the host cannot exclude the public from entering the parklet or ask the public from leaving the public space and the host basically agrees to maintain and upkeep the parklet in general and in addition there's no smoking whatsoever allowed in any of the parklet and this is outlined in the parklet manual 1.0, it's exhibit 1 in your documents. going into this particular project, so this one has somewhat of a long history, so the original permit was granted in december 13, 2011, and in august of 2012, the planning department per e-mail began receiving complaints, in addition until complaints were later received in december 2012. most of these complaints focused on the unsanitary kons conditions, the late operation hour, the high concentration noise during these hours the privatization of the parklet, the issues of suka and the fact that there was no maintenance within the parklet space itself. public works made a site visit and verified some of these conditions, mainly the lack of the standard required material for example the soft [inaudible] and the secured [inaudible] which are required

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and debate in the public sphere serves the interest of the officer as well as the public. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. this is a very interesting hearing and i appreciate all of the witnesses. i will echo what my friend senator cornyn said. the unsimpleness is perhaps the most significant thing that we have heard. as the sheriff probably knows better than the rest of the panel, police officers see people at their worst. they see people at times of real emotional agony. they see them with horrific physical injuries and a video record of a great deal of that would be hugely intrusive to those individuals hugely in demand by our 24/7 news media if it bleeds it leads culture. and so i think you could expect some really intense conflict over this you can go into people's homes if you're a police officer. if your camera is running in somebody's home, does that person have a right to not have what's in their home seen? if the person is a celebrity, if they're a sports hero or something like that. i think this is really important to solve the problem of police use of force. but we

. >> i'm sorry for the interruption in as far as item 2 the public comment appearing or not appearing open the agenda i'm raised the question whether or not that it was required under any ordinance are status that that be the first item in the 3 years i've been on the commission it always had been been is item but it strict me it in some ways seemed to be not in the proper place for purposes of the meeting the mean of that so that it will be my intention and under the bylaws ii have at right to set the agenda it will be mike my attention intention to put that in different places depending on the agenda items but so it but it not be as a regular course the first matter if there are public comment you can make what your comes are if, if you think their bad ideas but my sense i thought about the public comments are more helpful after many of the agenda items have been covered then they are that he very beginning when theirs nothing in front of the public but given that i will entertain public comments if anyone has them. >> good evening david speaking on a individual on the point you've

and debate in the public sphere serves the interest of the officer as well as the public. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. i appreciate all the witnesses. i will echo what my friend senator cornyn said. the unsimpleness is perhaps the most significant thing that we have heard. as the sheriff probably knows better than the rest of the panel, police officers see people at their worst. they see people at times of real emotional agony. with horrific physical injuries and a video record of a great deal of that would be hugely intrusive to those individuals, hugely in demand by our 24/7 news media if it bleeds it leads culture. and i think you can expect some intense conflict over this availability. you can go into people's homes if you're a police officer. does that person have a right to not have what's in their home seen? if they're a sports hero or something like that. i think this is really important to solve the problem of police use of force. but we want to make sure we don't open a whole new array of problems. you say there are 46 different sheriffs in your home state? >> ye

>> all right, any members of the public? no >> then public comment is closed for item six and, that was just an information item. and so we will move on to item seven. >> item seven, introduction of new items this is an information item. >> any introductions in colleagues? >> okay >> seeing none, public comment on item seven? >> seeing none, public comment on item seven is closed. and item eight. >> item 8. >> general public comment >> any members of the public that wish to speak, seeing none, public comment is closed and item 9? >> adjournment. >> all right, meeting is adjourned, thank you very much.njnznznznrfrfrbrbpyzplpopo=2?:?j?j?j?n?n]ó]éçt5÷=÷=÷=÷=÷=÷9>$>4?4'7

