the board welcomes your comments. there are customer satisfaction forms available. if you have a question about the schedule, speak to the staff after the meeting or call the board office tomorrow we are located at 1650 mission street, suite 304. this meeting is broadcast live on sfgovtv cable channel 78. dvds are available to purchase directly from sfgovtv. thank you for you attention. we'll conduct our swearing in process. if you intend to testify and wish to have the board give your testimony evidentiary weight, please stand and say i do. please note: any of the members may speak without taking the oath pursuant to the sunshine ordinance, and thank you. do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> i do. >> thank you. >> thank you so the first item is public comment for people who wish to speak on an item in the board's jurisdiction but not on the calendar together any general public comment seeing none the next is commissioners questions or comments commissioners? okay. no commissioner com

>> well, i think we have recorded back to the board at the request of the board whether our votes werehe majority of the votes and a lot of those issues are new issues their i think gaining transactional and increasing most of them i would say were not successfully couped that is the pattern and it takes a long time the first time you get 15 percent of the vote and the next time 26 percent we recorded back how many of the votes were on the side of a prevailing vote and i mean bob can speak to it but generally speaking those types of resolutions are gaining in strength and i think that there is very few of them have been successfully adopted by the companies how to measure process to answer our other question it is slow proxy seasons lasts 7 or 8 or 9 months every year the deadlines for your simulation is very, very slow we've not seen our action of level one changed the proxy vote we believe that our proxy policy was already in line

we will have two internal staff we'll have a consultant that will be other than the boards consultant and try to have one, if not 2 other public employees or entities that have experience or expertise in the selection and evaluation of hedge funds so it's a 5 person panel and we'll be eliminating our consultant from the process. >> that's the recommended amendment. >> may i ask a question. >> have we in the past exclude our consultants from evaluating rhd. >> i don't believe so. >> have your clients ever included you from the rfp process in evaluating applicants. >> no it is part of our contract we would include the hedge fund to fund and candidate review process but not the hedge fund process that is a different amen we considered it i guess we graded i guess only the last contract 8 years ago it was included point scope of services. >> but not direct. >> not direct. >> can you say that 8 years ago the hedge fund was in your contract. >> we had two extensions and i think our last contract. >> 2008 but again the listing of activities that we're expecting were basically at the discreti

when we presented to the rate fairness board last time. it was important to be able to describe to them for their consideration both the program design and the rates. sort of like what are we getting for that price. and so what you see in the schedule is meeting with stakeholders to discuss program design and policy guidelines, taking those program design guidelines and procurement reform issues to our commission and then taking it to the rate fairness board. so we will know as a staff that we've done some outreach within the community, we've informed, we have taken that into consideration, we've informed our commission as to what we recommend, we've taken that into consideration and then we bring it to the rate fairness board for them to consider as a package, the program design as well as the not to exceed rate. then we go out, we do a lot of things, but one of the thing we do then is go out to the market and see if we can get resources to match that program design at that not to exceed price and we come back to the rate fairness board wi

and not staff to guide the board in a policy in direct approach i'll urge the board to include questions and the consultants rfp that will help the board to understand which consultants have the best qualifications to insure the lowest fees and transcript to mitigate the risks we provided a list of questions attached for your consideration in the selection process including the refrance from hiring manager that support the benefit retention and hiring the consultants that have the experience working with clients when factor environmental, social and governance issues into their decision-making process sincerely margaret and some of the questions are is your firm of pure consultantcy if you offer investment product are the real conflict of interests mitigated will you require all hedge fund managers considered to be fiduciaries describe our experience and track record working with public pension clients please provide a list of the managers. >> 30 seconds. >> you recommend and describe our experience and success in negotiating lower fees how do you factor in the government to do their due

. >> welcome to the march 25, 2015, meeting of san francisco board of appeals the presiding officer is our president commissioner president lazarus joined by commissioner vice president honda and commissioner fung and commissioner wilson is absent we have a vacant seat when a seat is vacant a vote of 3 members is required robert brown the deputy city attorney and provides the board with legal advice and mr. pacheco is the board legal assistant i'm cynthia goldstein the boards director we'll to be joined by representatives that have matter before the board scott sanchez is the zoning administrator and he represents planning department and planning commission and joe duffy for the department of building inspection mr. pacheco go over others meetings guidelines and conduct the swearing in >> phones and other electronic devices are prohibited. out in the hallway. people affiliated with these parties must conclude their comments within 7 minutes, participants not affiliated have up to 3 minutes - no rebuttal. to assist the board in the accurate preparation of the minutes, members of the pub

