tv BOS Rules Committee SFGTV May 2, 2022 10:00am-10:16am PDT
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know, you, yourself, said in the case of 471 saxon avenue that your work there, that you did active work on the project for the individual, which is far beyond your scope as a realtor. feel free to respond to this, but it is individually and collectively when you added up, really quite disturbing. >> chair peskin, i believe the facts, and i understand it was five or six years ago and i believe at least the same for the 34th avenue. thirty-fourth avenue i have no involvement. i believe when the planning enforcement agent contacted me, i went down to see what the enforcement process was. after that i had zero involvement and i recommended the client contact a licensed professional to help them.
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in regards to the 471, simply put, my client, they are amazing people, and they were first-time homeowners. they were really deer in the headlight when it came to this. so besides helping them -- and it is not just that client. i will pick out tile, i will do design for the kitchens, i help them design the backyard, but as far as the permits we went down on that particular occasion, i was with him. so they had me fill out that form. other than that, my participation was just manual labor and disassembling the kitchen and putting together some shelving. >> thank you, mr. honda. if there are no further questions from members of this committee, why don't we open item number 1 up to public comment.
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>> yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this item under joining us in person should line up to speak along the side of the room by the windows. for those visiting us remotely, please call (415)655-0001. enter the meeting id and then press pound and pound again. once connected, you will need to press star three to enter the speaker line. for those in the queue, continue to wait until the system indicates you have been on muted and that will be your cue to begin your comments. we do have a person in line for public comment in the room at this time. >> mr. young, i have schedules for the members of the board of supervisors. >> i will collect those from you after your comment. just leave it on the banister and i will come pick them up. >> i also have schedules from mr. honda and his attorney.
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>> i will come pick them up if you leave them there. thank you. >> do i get two minutes or three? >> two minutes. >> are the other speakers for this side? why don't we do three. >> okay. >> before i start, i will hand out the documents. thank you. >> good morning, my name is jerry and i earlier filed two documents that clearly show mr. honda has violated the good governance guidelines issued by the city attorney. he is unfit to serve on the board of appeals. is a member of the be away, mr. honda is a sitting member. i sent you a document that shows mr. honda has been a building permit expediter while serving on the be away. advocating for his real estate clients at the department of building inspections is a clear conflict with his commission role of impartially adjudicating
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citizen complaints of the board of appeals. mr. honda has also filed false form 700 with the ethics commission for the last eight years. mr. honda has amended some of his form 700 filings twice in the filings remained inaccurate. the schedule i just handed you shows the following. the schedule lists seven properties were mr. honda filed a form 700 schedule b. listing a reportable interest in real property. mr. honda failed to report his ownership of 1161 post street at the eighth listed property. he filed two file the five properties where his ownership interest was in indirect for liability corporation. he failed to report the sale of two properties from schedule c. on the three schedule b. that mr. honda filed, is a recorded
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owner of the properties. they did own 1 street, however, it is unclear if mr. honda was a member of this. on the two schedule b. where mr. honda filed, he incorrectly listed his spouse as the member of eddy street and ellis street. mr. honda does have an ownership interest, but the ownership interest is in direct through limited liability corporations other than jay osd it illustrates the complicated ownership of ellis street. mr. honda is a member or investor. i gave you a copy of the california secretary of state document listing mr. honda as a member of eddy street and ellis
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street. the diagram shows is to honda had the unreported ownership in 1161 post street. over the last eight years, he has misrepresented his ownership interest in three properties. he has failed to report the sale of the properties and he has failed to set up his ownership interest. mr. honda should be removed from the board of appeals. for lack of transparency and public trust. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public who would wish to speak on this item? >> there does not appear to be anyone in the room but we have two callers on the line for public comment. >> next speaker, please. >> yes, i am waiting to speak on the reappointment. i would like to be brought back
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to do that. >> if you press start three you will go back in the queue. next speaker, please. >> hello. i want to point out how a member of the mayor's office is reaching out to commissioner honda about a personal issue and having him help solve it is just so inappropriate. and the member of the mayor's office should have known better. and a member of the mayor's office now works with the department of building inspection now really creates some concern in the public's i and the whole situation is really inappropriate. thank you for doing this hearing. >> are there any additional speakers on item number 1? >> that completes the list of speakers for item number 1.
