back in january to the oversight board to this new board. it seems redundant. in a way it is redundant. what we did ask for and fought hard for and received was permission from the california department of finance which is like the governors budget office, to bring a number of implementation functions back inside the city. ab 1484 in july said everything had to be completely separate, legally and functionally from the city. we have so much more going on than any other place in the state, 20 billion dollars, of and limitation activity. who wanted to have accountability over that here in the city, and making sure that the housing and public amenities were built according to the original plan. who wanted accountability and oversight. we asked for and received permission for the state to move forward with the ordinance that the board considered, and we are presenting to you today to bring all of that back and the city, in a structural way that i will let tiffany explain more. i want to thank you for engaging with this; is a complicated subject a

as will the oversight board. it changes the level of increment; anything having to do with money, there are more steps rather than fewer with the creation of this new board. the board of supervisors in the and overseeing it all is the state department of finance. >> i am not clear about staffing. how does it work? separate staff that only staffs the new commission? and staff of the oversight board? the oversight board the only fiduciary responsibility, yet the commission is policymaking. for us the planning department, they do the work and make recommendations. we are the part-time people. how will that work in the system. i am not understanding it. >> understate dissolution law, the oversight board is entitled to select staff, to engage staff. the staff of the successor agency commission, repairing these obligation payment schedules for the review and consideration; i staff the oversight board; the new successor agency commission would select a director, a staff, the existing staff is there, governed by the succ

, whether it's a board of directors, an advisory board, or maybe a board-related committee.ut really it comes down to unfortunately -- and this is one of the things that goes back to the problems having with a board of governance is it's the who do you know conversation. oftentimes i think it's an okay place to start because it lays the groundwork, but all too often the who do you know conversation is the beginning and end of board recruitment for a particular company. >> the easiest way to be on a board of directors is be on some other board of directors. >> you can't be on a board unless you're on a board. >> exactly. i was just playing with that you know, you look at the relationship between apple and tim cook is on nike and then you look at nike and eric schmidt was at apple. they're a tightly woven board of directors. it's amazing. >> it is. and the problem that really is happening, we're starting to see the roots of this right now, you know, in the post-enron era we had sarbanes-oxley come out and all these corporate governance reforms. but what they didn't do -- they

board staff during the break or after the meeting or call the board office tomorrow morning. the board office is located at 1650 mission street, room 304, between devoss and van ness avenues. this meeting is broadcast live on sfgtv, cable channel 78 and dvd's of this meeting are available for purchase directly from sfgtv thank you for your attention. at this point in time we will conduct our swearing in process. if you intend to testify at any of tonight's hearings and wish to have the board give your testimony evidentiary weight, please stand, raise your right hand and say i do after you have been sworn in or affirmed. please note any member of the public may speak without taking this oath pursuant to the rights under the sunshine ordinance in the administrative code. thank you. (witnesses sworn). >> thank you, mr. pacheco. commissioners, we have two housekeeping items this evening. item no. 5, sashim doing business as mayor marakesh restaurant, the parties have jointly requested that the matter be continued to the board meeting of december 5, 2012 and with a vote we can mov

engaged by the board, have you been advising the board during our proceedings? >> yes. and there has been one meeting about procedure with the board. one public meeting. >> i apologize, commissioners, were you waiting? did you have a question or just a general pause? >> i guess i am a little surprised and i don't know why the board doesn't have independent counsel. >> i can't answer that question. i am doing this pro bono. >> i know that and we're very appreciative of all of the help you have given us and i am just a little surprised that that it wouldn't be obvious to the board that there is to a certain extent a conflict between you advising us and they as the decision-makers. because we're not the decision-makers, we just make the recommendation, but be that as it may, i would suggest that the solution is for the board to get counsel, find another pro bono. >> i would just also add respectfully commissioners and with all due respect to mr. emblig, it's my understanding that mr. emblig was retained by the city attorney's office of the city and county of san fr

advice to the board.he is acting as the board's lawyer, as well as the commission's lawyer. i don't know if that contradicts your statement. he is playing the same role for the board that he played for us. >> why is that? >> because that is what i was asked to do, to provide outside advice both to this commission and the board of supervisors on the process. >> if mr. hemblig is only planning on discussing process questions before the board, then we would withdraw the objection. but my understanding is that mr. hemblig or whoever is going to be representing the commission is -- i would presume -- going to be advocating for the commission's position. >> i guess that was not my understanding. my understanding is that we're going to have a different procedure than is typically occurs at the board. it would be a shorter presentation that would provide for the board what we did, timeline on which we did it, to the extent necessary what evidence we considered and then to the extent necessary summarize the findin