89 percent building the city should a restrictions for vvl in hedge fund and 96 percent building the board should ask about the deinvestment of hedge funds to go off to cal teachers union to investigate infrastructure you should visit cal ferries and talk about the hedge funds 94 percent are not prepared to see their member contributions 25rdz future retirement increase in hedge funds fail and 93 percent would not charge - >> the staff to perform adequate due diligence on hedge funds and 98 percent building that all union members should be surveyed for their preferences in investing in hedge funds and 95 plus building that this board should not make a decisions to invest in hedge funds without approval of the 54 thousand plan beneficiaries i urge you to vote no on any asset obligations thank you time (clapping.) >> if people could listen up to speak on public comment i'll work off the speaker cards first. >> good afternoon board members i'm worked at laguna honda for 20 years i'm not an expert in vvl but warren buffett is and george sorry is and mr. cal per if they don't recommended the pe

are the requested action the board of education of the san francisco unified school district be public hearing and adopt the agreement and the related disclosures documents thank you there are no public speakers ohoh - i'm sorry you have had to submit a card in order to speak pubically on the item comments from the board commissioner wynns. >> i want to inform everyone that i'll be abstaining with the conflict of interest my husband is a member of the local 377 and want the members of the board to know that. >> thank you commissioner wynns if there are no further comments roll call vote please. ms. sonata mr. chin ms. fewer mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell ms. norton mr. walton ms. wynns abstain. >> abstain on the whole item? the whole item >> okay. thank you same agreement so i have to abstain. >> dr. murase i that's 5 ids your next there is a motion and a second for a structural calendar and mr. superintendant commissioner president murase i'd like to ask the deputy to please read this thank you, again superintendent requested action that the board of education adap

appoints the board members. surely the director, especially with the additional disclosure requirements in the bill will show the kind of judgment and prudentens that is necessary. surely, surely, that said, my friends, this is a work in progress. but it's an effort to turn around a problem that's greater than just one science board, aun agency. it's an effort to address a problem that faces the entire federal government. let us continue to work and try and do something for the benefit of everyone. i yield back, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. without objection, the previous question is ordered. the question is on the motion to recommit. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the noes have it. mr. peters: i ask for a record vote. the speaker pro tempore: a recorded vote is requested. those favoring a recorded vote will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. . the chair w

. >> correct. >> and by then the legislation will be introduced at the board okay. so that should get us on the elements of the timeline and one other pious on the telling meeting what the stakeholder to discuss the precipitates. >> that's the week of april 6th we'll be presenting before we present program design and not to exceed rates here and at rate fairness we're proposing to talk with the stakeholders so that will be a step ahead of presenting to you. >> great. >> thanks. >> and but to our point that's not the only time we'll be talking about this. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> does that conclude our - >> yes. >> report now i'm going to ask for. mr. brooks hello >> good afternoon, commissioners i was going to tall one water a little bit i need to forego that and talk about community choices i'll say by the way the stakeholder process that was mentioned didn't include the community advocates only the stakeholders that the mayor come up we need to get the stakeholder meeting to run the program to initiate to work with staff and contractors to make sure

body to the successor agency aka, the board of supervisors follow the board of supervisors' rules order. this will allow us to treat successor agencies like board business so we don't have to schedule time-consuming committee of the whole board meeting every single time a successor agency item comes up for a vote. today i'm introducing an ordinance to streamline a couple of the group commendations. we currently have restaurant commendations and small business commendations. local restaurants are small businesss and i propose that we consolidate these into one. group commendations are great opportunities for the board of supervisors to acknowledge leaders in our community, but they take about an hour and a half of the time during the board meetings. that is not always fair to those who have other business before the board. and the restaurant and small business owners themselves are very busy people and often have to close up shop when they come here for those commendations. so as a compliment or alternative to that, my legislation officially recognizes that january is restaurant month in

