i think what you've got crystallized now is the issue of public bank, the issue of public/private partnerships and your existing program clean cleanpowersf and all the other programs that we've discussed like public broadband that would be funded by a public bank. this is like what is the public/private relationship. how do we get public funding to make it more public and building stuff. this is -- to me, that is what lafco is all about, that kind of vision. so thumbs up. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. any more speakers from the public? seeing none, i'll close public comment now. [gavel] i want to thank the public for coming out and participating in our workshop and also reminding us how important this body is. your commitment to it body too, i think helps us to boost our commitment to lafco and the exist tense of lafco. i want3me to thank you very much for that. commissioners, it look likes we have some options. i would like to ask commissioner pollack, i know -- pollock, you mentioned doing public outreach or some collecting some thoughts from the public. i am wondering if we made a decisio

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the interest of the public be damned. even your inform the poll conducted at the last meeting kateed three quarters of those that reponded would be inconvenienced by change. without making an effort to see how this would affect public participation, you will make the change you intended to make all along. i believe this change will benefit the ethics staff. after all, why should they be inconvenienced to accommodate the public? this one-sided memorandum produced by the staff deals with nothing but the mechanics of making the change, again, the public be damned. i don't know where this came from. the first thing i heard about this was commissioner lee saying i brought this idea up. all of a sudden, it's thrown on the public full-blown with no real just if justification, no effort to check with the public whether or not it would affect public attendance and participation. there is nothing in the memo that shows any indication that we're a going to look at this when it goes forward and if we start holding our meetings at 10:0

the minutes. do i have any public comment on the minutes? >> madame chair, we have not received a a speaker card and it doesn't look like anybody is addressing you. >> seeing none, do i have a motion to approve the minutes of november 21? >> to move. >> second? >> second. >> all if favor? aye? none opposed. approved. >> item five, communications. madame chair, directors, an item on your consent calendar, item 10.2 with regard to establishing a towaway, no stopping anytime except for san francisco police department vehicles has been asked to be amended by staff. the original proposal is to remove parking on fillmore street right on the east side and the west side. further discussions with the police and the supervisor at this point has prompted staff to ask that the no-parking restriction on the east side be deleted. therefore, the action before you today would only be to establish no parking except for on the west side. >> thank you. >> in addition, directors at the request of the public, we do have translation services for cantonese speaker

we heard a member of the public speak on this item earlier today. we have continued to work with the city attorney's office and d.h.r. to make amendments and review the ordinance. and we can begined to move forward with that process. we're keeping tabs on the process as it's formally scheduled with that employee relations director. our executive director may have more of an update in her report. section 2, the pending items in front of us, as it relates to item a, we're now on page 4, i believe, of this agenda item. skipping down to 1708-68, legislation pending from supervisor kim. staff and the commissioners have met about supervisor kim and continuing to monitor that legislation and working with supervisor kim's office to give recommendations and advice as that legislation moves forward. with the events of the last week, we've been on hold as far as this agenda item and others go, but we're monitoring that legislation with supervisor kim. moving on to the sort of -- to page 5, the larger items, items 2 and 3, review of campaign finance reform and p

that's not protecting the public. that is generating a terrific amount of automobile traffic in the downtown, in our transit corridors and so on. so, we think that closing this loophole in the hub is important. it should be that's all you get. right? it's either permitted or not permitted since the c.u. was so badly abused and we think less is better for automobile parking in the hub. not only do you generate a lot of automobile trips, but there is a lot of data showing that if you add parking to a unit, you increase the cost of that unit. what we're allowing developers to do is to up scale project, right? they can pitch projects in these transit-rich areas to a more affluent market and make them luxury products where they might be more affordable without parking. it is an affordability by design strategy to reduce parking. that was included in the home s.f. ordinance. >> thank you. next eke spaoer, please. >> good afternoon. my name is jeremy pollack here speaking as an individual. i would just associate myself with t

any other members of the public that would like to address the commission? seeing none, we'll close public comment. there is a motion on the table, there is a second, any discussion on the item? i have one question. price inflation, does it take into account assets like real estate? cost of living? rents? >> the assumptions built around the national cpi-u index that obviously has relationships to returns in real estate, returns in equity markets, returns in other fixed income markets as well as the wage inflation. until that sense, there is that relationship. >> following up, you're using the cpi index? no seclusions? >> no exclusions. just cpi-u. cpi-u. >> i personally -- >> it's urban consumer. >> i didn't use the word "urban" because there are differences. >> i understand it's yo urban nt u.s.a., it is the urban consumer. >> it's the urban consumer, but the data we showed was based on the u.s. measure of that index as oppose to the bay area. >> but the u.s.a. urban index. >> right. >> okay. shall we call -- do we need to call for a vote? or does the board

