their contributions of the understanding the exception and needs. >> it's a building that the chief medical examiner has been looking forward to quite a few of the. >> it is extremely valuable contribution to the, neighborhood address san francisco as a whole. >> the building will allow is to have greater very much and serve the city and county of san francisco and the neighboring >> welcome to the may 16, 2018, special meeting of the public safety and neighborhood services committee.

supervisor jeff sheehy, chair of the committee. next to me is supervisor ronen. can we please have quiet? quiet, quiet. and to my left is supervisor fewer, subbing in for supervisor peskin. the clerk is erica major, and also like to thank samuel williams and jim smith at sfgov-tv for staffing this meeting. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and any documents should be submitted to the clerk. items acted on will appear on the may 22 agenda unless otherwise stated. >> supervisor sheehy: we need a

motion to excuse supervisor peskin. >> clerk: item one, type 20 off sale beer and wine license to the argentum business, llc, 47 6th street. >> you have before you a p.c.m. report for the argentum project. they have applied for a type-20 license, would allow them to sell off sale wine and beer only. 0 letters of protest, 0 letters of support. they are located in plot 210, considered a high crime area. they are in census track 176.01, considered a high saturation area. tenderloin has no oppositions.

a.l.u. approves with the following recommended conditions. number one, sales of alcohol beverage should be permitted between the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. daily. number two, the following alcohol beverages should not be sold in quantities of fewer than three individual containers per sale. number one, beer, including malt beverages and malt liquors products and containers of 40 ounces or less. two, premixed wine commonly known as wine coolers. three, premixed distilled spirits, cocktails, number three, beer and malt beverage products regardless of size shall only be sold in pre-packaged unit quantities. number four, no wine should be sold in bottles or containers of less than 750 ml.

number five, petitioner shall actively monitor the area under their control in an effort to prevent the loitering of persons on any property adjacent to the licensed permits as depicted on the most recently certified abc253. and number six, any graffiti painted or marked upon the premise or any adjacent area under the control of the licensee shall be removed or painted over within 72 hours of being applied. noted the applicant has agreed with the above recommended conditions. >> supervisor sheehy: thank you. are there any questions? thank you. call up moses karet from supervisor kim's office. >> good evening, supervisors. we would just like to encourage the applicant to install lighting and cameras as part of

their application and to help out with this, the street cleaning that will inevitably occur in front of the store front. so, those are the very simple things that we are asking. thank you. >> supervisor sheehy: thank you. could we hear from the owners now, if they are here? >> good morning. we are the owners. and we have committed with city to clean up our sidewalk. we already installed cameras and we will provide lighting for space and we will not operate out of the hours the permit allows us to sell alcohol, anyway. >> thank you. any questions? >> just for sergeant george.

are those additional requirements requested by supervisor kim's office already part of the conditions or do we need to add those as additional conditions? >> what happened with this one, the conditions were signed prior to hearing from supervisor kim's office, so we could not add to it but we did speak with abc and justin jep also spoke with noel from supervisor kim's office and they don't have conditions to enforce like that. so that's why we added the monitoring of trying to add these conditions to mitigate the concerns. but abc doesn't even have conditions as far as street cleaning. so that's why we put the latter. >> deputy city attorney is not here, wondering how we can include those as conditions.

>> right. >> if you give me a moment i could contact him. maybe go back to the item. >> come back to the item later? >> maybe we could open it up and close public comment and then -- >> good idea. we'll hold off until we hear from the city attorney. now is there anyone, any members of the public who would wish to testify, speakers will have two minutes. please speak your first and last name clearly and those persons who have prepared written statements are encouraged to leave a copy with the clerk for inclusion in the official file. no applause or booing is permitted. are there any individuals interested in testifying now? about this matter? >> good morning, supervisors, peter warfield, you usually see me in another context but i'm

here for one of your items today. in my other context i know a lot about open government and i'm disappointed to see that the speaker cards do not say that they are optional and i think it would be useful, particularly for the item that i'm here for, item four, to make announcements -- >> supervisor sheehy: we are not hearing on item four. >> i'm saying on every item it should be clear that speaker cards are optional and that people not only do not have to provide speaker cards, but that they don't even have to give a name if they don't wish to do so. it's part of the sunshine awards. and i think for people who may not want to give their names, their impression may be the speaker card is required. >> supervisor sheehy: thank you. noted. any other individuals who wish to testify public comment, and i note you do not have to have a speaker card nor identify yourself by name.