i'm here to ask the board to exempt motorcycles and scooters from the rpp program. i recently am in a neighborhood that area q has added the rpp which will hopefully allow for a bit more park ining our neighborhood and everything else but then was to find out that the motorcycles were charged the same $110 that a car is charged and the rational for that is the cost of enforcement is the same. now, we all know that common sense says you can stick 8 motorcycles in one car space so i'm hoping you guys can help invent advise mow cycle and scooter parking but taking the need for the rpp for motorcycles and scooters which clearly will allow for more parking, less congestion, less wear and tear in the city. the revenues that the rpp bring in from motorcycles, i haven't been able to find this 10 million that it puts out for the car, if motorcycles are included in that, it's a small number. motorcycles will help, gone are the days of the harley david sons, we have thousands of small scooters that just add to the transportation system, unfortunately, the mta doesn't really ad

>> it is just an item for action or not action by the board, it's not -- because that was kind of -- you know, as much as -- >> we all discussed not wanting to have the same hearing all over again and i just remember that we had really talked about all that kind of other -- looking at now and into the future and the grand scheme of how we were achieving our goals and other things so i felt like the spirit of the motion didn't capture quite the dialogue. >> yeah, that's good, i'm glad you brought that up you know we have that feedback now and we know when that does come back, we have an idea of what we're all expecting and i think we have a member op of the public as well. >> and madam chair, just for the record, in the original staff in the resolution, there was a discussion about staff bringing back the study about the economic impact of construction and all of that, so that is -- that was separate -- that was in the main resolution, this was something very specific, so that study will come back at a future time. >> director borden, are you okay with that, or do you want to -- >> yea

to be sent to the california city hall legislators there are no public speakers and comments from the board? commissioner walton >> i do want to comment also related to a lot of the public comments we're heard tonight i hadn't to look at the high school questions from the examine they're really focused on traditional in the math portion traditional way of teaching math which the focused on computation i think we're moving in a significant way away from that fngd on problem solving and critical open and teamwork so it is very not what we're will trying to accomplish in the district i want to add that the math common core was developed by a team 6 over one hundred teachers and field tested by field teachers this very rich and deep curriculum that will not be served by the questions on the exit examines so i want to thank ms. fewer. >> commissioner wynns i've never been a supporter and don't know what it is accomplishing it seems to be penalize students being a not reliable so thanks for bringing it forward. >> ms. fewer. >> i'd like to note that the san francisco unified school district offer

welcome to the rules committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. my name is john avalos, chair of the committee. joined to my right by vice chair katy tang and will be joined shortly by supervisor malia cohen. >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. speaker cards and all documents to be included in the file should be given to the clerk. >> okay very good. thank you. we have several appointments up for us today and let's go on to our first one. item no. 1. >> item no. 1 is a hearing to consider appointing two members terms ending november 16, 20016, to the bicycle advisory committee. there are two seats and two applicants. >> very good, we can go straight ahead to presentations. i know the district 11 seat applicant, casey allen, will not be here, but i believe mr. mark brand is here. please come forward. >> good morning, supervisors. by the way, i have worked with casey allen and i think he's really great committee member. i've been on the bicycle advisory committee for a few years now and i consider it a great honor.

the city a better place for everyone to live thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> board of supervisors my name is nick jenkins. >> please pull the microphone closer to our mouth mr. jenkins. >> i'm an employee of the tenderloin housing clinic to keep people housed what we have their situation some of the residents have mental illness those are people are not well we provide a place for home as a desk collect i keep resident safe and make people comfortable i have to enforce the rules some accept and so resent i'm a residential manager with the clinic which is an unpaid position that allows me to stay in the city free i'm also on the clock if i didn't have this position i couldn't afford to live in the city over the years i've seen how funding shortages have hurt our resident we can't maintain the facility and often storages are supplies staffing shortages will make that harder for me to do my job and make sure the residents feel safe in july the board passed a resolution that loud the nonprofit if there's a surcharge the city has the money it's hard to ask for something