and seeing none, we will close public comment. and then the next item. >> item 8. >> public comment. >> this is general public comment. and any member of the public to comment on any item related to transportation authority? and seeing no one company forward we will close public comment and we will go to the last item. >> item 9. >> adjournment. >> we are adjourned and thank you everyone for being here and for sfgtv staff and for the great work, thank you.. >> good afternoon i'd like to call to order the tuesday, may 12, 2015 madam secretary call the roll. >> commissioner moran commissioner courtney commissioner quan and commissioner president caen is excused let me start with first of all an explanation of rules of order in the absence of the chair and the vice chair the senior person will take over that's why i'm sitting here and we have a short commission and long agenda i'll be limiting the public comments

we do. >> any other comments or questions comments or questions from the public? aring none call the question all in favor, say i. any opposed thank you the motion carries >> item h requesting authorization to enter into a new grant agreement with self-help for the seniors for july 2014 to june 30th 2018 in the amount of hundred and $50,000 plus plus a 10 percent contingency for a total not to exceed hundred and $73,000 plus the purpose to provide emergency short term homemaker and personal care services to eligible 57b8d individuals the grant will be funded through county general funds. >> hello, again commissioners as you stated the item is a new 3 year home care for seniors program the program itself as described sends out a person to complete the caregiver services open a short term basis the types of services provided fall under 3 personal care services and a shower services typically the clients most uncommon this program utilized by clients that have an application pend for state funding ssi services to cover that bridge and sometimes the clients running hom

lobby the public officials like adds and, etc. their commonly referred to as grassroots lobbyists it excludes compensation by lobbyists. >> i think did you say payment by organization the expenditure lobbyists in all the jurisdictions noted in the report are not required to register and in addition those reports are only recorded when a 5 thousand dollars threshold has been met it typically includes the matters the lobbyists thought to influence sacramento and santa fe doesn't require the payments and others los angeles and san diego and the state require disclosures the payments the definition of the proposed legislation is not the typical definition it appears to add the element of some sort of payment rewards or gifts for lobbying this is typically xhutd included from the definition such a definition will create concussion it imposes a regular monthly reporting regardless of activity that de8s from the jurisdictions and finally that's now understanding if when the lobby law was amended and the category was deleted from the law i

improvement program this is the southeast plan that involved a lot of kworpthsdz with the community groups and public when 9 commissioners such the planning commission and the board of supervisors or this ftc commission they help us in city hall this is a beautiful building it really is the inner workers of the building you feel you're in the heart of government and it's exciting to be part of that. >> welcome to the regular april meeting of san francisco ethics commission take roll commissioner vice president andrews sxhoorn supervisor malia cohen it's my understanding that commissioner hur is in a cab in route from the airport because of a detailed flight he'll be here within the next thirty minutes as a result i'm going to first call item 2 and then i'm going to skip down to item 5 and item 3 actually in connection with item 20 consent agenda are considered by the board to be routine and will be enacted by one resolution in the form or forms listed below. >> do you want to finish the roll call. >> you finished the roll call. >> i believe so. >> i'm sorry for the interruption in as far as item 2 th

and seeing none, we will close public comment. and then the next item. >> item 8. >> public comment. >> this is general public comment. and any member of the public to comment on any item related to transportation authority? and seeing no one company forward we will close public comment and we will go to the last item. >> item 9. >> adjournment. >> we are adjourned and thank you everyone for being here and for sfgtv staff and for the great work, thank you. >> president commissioner singer. commissioner chung. the second item on the agenda is the approval of minutes on april 21, 2015. there's a revised portion under the item eight with commissioner pating's additional comments. >> commissioner as the minutes are before you for approval commissioner pating already put in his comments. the motion to accept the minutes are in order. commissioner pating you want to make that -- >> make a motion to approve. >> that will be with his comments. is there a second? >> second. >> are there further additions or corrections to the minutes? we're ready for a

get it smooth only 15r9 night is milestone that weekend that concludes my report. >> members of the public seeing that okay. >> item the next item is item 8 the citizen advisors report will moving on to general public comment item 9 each member of the public may address the commission for up to 3 minutes. >> good afternoon. i'm patricia a retired city planner 35 years of transit and environmental transportation planning i work parliament for the garden planners and have a consulting firm i advise clients on transportation i'm a long term muni rider and a huge supporter of public transit happy to see muni doing the rapid lines i ask staff to reconsider the far side out bound at bay shore and kr0urd land we have parking along bayshore and a little bit on hilton we're very, very concerned about this change our landscape consumers and regular customers use your driveway and front area often double parking we have customers the average customers spend hours at our craft and there are another businesses effected when i saw the proposed bus stop relocation i thought of the muni safety problems cr