any comments from the board? >> commissioner mendoza? >> i do want to comment and i want to thank both of you for bringing this forward and it is an important acknowledgment in our community in i want to acknowledge that our mayor as well as speaker pelosi is celebrating over at city hall as we speak and we will be excusing our very own superintendent because he will be receiving the education award on behalf of honoring the month this evening. congratulations. >> miss, lee, yes. >> miss fewer. >> yes. >> miss maufus. >> miss mendoza. >> yes, and the giants won, 1 to 1. >> thank you. >> dr. murase. >> aye. >> miss wynns? >> aye. >> and mr. yee. >> aye. >> is there a representative from lata here in >> yes. >> hello. hi, there, my name is loreta tores and i am the president of lata and one thing that i want to say is thank you so much. for this recognition, it is a... what happened to my team here? there is our vice president, morales and she is the past president and then next to her is mahi who is our secretary and our steadfast, you kn

any comments or questions or discussion from the board? >> seeing none, roll call please. >> miss lee? >> yes. >> miss fewer? >> yes. >> miss maufus >> yes. >> miss mendoza. >> yes. >> murase? >> aye. miss nor tan, wynns. aye. >> six ayes >> item i, board members proposals held for speakers and cards and action, none tonight. >> and now we are up to requests to speak regarding general matters. i believe that there is one speaker. lidia, rayna? >> you have two minutes. >> thank you very much for listening to me. my name is lidia rayna and i am here on behalf of mr. two ng. he has been dealing with the school district and trying to get his son who is a special ed student to be assigned to the school that was referred by his teacher. and he is not at least assigned him to the school in his neighborhood so that he can attend with his older siblings. right now he is being bused across town to marina and we are just asking for help. we have talked to many, many administrators in the district and nobody will help us. the family, mr. strong and mr

we have one position on the board that is currently vacant and the board may hold a meeting when there is a vacancy. in such a meeting, the board may overrule the action of a department by 3 members. to my left is deputy city attorney robert brian, at the controls tt board assistant, victor pacheco. we're also joined this evening by representatives of the city department that is have cases before the board, scott sanchez is here, he's the zoning administrator also representing the planning department and planning commission, also joined by planning staffer tim fry and joseph duffy is here, senior building inspector, who is representing the department of building inspection. at this time, mr. pacheco, if you could go over the board guidelines. >> the board requests all cell phones and pagers be turned off so they will not disturb the proceedings. please carry on conversations in the hallway. the board's rules of presentation are as follows: appellants each has 7 minutes to present their cases and 3 minutes for rebuttals. people included in these parties must include their comments withi

after public comment the board committee did recommend approval of this ordinance to the full board. they also heard an ordinance sponsored by mayor. board president chu and supervisors kim and wiener. this would change the threshold for the inclusional affordable housing programs, moving from five or more units back to ten or more . this is the companion ordinance to the housing trust fund and would only become effective if the voters approved the housing trust fund at this november's election. at committee this week both affordable housing advocates and housing builders spoke in support of the ordinance. at the hearing the board amended to make conforming amendments to another section. also to add in an evaluation component. where the city would look at the effect of this exemption on achieving our city's housing policies. this evaluation would be done three years after the effective date of the ordinance. then in conjunction with the five-year updates that are required by the mayor's office of housing. also, as you know, that housing board ordinance is moving through the board com

citi has had a bad board for a long time. this is a weak board.rgue with other people on this show but there's no way that this board decided overnight to fire vikram pandit. just didn't happen like that. this had to be vikram being unhappy about things. you would never normally want to have this kind of abrupt change. you would want to have six months of the two people working together, finding out where the risks are. people keep talking this morning about smoking guns. smoking guns have already gone off. what you're worrying about is time bombs that are about to go off and michael corbat right now has no knowledge of where the bombs are. so that's the problem with this whole transition. that's why you would never do this unless there was some kind of fight. and i think it probably did revolve around compensation. >> wow. >> some would argue, if anybody knows where the skeletons are buried its corbat. why is that not the case. >> sure he knows the problems in africa, in the middle east. i'm glad he had responsibility for the middle east. but cit

i want to thank the leadership of the chinese hospital, their board of trustees. i know that james has been leading this effort and rose pack has been leading this effort for so many years. it has been my personal pleasure to have contributed to the way that i have felt comfortable with, which is the annual golf tournament at the olympic club. but we have made that and we transitioned that to something that started out, rose, when we started some 18 years ago, some $20,000 contribution, to now, and just in a few weeks, $650,000 a year to help rebuild this chinese hospital, and make sure that it stands with generations to come. but also, the board of trustees working with the community, working with our superviserers and the communities that are represented here today and their wonderful contributions, $10,000, $20,000, $100,000, here. the family associations have been wonderful because they know that history as well. and they want to make sure that generations to come benefits from our hospital. we have been constantly doing it beyond just the golf tournaments. we