the board should request senate and congress to improve this system. because if -- this is only our part, to request the -- make a recommendation to 60 board of supervisors for them to ask congress and the senate and most probably the president, i don't know. >> thank you, i appreciate your response. supervisor tang. >> thank you so much, mr. baldanado, for your service in sitting on this commission and of course your service in world war ii. i think that's incredible. just one question because this was brought up in terms of core issues. it looks like in the past you had 4 excused absences and if you are the reasoning behind that if, you feel you will be able to make the meetings if you are reappointment. >> my operation on my right eye and i was sick sometimes before. that's why i have to be excused from attending the commission. >> okay thank you. >> thank you very much, mr. baldanado, we'll go on to our next applicant and again i appreciate your service both on the veterans' affairs commission and both world war ii in the philippines. >> thank you v

of supervisors that like the president of the board of supervisors that said i had no idea so when mr. raven put together the section for the grand jury he repeated the quotes under the nicole and the board of supervisors and there's no mention in any of this about repel the public benefits prohibition there was an earlier effort by members of the commission to repeal the section having go to do with the board of supervisors but couldn't find a section you'll not find a sponsor for that 0 that's not the way it is at city hall of this is not election year people understand the dynamics but certainly when your talking about things like tomcast or ecology or other types people with special permits there are questions raised all the time about the fact that in terms of being able to do research and work we did it at city report i just hired somebody to go through the top 15 you can go through the star and match it up on the converting computer system additional match it up vi nancy pelosi nonprofits had made contributions we're talking about people getting contracts over $10 million so th

i think they should do that concurrently with going with the board process. ill be the only time in the timeline from step by step perspective that it would change so when it's gone through the mayor's office process that they are able to issue it out to the general public an getting the proposals shortly there after. that would be the one thing and if you take that and that's 30 days, you can move everything else up along that change 30 days sooner and if the board were to complete the process quicker than 90 days you would take that same amount and move those items up more. you have the potential to move the time on the rfo process and get the rfo issued and sign 2 months earlier if it went according to the regular schedule. the rest of the agenda, third time i'm actually fine with and believe they have put together a very solid timeline. i agree i don't want to put something there and say we can shave 3 days off here. let's give them the time they need and i think they have done a great job. this is one item that i would like to see changed. >> in terms of

well i will make a motion to forward out the resolution with a positive recommendations to the full board. >> we'll take that without objection. >> madam clerk can you please call item 5 and resolution authorizing the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to execute the matter inform europeans project not to exceed of $19.5 million. >> welcome back. >> good morning, supervisors dan the water program director those two item 5 which is the construction management services with hatch mcdonald with the tunnel project this project is actually much closer to completion there than the cal versus project we have ground water entrugs and gas conditions and geowill logic conditions that have an extension foot project schedule and other things that are required that occurred last fall two sections of land that bubbled it was discovered r0u9 that needed to be repaired we've fully rerouted the whole tunnel portions of the tunnel are in service the construction continues to finish up both end of the tunnel and 96 percent completed and there is work to do as well we anticipate

you commissioner president murase i want to thank commissioner fewer for introducing f this and the board for strong support we're in a intriel new era of learning the cognitive learning for our students and continuing to administer this is like filling your gas tank with a horsewhip it is miss aligned it is the common core is a deeper set of standards that asks our students to do much more complex thinking and as the board has taken a strong stance an decreasing the amount of testing unnecessary testing in our city hall's that is an excellent example an archaic testing not in modern time i want to thank the staff for supporting that as well. >> commissioner haney i want to say thank you to ms. fewer for bringing this forward i remember this of the first brought about but i think without a doubt at the canyon core changes what we should be testing for 12 graders it makes that more irrelevant i want to make sure we a lot internally it seem like there is agreement we will like this is not an ascertainment sunshine we should be doing if we're stoougz it has in the past superintendent evaluat

