so i submit that you can learn about me through sf gov tv and i think that watching police commission meeting on sf gov tv is a form of learning and a tool that we should in fact recommend to all members of the public. >> supervisor cohn: so the police commission, aside from being good entertainment and watching on tv, i agree, i definitely watch it at home if i'm not there in body. so what i want to hear from you are -- you mentioned that the current commissioners are well educated, well heeled, lawyers, professional people and that they haven't -- and that you'd like to see something that is a departure from that, you don't want more of the same. my question would be to you is what kind of policy ideas would you be able to bring to the police commission? >> i believe that we need to take a closer look at the disciplinary policies that we have and i believe that we may need to update that. i also believe that we need to be very careful about promoting officers or sergeants or other command officers because what we have is the united states department of justice has told us that we ha

been watching the last several on sf gov tv. thank you very much, sf gov tv. nice to see you all. really just want to thank this staff. i think finding out that clean power was providing ghp free energy for 2017 is something we should get out in the major way. i know that i saw a presentation recently from the communications folks about kind of their outreach about this upcoming enrollment and without cannibalizing the impotence for folks who care to sign up for super green, i think it's pretty cool that we were able to kind of trounce pg&e in this environmental respect even with our base program and we should let people know about that. i would say that we need to keep it up. there's a weird paradox that as more customer load departs pg&e for ccas their perjury knew able increased without them needing to do anything. for us to beat them we need to always be upping our game on procurement and i know that the staff is planning to do that but i hope we can beat the 50% by 2020 goal and then just want to thank ultimately ace stated many times, the regulatory situation is a total mora

sf gov tv, i have a powerpoint presentation. before you today are two considerations for businesses to be included on the business registry. the applications are reviewed by me for completion and submitted to historic preservation staff for review. the commission heard the applications on april 4th and made positive recommendations to the small business commission. for both applicants, the commission has been provided a staff report, a draft resolution, the application, a case report from planning department staff, and a resolution from the historic preservation commission. there are copies on the table for the public. item 3-a is marine chartering company incorporated. the business is a worldwide transportation brokerage firm and ocean transportation company. marine chartering was founded in 1955 by george kisskadon, a long time salor with experience in all aspects of marine operations, chartering, and brokering. the company pioneered the brokerage of ships and cargoes from the pacific coast and rapidly expanded into all aspect

i would like to thank sf gov tv for staffing this meeting. madame clerk, any announcements before we begin? >> please make sure to silence all cell phones. completed speakers cards and copies of documents should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the june 5th board of supervisors agenda unless other wise stated. >> supervisor safai: great. please call item number one. >> item number one, the hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending april 30, 2019, and one member, term ending april 30, 2022, to the police commission. there are two open seats and 12 applicants. >> supervisor safai: great. so what we are going to do today folks, those applying, each applicant will have five minutes to make their presentation and we'll go through the entire list. after each presentation members of the committee should should be able to ask any questions. you should stay around for the entire hearing because most likely you will be called back up. then after the presentations of each applicant we will open it up for publ

eye supervisor tang, supervisor kim and supervisor safai, we would like to thank sf gov tv. >> clerk: please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will be on the may 22nd board of supervisor. item number 1 is resolution approving and authorizing the acceptance of yerba buena gardens from the office of community investment and infrastructure. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. i don't know if we want to go to department first, or if we want to go to -- anyone from -- sorry, mr. updike, you're over here. >> good afternoon. chair tang, members of the committee, john updike, director of real estate. yerba buena gardens is bounded by market to fulsome, 3rd to 4th street. it's three blocks on a complex set of cultural amenities, beloved open space, retail restaurants and hotels. all thriving in a similar to the city's real estate department. this resolution seeks approval to effect that transfer at the end of the fiscal year, consistent with the property management plan as approved by the sta

. >> clerk: sf gov, can we go to the computer. >> good afternoon, commissioners. -- >> president hillis: just pull that mic a little closer to you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. thank you for your time. my name is bob perry. i'm the design director for this project with gensler architecture. so this project is truly about retail in union square, and what a great opportunity to do such a project in our hometown, in our back yard, the city where we were founded. so we look at the existing building. it's a building that was built in a different era for a different use. it worked then, it doesn't work so well now. our goal is to turn this building inside out, so we want to move from a single tenant multilevel building to a mixed use multitenant building that brings new focus to the district. and a big focus for us is how the architecture can support viable upper level retail. the retail landscaping is changing and evolving. this project is about supporting and planning for that, so much so that the experts at gensler hosted a sort of interdisciplinary panel six monthsing with folks from

our clerk is john carroll and i would like to thank leo and michael from sf gov tv, who are staffing us for the meeting. clerk, do you have announcements? >> thank you, please make sure to silence all cell phones, completed speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon will appear on the june 5th agenda unless otherwise stated. >> supervisor safai: great. please call item number 1. >> clerk: number one, ordinance aexding the administrative code to prohibit landlords from seeking rent increases on existing tenants due to increases in debt service and property tax that have resulted in the change from ownership. >> supervisor safai: thank you, i'm going to hand it to supervisor fewer. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, supervisor safai and thank you for scheduling this special meeting. i introduced this legislation after tenants made me aware of the operating and maintenance petitions being filed at the rent board, the vast majority from corporate landlords. i was not aware of all of the passes available to landlords that allow us to pass tenants cost -- costs onto our

i would like to thank sf gov tv for staffing this meeting. madame clerk, any announcements before we begin? >> please make sure to silence all cell phones. completed speakers cards and copies of documents should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the june 5th board of

and i would like to recognize and thank jesse and lawrence from sf gov to have been. >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and devices. speakers cards should be submitted to the clerk. >> supervisor safai: thank you. please call item number one. >> clerk: a motion approving or rejecting the mayor's reappointment of ben rosenfield as the controller for the city and county of san francisco for the next ten-year term. >> supervisor safai: please proceed, mr. rosenfield. >> afternoon, thank you for having me here today. i've been here probably hundreds of times presenting before you, but only the second time to talk about myself. so excuse me for reading off notes. >> supervisor safai: that's why i made you do it, i'm sorry. >> it's good practice. i'd like to start by thanking mayor farrell for the honor of the nomination to allow me to continue in this role and for your consideration here today. i grew up in chicago. after a time at school and teaching on the east coast, i moved to san francisco in 1997 with a goal of getting to know a new coast, new city and get involved in city g