the mental health board is doing. it's there to improve the lives of people in our community and thereby improving our community. so, thank you all for your support for mental health. please keep it up and let me know what i can do for you. [cheering and applauding] >> our next presentation will be by supervisor jane kim. >> thank you. and also i wanted to say real quickly, laura guzman, i love the work that you do so much and i think our city would be so much less if we couldn't call mnrc one of refuge in our city. mental health, i want to thank former supervisor bevan dufty and supervisor malia cohen for suggesting that we honor individuals that work in this area for mental health awareness month. for many reasons this issue is something that is of great importance to me. one, because of the district i represent. this is actually one of our top priority issues in our district. it is something that we in our office face every day, how do we address the issue of mental health in this city. and second, for me it's very

that concludes board of supervisors and board of appeals report. >> thank you. commissioner antonini. >> so, it's my understanding we will be hearing -- have a hearing regarding the legislation proposed to to administrative code to put a time constraint on c-e-q-a appeals. so, that will be on our calendar i assume. >> yes, before move 16th. >> okay. and it is calendared, i guess, or in the process of calendaring? >> it's not calendared yet. >> it's one of the biggest issues that's come up over the years. so, we want to really understand what the proposal is and how it works for us. secondly, i just have questions on the companion piece to prop c legislation which you spoke about regarding the increase and inclusionary floor from 5 to 10 units. the board passed it. is there an ability to change their position, is that what the action was? or they continued it? >> no, they pass it had and finally adopted. it includes a provision that would allow them to study the impact of removing inclusionary requirement on buildings with 5 to 9 residential units. and if their s

item i, board members proposal.

one seat on the board currently is vacant and pursuant to charter section 4.1060 the board may hold a meeting when there is a vacancy. in such instances -- four votes are not required to overrule a departmental action to my left is deputy city attorney robert brian. at the controls is board legal assistant mr. pacheco. we're joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before the board tonight. dan snyder, representing the planning department and planning commission. patrick o'reardon, senior building inspector, we have aliana crusho and janine young from the department of health and mr. harris from the police department. if you could go over the board meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. >> turn off all phones and pagers. please carry on conversations in the hallway. the board's rules of presentations are as follows. appellants, permit holders each have seven minutes to represent their cases and three minutes for rebuttals. people affiliated with these parties must include their comments within the seven or three minute periods. members of th

on the mental health board lynn has worked to increase the board standards and content of mhb more engaging and directed. produce more professional annual reports. i think most importantly really worked tirelessly to make sure the interests of the mental health community are well represented not only in the district but across san francisco. she does a great service to her role in the mental health board ask lynn i want to thank you. you've been the district 2 appointee since i came into office. i want to thank you for your service. i know you've been doing it for a while and i want to thank you for all of your efforts not just on our behalf but the mental health community. * district 2 behalf want to honor you for serving and thank you for all you do. (applause) >>> thank you, supervisor farrell and thank you, members of the board, for this recognition. given that san francisco has in per capita terms an extraordinarily large population of people suffering from serious mental illness, the mental health board is the most important policy body that most san franciscans have never heard of. t

that's why i offered the board and i offer the board again the option of not choosing either/or but requiring that there be a mediation in which we would come to some accommodation as to the design and the height limits of this building that would meet the interests of all of the parties. so i ask you to vote in favor of that proposition. thank you. >> mr. stewart, before you sit down, i have a question or two. >> sorry. >> if it's more appropriate then mr. bleacher could answer these. i understand there was a community boards process previously. were you part of that? >> yes, i was. that was held in diamond heights in 2008. >> at any time were specific proposals put forward by the neighbors with respect to the height. >> yes. we did not have an architectural plan. we sat down with the architect at that time, said we would like to negotiate the height of the building so it could be along, a similar flow pattern from the street and we could modify the exterior facade to be more in context with the neighborhood and keep basically 90 percent of what they wanted to do. they declined to make any m

>> he was completely unengaged. >> do you think he looked board? >> he was looking down. >> do you think obama is bored with the job of president? >> i think he doesn't like the trappings of politics. >> you know his intellectual? >> for all the talk about his rhetorical gifts, he's really not a performer, he's basically a professor who likes -- >> he needs a teleprompter. >> eleanor, professors perform. >> no, he doesn't need a >>> issue three. getting mean on green. >> in one year, you provided $90s billion in breaks to the green energy world. now, i like green energy as well, but that's about 50 years worth of what oil and gas receives. you put $90s billion, like 50 years worth of breaks into solar and wind, to solyndra and fiskar and inter one. i had a friend who said, you don't just pick the winners and losers, you pick the losers knew. the oil industry gets $4 billion a year in corporate welfare. basically they get deductions that those small businesses that governor romney refers to, they don't get. now, does anybody think that exxonmobil ne

