>> this is easily our most volatile revenue in the city. it's paid at the moment properties change hands and given t- - given the changes the voters have adopted, we have higher rates that becomes a key driver of what the tax looks like. and the rate at which those changed hands ier uneven. you can see here what that performance looked like in recent years. and you can see how jagged and volatile this tax can be. in '08-the beginning of the last recession, we had a year that we received $50 million for an entire year. and you can see the improvement we've seen since then, largely driven by both r increases and more transactions of downtown office, hotels, and propertiesemercial ere were times in '16-'17

where in a single month we received more transfer month than we did in the entirety of '08-'09. so we've had a remarkable run-up. you can see we hit a peak of $400 million last fiscal year. and now you can see how far in the current year.eak now we're estimg$257 million in transfer tax for the current year. that's $150 million loss versus the prior year, which was that extraordinary peak, and it's being driven by the pace that commercial properties trade hands. upersor yean a e follow-up question. i guessnsaxe are more unpredictable but i'm surprised for the property tax, i would have thought it would be a little more predictable. it's good that we have more money, but i'm surpred that

we're that off in terms of estimating it. >> so what's been driving property tax, which is definitely more tn transfer tax, the improvement we've seen is the rate by which we sessas's offhas through their billr. so we've had a remarkable amount of property changing hands in the city. all of that property needs to be assessed by the assessor's office and it adds it to the roll going forward. so there's been a backlog of property tax bills to be worked. this has been true in the city for manyyears. and what's driving that passenger, the assessor's office is working through the backlog more quickly than we've expected. so that's adding more money to the roll than what we expected than what we thought to be the case. >> supervisor yee: kudos to assessor. >> i agree. i will note where'll e the

current fiscal year on transfer tax and into the fiscal year is a key tax us. thedne revenuri improvur btsselin contributions. so some of the improvement you're seeing here in taxes is driving smaller increases or improvements to the transfers that were required to send to the m.t.a., the library, the schools, children, open ac, and other funds. and there are more details about the specific values for these in terms of department operations, this is showing you a summary of both revenues and uses for our largest departments. again, there is much more detail in the report itself. the number that sticks out on this page is $80.5 million for the department of public health, which is what is driving the bottom line improvement of $84

million. ts that $80 million, it $48 million improvement from our projection just three months ago. and almost the entirety of that improvement or $39 million of that change is being driven by a large, e-timeaynt received associated with the aca expansion population that the federal government has odthe timing of how theaym ratheha reeceivi payment this year, we actually received two payments this year. and that will not occur in the future, but for this year, it's two payments and that single act drives a $39 million variance. there's a lot more information in the point, but i know you've had a long meeting. this is a good news report, again, being driven by the department of public health.

it substantially reduces the deficit for the fiscal year. now we're 10 months through the fiscal year, so we're more comfortable with -- we're projecting a shorter window to ri these numbers there. is so uncertainty with in particular transfer tax and volatility at the general hospital. and other things are creating uncertainty when it comes to public health revenues. and our next update from our office will be whateall the revenue letter, which is our commentary following the mayor's budget in early june regarding the revenue assumptions in the coming two years. with that, i'm happy to answer ny questions you might have. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. you answered my question about transfer tax. also answered the questionhat around the volatility

around zuckerberg general, and that has to do with the cost of service. we have morpleccessing department of public health resources than anticipated. is that what it was? >> public health revenues in the current year have outperformed the budget, if we look backo the original budgets today. and it's being driven by a number of things. a census at the general hospital that's higher thanbudgeted. re patients mean more payers. the coverage ratio of those that have insurance versus those that don't is continuing, which islt. so thepit hos is receiving more revenue, and some of that is associated with the aca as well. and in this report, you have a very large, one-time payment, which is from the federal governmentssiatedh the medical association. so those are the drivers in the

variance. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. do you have any questions for the controller? all right. thank you i have much. -- thank you very much. let's take public comment on item 7. uld like to comment on item 7, controller's nine-month budget status report. seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you for your presentation. is there an action on this? can i get a motion to -- supervisor yee or stefani. supervisor stefani made a hearing to file this hearing as heard, seconded by yee. we're taking it without action. is there any otherusin befohis? >> clerk: that completes the agenda for today. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. we are adjourned.

