a. safai: thank you. i appreciate it. sorry, the only reason i gave you a hard time is i need to get to a doctor's appointment. no, no, i want to make sure everybody has the opportunity to speak. any other members of the public wish to comment on this item? seeing none. public comment is closed. i just want to ask the clerk. was there some confusion on the listing in terms of how many seats were available, versus how many seats we had? >> clerk: i'm not aware -- the centers posted listed five seats posted december 22nd, 2017. there's a possibility one of those seats were filled in the interim or no applicant qualified for seat 5. >> supervisor a. safai: the problem for members of the public so you understand, the reason this was ask today be put on the agenda today is this advisory committee has had quorum issues, hasn't been able to meet. that's one of the reasons there hasn't been an opportunity for the community to engage. because they have tried to have meetings, there has not been a quorum. but it sounds like for some

did you, supervisor safai, have a question? >> supervisor safai: i will make a comment after she speaks. >> afternoon. audrey from the planning department. the planning commission heard this. the background on our recommendation is threefold. health service uses do not foster an active store front to the extent many eating establishments attract at the street level. and it has struggled to maintain an active pedestrian commercial corridor and overkon investigation of these type of uses -- overconcentration can serve to disrupt the uses. it can be relied upon to ensure appropriate uses are appropriate. the second reason is the conditional use authorization process also keeps the path clear to establishing a new health service use in the ocean avenue ntd. in our case report, when restricting currently permitted uses on the ground floor, caution should be exercised in order to prevent a stifling of the vibrancy and diversity in uses. as ms. low suggested, they are going to work on program to establish uses on the ground floor that

it's a challenge, and i'm eyes wide open, and i would like to take on that challenge. >> supervisor safai: let me ask you, do you believe the agency's managed well. >> we spoke about this yesterday. it's a large agency and a multifaceted agency. i view that as both a challenge and an opportunity. the fact that so many aspects of transportation are under one roof is unique in the country, and i think it ought to be the model to have transit have street design, have parking, have traffic, have taxis under one agency. that truly allows you to have that holistic and comprehensive view. i think government often falls into the trap of silos and lack of communication across those different silos, and i think there are a couple of different examples arrest that siloization has challenged the agency, and that's some of those difficulties on systems and challenges in the agency. i think there's room for improvement. >> supervisor safai: so you think it's unique in the united states to have a structure setup. you've said that. do you think that system works well? do you think it's important to have

support in moving this forward to the budget and finance committee at this time with a recommendation. >> supervisor safai: great. so are you making a motion -- so a motion's been made to send this to the budget committee with positive recommendation. can we do that without objection? without objection. thank you. [ gavel ]. >> clerk: it's my understanding this will be forwarded to the budget and finance committee. i don't believe there's a recommendation involved. >> supervisor safai: can you do that any way? >> clerk: i can note it. >> supervisor safai: deputy city attorney, can we make a positive recommendation to another committee? >> mr. givner: department city attorney jon givner. good timing, yeah. under the board rules, the committee can just refer it to another committee, rather than recommending it to the board, but he can recommend it -- >> supervisor safai: but we can't make a positive recommendation to another committee? >> mr. givner: correct. >> supervisor safai: okay. just for future -- i just wanted to know. so please note it, and we'll send it over to the budget committee. >> clerk: i wi

a female. and i also would -- [inaudible] >> supervisor safai: thank you, sir. thank you. next speaker. >> thank you, supervisors. i am the vice president of the commission. also representing president kennedy who's unable to make it today for a preexisting issue. just wanted to highlight, you know, we're going through a change on the commission, trying to be more and more impactful in our primary role as advocates for good policy in the city. the four candidates that we're recommending today, but in particular, margot ellis and matthew both served as experts on veteran's policy both nationally skm locally are really good additions to the commission, along with commissioner decomas, and george, who's been a really good addition. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor safai: supervisor? >> supervisor yee: first of all, i'd like to say thank you once again in stepping up and serving the veterans or wanting to serve the veterans on this commission. and i appreciate the services you've

i will be supporting this resolution today and would like to be added as a cosponsor. >> supervisor safai: thank you. supervisor yee, so this is a pretty straightforward resolution in my mind. i'm someone that came from the labor movement. i'm very fortunate to be here, having worked with brothers and sisters like yourself. i think it is unconscionable in this economy with this amount of wealth, with this amount of transfer of wealth into a few hands that we would be in a discussion about outsourcing and trying to save pennies and not thinking about the human impact. when you give someone a job, you're not just feeding them, you're feeding their families and supporting their families. this is about families, this is about working people, this is about allowing working middle class families to allow to live and remain in the bay area. we talk about it but don't do much about it. so i'd like to really appreciate and respect supervisor yee for bringing this forward. i'm hopeful that this will get the attention of kaiser. this is a statewide issue. this is happening all over the state of cali