>> all right, any members of the public? no >> then public comment is closed for item six and, that was just an information item. and so we will move on to item seven. >> item seven, introduction of new items this is an information item. >> any introductions in colleagues? >> okay >> seeing none, public comment on item seven? >> seeing none, public comment on item seven is closed. and item eight. >> item 8. >> general public comment >> any members of the public that wish to speak, seeing none, public comment is closed and item 9? >> adjournment. >> all right, meeting is adjourned, thank you very much. aye been in san francisco 20 years. i'm homeless. i got a good cup of coffee. i got a number. today i'm 359. >> you try to do the right thing and make a point to do what you have to to be at one place. they have all the services at one building. i can spend 4 hours touching each table ask and getting the information i need to get back on my feet. they are providing the services under one roof. you don't have to go here or there

commission the beamers will keep our public save and police officers everyday body cameras have not the solution they'll help but not the only solutions we need to strengthen it community trust in a number of ways we'll also need to insure that people's privacy is replaced that not only police officers but the community themselves will feel comfortable with how technology is being used and rolled out that's why i'll announcing today a working group made up 6 our pollens union, our office of complaints and members of the alu invited to join the workshop to report back to the planning commission on the proprietors portfolio for the use of the body cameras and other technologies that help us there our transparent and accountability i know that those efforts all of them put together insure our residents a more safety community investment and allow our officers to embrace 21st century tools we need to use marshall of the alleged tools for the opening statement will allow them to do more civilian oversight of the police department and identify the k

regard to the public comment, on specific items, the public comment must be relevant to that item, we do have general public comment at the end where the people can comment on any item within their jurisdiction of the authority but not on the agenda. >> so colleagues, we have a roll call, on item two? >> two, commissioner avalos? >> absent. >> breed? >> aye. >> campos. >> aye. >> chris ten sen. >> absent. >> cohen? >> aye. >> farrell? >> aye. >> kim. >> absent. >> mar? >> aye. >> tang. >> aye. >> weiner. >> aye. >> yee. >> aye. >> the item passes. >> thank you. and item three. >> oh, commissioner breed? >> yes, i know that supervisor avalos is out of the country and i wanted to make a motion to ex-excuse him from today's meeting. >> thank you for alerting me to that. >> there is a motion to excuse commissioner avalos and it has been seconded by commissioner campos, and can we take that without objection? without objection, commissioner avalos is excused. >> okay, item 3, chair's report. >> information item. >> great, colleagues i have a few things to report, first a few weeks ago i at

seeing no members of the public for item five, public comment is closed. do we have a motion then on item five? >> so moved. >> and all right >> second. >> all right, the motion to approve, item five by commissioner breed and seconded by christensen, and without objection, and this item is passed. >> all right, item 6. >> item six, major capital --. >> i am sorry, should we go back to item two then? >> okay, we will go gabing to item two, since cri has now arrived from our cac. >> there are two things that i want to bring up to, item four and the tac membership and the members who want to address their desire to let you know, that you know, we are starting to get a lot of men on the committee and so to just keep that in mind as the new commissioners or the members are being nominated to just remember the gender balance and the affiliation balance and the racial balance of our committee, and that is just to make sure that they are the ones that are represented as well as possible. >> and, ilt em number five, that you just heard, and i will, echo, both of you

outreach are doing the best they can to get the word out to the public of promises we have few staff to handle the municipal or multiply projects our proposed budget didn't include adding additional staff for public outreach this slide shows a picture of our 2014-2015 budget the 200 and $47 million of which 10 percent or $53 million is general fund support we're working closely with the mayor's office to have the proposed 2015-2016 budget this slide here give us a sense of staffing picture over the last 10 years as you can see the major crux from 2009 to 2012 you'll see the dip in the slide though our head count is growing the incident in 2014-2015 represents the addition of staff that have been hired prior to the projects and provides staff to the department the provision staff has been reduced 18 percent and make up 14 percent of the positions shown in the following slide as you can see - in the area of capital we've grown but compared to the year 2006 we've actually declined in both operations and finance and management preparing for on economic downt

