, president breed, supervisors. i'm michael lennon, i am appearing on behalf of san francisco public works on the sidewalk repair and accelerated sidewalk abatement program. with sidewalk inspection and repair program, it's a proactive inspection program designed to

inspect all projects on a 25-year, rolling basis, with the goal of repairing 200 blocks each year the program is designed to make it easier for property owners to comply with 56-11 and public works 706, which require them to maintain the sidewalks adjacent to their properties. under this program, we perform inspections and notify property owners when defects are found that need to be repaired. upon notification, property owners have the option of having a city contractor perform the work or hiring an independent contractor to make the repairs. when property owners elect to have the city contractor make the repairs or no response has been received and no repairs made within the time set aside, the city will make the repairs.

if the owner fails to repair the sidewalk after being notified, the city will make the repairs and invoice the property owners. where the property owner fails to pay or have the costs of it placed on property tax, public works will submit to the board of supervisors for the next tax bill. 1,939 invoices were issued. and 1,812 invoices were paid, which is 93%. as of may 1, 2017, 147 invoices totalling $112,691.36 were removed from the original list through payments made in recent weeks. 147 of the 261 invoices were paid.

the report we're submitting has a total of 114 invoices totalling $117,967.92, including the 12% administrative fee. it's here that the department requests the board's approval for the list of assessment of sidewalk repair and inspection properties. similarly, that's the proactive program, accelerated sidewalk abatement program, is more responsive. again, we inspect residential and commercial properties with the focus of expediting repairs for sidewalks found to be in poor condition. under state highway code 56-11 and 706, property owners are responsible for maintenance and repair. we inspect, notify of defects. if they fail to comply by having their contractor or making

repairs on their own, we'll see that the repairs are made. when they fail to pay the invoice, inclusive of inspection fees, or when the owner elects to have the fees and repairs on their property tax, public works will submit the overdue amount to the board of supervisors for inclusion on the tax bill. we mailed 225 invoices last year and 195, 87%, were paid. as of may 1, 30 invoices totalling $261,000 were removed through payments made in recent weeks. and 30 of the 60 invoices were paid, so 50%. $42,671.74 recovered out of the $114,120, so 37%. again, in this report, we're submitting 30 invoices with the total amount of $80,026.80.

and that, again, includes the 12% administrative fee. again, the department requests the board's approval of the request for the blighted properties. >> supervisor breed: thank you. seeing no names on the roster, looks like there are no questions. we'll open it up to public comment. if you are here for items 31-34 for this hearing, please come forward. you will have up to 2 minutes. >> hello. good of afternoon. thank you for your time. i'm nicholas o'neal. i'm a property owner in the city. i'm one of the people on this list. i received a notice attached to my door on april 13. that's why i'm here. the last contact i had with the city regarding our sidewalk was in late 2015. i spoke with a very helpful lady

who down all the details of the repair, which was frankly, poorly executed. there were over two dozen cracks still in the sidewalk after the repair had been completed. and the repair also -- the gentlemen involved had splattered concrete on the front of our building on our stucco work the lady that i spoke to at the end of 2015 said, thank you. i will send people out to inspect that and i will get back to you. i never heard back from her or anybody since. the first i'd known about the situation was the notice i found on my door on april 13. thank you. >> supervisor breed: sir, wanted to let you and other men members of the public to speak on this item, there will be an opportunity to have a

conversation with public works. so we'll recess the meeting and hopefully you can resolve the issue so they can come back with possibly some amendments to your particular charge. >> okay. terrific. thank you. >> supervisor breed: next speaker, please? any other members of the public -- if you could please line up to the right. any other members of the public that are here for items 31-34. >> yes. i'm lews dallaston, daughter of the owner of the home at 7 nebraska street blocks 56/045. my mother lives in this residence in this home. 14 years ago, my mom suffered a

massive stroke and has been bedridden ever since. i'm the primary caregiver for my mom. she's living on a fixed income and i -- i don't know how to pay this. the repair. while i'm here if i can plea to reduce the payment or make a -- a compromise payment to be lowered, so we can afford to pay this bill. >> supervisor breed: thank you. ma'am, again, there will be an opportunity. michael lennon, he's the gentleman that did the presentation. when we're finished with public comment, he will step outside