any appointments by board members? seeing none. item l. special order of business, motion and a second to the authorization to enter into a new lease agreement with leadership high school, a non-profit 501 c3 corporation for the use and site located at 300 seneca avenue, san francisco, california. so there is a motion and a second? >> so moved. >> second. >> reading a recommendation by superintendent in this case, ly or michael davis? mr. davis? >> good evening, commissioners. what we have ais a special order of business asking the board of education to authorize the superintendent or disi gony to negotiate with the leader high school which is a non-profit 501 c3 corporation and enter into a lease agreement with a charter school grant for the use of the site located at 300 seneca avenue, san francisco, california. basically what we have here is an opportunity to allow leadership high school to move from its current location on the top floor of denyman middle school to the site of 300 seneca. it is currently being modernized and renovated a

soint the board here. what you see here is san francisco and the districts, supervisorial districts. the darker green coloring is more likely that precinct is to have a population that says yes, we want to stay with the program. you can see throughout san francisco how receptive the polling says the customer base is. we are proposing in the first phase to target households and achieve about 90,000 accountholders saying yes, please. there are 230,000 residential accounts in san francisco. if our projection of that first 90,000 account holders is wrong, we can reach out to more customers and see if others are interested. we are really looking at this customer outreach and education campaign as a way to make sure we are signing up the right folks who really want the program. but yes, we have done our homework to see if there is an appetite. this map shows you the results of that effort. >> i have seen all those studies. may i have the map up again, please. still on the board, we have overhead, please? thank y

. >> he welcome back to the october 17 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals. we are now calling ate a through 8d, appeal numbers 12-105 through 12-108. the appeals have been filed by josh bleacher snyder and dennis stewart and they are against the department of building inspection with planning department approval. the subject property is at 530 sanchez street. two of the appeals are protesting the issuance on august 20, 2012 to brendan fox to demolish a building with 1,830 feet square feet of area and a permit to erect a building, 4 story two-unit building with 1413 square feet of ground floor area. these appeals will be heard together and we will start with the appellants, mr. snyder, if you care to go first, you have 14 minutes for the two appeals. we're going to hear them at the same time. >> good evening, honorable members of the board of appeals, the three of you. my name is josh bleaker snyder, i live two doors down from 530 sanchez, which is the property in question. i am opposed both to the demolition of the house that currently is there and in partic

any items removed for first reading by the board?ny items severed by the board or superintendent for a discussion and vote tonight? commissioner mendoza. >>i would like to pull item k1 and k33 please. >> k1 and 33. >> roll call vote will take place under section zero, item

the board voted unanimous will you to deny the hearing request.he second and final item before the board that may be of interest to you was 4218 mission street. this was a building permit an appeal of a building permit for soft demo. there was no change of use involved. the reason this address may be familiar to you is because this is the proposed future site of the green cross, which is a medical cannabis dispensary. this was approved by you in february of this year, commissioners. however, the permit that would change the use is still under review by other city agencies, and has not yet been issued. the department did note that the permit on appeal, the soft demo permit does not itself change the use of the property to an mcd. however, the appellant did continue with extensive arguments as to why an ncd nonetheless should be located at this property. after several hours of public comment both in favor and opposition to the mcd itself the board vote to deny the appeal and approve the permitted because the permit department authorize an ncd. appel

thank you to the board. you have truly supported our work in the mission neighborhood for the last 10 years. if it wasn't for you we would not be doing community mental health in the mission district. so, to the entire board, specifically also to district 6, jane kim who has been an amazing supervisor, david as well, and the last 10 years to allow me to not worry about budget gaps [speaker not understood]. that gave me tremendous -- (applause) >>> i want to say in taking this award is i want to actually thank our amazing team. i have personnel here because everybody is in the mission. we have a tremendous team and that's what it takes. it takes a village to really do this work. it takes love and compassion. it takes having professionals inside, subverting our pa model. and that's what we really look for, leadership and guidance and actually bringing more money to community settings to the mental health because sometimes mentahealth institutions are now where folk go for. we leave them on 16th and mission. al

and what it asks of the board of supervisors is the same question and if three-quarters of the board of supervisors vote to sustain the charges, then there is no discretion on the penalty. the penalty is removal from office. so i think the charter anticipates a decision here on whether or not to sustain the mayor's charges, a decision by the board as to whether or not to accept your recommendation and nothing more, nothing less. >> commissioner was there anything further? on the issue of making a motion for us to vote on the -- on what the penalty should be, i am not in favor of that for the reasons that we discussed. if you want to put in something -- i guess if there was some sort of concurring type of opinion, you wanted to put in, statements about what your view of what the punishment should pe, that could be something that we could add, not as part of the majority opinion, but something that is separate. that could be done, but i would ask what your viewpoint is on whether that is something you would like to do? >> well, i mean based on the discussion and what mr. hemblig as ind