of service the communities of san francisco. we're in a wonderful boom in terms of economics and the city college needs to be there to support of the skill sets that are required to be sustained by the people of san francisco. that's really the hallmark of why this bill t is important >> (inaudible) we would lose so far there - and a that's correct this year we're in a current year of stabilization and as we finish all the monumental work that's been done it will take at least another year and more importantly it will take time for the students to have the confidence to come back to school. you know what we've noticed it that our students haven't gone anywhere they're waiting to see what's happening to us. that's an important thing to note and the stabilization funding will help to give the confidence back to the students. thank you >> (inaudible). >> i don't have a number only a you are about to give on the on top of my head. >> what about prop thirty and prop 8 in san francisco we've had (inaudible). >> that didn't balance out

we are san francisco strong. we are san francisco strong for equal education, equal opportunities, equal access, and equal civil rights. we are strong. 800,000 residents, voters, students, and immigrants, faculty, staff, department chairs, we are san francisco strong. our businesses, communities, neighborhoods and our city college neighborhood campuses and programs, we are san francisco strong. and we are against inequality in education, opportunity, access, and limits that political groups outside of san francisco are demanding and trying to force on us. we are san francisco strong and we are against inequality. we are san francisco strong for our city and neighborhoods. we are san francisco strong for city college of san francisco and our students in all our neighborhoods now and in the future. today you heard heroic stories and it's very important that you heard them. and for us [speaker not understood], that we are san francisco strong and we are going to win. thank you. [cheering and applauding] >> thank you

jenkins, are you living in san francisco? >> i am a resident of san francisco. i've been here about 20 years. [speaker not understood] following my separation from the service i came to live in this area. >> okay. the reason i ask, the home address is listed as p.o. box. >> keeping my privacy, but i've been here for a long time. >> did you a member have to be a resident of san francisco? ~ does >> deputy city attorney john give more. yes, if the applicant lives in san francisco and is a registered voter, then she does not -- then she qualifies. >> yes, i'm aes are identified. ~ resident. >> for me it's a matter of making sure somebody knows you are actually a resident. >> my application lists my resident. i googled it and i can see my application was still present. i did a word search and it says my address. i'm not going to give it out now. [speaker not understood]. >> i appreciate that. i have to do my job also. thank you very much. let me see, i think there is one more person. >> [speaker not understood]. >> can i speak about that? >> later. >> good afternoon

san francisco the safety big city in america. i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart and my staff and all my partners from the board of supervisors and you in the community without your help again none of this will work. it's takes a village to make a community safer. i'm proud to be part of this community this is a community where people come together and while sometimes, we maybe very boisterous how we disagree and over minor minor things i know it's funny because people tube we're also professing the shades of difference sometimes are so small we work really hard to distinguish ours inform an outside server we look crazy but in the such a great place to live and raise a family and it doesn't matter where your gay or straight or black or white this is a community that wants to work together and for that i'm very blessed to be part of this community and again, i thank you deeply for the support in how you've embraced me from the first day i came here. i want to invite all of you to go downstairs and i encourage you to t

san francisco are we ready to rock. come on i want to hear you (clapping) you know people around the world are looking at us just now and we want to make it allowed and clear this is no place where violence against women and young girls will be trorntd. one out of 3 women in their lifetime will face rape or a serious assault that's not assembleable. men have to step up to the plate, too, we are sons and fathers and many of us are husbands as well. we have a collected obligation to make sure that violence against young girls and women will stop. today, today, we're going to raise the roof and show what san francisco stands for. thank you and let's be allowed and clear (clapping.) san francisco are we rising today? are we rising for justice are we part of the one billion. i'm david chiu and i'm proud to represent our board of supervisors and the assistant district attorney and the domestic violence advocates fights on the front lines. i want to thank you all for being part of our city of love. in 1967 san francisco starte