i would like to go ahead and make a motion to pass this out with positive recommendation to the board. >> supervisor safai: and we can do that without objection. please add my name as a cosponsor as well. thank you. madame clerk, item number 1. klÔ >> clerk: item number 1 is ordinance amending the administrative code to establish the early care and education for all initiative to be funded by the appropriations from the babies and families first fund. >> supervisor safai: supervisor yee, i hand this over to you. >> supervisor yee: thank you very much. let me start off by saying that this voter-driven initiative was passed in june of 2018 with the san francisco voters. and it is called the early care and education of all initiative. also known as prop c. prop c was a precedent-setting ballot measure. for the public record i want to state that voter initiative means that thousands of voters' signatures were actually submitted and approved. the signatures are then verified by the department of elections to qualify and plan and place as a proposition on the ballot. the passage of the early education for all i

to be appointed as a police commissioner with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor safai: before we take that vote, i just want to make one quick comment. i just want to make a note for the record, it's something that's very important to me as chair of this committee, that once we move forward with these recommendations, and they are affirmed by the full board, we will have put five commissioners on this body. i think that this body has been very important to me, and it's for the mayor and other voices on this committee, that we have fresh voices and perspectives on this community. there's been a lot of anger, rightfully so, and i think that we need to move this in a new direction with new voices and new faces. after the 7.5 hour hearing, the mayor put a recommendation on that. we thank you for your time and your commitment. this is not an easy commission to be on. as new commissioner, this is over 20 hours a week. there's a tremendous amount of pressure on you. i'll just turn it over to supervisor stefani. >> supervisor stefani: i look forward to working with both of you, and you

a. safai: any other items before us today? >> clerk: that completes the agenda for today. >> supervisor a. safai: okay, we are adjourned. >> good morning and welcome to the agency on aging. please call the roll. [roll call] we ask that you please silence all electronics and sound-producing devices. >> thank you. before asking for approval of the agenda, there is a modification, no closed session today. so with that change, a motion to approve the agenda. >> so moved. >> all in favor? items carries. item three, approval of the august 18th meeting minutes. do i have a motion to approve? >> so moved. >> second. >> any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, call the question, all in favor? aye. thank you, the motion carries. the executive director's report. welcome back from vacation, sherrie. >> thank you. good morning, commissioners. just a few things, since we met three weeks ago we haven't had a huge amount of activity at dawson, it's reportable but i have a couple things i wanted to mention. the first is we have

a financial reason to conserve. we appreciate the efforts to slow down this ordinance. supervisor safai, you've been gracious to meet with a number of different industries that have different needs, and we appreciate that, so any effort to slow down, we support. we really believe that you incentivize change through carrots and sticks, and this ordinance has carrots and stick over somebody who has no control over the waste stream, so we would ask you to consider that. thank you. >> good afternoon. mina tau with recology. first of all, we want to thank the author, supervisor ahsha safai and the department of the environment in working with us to address most of the operation issues that we have raised during the course of developing this legislation. with the most recent round of amendments, we are confident recology will be able to meet the mandates. we appreciate the city's continual effort to create policy to reduce 60% of the landfill's goal by 2030. we want to thank the author on contaminations and important issues in meeting this ambitious goal. over the past decades, in partnership

it's ultimately a balance that is built into an approved e.i.r. >> supervisor safai: i just want to clarifyone of your comments. when you say tweak the e.i.r., do you -- no, just let me finish -- allow for -- i understand there's a lot of community benefits. it's gone through over a ten-year process. were you saying after the fact, meaning approve this and then allow for an opportunity to come back and look at the e.i.r. going forward for additional housing? >> commissioner moore: i really am hesitant to answer that in a yes or no question. i think there has to be a little more subtlety of how that is done, and i in this moment don't have that subtly. >> supervisor safai: i just wanted to know what you mean by tweak the e.i.r. >> no, i didn't mean tweak the e.i.r. we need to approve it, and start the housing or we need to disapprove it and keep the balance of housing in the e.i.r. >> supervisor safai: i don't have any other questions. thank you, commissioner. i'll just say some of the things that we talked about on the record. one of the things that i'm interested in having a conversation a