public comment is closed. so i think we have a question for the city attorney. >> deputy city attorney, so i understand the committee's question is whether you can impose new conditions in addition to those requested by the police department. the board can't impose binding conditions on liquor licenses. only the state agency can do that. but the board in its resolution can state what conditions the board wants the state to impose. and you regularly do that. pt usually your conditions overlap almost completely with the police department, but you can add additional conditions in your discretion and they will all be considered by the state. >> so, i would like to propose that we include the additional

conditions requested by supervisor kim that the owner of the building or the applicant for this liquor license keep the street in front of the building clean, maintain visible lighting, and cameras. in front of their building. so i make that motion to amend. >> without objection. motion passes. and with that, i make a motion to send this item forward with positive recommendation. >> no objection, motion passes. madam clerk, item two. >> clerk: ordinance amending the police code to require applicants for cannabis to be a collective labor agreement or bo

bona fide labor organization. >> supervisor sheehy: this is an important piece of legislation that fulfills the promise of our cannabis legislation allowing adult use that i carried, along with mayor lee, at the end of last year. we had spoken about making sure that every person who -- that everyone in the labor industry would have the opportunity to organize and this makes real that promise. so, miss garcia. > good morning, supervisors. jennifer garcia. local 647. supports the supervisors amendment to place code section 1602 and 1609, requiring cannabis businesses with ten or more employees to enter into and abide by the terms of a labor

peace agreement. estimated 230,000 people employed in the legal cannabis industry in the u.s. number is expected to double by 2021. the jobs are tightly clustered in certain areas. san francisco is the number two cannabis job market. thankfully, san francisco is number one in setting labor standards. we create policies that support our working families. san francisco does not need more scooter jobs. we should expect the industry to ensure that existing jobs and the jobs being created are beneficial to our community. san francisco workers should be moving forward as this industry moves forward. professional work force with core union worker protections is crucial for a safe, competitive, marketplace for consumers and good jobs for san francisco. labor is committed to working

with cannabis businesses, big and small, to help build a successful industry with a thriving, diverse and trained work force. there are many requirements that cannabis businesses must fulfill in order to be issued a permit. section 1609-8 states written verification the owner of the real property where the cannabis business will be located consents to its use as a cannabis business. i strongly believe workers deserve the same or more consideration than that of a building. a labor peace agreement for workers is not an unreasonable act. labor asks for your support of these amendments. >> supervisor sheehy: thank you. i do know that we were submitted a memo from the city attorney that, you'll be around if we have questions about that? great. now, i'm opening it up to public comment. anyone who would wish to

testify, please come forward or line up on the side. and we usually do it from the left, but that's ok. please. >> i'm michael cobruno, here to speak on behalf of the cannabis industry. we had a meeting with supervisor sheehy and had requested continuance of this matter. we said it's preempted by federal law the way it's written. and asked for additional time, we believe there is also information from the state legislature regarding the matter about preemption, so that letter has been submitted and we hope the city attorney takes a look at it. >> supervisor sheehy: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, members of the committee. karen woods, i'm here on behalf of eric pearson and the spark organization. i'm licensing and compliance officer. and we also would like the

committee to continue this item for at least a week and short of that, we would request the legislation be amended to make the final l.t.a. required as contingency for the renewal of the permit. and to be clear, it's not because we dislike labor or don't like the peace agreement, but it's already required of the local ordinance and state law. this issue has come to light in the 11th hour during a time at which many of the operators who will be affected by the law are in the process of navigating our 90-day renewal licenses and submitting annual licenses to the state. unfortunately, despite having a seat on the task force, labor organizations have failed to bring the matter before the task force for proper vetting before industry and the community at large. as a result, the committee has not been able, has not been afforded a proper time period at which to meet with industry to discuss what the impacts will be. in addition to the legal issues raised, we have yet to have