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>> supervisor cohen: and we're live. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. i want to welcome you back to the budget and finance coittee. my names malia cohen. i'm the chamber of this committee, and to su fewer, to my t rt supervisor hy.je left is supervisor kathrin stefanirthe le anthony yee. clerk to kathn jors, and we are grateful to sfgovtv for their broadcasts.

madam clerk, are there any annocements? [agenda item read] >> supervisor cohen: okay. thank you very much. could you please call items 1, 2, and 3 together. >> clerk: yes. item number 1 is a resolution determining and declaring that the public interest and necessity demand the construction, reconstruction, acquisition, imprement, of thmbarcaengthening andrepa al infrastructure. item 2 is a plan reviewing the city's two year fiscal plan to increase the proposed seawall bond from 350 miln milliono fund phase one of the seawall program. and item number 3 is an ordinance calling and providing held in the city and county of n n tuesda november 6, 2018.

>> supervisor cohen: great. thank you very much. first, i'd like to call up our city administrator, naomi kelley. she will be making a brief presentation, and following her will be the director of the san francisco port miss elaine forbes. >> good afternoon, supervisors. naomi kelly. supervisor administrator. fi on behalf of the clapita planning committee. i am very happy to be here today to introducehe seawall earthquake safety bond measures that are before you for recommendation and incln o the november 20 supports our regional transportation including the b.a.r.t. and muni tubes, and fc it protects our city from flooding, it supports critical utilities, whether it's water, sewer, electrical, telecom, and

emergey rponse and disaster recovery infrastructure. it makes it psible for our way of life and it's a big part of who we are in san francisco. the seawall's importance to so many differentsets is how we've come to unrstand the urgency of the need in the first place. in 2014, under the leadership of then-mayor ed lee, the city introduced the lifeline's interdependency studies to study the interdependency s was identified as one of the mo critical interdependency issues that could impact emergency response efforts and the safety of our people and property following a major earthquake. on we understood the magnitude of the risk and the need, the seawall rose to the top of our capital plannng priorities. the seawall bond before you and hopefully placed on our november 2018 ballot is in the

amount of 425 million, which was recommended unanimously by the capital planning committee earlier this spring. i'll wrap up here by saying that as city administrator, it has be adtifyig that we have kept our eyen this issue and we need to make the seawall stronger for our residents, and our visitors, and with that i'd like to introduce elaine forbes, port director. >> supervisor cohen: thank u. >>hank you so much, city administrator kelly. i'm elaine forbes, port director. first i'd like to thank you, and m of rs the committee for having a hearing o this item. i would like to thank director kelley because she has provided a lot of the funding to keep the seawallroject going. i'm very proud to represent the

port staff and commission in what's really a milestone day for the port as we work together to protect our city by strengthening the embarcadero seawall. isk that you place a 425 million general obligation bond on the november ballot to support the seawall earthquake safety and disaster prevention program. an if i could please move to the overhead. the seawall, as city administrator kelly said, is rs old and it's served oury and region very well over the last decade, but we now must make significant investment for the seawall to protect the next generation. this bond will strengthen the seawall, to protect the city from earthquake, address flood risk and provide current adaptation for sea level rise. staff has prepared the geobond describing the port program and

the need for the funding. we'll make final edits to this report once the committee takes action today but before the bond legislation is introduced at the board of supervisors. so members of the public may be i'll say you're not alone. because it is unseen infrastructure. we all don't know about this work horse for us. it's three miles long. it stretches from fisherman's wharf in the north to mission creek in thuthe s te of california built this infrastructure between 1870 to 1910, turning mud flats into a vibrant deep water port. during the construction, we reclaimed 500 acres of land in san francisco. it provides flood protection to the reclaimed land and our san francisco neighborhoods and provides critical regional buildings and infrastructure.