[applause] >> supervisor safai: please call the next item. >> clerk: next on the agenda is item number six is a hearing to appointing four members term ending june 1, 2020 to the reentry council. there are four seats, nine applicants. >> supervisor safai: okay. call -- get it going. call the first applicant, please. >> clerk: norma ruiz. >> supervisor safai: ruiz. >> clerk: ruiz. >> good morning, supervisors. first of all, i want to clarify that i'm running for seats one, two, and four, i didn't know you could run for multiple seats, and i'm qualified under those three. thank you for this opportunity. i come before you to ask for your full support in my appointment for s.f. reentry council. my name is norma ruiz. i'm a resident of district six, and currently live on treasure island and grew up in the mission. i was only 14 when confronted with a gang enhancement and for years i was stuck in the resolving door that the criminal justice strongly holds. it wasn't until i was 27 when i was able to exit the adult justice system? being personally impacted i am aware of some of the barriers that exist

committee, rather than recommending it to the board, but he can recommend it -- >> supervisor safai: but we can't make a positive recommendation to another committee? >> mr. givner: correct. >> supervisor safai: okay. just for future -- i just wanted to know. so please note it, and we'll send it over to the budget committee. >> clerk: i will do so. >> supervisor safai: thank you, mr. clerk. please call items number -- can we do items number three and four together? they'll present separately, but i'd like to take public comment on them collectively, because i know there's a lot of members of the public that would like to comment on both items. >> clerk: yes, that is -- >> supervisor safai: okay. so please call item number three and four together. >> clerk: number three is an item rejecting the mayor's appointment of -- [inaudible] >> clerk: item number four is an item approving, rejecting the mayor's nomination deon roker to the police commission for a term ending june 30, 2022. >> we're going to call miss l taylor up to present. we' we a i'll go excessively, and then, we'll open it up for public commen

and by the way, he's a terrible salsa dancer. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, chair safai and supervisor yee, supervisor stefani. my name's ian fragosi. i'm a legislative aide to supervisor sandra fewer. supervisor fewer wanted to be here in support of jose bernal for reentry council reappointment, but she's tied up in another hearing. i'm going to read a statement. i'm excited to hear that mr. bernal is a salsa dancer, but supervisor fewer is also a salsa dancer, so perhaps we should have a competition to see who should wear the crown. i'm going to read a statement. i write to you today to express my enthusiastic support for jose bernal and his appointment to the reentry council. as a member of the reentry council representing the board of supervisors, i've witnessed firsthand the passion and commitment to social justice that jose brings to this body. jose serves as cochair, and he has stood out as a leader on the council in advocating for restoreative justice policies. he has demonstrated that he has the courage to speak truth to power and always fight for what is right. i believe it i

impressed with your story, your legacy of work and extremely proud to see you as a nominee through the chair. >> supervisor safai: before the next speaker, i'd just remind the audience if you have conversations, please, take them out in the hallway. this is a very small room, and eve the whispers echo. thank you. next speaker. >> my name is kirk grimes, and i am the project manager for the a. philip randolph institute in san francisco. my career includes almost a 16 year career with the san francisco district attorney's office. for the past eight years i've had the opportunity to serve district eight in many community and workforce programs. i feel that many of the issues the police department is working to over come needs to have a community person that has involved themselves with experience with youth, someone who's on the ground every day. i am supporting d.j.buchter to be supported, to be appointed to the police commission because i believe his experience to this commitment, to community and perspective on community is very much needed to help the commission's effectiveness. as a bayview resident and homeow

a motion? >> supervisor ronen: i would like to thank you, supervisor safai for this legislation. it sounds amazing. what an innovative program and a win win for everyone. if you could add me as a cosponsor i would really appreciate that and i want to thank everyone for the amazing work on this. what a great piece of legislation. with that, i will make a motion, sorry. i will wait to make my motion. >> chair mandelman: thank you. i wanted to say some closing things. just for points of clarification >> supervisor safai: think of hospices and nursing homes and senior living centres. essentially what ends up happening is tons of medication goes unused. once they are, they go to a fair party and we need to screen them for additional screening. i want to be clear there is no opioid involved in this program. it is not hard medication. is a kind of thing that people need on a daily basis. my son uses an inhaler. these things are life changing. they are expensive. we don't have the ability to get them. after ghost of the third-party, it goes to the free medical clinic. it is watched and mo

you've heard a lot of statements that i've said about this being at the precipice. >> supervisor safai: think about how it will play a role in reform, and that's the issue of meet and confer and your experience in that. >> thank you. so san francisco has a long and noble history of being a town that supports the rights of workers, and as do i. there are lots of good rules here for good reason. i think we need to couple the right to a meet and confer, that that process be important to that process with the need for both clarity and transparency in the community. i think how long things take currently are unacceptable. so taking a hard look at the procedures currently in place and bringing all stakeholders to the table is an important thing for the commission to do to move on. because every day even when the department is advancing reform, the community doesn't feel it because it feels as though things are meyered in bureau -- mired in democracy. you can imagine for community members trying to figure out where we are in terms of reform, it seems as if something is happening, and it seems