chairman going back to the public comment jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. >> good afternoon richard i'm the owner of metro cab and speakers say absent o a little bit are the widely unfair color schemes yellow cab pays $9,000 awhile metro has 16 cabs and pace 45 hundred if you recall mr. uber brought this to our attention and this year it is back the same this is the disparity since 2009 and mr. heinecke can he arranged the fee at the meeting i talked about the fee but rather the appearance of impropriety i mentioned by way of example i recently learned the large companies were secreting allowed to pay the color scheme fees i wrote the biggest check of the year after years of scratching my head i've seen an e-mail from the two members of the board i was given year she wrote it before the policy and governance meeting here un

buildings, any more, we're infinitely less rich from the fact that you look the public buildings, more modern they're austere and cold. this is one of the way, buildings of that era, we charrish them so much it's filled with this amazing art that is part of our place, especially in that part of town where we really -- i don't know if we have any landmarks in that part of town right now. i think it's significant we recognize this. i'm very supportive of putting this into the landmarks work program. i know less about the buildings from the materials, so i will have to get out there and walk the site to get a better feel for it. this is a question for mr. fry. is there an issue -- can the murals be landmarked then the building not landmarked? or does it have to be tied together as a piece? >> tim [inaudible] that say great question question will have to conifer with the city attorney's office, as a background generally, works of art by this commission are regulated for the arts commission, there is an overlap there, where we defer to their expertise, in the maintenance and

the updates. this is open for public comment. any member of the public who would like to comment? seeing none, we will close public comment and can we do the same inhouse call. >> we need to amend the item first. >> so colleagues we need to make an amendment to move from watch to oppose for ab 77 and can we have a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> and we will take that without objection. and on the item underlying item we can take the same inhouse >> okay. gavel. >> we will approve that. next item please. item number five, recommend awarding an 18 month contract for planning and environmental at a-280 at balboa park and negotiate terms and conditions. >> good morning i am liz rutman. i am senior engineer for capitol projects transportation authority. as you may recall last june we came to the plan and program committees for the adoption of the balboa park study we completed in the spring. at that time the board adopted the staff-recommended petition for bicycle safety and minimize traffic going from i-280. out of the study came recommendations for several project elements. element

>> all right, any members of the public? no >> then public comment is closed for item six and, that was just an information item. and so we will move on to item seven. >> item seven, introduction of new items this is an information item. >> any introductions in colleagues? >> okay >> seeing none, public comment on item seven? >> seeing none, public comment on item seven is closed. and item eight. >> item 8. >> general public comment >> any members of the public that wish to speak, seeing none, public comment is closed and item 9? >> adjournment. >> all right, meeting is adjourned, thank you very much. >> good morning, today is may 12th, 2015 and, welcome to the finance committee of the san francisco county transportation authority, my name is john avalos the chair of this committee, and joined by commissioner eric mar and campos and we will be joined by other commissioners shortly, our clerk is steven, and today is committee meeting is brought to the public by sfgtv, staff, jessy larson and jonathan stockhouse and thank you f

>> all right, any members of the public? no >> then public comment is closed for item six and, that was just an information item. and so we will move on to item seven. >> item seven, introduction of new items this is an information item. >> any introductions in colleagues? >> okay >> seeing none, public comment on item seven? >> seeing none, public comment on item seven is closed. and item eight. >> item 8. >> general public comment >> any members of the public that wish to speak, seeing none, public comment is closed and item 9? >> adjournment. >> all right, meeting is adjourned, thank you very much. >> there has been an acknowledgement of the special places around san francisco bay. well, there is something sort of innate in human beings, i think, that tend to recognize a good spot when you see it, a spot that takes your breath away. this is one of them. >> an icon of the new deal. >> we stood here a week ago and we heard all of these dignitaries talk about the symbol that coit tower is for san francisco. it's interesting f