people believe the first thing they read and it's very hard to refute those things. there's a public safety component to this that goes well beyond just the political component of it. at the other thing is how you deal with the news issue and the social media companies initially jumped tout try to do fact checking. that was always going by a giant waste of time. i can make fake news faster than you can check it. if you want to stop an artillery barrage you silence the gun. so we talked about a rating system, nutrition labels for information which is be like sweeps for television. seems like i think google and maybe facebook, with some of the media companies are now onboard. they're going through at least trying to couple with a system to figure out who it doing 80/20. maybe if you're a mainstream outlet and doing 80/20 it will hurt you, the rating and. the idea toy reward good journalism and this will prevent the fake news outlet wes talk about, which kept popping up, from popping up so quickly and gaining -- we were tracking 14-15, 16, the growth of outlets that would pop up in east

of the december 5th meeting? seeing none, public comment is closed. would any member or members like an item severed, if not, a roll call on the consent agenda please. motion to move the consent agenda made by commissioner yee, seconded by commissioner farrell and on that item, a roll call please. >> clerk: commissioner farrell. aye. commissioner cohen, aye. commissioner ronen, aye. commissioner safai, aye. commissioner sheehy, aye. commissioner tang, aye. commissioner yee, aye. >> could you please read the next item? which seemed very important a week ago. programming of 6.189 and 4.1 for the prop k. >> good morning commissioners, policy and programming director. last week, at the december 5th board meeting the motion to approve the item did not pass after considerable discussion at the board. the commission generally agrees with the programming of the funds to the street resurfacing but the commissioners couldn't agree on the second part of the recommendation to transfer on the $4 million in prop k funds programmed to street resur

it's important to be honest with the public and to let them know that calling the police is not the solution to homelessness. so if moving people around isn't making them leave public space, what does it do? this placement, even in the absence of a citation, can have serious affects on health and safety. so, for example, while we didn't ask participants in our study about rape or sexual assaults, some women just disclosed over the course of the study that they were rained after being forced to move to an unfamiliar location, so not only is it ineffective at getting people out of public space, it can be harmful. 59% of transgender and gender variant participants said they felt less safe after being forced to move. okay. so what this slide shows is it's not possible to police people out of public

we get quarterly updates in the public area. basically monthly reports from you that are -- the parallel to private equity and real estate, those are two areas that have plans. my suggestion is you please don't bring updates without a plan. okay. because i won't say the updates are meaningless without a plan, but that's what the board adopted recently. we need to plan. >> okay. >> in your report, in the innovation section on page 4, particularly around a gene editing, synthetic food production, there are exciting things i would agree. what is our investment exposure to any of the new technologies? >> so, we would have to go through that. identify a like to have to take a look at that and build that piece by piece and get back to you rather than answering off-the-cuff. what i would like to signal to the board is that, you know, life sciences and technology have outperformed the s&p 500 by 3% plus annually over the last 10 and 15 years. i do think that this is where we want exposure. now, it's not enough to get just the theme right

the industrial scale, a lot of data in the public domain, another front. ournalist and victim society, the victim country in the united states that actually created the value in terms of the damage done, they looked for the journalism nuggets and reported them and ignored this. any journalist, we certainly understand the risks, the same mistake again, we have to think again, two weeks ago, a little thing happened in germany which is remarkable, two weeks ago, people ran a story about germany's un ambassador, national security adviser, the un secretary-general asking in an improper way to create a job for his wife, shouldn't of done that but the quote from the email, the general secretary chief of staff and the speaker doesn't say where they got the email from. the next day they told the german newspaper wait a minute, we know they explicitly -- and found the email, and already a couple months prior, and russian intelligence agency. we shouldn't underestimate the rough competitive nature of journalism in a crisis created by these happenings so you have the p

