>> aye. >> yee aye. >> supervisor avalos? >> aye. >> avalos aye. >> supervisor breed? >> aye. >> breed aye. >> supervisor campos? >> campos aye. >> supervisor christensen? >> aye. >> aye. >> supervisor chone. >> chone aye. >> supervisor farrell? >> aye. >> farrell aye. >> supervisor kim? >> aye. >> kim aye. >> ten as. >> these items are passed and adopted unanimously. madame clerk can you please call the net iteming. >> item 14 is an ordinance to amend the code to repeal article 3 which contains a license requirement and tax on transient merchants, which are currently suspended. >> same house same call without objection this ordinance is passed on the firsted read >> ing madame clerk next item, please. >> item 15 an universe to retroactively authorize the office of the tax collector treasurer to extend after100,000 grant from earned resource network for implementing the ordinance for fiscal year 15 through 2016 to provide for one grant funded position in the office of financial empowerment. >> same house, same call without objection this ordinance spased on the first r

supervisor avalos. >> thank you president breed. colleagues, i want to urge you to support the appointment of iquan to the public utility commission. mr. quan comes with a great deal of experience certainly at the academy of sciences where he serves as a general manager but also in the community and the 7th district where he lives. i have seen mr. quan's work at the academy. and it has been really strong forth in making sure the academy meets the public's needs. he certainly demonstrated that right away when he first came to the academy before the new museum had opened. and there were some issues at play between the architect and what he knew the public was going to need to actually access the facility. he was able to move forward on some challenging proposals to make that access happen that was part political and part which made a lot of sense in making the facility work very well. that to me demonstrated some of his concerns for how things can work effectively and i thought that was important for someone conserving as a commission

please call the rom >> supervisor avalos, present. supervisor campus. present. supervisor christensen, present. supervisor co00. co00 not present. supervisor farrell, present. supervisor kim, kim not present. supervisor mar. present. supervise rb tang. present. supervisor wiener. present. supervisor norman. present. >> can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance? >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all . thank you madam clerk are there muneications? >> no communications. ei would like to acknowledge we are joined are by supervisor kim and cohen. can you please reads the agenda >> item 1-6 are considered rutune unless a member objects a item may be removed and considered separately >> any other items from the consent agenda? seeing none. call athe roll >> 1-6 supervisor tang. aye. supervisor wiener aye. supervisor yee. aye. supervise rb [inaudible] supervisor christensen aye. supervisor co00, aye. supervisor ferrule. eye

chamber we have an overflow room in room 263 timed madam clerk call the roll >> thank you supervisor avalos supervisor president breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar not present pursue supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee not present madam president we have quorum. >> ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all okay. >> madam clerk any communication. >> yes. madam president two communications dated march twhith one from supervisor yee they'll not been able to attend and request to be excuses eye is there a motion to excuse supervisor mar and supervisor yee we'll take that without objection. those two are excused okay and colleagues before we move on supervisor christensen i see you think the roster supervisor christensen do you have comments. >> no. >> colleagues, any changes to the march 24th seeing no changes a motion by supervisor farrell and seconded by supervisor campos w

and i would nominate chair avalos to continue in this chair.ave done a great job in that capacity and moving that community choice aggregation forward but also other various initiatives. i know that it's very challenging role because it's not only do you have to you know work with the rest of us on this commission, but you have the san francisco public utilities commission and the supervisors office and the mayor's office. i would like to make a motion to nominate chair avalos to continue in that capacity. >> great. thank you for your support and i would like to continue on because i feel it's important to keep the leadership going special ly in this crucial year for cleanpowersf. your motion and second by commissioner mar. we should probably open it up for public comment. public comment on the motion to reelect me for chair of lafco. and seeing no member of the public come forward on that we'll close public comment on that. part of this item and can we take that colleagues, without objection? okay. thank you, colleagues. i really appreciate ke

we did hear from commissioner avalos and mr. fried that both hearings there seems to be like 1-2 months that we can shave on this. i guess without even getting too outside of the box. the piece i would like to talk about on page two, we are at row no. 3 in february and row no. 6 when pg & e files their green tariff with the rates. as i said at the puc, we basically have a two 1/2 month period here to get this major step that we want them to take. we want them to take to publicity for that and we want there to be publicity for that but we don't want them to take away all the excitement and momentum that this great san francisco is making with our power program. so i would just hope that between now and may 10th we can do as much public work as possible and i think a great catalyst to that would be setting the not to exceed rate at the pg & e brown power rate as soon as possible because it will give clearly the knowledge of that number. i would get that rate to the board as soon as possible to accelerate that portion of this publi

. >> supervisor avalos made a motion, is there a second? second by supervisor campose supervisor wiener >> i will vote gaens this today. i will say this and i'll be happy as we have in the past have a kbait about the commuter shuttle and happy to talk about the fact that a significant majority that ride the shuttles if they went away or became so restricted that a mu jortd of the workers would stay in san francisco and drive their cars clogging up the city streets and our highways more than they already are. i am happy to talk about the fact that i represent a district that is right there at the top when it comes to shuttles in terms of residence that ride the shuttles and dependent on them to get to work as well as those that live on the streets and the concerns about the shuttles going down the streets. i will talk about the arterials and side streets and if you put the buses on a small number of streets the people on those streets won't be happy about that chblt when we restrict the number of stops the shuttles it would use it means they