works and mta is calculating. >> sure we is have the office of public finance to address you on the body as well warmed up to the rates we have third party entities that develops our cost plan as development by the state and federal fund participates it's been approved by federal and state and the cal bonds

comment and any member of the public that would like to comment. come forward. >> seeing none, we will close public comment. >> and we will have this live before us. >> all right. >> through the chair, i would like to make a motion to first adopt the amendments that supervisor mar mention and then after that send the ordinance with a positive recommendation to the full board. >> okay. >> and we will take that without objection. congratulations. >> okay, next item please? >> item three, ordinance amending the administrative code to reauthorize a san francisco sentencing commission and revice its sunset date. >> thank you, good morning, colleagues. thank you for hearing this item today. and the ordinance spearheaded by i would spearheaded this ordinance with the district attorney, and george and in partnership with the retired chief, we knowy still of the adult probation department and our colleagues, supervisor weiner and the legislation before us would reauthorize the sentencing commission and revise its sunset date, to the december, 31 of 2017 and

the public was not informed. they called meetings at the last minute, told people to go to the arts commission at the last minute. in fact, there were 2 art commission meetings before we ever saw this. we asked for modifications at the first meeting, they haven't given modifications. [inaudible] they are going to have 2 very dark room tooz sleep in after they have been in a fire. i really think that this needs to go back to the drawing board. i do not think it passes sequa. steve just did a brilliant job on this and i have a feeling this will go to court. if you guys really want to say something, send it back and saying r let's go back to the drawing board and that is what really needs to be done. it doesn't pass sequa and i just hate seeing everyone going to court in the city. i think we can work it out, but i don't understand why they were doing station 16 when station 48 has multimillion dollars worth of problems and safety problems for the citizens as well as for the fire department. they have to go to the bat

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and debate in the public sphere serves the interest of the officer as well as the public. >> thank youmr. chairman. >> thank you. i appreciate all the witnesses. i will echo what my friend senator cornyn said. the unsimpleness is perhaps the most significant thing that we have heard. as the sheriff probably knows better than the rest of the panel, police officers see people at their worst. they see people at times of real emotional agony. with horrific physical injuries and a video record of a great deal of that would be hugely intrusive to those individuals hugely in demand by our 24/7 news media if it bleeds it leads culture. and i think you can expect some intense conflict over this availability. you can go into people's homes if you're a police officer. does that person have a right to not have what's in their home seen? if they're a sports hero or something like that. i think this is really important to solve the problem of police use of force. but we want to make sure we don't open a whole new array of problems. you say there are 46 different sheriffs in your home state? >> yes,

any questions or comments questions or comments from the public? hearing none all in favor, say i. any opposed thank you. the motion carries is there any general public comment at this time comment noted associated with the specific items on the agenda? seeing none, moving on item number 6 report >> employee of the month recognize leslie an employee from ats office (clapping). >> come forward please. >> put you right in the middle of the room you couldn't hardly get out; right? leslie this is your first chance to meet a colleague you thought it was because you were chairing the meeting it is really we're here bus leslie is being honored leslie is with adult protective services you've been there a long time (clapping) so let's see is there anyone in the adult protective services longer let's see i didn't can you stand up and then (clapping.) no, no stay standing and anybody that's been there back up back up back up anybody been there 10 plus years (clapping) anybody who's been there 5 plus years? (clapping) anybody 3 plus years don't sit down stay up 3 plus years all right. everyone

so we can go to the public comment. >> thank you, the public comment is now open and any member of the public that would like to comment come forward and i do have one card and melinda mcveil. >> thank you supervisors and i am just going to read that, if that is okay. >> a year ago, i was on cycling and on a whim i purchased a bike, since that i have not done since i was a teenager and so that was 30 years off of the bike, i begged my friends to purchase bikes and they did, i don't know why and they were very diverse group of people and some had cycled for years and others didn't know how to change their gears. but i quickly discovered that if i did not do something because we were riding on a regular basis, soon, that tragedy would ensue because our skill levels were all over the place and so i went on-line and i searched for someone that could teach us to safety, i realize that the bikes are vulnerable to cars, and there is a hierarchy and this being san francisco there was no shortage of companies that can teach you about the bicycle safety and so all things being equallied to figur