the chamber and you will have the opportunity to make that request. that's for everyone that's here for this particular purpose. >> thank you. >> supervisor breed: thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is patricia ray. i'm representing my mother, who is a senior citizen. and the issue was, she had sidewalk repair work done around april. there was a lot of issues with a lot of splatter, on her car, the concrete, they had to come back and fill in some cracks that had been done. the other issue that happened is they sent her a bill for $700. and then a week later, sent another bill increasing it to $910 because they said that they had -- they didn't calculate the area. these are senior citizens we're

dealing with. my mom has lived there since 1964. my dad just passed away and they were married 65 years. she's on a fixed income. not only did i talk to mr. diaz, he sent mr. nick hawes over to my mom's hand and we had a two-hour discussion about that my mother has a legal sfmta on her curb. that was splattered as well. and her car was splattered with concrete. so mr. hawes came out, took it upon himself to add an extra 2 inches of red paint instead of addressing the issue of the splatter on the actual sfmta part. and so he came back out and my mom was trying to tell him about the car and he actually wanted

to fix her car, which he was not, you know, in that position to put anything on the car as far as cleaning the car. so i'm just here to let you know that these are senior citizens here and the prices they're charging and then one price you get and then a week later -- which i have all the documentati documentation. >> supervisor breed: your time is up, but you will have a chance to talk to mr. lennon after public comment has been concluded. so if you will hold tight, it will be just a minute. thank you. >> thank you. >> supervisor breed: next speaker, please. >> i believe that a lot of people may have been under the misperception that the city accepted responsibility for public sidewalk repair when and after the city returned to

accepting public responsibility for public trees. so i'm unhappily surprised to learn that private homeowners are still picking up the tab. i think the city should accept them rather than transfer those costs. >> supervisor breed: thank you. next speaker, please. >> yes. good afternoon. i'm irma encinas, i'm here representing my father and my brother, both are disabled and vietnam vets. we received a notification saying that i had to come to the hearing because of repair done to the sidewalk. i find it interesting because the city came by and -- this is going back to 2016 -- where there are two trees and they took the responsibility of wanting to remove the trees. and then the permit that was on

the trees said that they were responsible for the construction of the sidewalk or replacement of the sidewalk. so later on, some inspector came by and put a notice on the building and said we were responsible for the sidewalk. then going back and forth, back and forth, they ended up marking the sidewalk with green xs and white xs. green, the responsibility of the city. white, the responsibility of the owner. the green xs were done, which was supposed to be the responsibility of the city. the white xs have not been done and the reason that the white xs has not been done is because of a financial issue. we can't afford to have it done. more importantly, i have evidence and pictures showing the sidewalk itself and there is nothing wrong with the sidewalk other than cracks, which are

superficial cracks, similar to those in front of this building outside. so i'm here to dispute the charges because no work was done on our behalf. thank you. >> supervisor breed: thank you for your comments. are there any other members of the public who are here to speak on items 31-34? seeing none, public comment is now closed. for anyone who is here, whether you spoke during public comment or not, michael lennon will join you outside and he will help to address your specific needs. and then return the verdict to us at a later time within our board meeting. so if you want to step outside and have a conversation with him, we'll get back to your particular items and concerns. thank you, all, for being here today. all right, madam clerk, let's go to roll call for introductions.

>> clerk: first up to introduce new business is supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: as you know, i represent the geographically smallest, but densest district in the city, which unfortunately, has few remaining opportunity sites for development of housing, though i've pushed aggressively on the remaining sites during the last 18 years, sites such as the old embarcadero freeway onramps and offramps. some time ago, we actually passed a resolution with regard to using the fire station number 13 site at 530 sampson street. i'm introducing another housing

project at 772 pacific avenue, where you will recall we expended some $5 million to buy that site where the new asia restaurant is located and there we have an opportunity to build up to 80 units of affordable housing on top of a new asia restaurant. i've long had the idea to offer the air rights for development above fire station 13 for either affordable housing development or to fund housing development in the district. chinatown is feeling the pressures of the housing crisis and we've been looking for ways to fund the development at the new asia restaurant site. through a collaborative process, we've struck the proposal to maximum benefit to include fire station 13. i hate to use a proverbial term, but it's win-win. and i cannot think of a better