any member of the public, come on up. step on up. seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you. supervisor yee? >> yeah. i'm more than happy to support this. since this new facility would be in my district. and i'm happy to serve the rest of the city. >> thank you. >> new system. [laughter] >> all right. thank you. just to recap, the project will construct the following, a recycled water treatment facility at the oceanside water pollution control plant, a new pump station and underground recycled water storage reservoir at golden gate park's existing central reservoir and also a new recycle distribution pipeline. so is there a motion to accept this and we can send to the full board? >> we will make a motion to accept this. and move it to full board for positive recommendation. >> thank you. we can take that without objection. there it is. please call items four and five together. >> item number four, ordinance reappropriating $4.1 billion of the improvement costs at 179th street for the renovation of the building at 440 turk street for department of homelessness and supportive ho

maybe the rail using public will be better off with what he has decided. using public are not great fans of private rail companies that do not deliver on contracts, as i know from having done thatjob myself. what rail users want is good efficient services and low fares, and spending hundreds of millions bailing out loss—making private sector companies is not the public‘s priority at all. the eu withdrawal bill arrives in the house of lords soon. you will be at odds with your party. would you not be better off on the crossbenchers? there is a range of different views inside the labour party and opinion is moving increasingly in the direction that ha rd increasingly in the direction that hard brexit is the wrong thing. but they are in favour of brexit, in favour of leaving. the majority of labour mps voted for the principle of withdrawing from the european union. but kier starmer and of withdrawing from the european union. but kier starmerand his collea g u es union. but kier starmerand his colleagues are not in favour of a crazy brexit, at all. as it become

and i also can't say strongly enough that will we really can't divorce the public access and the publicunity and the real vitality and diversity on the waterfront. you guys are possibly victims of your own successes. you've done fabulous developments,hthe exploretorium and at&t park. people love those and want moreñ we want this process to bring more of that vitality. thank you. >> thank you, alice. is there more on -- 13-b? no more comments on 13-b? public comment is closed. commissioner. >> i want to commend dianne in terms of all the hard work she put in along with everyone else on the staff that worked on this. i know it's been a labor of love and all of the members of the land use working committee. i think that this process of having the dual track is interesting and innovative. i am sensitive to the timing questions that i think have been raised by the speakers. , and i think it's something to duly note. we koant don't want to ignore what happened on land use committee. but i want to give an example -- katie might remember this, the museum of fine arts, the rec and park commissi

d by the public. m.c.d.s have until march 31, 2018 to apply for a change of use authorization and the temporary permit only lasts until the end of 2018. so around 8:30 on tuesday, after three land use hearings and two board hearings, not to mention countless staff meetings and outreach meetings, the board made its final vote on the cannabis uses, establishing land use regulations and establishing the power of office of cannabis, the requirements for cannabis businesses and perhaps most significantly an equity program. the board was working on the nam vote. however, it only achieved a 10-1 vote. and that concludes my remarks. >> thank you. >> the board of appeals did not meet last week or this, but will be back next week. >> all right. any questions? >> nope. very good, commission. that will place us under general public comment. at this time, members of the public address the commission that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. each member of the public may address the commissi

the support of housing and public health. they are on the front lines interacting with those that need help and getting them to the services they need. we as a police department are compassionates. you see the statistics less enforcement and more referring. as police officers we are gaining rapport with people referring folks to outreach. vice president you covered the other half of the presentation to say the san francisco police department gets 5,000 calls for service every month that are homeless related. 1,000 additional calls we initiate when we interacts with the homeless. our plan is to get the individuals the help they need. we see arresting and citations. we are police officers and enforce the law. when we see them in case management and stabilization and support of housing, that is the win. that is what the police officers are doing right now. to the last point we have been working closely with the coalition on homelessness and partnered on one of the advisory boards to look at this issue. our primary goal is to work

well above the median public fund in return. if you were to draw a plot, a line between those dots to best represent those scatter plots, you would see a line that goes from the lower left to the upper right, meaning as you added volatility risk, you were rewarded by higher return. that is typically what you would expect in a capital market. it doesn't always happen but certainly happened in this period. if you were to draw that line, your red dot would be above where that line crossed the same level of risk that you are exhibiting, which means you have added value above and beyond the risk you have taken in the portfolio. the table on page 22 simply translates that same information into tabular form. so your total fund return to the left of 7.86% was in the 8th percentile. you move to the standard deviation was in the 44th percentile meaning you were less risky than 56% of peers. the alpha, puts you in the top 17% of peers and when you move to the sharp ratio, the most widely accepted measure of risk adjusted return, divide tota