between san francisco bay first street are made possible by the seawall. however that filled land was created way before modern engineering standards, and that land -- that filled land is subject to quefacon during a major earthquake. city director kelley describes the seawall being on the city's lifelines of critical infrastructure in 2014. we were described as one of the most critical lifeline engineering study. we found in aajo m seismic event, the land behind the seawall will liquefy, causing manyoblems. quite simply, it in unsafe condition which we cannot stand

by. in addition to this earthquake risk, the embarcadero faces current flood and future flood risks. annual close you ares of the embarcadero duringing ktide. b.a.r.t. tunnel is at risk today in a 100 year storm flooding. we know that sea levels are expe o a much as 24 inches by 2050 and 66 inches by 2100. and with just 18 inches of sea rise,din foo on the embarcadero will be a regular occurrence and will have flood problems in sections of the downtown. we need to bolster and protect our line of defense. why is this so critical? the lifelines council report raised alarms regarding the seawall because of the important role it plays for the city and the region. first, it's a key piece of the city's response in case of disaster. in an earthquake, d-e-m expects

the waterfront to provide emergency response to people, to get people home in the region and to get goods in. it's a major place of evacuati delivy ofdisterworker and supplies. the seawall protects our regional transportation hub. 440,000 people arrive by boat, b.a.r.t., muni every day. over half a million people board m tinsn a daily basi it provides infrastructure facilities, and it enables 25 million of economic activity and protects over 100 billion of property value. this is what's at stake if we do not act. if we do not act and let disaster strike, the project could cost much more and would harm life safety. what will the bond fund?

the port seeks this geobond thugh a variety o actions, project implementation, pron,otectiitigation and enhancement. through the course of the program, the port will engage a broad range of stakeholders and constituents, especially our city departments, private and public industry, port tenants and interested parties. because this is ourrst major sea level rise project to endeavor, we must eage not only ourselves but young people who will be coming up and dealing with this issue into their lifetimes. this bond will fic improvements to the seawall. current concepts come from prit studies andimilar seattle, which replaced their seawall. potential approaches to seismic retrofit include ground improvements, seawall replacement, structural replacement to utilities, walls, and piers, and utility

replacement. similar to seismic improvements, strategies to combat sea level rise will vary depending on the sectns waro eections are relatively open and will allow fre more flexible strategies with be p expects that these vital improvements will provide future adaptation measures. flood mitigation projects that this bond will fund, we will apply a vetted set of criteria, including considerations of the benefits to life safety and emergency response as well as factors such as project length, risk avoided and community and environmental benefits so that we are spending our dollars as wiselyossie to protect the public. and prepare for sea level rise

what we're predicting for 2100 would cost up to $5 billion. xpect it would take about 30 years to complete allhese improvements. given the sizend scope of this work, we're biting off - ge' thioject into psat really make the most sense for the risk we're facing. phase one will address immediate life safety risks. this is what's before you today, and emergency response and recovery needs and will develop the next set of seismic and adaptation projects. phase two -- and thisinto the midcentuill continue to address seismic retrofit and will address more projects to address sea level rise. phase three, which we expect 2050 to 2100. that envisions a real long-term vision for the waterfront, creating a new le of defene s what is before you.

today, addressing the life safety risks and a down payment on the futureprects. we are continuing to work with our engineering consultant, 2 hill to final lies our phase one graphic. we've begun a multilevel ismic graphic, testing out different ground strengthening techniques. in 2021, full blown construction will begin after we've completed permingndenvin expected to be completed in 2026. the port estimates that this first phase is 500 million, i've said. of course the primary source is a proposed geobond for 425 weso sec hed 10 million

from our federal partners fr army corps of engineers and we are securing 55illion the cu ab 78 is pending. assembly members chiu and ting and state senator weiner are working for us to capture these funds. what is our pact? the port commission approved this plan, we are recommending this to you. we are asking you to send this to the full board today. deputy city attorney givner has some recommendations relative to a split file, and you'l be hearing from supervisor peskin's office about future thmendments otherwise, this is our path to a november question in front of the san francisco voters.