fully vetted, which we have yet to fully vet. we have concerns about the union to negotiate, over 200 peace agreements here in san francisco before the issuance of the permit. reminder, only 3 or 4 of these represents and they are responsible for negotiating 200 labor peace agreements. there has not been time and i'm afraid there won't be time. so, for those reasons, and before burdening with any more rules and regulations, it's requested to wait for one more week to discuss and reach appropriate agreement on the timeline. amendment would still guarantee the agreements, establish a responsible timeline and most importantly, provide both sides with enough sides to -- >> supervisor sheehy: thank you. i want to make a point.

labor peace agreement has been in state law, it was in the regulations that the city passed and all we are doing is putting a date to that, which is saying when you get your permit you need to have the labor peace agreement. and i do find it interesting that there's so much resistance to making sure that every person working in the cannabis industry has the right to organize. to participate in a union. we are not requiring people to be in unions but are saying that they have the right to organize, and you know, this is an industry that's largely been underground, and has not been accessible to labor and now that it is above ground i don't see why this becomes the most burdens, something that's been talked about since the passage, since the legislature took it up is a major issue. per the litigation, i find it

interesting when someone already suing the city says they want to litigate with us again. so, i do think the preemption issue, market participant theory, i know well from having created and got, and passed and defended the equal benefits ordinance is not settled completely. i do note that the market participant theory was based on a boston harbor case that did involve prevailing wages and labor and find it interesting that the industry is threatening to bring down the rath of the federal government on the city of san francisco when we are protecting the industry from the federal government. so the irony here is not lost on me, so if any of my colleagues from any comments that they would like to make. no comments. yeah, i just was going to -- yeah, so, is there any public comment on this? oh, we need to close public comment, i'm sorry. public comment is closed. anyone else wish to testify?

>> good morning, public comment. hi, i'm jennifer schwab, a representative in the cannabis for the teamsters union and here on behalf of the joint council 7 of northern california for the teamsters and doug would love to be here but is out on meetings. teamsters represent more than 100,000 individuals in northern california and 12,000 in the city and county of san francisco and we need to protect the workers. working on this regulation, they

support the peace agreement. we have witnessed multiple companies attempting to avoid signing l.p.a.s, why this particular regulation is so important to protect workers. that's pretty much all i have to say. thank you for including, it's really important to support our workers in the industry that is brand-new and forming. and it gives them an opportunity to emerge from the black market and have a really solid career in an industry that they love. so, thank you. >> supervisor sheehy: thank you. any additional public comment? public comment is closed. >> i just, i wanted to echo supervisor sheehy and thank him for taking leadership on this issue. the legalization of adult use marijuana in california is so exciting for many reasons. but one of the most important

reasons is that we are finally bringing up from the shadows an industry that's going to provide jobs that are, can provide a living wage that are an alternative to minimum wage, service worker jobs that are open to a set of the workforce that you know, quite frankly, the tech industry, which is the industry that prior to now has been the newest flourishing industry in san francisco and the benefits of jobs in that industry have not been equally felt by all communities in san francisco. so, the fact that this new industry will be open to all communities is one of the reasons that i've been so enthusiastic about the legalization of adult use marijuana and we need to make sure those are good jobs, that

workers have voice in their jobs and the only way to do that is when they are unionized. at will employment does not allow them to have lower power, and less power of their boss and i'm very proud to be co-sponsoring this legislation. thank you. >> yes, i just want to concur with my colleagues, supervisor ronen, and just say this industry we are now embarking on should be on all union jobs. we see the retail market diminishing before our very eyes because of organizations and companies like amazon, that we have to protect the retail workers and i think every phase, whether it's delivery or it's the retail part of it, it should be union. quite frankly, more than ever now, workers need protections

and organized labor sets the standard for a living wage and wage conditions in this country. and the only way that we as legislators actually can be assured that people are being paid a living wage and have worker protections is because we rely heavily on the unions, so i understand the growing pains but i think these are sort of growing pains that i think we can work through as we start to embark on expanding and deepening this industry, thank you. >> supervisor sheehy: no further comments, can i have a motion to send it to the board for recommendation without objection, the motion carries. >> i'm sorry, there was a red line here. were you submitting amendments? >> no. >> supervisor sheehy: we now hear item two.