a lot of the public participated in that. so maybe offline you can answer some more of my questions and in addition, too, how it fits together and what the implications are for the program and cost overall. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> anyone for public comment on this item? okay. madam secretary? item 9 is the consent calendar. all matters listed under consent calendar considered to be routine by the san francisco public utilities commission and will be acted upon by a vote of the commission. no separate discussions unless a member of the commission or public request and in which time it will be removed from calendar. we need to remove 9a, because i have some changes to the resolution that were provided to the commission yesterday and also you have copies in front of you. and i will read those when you are ready. line >> go ahead. >> would you like to -- for me to do that first or approve b and c first? >> let's approve b and c first. >> call for public comment? >> yes. any public comment on items 9b or 9c? okay. >> i would

will not give the public enough time to attend that meeting, especially in the middle of the day. so please work with your staff to come up with a 5:00 or 6:00 p.m. start time, please. >> we will fulfill that request but it might put it off to another day. >> president turman: i would rather put it off to another day than not have the public have access, so that's fine. >> and the other events this week is traffic safety operation plan for -- >> president turman: could you hold one second before you go further, chief. commissioner d commissioner dejesus, is this along the same line of what you just said yes. i think it's important that the community and the public be able to go, and so i'd ask that it be moved from 1:00 in the afternoon. >> president turman: thank you. chief of police, please proceed. >> thank you. the police will conduct a traffic safety operation on december 12th, 15th, 18th, and 28th that will focus on bicycle and pedestrian safety. over the past three years, the department has identified areas where significant numbers of pedestrian and bicycle related collisi

the city's policies. thank you. >> thank you. >> further public comment? >> commissioners, i'm -- i just wanted to thank the deputy director and ethics director for going through so robustly on these provisions. i'm sure they learned quite a bit by scrubbing the provisions. and then checking back with the institutional history of commission over the last 20 years. enforcement has been a problematic area. a lot of it was tied to understaffing relative to mandates. of course, it is a an issue now as far as looking at budget cuts. but i did want to suggest to the deputy that she might want to review really for the public's interest the item number six on page two of the memo, the staff memo, of what will happen if a person -- a defendant, essentially, does not reply and goes into denial. that is an unavoidable -- has been an avoidable, i think, situation that has not been sufficiently addressed until now and i thought it would be useful for the public to walk -- be walked through to show them the consequences of their inability to meet the realities of a charg

the right. seeing none, public comment is closed. the appellant will have three minutes for a rebuttal. >> thank you, president breed. i'm mr. butler. the 2011 applications never received a 311 notice. typical project gets alteration permit on a pink form and before that permit is issued by dbi, 311 notice is required. if the work is to expand the building on the site. in this case, the permit was issued on october 11, 2011, and only in november on the 4th, were 311 materials submitted by the previous owner. so it's impossible for a permit to issue prior to the 311 or said another way, that permit was not good. the permit was issued in error. unfortunately, the neighbors appealed it, rather than waiting for the 311 to issue and then they settled with the previous owner. so here we are today, no public hearing since 2000 -- potential since 2012 and all the permits submitted since have been built on the earlier approvals, 2002, 2011 and then the 2014 permit. that's the permit they should build. that's the last time planning saw this pro

there are copies on the table for the public. item 3a is beck's motor lodge. business is a family owned motel located in the castro neighborhood constructed in 1958. beck's motor lodge has 58 guest rooms and free parking and an affordable friendly welcoming place for out of towners to stay and experience the castro. in 2011, brittany beck, granddaughter of original owner will beck purchased the hotel from her parents. since then it's undergone renovations and improvements and now has a mid century modern design leaning toward modern, including redesign of the logo displayed on the building's giant sign. item 3b is eddie's cafe. opened in 1974 by owner eddie barry as soul food restaurant in a predominantly african american neighborhood n. 1998 the business was sold to helen and min wang who wanted to start their own business. though the business no longer offered a strictly soul food based menu, eddie's cafe still maintains welcoming environment and comforting food to others including certain traditional dishes such as grits and sausages. item 3c is little joe's

