i hope that we as a that we as a city that we as a city can play a small role colleagues, i ask for your support of these interim controls today. >> is it my understanding that you are not going to be voting on this item? >> i will be voting on this item. >> okay. can i ask you a question about the legislation? i know that there was some concerns expressed by the by the city attorney's office have you addressed those concerns or will you be making any amendments to address those concerns? >> we did address many issues through amendments. i just want to say the city attorney has done a really amazing job to ensure we address this is systematic issue and keep tenants in place. >> okay with that that can we take this item? without objection this resolution is adopted unanimously. >> madam clerk, can we go to roll call for introduction? >> yes madam president. supervisor farrell you are first up to introduce new business. >> thank you i'm introducing a resolution urging the national park service to abandon the diss embarkation project and take it away from the golden gate national recreation

our office reported last year that sugary drinks cost us as a city fifty million as a city $50 million and the city governments 26 $26 million a year so there's a negative compact by the over consumption of sugary beverages and we're continuing this fight against big soda in 2015 with our coalition with legislation that we think will make our communities healthier and better informed informed. the legislation i'm introducing will prohibit the use of city funds from city departments and contractors from purchasing sugary drinks it doesn't ban vendors or private parties from bringing them but it limits the city and departments and contractors that do business with the city to consume sugary beverages we can't in good faith know the terrible harm these drinks cause and then allow them to be handed out in children's programs or encourage employees to drink them and to provide the department of public health and our staff more information about the sale of these harmful products. lastly i'm introducing a resolution to formally endorse senator bill madding's bill as we voted about a year ago

our office reported last year that sugary drinks cost us as a city fifty million as a city $50 million and the city governments 26 $26 million a year so there's a negative compact by the over consumption of sugary beverages and we're

constant need here in san francisco for members of our local community to combat this facesing us as a city. we need to be galvanized. with the recent instances of violence on our streets, our growing homeless population and in many respects, i would suggest that san francisco needs an active catholic community. a community that has been a pillar for san francisco for generations. our needs are great and i hope we can move forward in a positive way. as pope francis stated, i prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets rather than a church being unhealthy from being confined and clean to his own skufrment i respect as a legislature and pray as a catholic that the problems are resolved in a manner that thoerns teachers in our catholic schools. recognizes the catholic church and both respects and embodies the san franciscans. the resolution supports the incredible teachers in our catholic schools in san francisco. it recognizes the catholic church and above all, acknowledges our teachers in both perspectives and respects the leadership of the cath

these firefighters responded promptly and they truly saved lives and i think that we as a city should be very proud of what they do and are very grateful for their courage and bravely. the tragedy behind these fires is not just in the horrific loss of life, but also the tragedy is in the displacement of dozen was residents -- dozens of residents and small businesses and their workers. >> >> the 22nd and mission fire was home to 53 residents, and to 27 businesses, and you can imagine that with each one of the businesses there are a number of employees that are impacted, and while i am very proud of the fact that we as a city were able to house all of the residents, the challenges that face these families are pretty significant and we know and are grateful to the work that has been done also with the small businesses. the mayor's office of work force and economic development and the mission economic development agency me ta have been working closely with the small business owners and. employees to help them to figure out how they can move ahead of the fires. this hearing today is the be

a we as a cityan help long time businesses that have given character to our neighborhoods that are being pushed out and this is a first step in this direction and i ask for your support. >> colleagues -- without objection this ordinance is finally passed. can you please call the next item madam clerk. >> extend the reduction of building coincide code fees and to affirm the planning department's determination. >> same house same call this ordinance is passed on the first reading unanimously item 7. >> the competitive bidding requirement and to authorize the director of public works to enter into a construction contract with pneumatic tube products company in an amount not to exceed 953 thousand for for for the delivery system at san francisco general hospital. passed unanimously. >> item 8. emergency public work contracts under administrative code section 660 with design space modular buildings inc and albert electric which will comprise fire station 48 to house fire operations on treasure island. >>

and in the first 3 months of this year we as a city have already lost 15 lives. as evidenced by this activity what we're hearing from communities of color in the city as well as the budget analyst's report reflects the fact that our current public safety system isn't addressing all of the needs for the entire city of san francisco and crime is up more than 30 percent and impacting many of these areas besides the south eastern neighborhoods and i believe we need a serious overhaul on prevention efforts and we need to invest in programs in our city so that we're producing thoughtful results and this is not to say that that i don't support the nonprofit workers, it's quite the contrary i am open to it. i'm just unfortunately not able to support it at this time and being mindful that every allocation that we make is less funding that we have to balance our budget in support of other priorities and a lot of changes in the last 7 months since we took action on on that resolution and one area i think many of us are in agreement is a permanent fix is warranted for this pa