>> clerk: three, hearing to evaluate the impact, success and effectiveness of the cigarette butt ashcan pilot program and outreach strategies in district one and district four. >> back in january i called for the hearing to evaluate impact, success and effectiveness of the cigarette butt ashcan pilot launched last summer in district one and district four. it's no secret that cigarette butts were the number one most litterred item in the city, according to the surf rider foundation. because of this, a number of cigarettes litter hot spots were selected as locations for ashcan installations and we have seen with robust outreach in education, residents are utilizing the ashcan to properly dispose of cigarette litter instead of flicking them on the streets and sidewalks. san francisco public works, department of environment, surf rider foundation and

neighborhood associations have all worked to install ashcan and cigarette litter hot spots, particularly where it can directly enter the ocean and bay and along commercial corridors where the cigarette litter is not only unsightly but also a source of pollution. it's been amazing to see a constant that started with just a few cans on balboa merchant corridor in my district has expanded to an entire program. in other neighborhoods like the sunset. and despite the anecdotal successes we have seen and heard, allow us to have the conversation about the effectiveness of ashcans to curb cigarette litter to expanding the program to benefit the entire city of san francisco. so with that, we have a few department presenters here

today. first sunshine swinford, and shelly erickson of surf rider foundation, san francisco chapter and also jeremy spits of san francisco public works, i would like to welcome you all up to present. as mentioned before, sunshine swinford of the san francisco environment, shelly erickson and jere jeremy. >> my name is sunshine, i'm lead staffer with the project, kicking off titled every butt welcome here and joined by two co-presenters, shelly and jeremy. and joined by two colleagues from the department of the environment, charles sheehan and julie bryant. so, what's the problem with

cigarette butts? they are the number one littered item in san francisco. we know this because in 2009 and 2014 the controllers office and department of the environment initiated litter studies conducted to determine the proportion of tobacco-related litter to nontobacco-related litter. cigarette butt litter makes up 53% by item on the streets and sidewalks. cigarette butts or the filter are made of tiny strands of plastic, and they do not biodegrade. the butts are loaded with chemicals such as arsenic and lead that are poisoning animals that mistake them for food. when the chemicals leach into the ocean and ground water, threaten the safety of the fish we eat and the water we drink. the sad truth is, the filters are tobacco industry gimmick

that trick the smoker to thinking they are smoking a healthier cigarette. despite manuel street sweeping, beach clean-up and litter abatement, $0.75 on a pack of cigarettes, cigarette butts are still in the environment. so last june to kick them off the curb, supervisors announced an innovative pilot program to install receptacles across their districts. these aim to provide a resource or a proper place for smokers to place their unwanted butt. although some smokers dispose of their butts, most do not. flicking a cigarette is a social norm and this is the behavior we want to change. on the morning of the beach clean-up, we also hosted the pilot launch, sorry, hosted a beach clean-up. you can see both supervisors

holding the butt full of butts, totally full, this butt holds about 9,000 cigarette butts, and it just, once again, shows, these were collected in about an hour, and how nasty the pieces of trash really are. so, our partners on the project include both the supervisors sandra three fewer, katy tang, san francisco public works and additional collaborators that provided a lot of conversation and some folks already working on the issue. include national park service, california coastal commission, san francisco state university, university of san francisco, department of public health, save the bay, and shark stewards. so, utilizing both surf rider and department of the environment volunteer teams, prior to the official launch, 40 cigarette butt cans like the one you see here were installed