how are they smarter than warren buffett he's warned against hedge fund and the pension plan for the board whose clients are beneficiaries rejected investment you have a fiduciary and legal and ethnic obligation to back off the results of the line surveys i was asked of the plan beneficiaries so that monk seven hundred plus survey responders 95 percent are not in favor of the investments in the hedge funds and 82 plus buildings the pensions so not invest in the hedge funds and when asked what amount they might feel comfortable with in addition the survey revealed 87 p.s. .5 percent don't believe hedge funds are risk reserve than stock who are they trying to fool and if there's a stock market decline 82 percent building that sf dr s should be restricted from vvl in hedge funds and 89 percent building the city should a restrictions for vvl in hedge fund and 96 percent building the board should ask about the deinvestment of hedge funds to go off to cal teachers union to investigate infrastructure you should visit cal ferries and talk about the hedge funds 94 percent are not prepared to see th

the grant proposal has been conditionally approved we're here from the school board in april so the grant itself is to support transitional aged youth parents both young would women with are housed here in san francisco and the giving up of a new program for young men. >> great thanks for being here so supervisor tang. >> just a quick questions are there any matching fund. >> no. >> we have no budget analyst report so we'll open up for public comment seen none, public comment is closed. on item 13. >> through the chair i'd like to make a motion to forward this to the full board open up for public comment and madam clerk any other business before this committee? >> mr. chair there's another amendment. >> we have an amendment for the open spaces in rec and park department for a fiscal year 2014-2015. >> okay. so we don't have our department supervisor tang. >> i mean, i look at the item i'm sure we can go to harvey rose report i don't have questions i know that rec and park tend to bring this report out of an abundance of caution and need for transparent especially by the board when t

policies on vaccinations come to the board to the board at the next meeting on on april 13th so that will be coming to you that will only be a first reading and theoretically won't have to come back to the rules committee. thank you. >> president? >> just the position that the committee took on the ending of the personal belief exemption there's a resolution tomorrow night which i'm going to go and speak in favor and communicate the board's position on that and i just wanted you to be aware of that and invite anybody else to give public comment if you happen to be around the state building tomorrow night around 7. >> can i say something that the committee will follow up on i've received a request from the senator's office that we take a support position and send a letter on the community school's act that she has proposed and the hearing in the education committee is on april 8th, so we will not have another rules committee before that meeting so i have asked i sent it to -- i forwarded it to mr. davis an

is what are the next steps in the sense how can we as a full board give input to you on it and broader process whether the school community or different community organizations can move forward and give feedback or is that done in the phase of it both what can he do and what's next. >> well, it's really in the hands of district staff but it will building advanced together through the subcommittees you'll assign it to and the computing input from ourselves and the boarding public will happen through the. >> ms. fewer. >> i request it be reviewed it will be great to get student feedback. >> i have a question last year this was an dense active project sponsor with the food bang p in rethinking our lunch rooms how is that influencing some of the work. >> i'm looking for over and over la you know we stayed to the degree we tried to be focused on the school food environment to the degree that staff has they're really leading all this work on the future dinging experience so again, this is really being led by the staff and to the degree it is in the wellness policy it will be that's an item t

. >> thank you very much any questions or comments from my colleagues on the board. >> thank you, dr.urase i had a wonderful tour of your school and thank you to the principles i picked our brain and saw things that i think under particular that impressed me 89 percent of kip students are san francisco resident i think you're making great academic progress what i saw there i wish i could see in some of our schools that didn't mean we hope to put you out of business willie brown but i just want to say that before a member i saw what i say i was impressed and want to congratulate you and recognize the pay off of our hard work i saw students more engaged than in a while thank you for your tour yes i'll support it. >> any other comments seeing none we will go to roll call vote on that motion. >> thank you and this is on bayview academy; is that correct ms. sonata mr. chin commissioner fewer mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell rachel norton ms. wynns and dr. murase that's 5 i's thank you very much clapping we have one more item for approval authorization to grant on the or deny the petition fo

ies there is a quote done deal quote/unquote with the retirement board some of the board members they think there's a commitment to purchase the down payment loans without having brought it to the retirement board for approval sf dr s is preceding are due diligence but we certainly have not begun to discuss this recommendations with the retirement board any way you can so often the announcement will help me get the full retirement board to support it when it comes before them later this year unquote and some of that with my apologies i took out a few phrases i kept it to a 50 word limit for inclusion but the rest is pretty much a direct quote of e-mail to mr. elliott. >> i've had spotty results are transparency with the mayor's office of housing a year ago inkwooig about the down payment loan we gave me information and now will not tell me how many of the fiscal year 2013-2014 loans that were not issued under deploying were revolted over to the next year and not tell me how many of the applications were received this year you have to be very, very careful with the mayor's office of ho