line items the line item follow the paving we'll attach other bicycle and pedestrian safety to the public works paving projects the signal work is really all about safety so all this money is advancing safety as some of the concoct revenues and, yes this is all above and beyond what was in our improved budget. >> i know the signals at least 3 of them in front of the senior centers i see the traffic signals as part of top 3 that's a lot of additional resources for the safe our streets and vision zero thank you. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you mr. chairman and mrelg i'll start with the good i'm pleased with loot of the work the agency is doing around muni i think any public comment? with all it's continuing challenges is moving in a positive direction and really made good decisions with investments and changes and muni forward and so i'm really i'm pleased with the direction of muni i also really want to compliment in terms of the i guess moving forward called puc is that shawn kennedy has done a terrific job there difficult circumstances working with the community so that is role a good

also i have been working with the district, i'm chair of the streets and public space committee, and sit on the board of directors, i will tell you, i know cathy suggested some projects we have done to improve the public realm, i really look at one of the roles of the district is to improve the public realm there have been all of the changes we have noticed, to the private realm in yerba buena it's completely transformed this again is the only one focused on improving the public realm. we have as cathy mentioned, had projects over the last few years, we're are looking at creating dog park for the residences alley ways, and arts in the cross walks, i ask for your support and renewal. thank you >> any other public comments? come on up. if you want to have a public comment come over here and line up. >> good morning supervisors shg my name is calvin may. i'm a community guy with ybcbd, this is my first time speaking -- i enjoy working with the businesses the co-owners the property managers, and also being a -- excuse me -- a problem solver in the neighborhood, working with the police dep

public officials, and members of the board of supervisors, earlier this year the board voted against this because supervisors in dwoet quotes willingly disclose their calendar calendars, we're free to ignore public request for calendar i don't think we should be free, if the public is asking for calendars, we should provide though as a requirement. is a critical way to check lobbying activities if the public doesn't know who we're meeting with there is no way to verify lobbyists are accurately reporting when they meet with elected officials i understand this will create additional work for my staff my staff and i have already been working really hard to keep track of who we meet with we can adjust to the process, of passing around a sign in sheet to the meetings, and adding the names to the calendars, since this time i introduced legislation in my office has kept track in the meetings, i think actually it helps me to really keep track of who i meet with and my commitments are to people when i do that. and we know that people have a great distrust for government and transparency helps

each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. i believe we have one speaker card. >> commissioners i'm francisco i used to come here a lot one time and see i think that is worthy from time to time i come over here to talk about the relevant and pertinent issues you commissioners may be must tale with the commissioners and you all are well-formed to represent the people and so as far as those deliberations and how i operate there are documents given to you for gowns for example, if you take the housing element and go back 3 housing elements and see all the housing element we have to ask users those commissioners who are educated on issues and those commissioners who care for our people why is it every single housing element that should have been done consciously by this planning department land in our court what guidance do we have what data do we have really so, now we can to a bag from my memory is right the association of the bay area governments another government document which this department has not a.d. hired it has adhere

. >> good afternoon, council member an members of the public. i'm heather kitten the ada office of mayor on disability and will be discussing complaints on reasonable accommodations. in the month of march we received a total of 18 complaints which is an increase in the amount of complaints from the months of january and february. combined. these complaints fall into two major categories. the public right-of-way access and maintenance of accessible features in a city facilities and programs. many of the complaints involved obstructions to the public right-of-way due to construction projects and over grown vegetation blocking the sidewalk. in these cases we collaborate with the public works to investigate and remedy the issues as soon as possible. we also received complaints about steep curb ramps that were difficult to use and the absence of marked crossings. the list involves broken power lifts and broken elevators. in these cases reports for repair work orders were issued. if you experience difficulty with these items, please call the office at