the department of public health confirmed that this facility would be in compliance with the article 25 public health compliance standard the planning department found that this project complies with the compatibility standards of article 25. public works then issued a notice of tentative approval, which notices were mailed and posted by extenet. following the public works hearing, the director of public works granted the permit and notice was distributed to the public. in addition to public works, public health and planning department are here for the board's questions. thank you. >> thank you. >> any public comment on this item? you can give it to mr. cantera. >> welcome. >> hello. my name is sara tabor. and i happen to be the -- we call it dizzy lou, design committee of russian hill neighbors. i've been down here three times for three separate telecommunication things that they want to put on this block of leavenworth. russian hill neighbors are concerned about the number of requests to go on wooden poles. of course the wooden poles are free because of state laws and so all the tel

have there any other members of the public who want to speak in opposition of the appeal. seeing none, public comment is now closed. the hearing has been held and is now filed and with that we have a motion and a second to affirm approve item 26 and table item 27 and 28. madame clerk on the motion please call the roll. >> the clerk: [calling roll] >> the clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> supervisor breed: the determination off the exemption is finally affirmed unanimously. madame clerk please call items 39 through 31. >> the clerk: a special order regarding the tax sale for the presidio common area and the board of supervisors approved a motion to schedule a committee of the whole for today's public hearing. item 29 is where the board will consider the revision of the tax sale of the pres presidio common area and item 30 is to rescind the tax sale based on the determination the property should not have been sold subsequent to the support of the determination and item 31 is to conditionally decide not to rescind the tax sale for the common area. >> supervisor: the committee is be

at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the jurisdiction subject of the commission. it is your. -- it is your opportunity to address the commission. each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. i did have several speaker cards. >> thank you. janet fowler, georgia schiudas, richard and if you'd like to speak, come on up. in any order. >> i don't think ms. power's here. i just want to -- i was going to show you some photos. you probably don't want to see them. i mean, you know what the problem is. we all know what the problem is. i respect the staff greatly. and i want to make that clear since -- i don't want to be categorized as spreading false rumors. i don't think i did that. my concern has always been the issue of demolition and how much should be demolished. i think the current criteria in section 317 is really worth looking at in terms of demolition. and that was my concern. i respect the staff. i get what they were trying to do. i didn't understand it. because i don't think i

they are much better than educating the public. major shift even with france and germany that they consume far less news on social media than from those traditional sources if you look at the actual numbers but that will change over ten or 20 years with the younger generation. it is super important we work on the public to take responsibility for themselves but help them to understand the dangers. if you buy the chinese imports 75% cheaper than the goods it is competing against could burn your house down. so informing the public make better decisions is good all around for a country. >> sold nutrition labels or the fact checking the way asking those on the outside and with your expression arches and all line -- rt's and all where it comes much faster at so in which way could algorithm be used? not for public education obviously we have to do that but more of the dangerous things like first amendment protection. >> it is challenging because those algorithms are written by people. one thing that comes to mind is the recommendation so

and the public is more important than the robot. so, i like down and i say well, what about the other industries? [bell]. >> public: well, tesla is laying off hundreds. amazon is going to hire more and more robots and lay off more and more people and google wants driverless cars that will wipe out millions of drivers including truck drives. i want to say this. -- drivers. i know that drones want to operate in a public space -- [bell]. [microphone cut off] >> public: i live in district five. the evidence is everywhere that san francisco has consistently failed to protect the public and our infrastructure from the ravages of tech run wild. uber clogs our street and a culture that infected our policy. robots should only be used to do jobs hazardous for humans. as someone who spent the last 25 years of my working life representing union workers, i urge you to consider the effect on jobs, on the workers and their families and the larger community. what about privacy protection? look at the invasions of privacy made in the interest of pro

thank you to the department of public works, thank you to clerk. thanks for these folks who had the opportunity to work in their backyard. this is really amazing for the city today. thank you so much. [ applause ] >> thank you, supervisor breed. next we're going to hear from city administrator, city administrator actually chairs our planning committee. when these projects get delivered or they get conceived, they actually go through a serious vetting process. it is a process to approve them. it is through her leadership that these projects are actually able to happen. when we work on these projects. when we have challenges or we have concerns, we always have to make sure the city administrator knows what happened h. we're very thankful to the voters. there's only so much money. we have to finish these projects on time and on budget. under her leadership, we developed another one. welcome as city administrator. >> thank you, mohammed. i don't know if anyone said it yet, but welcome to the new medical examiner facility. >> and you heard the mayor and