with the recommendations once bart is with the infrastructure project this is a discussion point or have the city have that as a discussion point with bart. >> okay. thank you. >> i think it was brought up that people think they should coordinate with mta so because it is coordinating a schedule. >> okay any other reports? seeing none we'll move on to the next item north america item 9 new business we want to add scott a discussion of scott ab 12 e i didn't mean to cut him off it needs to be an agenda item a proposal for a small business tax holiday a single day it has of if passes at the the state level it has an implementation because we have an credential we'll have that discussion whether to recommend to the city and county of san francisco for them to honor that as well and there recent all kinds of logical issues for the tax holiday many businesses have many online point of sales you can track this as a single transaction it is great but not without complications >> so may i ask one particular. >> uh-huh. >> i don't know if it's one or a couple of questions i'll jaundice it as new business i'll check wi

one of the things that is important to me as a city san franciscan and as a commissioner is the amount of business that is going to local people. i have said this before and i will say it again. i think a lot of people in the community have had to put up with a lot whether it was neglect by the city for many years or a lot of the construction and in some cases there is a lot of displacement like we find in the mission. it's important that local businesses that you hire people that have been around here for a long time. there is people that have been here since last year and are getting all the business where people that have been here are not getting any of the business. i know there is a percentage, but it would be great to get a little bioon some of these services to know it's given to people who have put up with. i have brought this up and will continue to bring it up and hold people accountable because it is important. i even mentioned last time that you know, the construction workers, you know, instead of hiring a caterer to come in, why don't you have one of the local dell is on

physical action and laying down the stripes myself but more of this is going to happen because we as a city agreed we're going to put serious resources into these our vision zero so that it is not just a a pronouncement we make those things happen on as many street corners as possible this is a relatively easier treatment to do but a higher awareness comes boo about it as we work on the compacted streets and intersections that require xylophones and a lot of other agencies to be involved in safety of those intersections and streets reich like we have probably a half block away on a very, very business intersects at the same time in in addition to the so-called descend are a striping we'll be taking a look at with our police department and our mta and public defender's office and others on the streets what streets in our city that we have direct jurisdiction where we can slow down traffic on an official basis even a 5 mile reduction in the speed allows nor awareness and more care to occur on those streets and so we have named some of the streets that will slow down the speed on and we've alr

council see this is as very important priority but the long and short of what we're talking about today we have a resolution that would put san francisco on the record as the first city to come out in full support of the gerawan farm workers who have been fighting for the rights for a number of decades now. in 1990 farm workers at gerawan farming voting for representation by the united farm workers and was a state conducted secret ballot election. the labor relations board at this point certified the united farm workers as the farm workers union representative for those workers and for almost a quarter of a century this company -- gerawan, has been fighting the effort of these workers to simply exercise their rights. they have pulling all the stops to prevent implementation of the union contract. in fact things gotten so bad that the united farm workers invoked california's mandatory mediation law in a state appointed mediator was actually imposed, and that mediator issued a three year contract which included retroactive wage increases, holiday compensation that was supposed to take immediate effect to protect those workers. this happened again in 2013. it is now 201

comes forward i'm optimistic that we'll look at this structural issue for the future and i think as a city we've acknowledged in various ways we need to help our nonprofits to survive in this incredibly challenging financial environment and fulfilling the commitment that we've made as a board from 6 months ago it's critical to the stabilization of our neighborhoods as well and regardless of the outcome of this vote i hope we as a board will address the inequality so that we can come up with a solution before we are done with our upcoming budget process and i don't think this is an issue that we're going to solve today but to make it a priority that we said 6 months ago as we as a board prioritized this issue and i thank you. >> thank you. supervisor yee [applause]. >> thank you president breed. i won't repeat what supervisor mar has well articulated. coming from the nonprofit world and being there for over 30 years and actually running one for about 18 years, i know how difficult it is when you don't get a cost of living adjustment for your budget and when we talk about cost of living you

with the recommendations once bart is with the infrastructure project this is a discussion point or have the city have that as a discussion point with bart. >> okay. thank you. >> i think it was brought up that people think they should coordinate with mta so because it is coordinating a schedule. >> okay any other reports? seeing none we'll move on to the next item north america item 9 new business we want