i must thank and commend him for venturing here to san francisco. i think your stay in our city will make it clear that while washington, d.c. is the united states national capita san francisco is the innovation capital of the world (clapping) mr. president, as home to top technology and creativity would it be fair to say in the world we've seen more and more talent move here attracted by our mixed use and transit originated city but the undying art's and cult. and this influx a has benefited san francisco in numerous ways dr. tb long standing civil changes exchanges. i know from our city paris that fransz it committed to remaining attractive and innovative. president al lesson and i had an excellent conversation and we talked about how to encourage growth and encourage notation in all the areas of the economy while making sure our economic success reaches all our citizens. we talked about how to adjust common challenges like housing and education and jobs and affordability. so we want to encourage partnerships within businesses and san francisco an

i'm the post master of san francisco.states positively services i want to welcome you to the 19th luna celebration the year of the horse is the 7 stamp in the series we're truly honored to be hosting this selection celebration let me begin by thanking the white crane dance group and the hosts of the performance. they've helped us today only today but year after year so what a wonderful vaccination and a applause. you'll be meeting our guest and other people a few people in the audience. first someone who i work with frequently is san francisco marketing manager is martha she's right there. martha played a large roll in the success and she is retiring at the end of the month for or after 2 seven years of dedication so thank you very much martha. also in the audience today are jeff managing director of the investment and a doris the hilton director of community affairs. thank you, again, for supporting the lunar event and, of course, we're honored to have the artist who designed this today mr. kim.

what would it take foyer a san francisco tenant to be able to stay in san francisco. so this legislation requires that the landlord pay the difference between the tenants rental rate prior to the eviction and what would have been the market rate for that unit for 10 years. this formula will assure with the payments represent true market costs and allow the tenants who face the dramatic rent increases in san francisco the opportunity to actually stay in san francisco. it's not the solution but it gives them a fighting change. the rental prices in san francisco have increased since 2005 which is actually, the last time we passed on ordinance requiring the ordinance. a lot of has happened since 2005 in san francisco. we now in san francisco have the highest rent in the country higher than new york city. currently as was noted the amount that's being required for relocation is very low. so when you look at it in the complex of what's happening in san francisco you can see why it is important. crossing the zero.com agency of june 2013 last time the city medium was 3,0004 h

we think we'll help san francisco. we went to the biggest that ball terminal in the world myself and peter we had jim who's the president of the metro ports we went collectively together you had the iowu so when what we talked about to the electro customers we spoke as one voice and able to market the port of san francisco. i really want to thank jim and peter for the meetings it engaged us to put the port of san francisco and we were able to put a working group together with the port of san francisco and i o w and role want to develop pier 92 and 96 because those are jobs. unfortunately in this world we will in we've got to compete but we have a very, very good port we have basketball stadiums and restaurants and a crews term maybe a baseball thing i don't know but i'll be leaving next week and go to washington, d.c. and was promote the port of san francisco i thought our trip was really, really good i'm going to save a few minutes for jim and pete we had dinner with the port of san francisco but if china they don't l

i want to point out that the san francisco medical society had a letter yesterday in the san francisco examiner also supporting this ordinance. the last couple things i want to mention is the concept of the precautionary principles that we have been operating with here in san francisco. we choose to make decisions that affect the future of our city with caution and attention to research in mind. we want to make sure that we put the thing in place -- we don't want to happen what happened back in the earlier 20th century where people started smoking for several decades, the point where we had 42% of the u.s. population smoking before we found out about the harms of tobacco smoking. we don't want to go back to that era. we really have a chance to limit the spread of these products. again, remember, the real issue is the promotion of nicotine addiction, plain and simple. are we going to let the zombie industry promote nicotine addiction in our communities and to our children? do not be swayed by the harm reduction argument or the smoking cessation argument. you can prevent a public health

commission, the san francisco small business commission, san francisco unified school district, breathe california, ucsf, american heart association, vietnamese youth development center, lung association, san francisco medical society, and other groups. we urge you to support this ordinance to protect the quality of health for all residents both young and old in san francisco. thank you very much for your [speaker not understood] and thank you very much, supervisor mar, for bringing this to our attention. >> and thank you to your leadership and the coalition as well. >> thank you. >> through chair yee, can we open this up now for public comment? and i've asked if we could limit comments, because we have about 60 cards. so, we're going to have to limit it to 1 minute per person. there's a soft bell that goes off with 15 seconds to gi would ask people if you could try to stay within your time limit. we have a number of youth that are here with us from organizations and i'd like to ask if the young people could speak first and i'm going to start calling other names. but if you're a youth,