the proposed $425 million seawall bond, again, is a first step in a generational long program to strengthen and make safe our earcade tro a cannot the threats away, and with your leadership, with the leadership of late mayor lee, he asuch aat supporter of this project, mayor farrell, president eed, supervisor peskin, with all of you with our state and local -- our state and federal delegation and our community stakeholders, we can build the future we want to see and epare the framework for our children, and so we urge your support today and'reere t any questions. thank you so much. >> supervisor cohen: thank you, miss forbes. i appreciate your presentation. thank you, miss kelly, for your presentation, as well. i actually have a few questions for the city attorney, and

then, we will hear from s sonny angulo. could you explain to us the change ihe rule that is expected to affect this legislation? >> mr. givner: sure. deputy city attorney jon gier. last year, the state leat ail that requires that any time a ballot measure is proposed to the voters that could increase ta it to have certain information in the measure, including how much will be collected each year, what the potential rate of taxation is, long collection would continue. and so going forward, all tax measures and geobonds must include that information. the legislature is currently

considering a bill that would not apply that new rule to geobonds, so is a little thicl point whether the state law will restrict how we define the question for this bond. in the current ordinance before u, isa proposed obond.ion for the ge >> supervisor cohen: right. >> mr. givne becau the state law might change, our recommendation today is that you can pass out the ordinance onto the full board, and ordinance -- and the board could even vote to placehe ordinance on the ballot over the next several weeks. but before you do that, we recommend you duplicate the file and amend the duplicated file so that you keep a version of the question in committee, so that in july, once we have a better sense of where state ht n's ing, the committee d toe the -- the question ordinance again and tweak the language of the

question and then, the board would change the question by the end of july supvisor en then know about the statrule? when will we know about the state rule? >> mr. givner: we're talking tly the state lobbyists about hen we'll know. if -- if there is no resolution by july, no change in the state law, then, we will advise the board to -- to amend the question. the question currently in this ordinance is anticipating that the state law will be changed to give us flexibility in how we draft the question. >> supervisor cohen: okay. so procedurally, if we duplicate the file, and -- well, if we duplicate the file, how about that affect the election timeline? >> mr. givner: it won't affect the election timeline. you can duplicate the file so then you have two ordinances.

one ordinance, you can pass out of committee today, and the full board can consider it on june 12. >> supervisor cohen: okay. >> mr. givner: the second ordinance, you would amend to basically strip out everything from that ordinance other than the question itself. and so you'd have a very short ordinance that stays in committee that just has the question so that in , say july 5 or -- july 5 committee meeting or july 12 committee meeting, the committee can take that ordinance up that's sitting here before you, and pass that ordinance, and the board could pass that ordinance later in july. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. next want to hear from sonn sonny angulo. >> thank you, supervisor. we have beenalking with the board about some more explicit language in the ordinance that captures some of the acknowledgement around

mitigation as well as the most feasible preferred alternative for construction along the embarcadero so that our voters who have this measure before them understand what our good government policy is and what our accountability is around maximizing these bond dollars, as well as the embarcadero historic district that we will do everything in our power to ensure that the historic assts are preserved and contained. given the time constraints that are with us atmittee we will continue to work with the port to refine that language and bring it to the full board, and the supervisor is happy to offer the amendments at that time. i just wanted to give you a heads up and thank you for hearing this item today. thank you. supersor cohen: thank you. i want to hear from the b.l.a. i think they have some reports

that they want to share with us. >> this $425 million bond would be one of the major funding sources towards the phase one seawall project of about 500,000 -- $500 million excuse me. we summarize the uses of funds on page four of our report. in terms of the bond itself, we understand from the office of public finance, they're looking at about three separate sales of the bonds over five years. each structure is a 20 year bond and interest estimates is about #' $00 million over the 25 years when the bonds are retired. the impact on property taxes, because these are geobonds would be an estimated average about $13 perevery $100,000 of assessed property value over the term, and this amount is within the city's policy of maintaining the impact on taxes to the fiscal year 2005-2006

rate. approval is a policy matter for d requi two thirds sors. vote of the board to be put on the ballot. >> supervisor cohen: all right. thank you very much. why don't we call -- i don't see any names on the roster, so i'm going to assume there are no questions. let's go to public comment. if there's a member of the public that would like to comment on items 1, 2, or 3, you'll have two minutes to do so. >> good afternoon. i've got a special aouement i'm going to do. i told you i'm going to be here every step of the budget and i haveeehe fist years, so i'm going to talk about some parallels. you all talk about risks, the obligations of what's happening in the future. right now, i'm here to say, let it be told that budget book there, i've done gone through it head and toe, as i said before. it's mentioning nothing about