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>> public comment is closed. if mr. -- mr. honda, if i could ask you to more questions. one is, in the 471 saxon case whether or not you require reaching out to any members of the planning commission for any help with any aspect of that project. >> in regards to, because i am not a licensed electrician or licensed plumber, prior to that person being on the planning commission, he was an electrician. so he is now on the planning commission now. but prior to being on the planning commission at the time, he helped with some of the electrical work. >> that would be commissioner koppel. >> do you recall ever reaching out to joe duffy at the department to building inspection with regards to the h
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avenue case or the saxon case? >> not at all. >> thank you, commissioner honda. colleagues, we will continue this item to the call of the chair. can we do that without objection? that will be the order. mr. clerk, please read item number 2. >> i just want to confirm that item number 1 was continue to the call of the chair without objections. >> next on the agenda is item number 2, hearing to consider appointing one member term ending january 1st 2232 members ending 2024 and one member term ending january 1st 2025 to the behavioural health commission. >> all right. colleagues, the behavioural health commission is known to us because we had some legislation to do a little cleaning up of
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things that supervisor stefani sponsored and that we voted for unanimously, and before us, we have, i believe three applicants, although i have heard that one of the applicants is reconsidering, although the director of behavioural health has asked her to reconsider and not withdraw. but with that, why don't we start and see if jeffrey greer has any opening statements on behalf of the behavioural health commission. is he present? i believe he is. >> are you on the line? would you like to provide any statements?
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>> we are not getting a response at this time. >> i will add that one of the realities is that there has been trouble getting a quorum of behavioural health commission in recent times, so one thing that is going to be very important is that those individuals who we are considering have the wherewithal to attend and do so religiously. with that, let's go to the applicant that we have before us in the order that they appear on our agenda, starting with, and i'm sorry if i don't pronounce this correctly, liza. i apologize. >> good morning, commissioners.
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i am a consumer, family member and active community mental health advocate. i also am a former resident of 13 years. i have also attended for the last seven years each of the behavioural health and mental health board commission and mental health board meetings. i came here after being homeless for five years. this city and the services saved my life. i feel it is my service to give back to our city and our community. as an active behavioural health commissioner, i can contribute not only as an individual with lived experience, i have first-hand experience in the very present conditions of three of our city's major crisis. we are facing housing, mental health and substance use epidemics. i believe that utilizing my
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expertise of 18 years and of working directly and intimately with these populations can help. together we can find a client centred and culturally responsible approach to end the homeless epidemic and to assist the mental health challenges and substance use disorders. i am committed to improving to help substance abuse and trauma. my goal is to help build a robust infrastructure to remain sustainability within our mental health system. to assure that we as service providers are successfully providing services to help navigate individuals to access resources and tools to maintain a healthy, active level for supported recovery. i look forward to working collectively with san francisco's care system to ensure the objectives to achieves -- objectives are achieved and implemented and helping to encourage, educate and provide resources to individuals to help them successfully transition, as well
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as a second chance in life. i appreciate your consideration and your support. >> thank you for your application and thank you for this very impressive resume that accompanied it. there has been an outpouring of support for your application. thank you in advance for your willingness to serve. it seems like you bring a lot of lived experience and more to this position. thank you again. next we will go to jane lou who may or may not be on and is an individual who wanted to reconsider and may reapply. are you on this morning? apparently not. why don't we go on to lisa when.
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>> good morning. i know that that microphone is active. good morning. >> okay. i'm a little nervous. >> it's okay. the floor is yours. we read your application and you appeo he plic interest provis re one of the criteria for seats 13 through 16. feel free to tell us whatever you would like. >> my name is lisa. i am a san francisco native and also a consumer to. i previously suffered from an
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act of violence being done down in oakland. i believe experiencing -- [ indiscernible ]. >> just wait, we are hearing from one of the applicants. [ laughter ] i believe you don't know this work until you experience it firsthand and i believe, in my community, this ptsd and trauma is frowned upon and i believe that working up close and personal, we can provide something, we can provide a service that can get over a lot of stigma in our community being sd,wned upols
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