rfp and bringing forward a recommendation for hire to the board on all the investment dmoilts so to answer your question the question for parole could state they could perpetrate potentially all 3 models the hybrid and direct only and fund to fund and the signal from the staff the recommendation and i think we have basically although it's not clearly state not having the restriction we could decide to go fund to fund completely or defying direct the recommendations to the board their skill set that made us decide to recommend them and the direction they will go and commissioner president before we get to the recommendation there will be a set of final recommendations to present to the board whether fund to fund or direct and so my vision you'll see some mix of them in the semi if not lift we'll conduct due diligence on site to 9 place you have places that have offices all over the world but we'll do onsite and bargaining the change in the board policy we'll bring back the recommendations. >> great. >> and so we get to vote that up and down. >> that's the cotter policy yeah. >> great

they claim a problem with the service for lgbt people this is essentially harmful in indiana while the board of supervisors and we all respect the free speech of religion that free speech can't be invoked as an excuse to discriminate against people's sex call overwhelmingly orientation with a less deserving of services and as a result of the signing of sb 101 we've seen an out pouring of condemnation across the industry mayor ed lee directed all city departments to refrain from any travel to indiana and salesforce has band all employee travel to indiana and indicated that salesforce will not be expanding in indiana and list as an $18.5 million add a thousand jobs over 5 years in indiana the nap napkin president harassed issued a statement over serious concern indicating the naacp will review previous events and forego consistency with the values of the naacp and could stop future sports events in the state and in the washington post announced the bill eli you thought of indiana health services some of the largest employers in i said i understand have condemned the law and schooled the quench

divestment the board may cpr consider while ada other entities providing the if the board proofs a level 2 this would be an action as the staff through the analysis provide a come forward with the recommendation that you direct staff to engage with folks who can provide those types of index fund on investment up to one hundred million dollars in a fossil frugally free index. >> questions by the commission and confirmation. >> you mentioned the risk aspect in our analysis can you discuss the inflation risks maintaining when you sell oil and my wife and i stocks those are the protection of the portfolio so if you could discuss the loss of inflation i'll be very, very appreciative number one and number 2 is the timeframe for your analyze it is 20 years obviously 20 years is not a long period of time to look at investment for a fund that is supposed to last in perpetuity do you have a long-range horizon i'd like to see that that is important in terms of the risk aspect obviously the return aspect of 20 years a relating short period of time and number 3 has to do with names the companies that

to the full board but really for me it's a process issue right now, i'm so on to considering all this with the budget process that is very, very soon. >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you i appreciate this item going to the forbidding without recommendations i think that maintains because there were there was a majority off people even with the change of the supervisor who will support this according to the reds that was passed last year just i understand the concerns about process but just process for increasing the cola is in process for that 15 years if not more, more every year we get to cola as part of the budget process and it happens to be in the mayor's office budget office in the mayor's office so there's been years we've actually had a hearing mid year to talk about how to get the cola into the budget process when the budget comes before the board of supervisors we actually have been programming reprogramming or doing add backside from 15 to $20 million over the past years and the co-la a 5 to $6 million is not it is eased to get into and add that process is only able to

for itch much higher than this threshold we're happy to agree to providing a sales tax report to the board second item is the 2015 bond transactions it's it is not to exceed $48 million of power revenue bonds the majority will fund our power house and general projects with additional money towards transition and substation work we're estimating the rate will be over 4 percent so still fairly favorable and the debt service we're apartment is $200 million plus we've incorporated this both our budget as well as the long term plans just a couple of slides on work with hetch hetchy it is far away from the city of chicago of san francisco we want to bring home the need with a couple of photos the first one is the largest project the generator to raping replace and upgrade the generators in the marketplace and power how is it generates 25 powers of our system capacity and the asterisk should in place by a few years we want to make sure that power generation continues unabated another large project we have to move forward with chang the regulatory environmentalist the changing of the towers and co