the black population, which is that we're at ri now, and our next governor, who's the next mayor here, who appointed me as the czar 'm testify. now i'm going to be here every step of the way, and i'm going to say in parallel that the city and county don't give a darn about people who look like me, and you, supervisor, that's a true fact. in that being boo, there's asians, latinos, the immigrants, the teachers, the students, and this and that, but everything in there but the blacks. see i'm here to testify. i've got generations after me. see, i say it every time. i've got kids, and they've got kids. i'm a papa. but right now, i'm sing before you all. i'm ace on the case, and i'm going to have some announcements. i'm going to have my tv show

here june 5, down stairs. but this is what i'm going to request. i'm going to request there be an audit on the budget to find out why immigrationot in there. i want an audit on the understanding why we're not nowhere on the budget. now unless i can't read or i'm blind, 'cause if ray charles wonder to look at the ustev books. ain't nothing in there. that's a violation. >> good afternoon, supervisors. let me give kudos to my district supervisor and budget chair, supervisor malia cohen. i'm a long time resident of bayview-hunters point, india basin resident. for the past 18 months, i've had the honor and privilege to be a part of the working group, which is comed 34 san franciscans, and we've been

assisting the port of san francisco in putting together the land use master plan. i've also had the honor to chair the transportation sub committee. i am really surprised. i think the take-away notes here are we are really at a time bomb. san francisco prone to earthquakes. we know what is happening in the region, and we have a history, and 425 million is really a down paymens city administrator and port director elaine forbes mentioned earlier. the earlier we get this done, at the end of the day, theologic sticks of the other , ihink san francisco wants to have it done. i live in district ten, the southern waterfront, the whole city is going to be melt down. when you think about 24 billion. so let's just pray and the upgrade does not even happen in november . at that time, you will have no

choice but to go in emergency and do what you have to do. so let's get this ball ing, and i know all of you will support this bond measure and move it forward. thank you for your time. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, chair cohen, supervisors fewer, stefani, sheehy, and yee. my name is bruce aggett, and i'm a resident of mission bay. i'm a chair of the tjpa cisssi tize advisory committee. as we've heard, san francisco is vulnerable to seismic activity and emerging flood ssk that could impact the entire city. the failure of the embarcadero seawall could have catastrophic

concesuend pose serious risks while hindering the ability of first responders to aid our residents and visitors in the event of an earthquake. the embarcadero swall i xperalrencing lalized flooding due to higher water levels and settlement in certain levels. the shoreline from pier 22 to pier nine includes sof lowest shorelines in san francisco and these areas flood during king tides and storm events. the seawall earthquake safety program is a vital investment in the city's waterfront and will protect the entire city and hasten recovery after a majorearthquake. i'd like to applaud the port and the city agencies for actively addressing these needs for replacing the seawall instead of waiting to react to a catastrophic event during a

crisis situation. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, budget and finance committee. my name is laura xander. i am the chief financial officer of the exploratorium, and wei th three mil range where the seawall sits. through the observatory, the exploratorium is committed and has been doing education in climate change and sea level rise. in fact, the exploratorium has participated in the resilience project around sea level rise in general and is actively involved as an educational partner to various projects around the city and hopes to be partner to the port in educating the public about sea level rise and about earthquakes. as a matter of fact, if you walk in the exploratorium, and youump right ntondouxhibit that

can see tha just with a small jump, the seismic activit occurs. the bond mee.re in support of the exploratorium staff and visitors love our home on the waterfront. we'd like to be there for cades,f more to come, and we do welcome visitors from not just the bay area, but the entire state, the country, and beyond. the u.s. geological survey estimates that t chance of a 6.8 magnitude earthquake or greater striking the bay area in the next 25 years, and that represents in 1996 60 seconds of shaking long the fault and would severely test the infrastructure and the exploratorium itself. so given the importance of the embarcadero seawall and its infrastructure that it supports, it's vital that the city addresses these vital economic interests, among