along ocean beach as well as on commercial corridors in the sunset and richmond districts. special thanks to the volunteer teams and our lead, ken, who is pictured here, for contributing over 50 hours of time for the receptacle installations. specifically the cans were first installed in the parking lot atlantic ocean beach, as well as the promenade, and along high foot traffic areas such as geary, balboa, irving, after a couple months into the pilot, a few additional cans were installed as part of a corridor walk by supervisor sandra fewer and public works, additional cans were added and requested on judah, in front of pittsburgh pub and trouble coffee. the 40 receptacles were paid for by public works. additional funds were provided by supervisor katy tang to conduct education, provide

signage and materials and to pay for pocket ash trays. we developed a color coding system to group the collection rates by either green for low, yellow for medium, and red for high. as expected, the high number of butts collected are where folks tend to linger longer in front of bars and restaurants, such as ireland 32, abby tavern, underdogs, always high collection cans. so far in ten months since the launch, we have collected and counted every butt and we, 100,000 butts we have so far. this is a huge success. this means that smokers made the choice and took the action 100,000 times to place their butt in the right place. and i want to thank the public works ambassadors for diligence counting every butt and sending along the data. we are averaging 10,000 butts

per month, so every butt really does count. so, although this is a big butt number, how do we really know we are making a difference in reducing litter? once again, our volunteer teams from surf rider and department of the environment conducted litter scans. in four locations before and after the pilot, and we are seeing a real decrease in litter with an average close to 60%. the results of the litter scans correlate with the system of low to high ranked collection cans. for example, where we see the highest reduction of litter, the highest number of butts collected. so, it's one thing to launch the program and install receptacles, another to get smokers to be responsible and use the cans. so how did we do it? education is a crucial component in changing behavior as we all know. i developed scripts and surveys and outreach materials, to

educate residents and businesses that cigarette butts are instead plastic and toxic to the environment. i hired a team of folks that can conduct education in both english, cantonese and mandarin, and a decal with the tag line every butt welcome here and encouraging smokers to dispose of their butts. and smokers were happy to receive a pocket ash tray. if they are not, we hear one, oh, i need one for my brother, sister, parent who smokes. i was giving a presentation with a group of students that have a focus on marine debris this semester and i started the conversation by asking how many of you know someone who smokes, every student raised their hand and the second question, how many do you know someone who smokes who tosses their butts into the neighborhood. every student raises their hand.

we all see the problem, so educating not only the smoker but the friends and families. i'm now going to turn it over to shelly erickson with surf rider. >> hello, everybody. thank you so much for having me here today, i'm shelly from the surf rider foundation. surf rider is an international non-profit organization dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of our world's oceans, waves and beaches through the powerful activist network. we here in san francisco are an all volunteer chapter, and we have a lot of programs aimed at ending plastic pollution and protecting our eroding coastlines. as part of that, we host three beach clean-ups every month at baker and ocean beach, and i lead the program called "hold on to your butt," what we are all here to talk about today to address the problem of cigarette butt litter.

i started the san francisco part of this program in 2015, and we have been collecting butts and recycling them. all roads lead to the ocean and so we took our clean-up off the beaches and headed into nearly every neighborhood in san francisco, so we have been in the richmond, the sunset, in north beach, the mission, in the castro, my district, thank you. supervisor sheehy for your support with putting up the big cans, a big plug for that. but we bring our big clear butt around to show everybody the naked truth that cigarette butts are the number one most littered item snefr where. we have from 8 to 20 volunteers that are clean-up, and we net thousands and thousands of butts every single time. so, obviously we can't do it alone as a volunteer group and i just have to say thank you so much to the board of supervisors, to supervisor fewer and tang and all of you here for really taking, taking the time and the passion and the effort

to help us out. and obviously we also could not do it without department of public works, having the sidewalk ambassadors to empty the cans is so instrumental in helping this program along and most importantly, department of the environment and particularly sunshine has been so instrumental connecting us with the right people and the passion and drive to bring this program to where we are today. and luckily we are not alone. cities all over the country and in fact all over the world are taking -- taking up the torch, i guess, and providing infrastructure and education for smokers so that we don't have to have this cigarette litter problem anymore. with that, i'll turn it over to jeremy. thank you so much. >> good morning, chair sheehy and supervisor ronen and fewer. my name is jeremy spitz.