to make creative solutions to look at it from a land use policy is going to be challenging for us as a city to continue to be able to comply with the regulations so wanted to bring that taushgs e to your attention and okay. >> 10 the portal i've asked jane because she is doing some work on the streamlining project i'm going to be scheduling her on a quarterly session to keep you up to speed on items that are being developed in the portal the portal is launched we need to continue to sort of modifications and upgrades to the portal but shields streamline the first project it is talking to what is it takes to open a restaurant and the map to help from at least a one basic sector what is the point and what's the efficiency we can start taking a look at i have a question it would be nice to get like last time the tables how many people use the portals and what venue in san francisco from other states that was helpful last time we got that from you. >> and i will have her make sure that's part of the report and with the quarterly dashboard i'll send you that information too but i think you proba

the southeast direction down to 17th and folsom so it's a large collection area that is the natural topography of the city. also part of this as the supervisor said it's a natural low point in the city and was naf gattible waterways at one point and in this map you could get on a boat and go to oakland from 17th and folsom. that is a challenge for us because of the natural topography that exists. now we did fill out -- in fact most people don't know first street in downtown called first street because it was the first street. we filled the bay out to steward street and used to be east street and the second shoreline and filled a third time to the embarcadero today and the last shoreline at which point bcdc was developed and that was stopped but to put it simply at what point that was a waterway and from a nature perspective it wants to remain a waterway so if you look at some of the pictures as the supervisor said this is not a issue for san francisco. these are horse and buggy photographs showing 17th and folsom in standing water after a storm. additional photos of the streetcars passing through that area and again standing w

county of san francisco is to maintain and improve the infrastructure of the city those projects can range from projects as small as a muni bus stherltd to a transbay terminal the vast projects are need for the improvement of the transportation to help the city's economic to help the city collectively excuse me. grow infrastructure projects have an environmental review on the project area with the economic impacts from a project - while the economic impacts can't be mitigated san francisco has not developed a consistent set of criteria in understanding had a environmental impact report there is no set to trigger or statement the change in economic activity in a specified area of specified projects there's currently a private investment boom this is take place in san francisco and there are part of the city where the public and private projects are curling excuse me. i left off a line those two promotions happening at the same time are also causing an overlay of impact to the business community so we'll conduct a series of hearing with the public works commission and the san francisco county transportation authority a

actions for our resident and neighbors and entire community that needed them as a special time i'm sure you're aware of our city has experienced those fires and unfortunately those fires have caused a lot of damage in the city but i look at more importantly how we respond to those disasters because the more we can get we have people if from 9 community respond to them i know we'll be more relent as an entire city swler the fire department and police department and our department of emergency management and other dchts like human services and public health that specialized their ability to respond and get in early and help what he want to do more and more is also practice the ability to respond with the people power we have in the city and part of that people power includes the red xros and their volunteers dpw's who assisted isn't shelter in providing food immediately and, of course, our san francisco salvation army in they're basically necessities and utilizing their own offices to serve as a temporary shelter after the 2 south end street the salvation army went above and beyond they're calling by allowing a t

as it a city as it can be. on february 23rd i took up the invitation of green she's a project housing resident who invited members of the police commission to come and walk up potrero to see what's happening there. it was wonderful i would like to give a compliment to officer bran don and she really highlighted their ability to handle situations and diffuse situations and build relationships with communities and get increased cooperation and that was a wonderful opportunity to get out from behind this forum and out with her and i want to compliment the officers for justice they did a wonderful women's trail blazer event and i was pleased to represent this commission and it was a celebration of of the contribution of many woman particularly women of color and it was to benefit kids and that was a great night. we did have a town hall for the officer involved shooting in the mission on march on march 2nd and on march 2nd and i attended that with commissioner dejes u.s. and they shared the information known at that

late night working group the report that has receive prepared over what we need to do and can do as a city and region to improve the late night transportation colleagues i mean in 2011 i requested our city visit prepare an environmental review on our late night committee this city a twenty-four hour city we know our night life is so central to the culture and identity of san francisco but we also wanted to learn what is the actual economic contributions spoke of this city eave learned as you recall a straggling to many i department of motor vehicles didn't think about before by the way was intensive that our night life economy is a $9. billion with a b industry it employees 60 thousand workers and contributes more than $50 million a year to our city coffers and so we learned what i think a lot of people initiating knew it sector matters to the economy and the culture of our city unfortunately, our transportation system in san francisco sometimes acts as if everyone works 9:00 a.m. to p.m. and no one comes home after that so night life transportation even early evening transportation in san