reasons. thanks so much. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> good morning, chair cohen and supervisors. my name is alex major. i'm here today to speak in support of the port seawall project. the embarcadero seawall is the foundation of 500 acres of downtown neighborhoods, the under pittance of critical infrastuckture. we think it's important to note that one out of every eight jobs in the bay area is located in downtown san francisco, and a 2007 study estimated that the seawall protects over $100 billion of assets and econom activities, so for these reasons, we ask you to support the seawall project. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank goodterno, chaco and members of the committee. my name is thea seldy, and for

identification only, i am the former chair of the citizens oversight committee, and i am the current chair of the san francisco transit riders, which is a grassroots nonprofit that is the voice of the san francisco muni, b.a.r.t., and caltrain riders. and i'm here today to urge you to support this $425 million bond. as you know, the embarcadero seawal supports the regional transportation network system that moves a significant number of local and regional residents and commuters. indeed, 1.1 million people enter the city every day, including 440,000 as director forbes reminded us, who arrive by boat at the ferry building or by the transbay tube on b.a.r.t. in addition, muni brings another half million boardings that arrive downtown.

the army corps of engineers estimates that a 100 year storm would flood the embarcadero subway which wou shutdown both b.a.r.t. and the embarcadero muni stations. i don't have to remind you probably about what happened in 2012 with hurricane sandy e eascoast, which wreaked havoc on the new york subway system and long-term damage from flooding and salt water corrosion are still a problem there. the geobond will allow city to fund protection for the muni b.a.r.t. tunnel and work with city departments to minimize damage to light rail service from sprding in a seismic event, and i ur you to move forward with the $425 million bond. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors.

i'm president of the san francisco firefighters, and i, too, am here to speak in favor of the seawall obligation bond. currently that seawall houses and provides shelter for t oneb in eay area, the st. francis, and if we rememberur not so distant past, it also provided a home to the phoenix, which was the number one source of water during the 1989 earthquake and played a critical role in saving not only the marina by a large cath of the city from the devastating fires after the 1989 earthquake. so we urge you to support this obligation bond and provide adequate funding for public ssmic safety in san francisco. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. good afternoon, chair cohen, supervisors. my name is corrine woods. i'm a member of the port central waterfront advisory ground, and with linda richardson, i've served on the

waterfront plan task force. we've done a deep, deep dive into the some of the issues that the port is facing onhe t seawall really, really came to the of our list. critical. transportation, property values, infrastructure. if we don't have the sewers, the city stops. i urge your support of this bond and thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisor cohen, fellow budget and fiommit members of the my name is timothy wright. the original construction on the seawall started in 1878 and employed workers for four decades, and it was an amazing feat of engineering. today you've heard all the reasons why we should strengthen the seawall.

it will also provide jobs to ouren aorwomen, including job training and opportunities for san francisco residents, we had the skilled labor 100 years ago, and we have the skilled labor today to fix it. i'm asking you to pass this bond measure, and also as a native san franciscan, we need to protect the embarcadero seawall, so thank you for your time. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'mlice rogers. i'm president of the south beach rincon neighborhood association. we have a letter on file with you tohepo three before you today. there's nothing that i can add that's more compelling that the city administrator and director forbes haven't already said. i can only add that these gmeasures have very s orho support in our three neighborhoods. it's not only in our own self-interests since we sort of comprise the central waterfront, but we understand

the critical aspect of this to the infrastructure. we're highly transit depe depe, this is a matter of utmost importance to the entire city. we have a deep commitment to not only a triple bottom line, but also a quadruple or an eight-fold bottom line in maintaining our maritime industries, in preserving our historic ties to the waterfront, huge historic assets to the city. and doing -- turning themselves inside out to provide public access and to all regional users. so their resources are really spread thin, and we really need to be lkinghese other resources to fund these things.