i want to thank sunshine and shelly for all their work on this pilot program. public works is really excited to be a partner in this project. we feel it's been a resounding success. ashcans help keep litter off the streets. as sunshine mentioned, cigarette butts make up 53% of all litter. small size make them difficult to pick up and labor intensive for the staff. our primary role is to empty the cans. that work falls to our community corridor ambassadors. it puts under employed and unemployed people to work sweeping up litter from sidewalks, cleaning tree basin, and helping to troubleshoot graffiti, broken sidewalks and other problems along the city's commercial corridors. ambassadors help empty the cans, report damage or vandalism and keep practice of the number of butts collected.

an example of one of their walking sheets where they actually tally all the numbers collected. the data is important because we can make adjustments to the program and relocate cans that are not being utilized. for example, 25th and geary, only picked up three butts in a month, or i think that's a week, right? a week. so, we will probably relocate that one. the program has also had a personal impact on our ambassadors as well. one is here today, waiting outside and will speak during public comment, it had a personal impact on her behavior with cigarette butts. and director nuru has committed to support the project. 116 corridor routes throughout the city. and we will support ashcans on any one of them. thanks again, sunshine will now come back up and wrap up our presentation. thank you.

>> so, we are, next step, we are close to launching an ad campaign to further our message utilizing newspaper racks with the image you see here. our hope is to move some of the medium collection cans to high collection cans. we are discussing options of creating guidelines that we could use for events and temporary sites like construction sites to deal with cigarette butt litter. we are generating more interest and getting requests all the time from community organizations, japan town community benefit district and north beach neighbors are in the cue to receive more receptacles. and pocket ash trays in the

tenderloin. and we realize as we have shown today, the more chance we have to educate folks, the more butts we can get off the streets. so, thank you for listening, and thank you for keeping s.f. butt-free. >> thank you very much. colleagues, any questions? no, ok. thank you, colleagues, before we head to public comment, i wanted to give ashley summers a chance to come up. supervisor tang and ashley have been great partners of this and i would like to invite her to give comments about their office work, the work that the office is doing and also the vision for expansion moving forward. >> good morning, thank you. i know we all know that clean streets are something that all of our constituents talk about all the time. in 2017 report done by surf rider, more than 6,000 butts were collected on 19th avenue alone in less than two hours. we know litter is a behavioral

issue. there are manual, it persists. we can keep up or try to stop it from happening. when the office looked at solutions to butt litter, we brainstormed about you none were the root cause. banning cigarettes, proposed to do that, unfortunately, failed in committee earlier this month. we hope that our state leaders will continue to push efforts like these, studies have shown cigarette filters do not make them less harmful to smokers and are filled with toxic chemicals that are in the environment and the oceans. working closely with s.f. surf rider, the fee pays for the program, so integrate it into the work.

working with environment, public works and supervisor fewer and the team, implymented a six-month pilot of 40 cans in district 4 and district 1. and they trained them how to empty the cans and armed them with pocket ash trays. additional, led by sunshine, outreach efforts with surf rider. supervisor tang and i went on a walk with outreach team, not only talking with smokers and not embarrassing or alienating them, and merchants were also given pocket ash trays to hand out to smokers. announced the pilot in june of 2017, ocean beach with supervisor fewer and we concluded it in december of last year, and we saw 60% reduction in cigarette butt litter in pilot areas. we believe an expansion of this pilot and dedicated coordination between public works and s.f.

environment could shift the norm for how smokers dispose of their butts and divert millions from the sewers and oceans. we would like to thank everyone who worked with us over the last year on this program, including nuru, gordon, spitz, sunshine, shelly, supervisor fewer and her team, environment now team, and michelle from surf rider who is picking up butts every day. we are looking forward to supporting the efforts throughout the sunset and hopefully in many other neighborhoods in san francisco and supporting surf rider and s.f. environment to hold on to their butts. thank you. >> thank you very much, ashley. with that, i would like to open it up for public comment. any members of the public that would like to speak on this item? please come forward.