way to kick off 2018's affordable housing week. i encourage everyone to find an opportunity to come and get involved in affordable housing week starting this friday when the council of community housing celebrates in 40th anniversary at the women's building. we'll be hosting a panel decision moderated on rose aguilar on upzoning with equity. i want to acknowledge the hard work of the community leaders at the mid-polk area, which has finally reached the 30%-plus threshold to have an election to formal district, the city's fifth, cbd. middle polk is a vibrant culture with lgbtq. they've been conducting

feasibility and doing due diligence. i should acknowledge suzanne ma markelle-fox, who has been at the head of the cbd proposal. our seawall, really protecting all of san francisco, and i'm proud to co-sponsor a bond measure for the voters to consider in november, because they all know, we all know, it's not a question of if, but a question of when we have a big, seismic event and this seawall bond is a way to take steps to confront the inevitable. we'll maximize every dollar to ensure that the most cost-effective measures are implemented. and i want to thank ms. forbes and staff at the port for bringing that forward and i would like to ask that we adjourn in the memory of jerry barr, who was a dear friend and

member of the summit like tribe. the rest i will submit. >> supervisor ronen: today i have an in memoriam for brian quinn, who passed away a couple of weeks ago. i want to acknowledge that brian's sisters are here in the audience as well as many of his colleagues and former colleagues from the department of homelessness and supportive services and i just wanted to thank you, all, for coming out today in memory of brian quinn. for more than two decades, brian has been a tireless advocate for those experiencing homelessness. brian has held many positions with homeless services and housing including case management, asset and property

management and overseeing the city's expansion and navigation of centers. brian was not the type of work that left work at the office. 7 was always working and always working to connect people with care. brian overcame adversity in his personal life and harnessed it to a passionate commitment to help those in need for the basics of survival, starting with the very basic, shelter. he was deeply driven and committed to getting people into housing and keeping them housed. it was not just his job, but it was really a calling. he would often spend his evenings and weekends helping people in the neighborhood that were in crisis get connected to family and services. brian was a loving person who had a huge heart and smile to match. he brought joy to the lives of everyone that knew him. he was a passionate advocate, avid hiker and lover of all animals. brian is survived by his two

sisters, nicole and jordan quinn, who are here with us today, and his beloved dog, bela. brian will be greatly missed by family, friends, colleagues at the city and the community that he served and loved. i also wanted to acknowledge -- i don't know if jacque kaczynski was a deer friend and colleague of brian for so many years and i know is missing him greatly and hurting a lot. [please stand by]

today i rise to speak on a performance audit that was requested, probably at our very first board meeting we sat at or maybe the second. but it was the very first request i made and i believe it's very timely based on the conversation we had last week regarding conservatorship of those with mental health illnesss. so today, i'm asking for a hearing. that hearing will be scheduled, hopefully, very soon and it will go to the government audit and oversights. this is an audit and hearing particularly as it relates to mental health services in our city. one of the things that was very

confusing to me, and i know many of my colleagues share this, when you talk about the available bedside psych beds and services available in the community and jails, the answer and the number and the result has always been a moving target. so for me, that was my motivation. also, when it came to the conversation of those on our streets that were having violent interactions with the police, when it was those having violent interactions with the community. when it was a conversation about those living on our streets and dying on our streets, as a result of homelessness and their mental health disorders and substance abuse issues, it was important for me to get to the bottom of what are the available services, and what type of services are in the city and county of san francisco.

so this audit will talk about the available services within the department of public health but it will also talk about many of the partnering non-profit organizations, like institute familia, all my family, those living in group homes, those in our criminal justice system and in our hospital system, what are the available services, what is the level of service and what type of services are available to those particularly dealing with chronic illness and mental health disorders on our streets. the rest i submit but we are asking for a hearing to review the performance audit of the department of public health and behavioral health services in particular. and then later on we will come back to another thing i'm co-sponsoring with president breed. the rest i submit.