jenkins, are you living in san francisco? >> i am a resident of san francisco. i've been here about 20 years. [speaker not understood] following my separation from the service i came to live in this area. >> okay. the reason i ask, the home ad

security ordinance with the affordable care act, and to advise city officials on how to ensure that san francisco gets the greatest possible benefit under the new federal law. i'm happy to report, as you know, that there was broad agreement among the council's members that the two laws were complementary and that the healthy san francisco and the city's employee health care spending requirement should continue to coexist with the aca under the new federal framework. the council, however, did not attempt to reach a collective conclusion norrish you collective finding regarding specific data nor recommendationses that were raised by different participants. in fact, instead of doing that, the council completed its efforts by compiling and reporting the contributions of the department of public health staff and stakeholder groups and leaving it to the mayor and this body, the board of supervisors, to decide whether or not any changes to a health and security ordinance are warranted. and in the spirit of that work, i think it's imperative that we as an entity, we a a board of supervisors carefully loo

san francisco travel. as joe mentioned, i kind of wear three hats but i'm standing in the middle of my world. union square improvement districts and tremendous work that they are doing down here, joe dell sandero with travel and of course due to mayor lee's efforts it's a time for tourism and general manager in this city. thank you. visitors information center. it was a freudian slip because it improved tremendously and it couldn't be in greater location. so all the visitors that come to san francisco from the airport stop right there and come here for information on things to do in the city. it's tremendous for me to be the general manager because i have concierge but the volunteers and the people here are an extension of concierge and giving information for all the visitors that come in and make this a world class city and really visit all the areas, the restaurants, the attractions and everything else this city has to offer. i want to thank again san francisco travel because they are the ones who market

san francisco is in the best position of any other city to make sure that a many people have access to health care as possible. to maximize that access, however, there are several thing that need to happen. i look forward between now and the time we introduce this ordinance and in the next coming weeks as we move forward with a discussion and review of the ordinance to have and engage in a discussion with all of you about the best way to maximize access. i do want to point out a couple of points that i think you should know are fundamental to what the ordinance will try to do. first, we must now and finally close the loophole that has allowed a minority of san francisco businesses to use stand alone healthy american investment accounts to avoid the majority of the spending requirement in the law. while the aca out lawed stand alone hras, employers have created a new mechanism. it's called an accepted benefits hra that will allow these employers to continue to claw back up used money in worker accounts. arguably, the accepted benefits hra, this new tool that has been created, is more ha

san francisco rent board. so, we look forward to a multi-lingual workshop with tenants in english, cantonese and [speaker not understood]. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor wiener. >> submit. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. supervisor avalos. >> thank you, madam clerk. just a couple items for introduction. one is a hearing request on certification of tagalog language access ordinance. language access ordinance [speaker not understood] certify certain languages based on demand within our city departments to make sure that our city departments can provide linguistic capacity to meet the needs of various languages of residence here in the city. so, a hearing on that, hopefully we'll have that in april. then i have an in memoriam for a teacher at balboa high school who taught there over 15 years, [speaker not understood]. he has been really well liked teacher for a number of years. before he taught at balance bow he a high school he was an organizer at the hotel worker un

san francisco financial district, the camera is still.ing it is sun and warm temperatures without the winds of yesterday. and record highs this welcome, we will try and it will be cooler next week with a small chance of light rain tuesday into wednesday. shoulds may gather along the coast today and that will keep you in the mid-to-upper 60's in to san francisco and low-to-mid 70's for the rest of our neighbors. as far as tonight, the clouds will try to wander across san francisco to the east bay and we will have clouds along the coast and 49 at half moon bay in richmond and 47 in san mateo, san jose, antioch, san rafael and 51 if san francisco are the warm spots. everyone else is not low-to-mid 50's. low treasure brought us the tight pressure gradient and the low has eveningened and is moving away from us allowing the door for high pressure. we could get a high cloud tonight other the weakening blow is shear. it will bring us above-average temperatures. we will look at that forecast. tomorrow, the same as today and maybe a degree or two c