ok, that's great. >> hi, any people who would like to speak on public comment, please come on up. and you have two minutes. thanks. >> hi, hello, everyone, i'm jenny zow. we were particularly interested in changing the cigarette butt littering behaviors at a local chinese bakery. all the smokers get pushed off to the side of the donut shop by other businesses. this created a major smoking hot spot. the community of smokers are chinese only immigrants, and worried about outsiders, we broke in. they saw i was an american girl embracing my chinese culture. i spoke with them in cantonese. i built a relationship with

them, and ash trays and dispose of the cigarette butts. every morning from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. hanging out with the community. once i established myself as somebody their friend and monitoring disposal habits, they started adapting behaviors. properly placing the cigarette butts in the cans more and more. and then slowly i started removing myself from the community a little at a time. i would walk away, do some business outreach and glance across the street to keep an eye on them. without them knowing what i was doing, started as five minutes, to 15, 30, and 45 minutes. what i found, they had adapted their behavior without my constantly having to be there to keep an eye on them. i eventually removed myself entirely, and examined the site for cigarette butts. we found within a month, we had reduced the litter in the major smoking hot spot by 40%. learned with community-based outreach we can change the behavior of even the most

stubborn litterers. and it was cleaner, so people felt more comfort and, the owner of donut time was so happy that he requested a more permanent installation of cigarette butt disposal unit. something he thought initially was not going to help the problem. >> thank you. thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, my name is michelle, i've lived on 21st and teraval almost 60 years. as a surf rider volunteer, and thanks to pops, over the course of the last year we were able to install seven canisters. i have personally emptied and counted each butt deposited. the cans have prevented 10,499 butts from disintegrating into the precious san francisco community streets and ocean. every week each can gets more butts. and this is through word of

mouth mostly, like events such as tabling at mccoffin movie night at the work. on a daily basis, individual smokers are spying the cans and making the decision to use them. i get so much positive feedback from the business owners and from citizens when they see me emptying these cans. i've been told they are a brilliant idea and people are supportive of seeing them everywhere. the feedback keeps me putting my sneakers on every sunday morning to get out there and empty the recycling containers. my vision for butts what s.f. did for dog waste. when i was a kid, picking up the dog waste on parks and streets was not a habit. now most dog walkers would not imagine living the mess behind. i believe most smokers will recycle given the easy, convenient social option that the recycling cans provide. thank you for your time. >> thank you, thank you for your volunteerism. next speaker, please.

>> good morning, everyone. i work for d.p.w. as an ambassador. location i work is irving, so before sunshine, i came maybe like a week after i started working. irving street has a million and 1 cigarette butts and i have to sweep it from every corner to between every car, there are cigarette butts and i think that the program is good because there's a lot of people that are noticing and i do the outreach, a lot of them where people are using the ash tray and i'm a smoker myself. so the program came, sunshine explained it to me, the importance of the cigarette butts are as far as the ocean. before i did not know the education-wise of it. i'm one of the ones that would be driving down the street, flicking out the window, now i know the education-wise of it, i don't do it anymore, the toxic of the ocean and fish we do eat,

every tiny piece of plastic is in the fish that we eat that we can't see. that's what i learned off sunshine. [please stand by]. .

>> 100 cans does not do it justice. we need not hundreds more of these, we need thousands, and we need outreach. we need to go upstream. we need to convince smokers that what they're doing is a really bad habit, and hopefully they'll see what is doing see

highlights, we have the ability to service those cans, so we will be putting them in those areas. >> supervisor ronen: is that automatically or do i need to apply? >> we want to sort of control and have these cans registered, right, so we have accountability and that it's part of the official program. so we would -- so as a resident or business owner, we can send you the on-line link, and then, you would be in the pipeline to

get ten in the team link and install it. >> supervisor ronen: okay. >> supervisor fewer: actually, i think what is needed to a plan to expand and deepen. i think that i would love to see an expansion plan that would be citywide. >> great. >> supervisor fewer: all right, what are the resources we would need? we would need education, also. we can't always rely on volunteers to be doing it, so for the city to really adopt this officially, then i think i am looking for an expansion plan for the city and county of san francisco and also an idea of where they might go all over. as we heard it's not just so many of them, we need a lot of them. and i think they're so inconspicuous in a way. they're not sitting in a sidewalk or anything, there's on a pole. so i would love to see an expansion plan with actually resources and a budget attached to it, and each department, how