the trial, she learned the victim's sister said when and if she had a child, she would name her demali. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. thank you for giving us this opportunity to speak today. my name is nicole cunningham and i'm a resident of bayview and i've been born and raised in san francisco for 41 years. i would like -- i don't know any of these two young people who are running, however, i did hear them speak about a week or so ago, and i appreciate what she shared. i come from a background of having a police officer as a father, so one of the main things that i'm pushing for is mental health for police officers on ongoing basis, drug and alcohol testing, and i brought this up in a meeting with them. i am a product of witnessing abuse in my household, so i appreciate the relationship that demali comes from, and that source of being able to understand and push through that. so i'm being able to make sure that my vote goes for her as well as d.j., to make sure they represent people who look like me, who look like other restrict haves, who look like my parents, and also police offi

a d.b.i. commissioner, i look forward to working with them and collaborating with these excellent, excellent people. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you, sir. next speaker. >> i'm a neighbor, small business owner and developer and i have the pleasure of working with commissioner richards on projects, some big, some small. i will tell you that he listens to all sides. in my experience, he's challenged every project he's worked on. i wholeheartedly support his nomination and am glad he's back up here. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm chris shulman, lower polk neighbors. we enthusiastically support the appointment of commissioner moore and commissioner richards. they're thoughtful, well prepared. and we look forward to working with them for an additional four years on the commission. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i support the reappointment of commissioner richards and commissioner moore. commissioner richards is fair and unbiased. he's not an idealogue or partisan. commissioner moore, we support her because she has an extensive back

a hotel in the city? >> i can answer that question. >> supervisor safai: through the chair. we have a lot of conversations with the department ombudsman and supportive housing and a lot of the different providers in the universe. there was, for instance, housing clinic that has thousands of units in the city. they have one building that is impacted by this that we know of so far. when we talk to the tenderloin housing housing clinic, there was one building and there entire universe. but what we have said is we will work with the department of environment and recology to put down a plan and a timeline specifically for those particular buildings. >> supervisor kim: ok. in an initial assessment, we only identified one s.r.o. >> supervisor safai: i am just giving you an example. there's probably more than one and probably a universe -- i'm sure there is a handful that are at least 250 or more in the tire universe of the city. but the reason i give that as an example is because we are talking to one particular landlord that talks to that category without getting into to too much o

i will turn it over to sponsor a cd -- safai. >> supervisor safai: it is an exciting week to follow. we had global action on climate week and 4,000 elected officials who were involved and unconcerned about the environment in general. i think that we had a wonderful policies. wonder for -- wonderful programs and one overt -- wonderful partners to highlight at this conference to talk about how we are truly a leader when it comes to environmental concern and the work we are doing here is one that i think many people around the world have looked to as an example. we called for and i want to give a little history before we handed over to the department of environment to give us a brief presentation. but we created this legislation, not to steal your lender, but we created the mandatory recycling and compost legislation back in 2006 and 2,000 to seven -- 2007 and we have been doing a phenomenal job of increasing the amount of waste that we divert from landfill. we are a leader when it comes to having a wonderful partner and the department of environment. but the main actors are the departme

she says the board hopes to find a solution to the de wolf street problem. supervisor safai (sahf-eye- ee) says the city should develop a broader plan to address rv's and possibly designate an area where all of them can park... rather than restricting streets one by one.cheryl brinkman/sftma- "the city's not had any success yet identifying an area like that. there used to be very under utilized industrial areas, but there's not much of the city that's under utilized.any more." the board will take up the de wolf street issue at its next meeting in two weeks. if a plan is approved to add parking restrictions... the signs could go up immiedately after a decision is reached. in san francisco, philippe djegal, kron four news. (vicki) coming up... car break-ins are becoming more common across the peninsula. we'll show you the most popular spots where crooks are striking. (grant) plus-- backlash continues against nike after their controversial ad with colin kaepernick. details on how much the company is suffering. (vicki) plus after the break... some might welcome a new, cheaper ga

with that -- >> supervisor safai: can we get a motion to file? >> supervisor tang: we will do that without objection. all right. ok. we will start 12. one of the cosponsors is here. supervisor supervisor fewer, welcome. we are waiting for supervisor peskin to get here. we will call item 12 now. >> hello. thank you, colleagues. i am a cosponsor and supervisor aaron peskin is the main sponsor of this resolution that supports proposition ten, the affordable housing act. i think that since 1979, when rent control was first passed, we have had a rent control policy in place and at the state level does not allow us to actually even have the discussion about how we may amend the rent control laws or just re-examine them. so this is just a resolution in support of the state proposition that is going to be in the november ballot. though it does give jurisdiction the ability to discuss rent control and how they are affecting the communities and also to revise it if we so deem. again, the passing of proposition ten doesn't automatically change anything. it