thank you. >>' afternoon, supervisors. my name is charlie labry. 'm with local operating engineers. we represent over 10,000 skilled craftsmen in the bay area. these are the craftsmen that survey, construct, test and inspect the critical astruc prots that help keep our systems resilient and operable in the event of a seismic event. i'm here to speak in support of the geobond. we operating engineers has partnered with nine bay area counties and many environmental groups, and was instrumental in the passage of measure aa to preserve the bay area wet lands. operating engineers helped build the original seawall, and

we stand ready today to bring that expertise and experience and commitment to reconstruct opportunities for san de career franciscans for decades to co. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. are there any other members of the public that would like to weigh in on items 1, 2, or 3. all right. seeing none, we will close public comment. thu fyo weighing in your comment. supervisor yee? >> supervisor yee: thank you, supervisor cohen. i just want to thank the staff for briefing my office and i about the need to have this done. i think i've had several presentations, but it only took one to convince me that we need to move quickly on th, and th water is rising, and this averts some disaster. i'm glad that our city depants are -- are future

looking into the future and wanting to get things done at this point. so i -- first of all, i'd like to be added as a cosponsor onto item 3. >> super r ay. sor se: and if you me to make a motion, i cou could. >> supervisor cohen: we've got a couple of things procedurally that we need to take care of. that's a little out of the norm. is that it, supervisor yee? >> supervisor yee: yes. >> supervisor cohen: all right. okay. thank you. madam clerk, you have supervisor yee's request to be added to item 3? >> clerk: yes, it's in the record. >> supervisor cohen: all right. so thank you very much. first and foremost, i'd like just to make a motion to accept the ceqa amendments to items 1 and 3. colleagues if we can take that without objection or if there's a second on that motion. seconded by supervisor sti, and we'll take that without objection. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next item -- next action, i'd

like to duplicate item 3, duplicate that file, and i'd like to amend the duplicated file to remove s langge, okay? i'm going to read the language into the r "to remain eveing but the ballot question." and then the next thing i'd like to do is continue the duplicated item to the call of the chair. and then, my next motion is to approve items 1 through 3 as amended with a positive recommendation to the full board. all right. colleagues, so is there a second to -- second by supervisor fewer, and we can take that without objection. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. madam clerk, did you get all of that? >> clerk: yes. >> supervisor cohen: is ther any further business before this body? >> clerk: there's no further business. >> supervisor cohen: all

right. thank you. we are adjourned. . >> neighborhood in san francisco are also diverse and fascist as the people that inhabitable them we're in north beach about supervisor peskin will give us a tour and introduce is to what think of i i his favorite district 5 e 3 is in the northwest surrounded by the san francisco bay the district is the boosting chinatown oar embarcadero financial district

fisherman's wharf exhibit no. north beach telegraph hill and part of union square. >> of san francisco remkable honored and deligh eally whereas with an the most intact district got chinatown, north beach fisherman's wharf russian hill and knob hill and the northwest waterfront some of the most wealthier and inning e impoverished people in san francisco obgyn siding it is ethicallysts a bunch of tight-knit neighborhoods peoe know heame a wonderful placed physically and socially to be all of the neighborhoth beachand chinatown the i try to be out in the community as much as and i

think, being a the cafe eating at the neighborhood lunch place people come up anal to you, you never have time alone but really it is fun hi, i'm one the owners and is ceo of cafe trespassing in north beach many people refer to cafe trees as a the living room of north beach most of the clients are local and living up the hill come and meet with each other just the way the united states been since 1956 opposed by the grandfather a big people person people had people coming since the day we opened. >> it is of is first place on the west that that exposito 6 years ago but anyone was doing that starbuck's exists and it created a really welcoming pot.

it is truly a legacy business but more importantly it really at the take care of their community my father from it was formally italy a fisherman and that town very rich in culture and music was a big part of it guitars and sank and combart in the evening that tradition they brought this to the cafe so many characters around here everything has incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that paul carr tennessee take care from the jeffeon starship hung out the cafe are the famous poet lawrence william getty and jack herb man go hung out. >> they work worked at a play with the godat and photos

he had his typewriter i wish i were here back there it there's rts the meeting spot rich culture and artists and musicians epic people would talk with you and you'd get >> meeting will come to order. welcome to the may