much -- who -- where it would live, sort of, this program, and also to pay for the ambassadors, everything, and education. so let's do a budget for hopefully expand this to the whole city and county of san francisco, but then, also having a budget attached to it. >> great. i was hoping you would say that. first, we're ready to go. we learned a lot of lessons from the pilot. we had a plan before we implemented the pilot, and even before the pilot, we had a pilot at san francisco state. so we would love to show you that and do our best at providing and, you know, calculating out what we need, what resources we need, and who owns it to make this happen. >> supervisor fewer: do you have a preliminary budget right now? >> well -- i -- we have estimates on, you know, what we've -- what outreach materials cost, what the cans cost. so if we look at how many

can -- we could give -- we could give an estimate, actually. >> supervisor fewer: oh, great, would you stop by my office on your way out and speak with chael sea in my office who's staffing the budget. >> yeah. that would be great. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. comments, colleagues? >>. >> supervisor sheehy: i just want to thank you, supervisor fewer for bringing this forward. i think they're working on a pilot in my district, which i find it very interesting and hope that it goes forward positively. i do want to thank the ad slvoy of everyone that brought this forward. >> supervisor fewer: the volunteerism is incredible. thank you so much. so i just want to thank everyone for making this happen, but especially to our presenters, everyone who's been making this such a good project and such a feel good project. actually, i think the success of the project is really, we

can just say thank you to all the volunteers and everyone who's dedicated to saving our oceans and our environment. so i would love to see this budget to expand it citywide. i think it's time. we've done these corridors, we see the results are very positive, so thank you very much. and then, i'd like to make a motion to file this hearing. >> supervisor sheehy: without objection, the hearing is filed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. thanks, all. >> supervisor sheehy: thank you. so madam clerk, item number four. [agenda item read] >> supervisor sheehy: i'll wait, give people a chance to kind of -- sure. so this hearing is on the

impact on the health and welfare of tenants residing in a large and speculative rental units. we're looking to have as complete disclosure of issues affecting city's rent controlled tenants. many conversations with tenants have revealed an erosion of deep rent controlled housing stock since a number of buildings have been taken over by a number of companies. this has affected the rental market, and the management companies conduct has been -- is the basis of this hearing. a variety and a mix of legal, illegal and disputable legal means have been confirmed and stated by tenants. many of the rhencontroled tenants have voluntarily decided that they have had to leave after the ongoing harassment of the property management. specifically at a property in

my district, at 1064 delores, the tenants have suffered a litany of construction projects, unnoticed water shutoffs, electric power shutoffs, and rent increases. only five long-term tenants remain. the building manager is responsible for 23 other different properties, and both types charges for basic repairs to individual units have occurred that have increased -- which have not increased the cost of maintenance and capital improvement. instead, the owner and management have -- have passed these through to the tenants which have made them less affordable. living in these units has create emotional and financial disturbances, and this type of harassment has caused people to -- to -- to leave, to escape the -- the -- the harassment.

some of the issues we've seen are nonemergent apartment entries, days of water service interruptions, days of electric service interruptions, ongoing construction projects, 51 consecutive days without available fire escape, 43 days of a suspension of the garage parking due to crux cruxes -- due to construction, net rent increase of 25% over that period. so the tenants in this particular building pay between 1500 and 2500. their rent is being raised to 4300 -- between 4300 and 5,000 a month. so before we start, i do want to give a particular nod to supervisor fewer, who's bringing legislation to address some of these abuses that will be heard on friday, i think, at rules, at 10:30. it is nice when we are able to identify a problem.

at least some of the solution's already in the works, so i do want to commend her for her work. and so to begin the hearing, we have brad hearn for the housing rights committee and then two of his tenants, landra amino and mina tenka, and do you have a presentation that you'd like to make? >> good