i'm a resident of san francisco. when i came in, supervisor campos was speaking very eloquently in the way in which society takes care of our nonhuman creaturers reflects on our communities. and i think that is what is at issue right here. what we have right now is an opportunity to look at alternatives. alternative that are cost-effective and more environmentally friendly to sharp park and the surrounding areas and endangered species that call sharp park home. a very modest ask to ask that san francisco look at those alternative through a full e-i-r process, particularly when the current mitigated negative declaration includes measures that we've learned recently have no way to be implemented by the federal agency. so, i would ask you to -- for a full e-i-r. thank you. >> next speaker. >>> thank you, my name is cathy seigel and thank you so much for your careful consideration of this really important issue. c-e-q-a is our safety net for the protection of our health and environment. and you can't accomplish c-e-q-ase

so what i did was i invited her to the port of san francisco and she accepted. and she said that they like to come here and do the port of san francisco and do a tour and she was engaged and she says, really i am open as a new speaker of the assembly, because i want to learn more, and i understand that i can only do so much on the state level but to work with the federal level because i am concerned about the ports and transportation in california. and also, told her that we set up a tour for her in the port of san diego and so that was good to build the relationships with politicians from the ground floor up. and to also to educate them as we educate ourselves and also spoke from the governor's office and i made mention to him that it is good that the governor went ko china, but i go, how can you go to china you never take labor with you. we have load and unload these ships we know just as much as infrastructure as the people in business and we are the ones that make the ports flow and handling the cargo in and out of the ports, you have to remember that close

i'm a resident of san francisco, 94 1 27 zip code. my purpose in being here today is not so much to save sharp park, but to refute mr. later and his approach he. they are becoming an absolute terror on this town ~. whether it's whether we're going to close the dog walking areas in the ccnra or close the golf course. he doesn't care about the residents of katrina voss. he cares about ~ san francisco. he cares about his agenda. his agenda includes his website, first thing is make a donation, first option. that's where he's going with this. he doesn't care. on the other hand, he has got some great people in the city who as a group have told you what you should do. you ask them to tell you, they responded to what was said as required by the federal government, and he has done that. he wants to throw another wrench in it. don't let him, thank you. >>> hi, my name is jay [speaker not understood], i'm a golf course architect and i'd love to stand before you and talk to you about all i stair mc kenzie and how he's one of my heros and the impo

you have to look at what do the citizens of san francisco make? not those people that come into san francisco work, and take our tax dollars out. and what you are doing is making sure that none of us -- i've been in san francisco for 71 years and there is no way that i could afford to move into any affordable housing that they are saying here. we need to look at the fact that these commissioners that are rubber stamps to the redevelopment agency and the policies that are being made dealing with the grants that we receive in 1992 -- and i mention that had to you all before. these grants are being used but not the communities the grants were granted for. they are still coming to city hall and there needs to be an investigation. you all need to check on what's going on in this city because the housing is a mess. it's really a big mess. and thank you so very much. and i would like for you all to put the number on me, but i want you all to check into all of these things that 40% of my people are [speaker not understood]. (applause) >> thank you. next s

this is what i'm witnessing at san francisco state. students are switching from cigarettes to cigars. [speaker not understood]. i believe students are using e-cigarettes as a way to get around the policy. with more campuses going smoke-free more and more are using e. cigarettes instead of cigars. this is a terrible problem. i've seen [speaker not understood]. it sends a mixed message about smoking. and third, i am concerned about the health of my closest peerses because i do not want them to fall into the misconception of e-cigarette being a safe alternative. >> great, thank you [speaker not understood]. next speaker. >>> hi, my name is may how, i work with the sunset project and i'm a resident of outer mission district of san francisco. i am here today because i just want to tell you guys that i really love the taste of peanut butter cup. i also love the color green and if i really believed all the many ads out there about e-cigarettes being harmless and cool, i would get myself a green colored peanut butter cup flavored one and i wou

the picture for san francisco itself is quite positive. we are looking at other water supplies for various reasons, one to consider growth outside of san francisco and another is to consider whether we should have enough water to limit potential future rationing requirements. our current plan lays out that we don't have to go to more than 20 percent rationing. so we are looking at potential for water transfers. you mentioned the desalination project and we have been working with others in the bay area. one is that we need to complete our water system improvement program. there have been cost increases in some of the projects including calavera dam replacement which is a corner system of our system and we are having to repair that dam and because of changes in geologic conditions we found there, we need to in accrues -- increase that project by $120 million. that money had to come from somewhere in our program and so we have delayed construct of the desalination in our project. we still have about $8.5 million. we have to decide if we'll do

bat kid forever in san francisco >> san francisco is unique in this way and it's part of our compassion and we have a civic duty to be involved and people are stepping forward if in huge way. it's about san francisco and it's inspired by miles and about every child who has a severe heh the businesses it was the birsdz are christopher and is bees busing this is the weekly buzz pr this friday evening is the 2014th opening needed i invite at the golden gate park and it will have panel discussions and film screenings and more plus the observation tower will be open and saturday head to selma and joy a day of fitness and enroll in a basketball tournament and all ages and fit levels are welcome and get a great work out and on sunday grab your farther walking shoes for contemporary photo walk through the mission and take great pictures bring a camera or borrow one. and that's the weekly buzz. for more information on those event visit us at gavel] >> good evening and welcome to the regular meeting of the san francisco ethics commission. we'll begin by taking the roll. vice-chair renne? >> prese

. >> the city of san francisco sfgtv meeting of the san francisco police commission occurring march 12, 2014, will begin shortly. >> >> >> colleagues, can we have a motion to forward this to the full board with recommendation? >> yes, so moved. >> okay. with no objection, motion passes. [gavel] >> madam clerk, can you please call item number 2? >> item number 2 is a hearing to consider appointing two members, term ending december 31, 2015, to the sro task force. there are two vacant seats and two applicants. >> okay. i will now call the applicants in the order listed on the agenda. is sam [speaker not understood] here? come on up. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is sam patel. i'm here to apply for seat number 2 on the s-r-o task force. i have 30 years of experience in operating a s-r-o hotel. currently my company manages several s-r-o buildings, including two not for profit. i've been serving on the task force since its inception, back in 1992, i believe, and i would like to continue doing so. thank you. >> okay. any questions? supervisor tang. >> great, thank you, mr. patel. j

that is san francisco. san francisco was able to do some big things. largely with factional im. largely because many agree we focus on small petty differences. but every now and then, gay marriage, or universal health care. there's an opportunity now to do some big things. >> we're going to see more business democrats, chamber of commerce democrats, there are some democrats at the chamber of commerce, that they actually like. you may see an incremental movement towards the middle. >> not in the bay area. >> i think it's going to be regionally focused. in san francisco it's going to be left and further left. in other places i think you're going to see moderate democrat in the central valley, out in the suburbs. probably have a small advantage now to the moderate democrats who can appeal to the republicans and more conservative independents. >> it's probably safer to sit on your power but kind of philosophically flies in the face of being a public servant but you have the power but have to use it to do what is right. >> sometimes as a public servant your goal is not messing things

as san francisco continues on its economic revival and the transparent manner, the voters of san francisco have declared it's crucial for the government to keep up with our evolving city. having spent much of the past years with labor representative, with local 21, i now serve as a director of research and communications for local 216789 . i have worked with the city on impressive capital project including the water improvement plan and san francisco rebuild. through all of this whether meeting with engineers, architects, elected officials or before the civil service commission i have been informed about how to handle large scale projects and understand the contracting process of the city will make me a valuable asset to this committee. as a labor attorney i have been able to work on mous and work on all civil servants on both concepts and delivery. i am proud of labor's efforts over the past couple of years such as the city has one of the highest bond ratings ever. it will run as efficiently and practically as possible as this commission is tasked with working on audits and the whistle bl