>> commissioner avalos? >> absent. >> breed. >> present. >> campos. >> absent. >> christensen. >> present. >> cohen e >> present. >> commissioner farrell. >> absent. >> kim. >> present. >> commissioner mar. >> here. >> tang? >> present. >> and president lee. >> present. >> yee? >> present. >> commissioner avalos? >> present. >> we have a quorum. >> thank you and i want to thank sfgtv for broadcasting today's hearing. and mr. clerk, please call item number 2. >> approve the minutes of the february 24, 2015, meeting this is an action item. >> okay, our colleagues, are there any changes to the minutes? can i have a motion or actually could i just call the roll in a number two? >> on item two. >> avalos. >> aye. >> my apologies. >> is there any public comment on item number two? >> seeing number, public comment is closed please call the roll. >> item two, commissioner avalos? >> aye. >> commissioner breed? >> aye. >> commissioner campos? >> absent. >> christensen? >> aye. >> cohen. >> aye. >> commissioner farrel

. >> avalos. >> yea. >> breed. >> yea. >> campos. >> yea. >> kristen sentence. >> yea. >> cowen. >> yea. >> farrell. >> yea. >> there are 11 yeas. those resolutions are approved ask the motion is adopted unanimous consently. madam clerk, can you please read the next item >> madam president, i have no im memoriam today. >> okay. is there anymore business today. >> that con concludes the business for today. >> okay. ladies and gentlemen ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. good afternoon everyone and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting for for march for march 3rd, 2015. madam clerk, can you please call the role? >> yes, madam president thank you. supervisor avalos present president breed present supervisor campos present supervisor supervisor christensen present supervisor cohen present fairly supervisor farrell present supervisor kim supervisor kim present supervisor mar not present supervisor tang present supervisor wiener present supervisor yee present. madam president you have a quorum. >> thank you and can everyone stand up and join us in in the pledge of all

supervisor avalos and the clerk is steve item one roll call vote. >> supervisor avalos supervisor campos supervisor cohen supervisor kim supervisor mar absent we have quorum. >> great we have quorum on to the next item. >> consent calendar items 2 to 3 those items are considered route and staff is to the required to present if anyone objects they can be removed. >> colleagues questions or comments on item two to three arrest public comment for those two items public comment is on on the consent calendar and seeing no members of the public come forward we'll close public comment and have a roll call vote for our meeting minutes. >> supervisor avalos. >> oh, i'm sorry oh and supervisor avalos. >> supervisor campos supervisor cohen supervisor kim supervisor mar absent consent calendar passes. >> very good the items passes on to the next item and item 4 federal and state update on action item. >> great, thank you good morning chairman and members happy to be here i have a brief presentation on one particular bill we're recommending the masking support we're taking a recommendation i wasn't p

. >> supervisor john avalos's. >> yes. i co-sponsored this supplemental as well so we can add my name from today i thank you for bringing this forward i've been involved in the budget process for i don't know since 1997 and the issue about the cost of.org as before us the board and the mayor's office every year will see people that have are city employees wage increases this and that to meet the rising cost of living in san francisco the bay area there are a lot of employees that work in the bay area now we're seeing our affordability crisis is beyond the control of any policy at the board of supervisors or city hall so we have our facing how we're going to deal with the gap that exists for nonprofits to stay in san francisco and continue to work in san francisco so they can stay alive but others people that work for nonprofits they continue to stay in the city as well the cost of insurance the cost of rent is skooith and so many nonprofits that have to close their doors to meet those issues and last year, we the voters ap

supervisor avalos present president breed present supervisor campos present supervisor supervisor christensen present supervisor cohen present fairly supervisor farrell present supervisor kim supervisor kim present supervisor mar not present supervisor tang present supervisor wiener present supervisor yee present. madam president you have a quorum. >> thank you and can everyone stand up and join us in in the pledge of allegiance? >> pledge of allegiance. >> thank you. and colleagues, are there any changes to the board meeting minutes of january 27th? seeing no changes may i have a motion to approve. motion by supervisor cohen and seconded by supervisor tang. madam clerk, are there any communications. >> i have no communications today madam president. . >> can . >> can you please at this time read the consent agenda? >> the small business commission to establish a region a registry and authorize a a a $50 fee. >> thank you very much i want to thank my cosponsors and supervisor farrell and supervisor yee after speaking with supervisor tang and others about the particular legacy businesses in th

colleagues we have one more item on the calendar that is been requested by supervisor avalos he's not with us at the moment. >> i know our puc is here why not precede where the presentation get moving and let me see in supervisor avalos comes down we have a short window left we'll lose quorum. >> supervisor would i like me to call this item. >> item 8 here to receive the updates for complaints from the city attorney migrants pg&e has immediately denied the negotiations from the witness the city and the pg&e negotiation and the agreement in 2015 they fail to 234eg9 in good faith. >> commissioner avalos if we could still be brief. >> i called for the hearing it is really at the request of the public utility commission and itself city attorney's office to get some public light only what's happening around the interconnections agreement. >> thank you, michael deputy director manager from the utilities commission i'll talk about the contract we've had with patrick gas and electric this provides hetch hetchy to our citizens what's the path forward the act passes in 2013 that gave the rights

avalos. i. >> avalos i. breed. >> no. >> no. campos. >> no. >> campos no. supervisor christensen. >> i. >> christensen i. there are eight i's and three no's with supervisor cohen, breed and christensen in the descenting. item nine is a resolution to determine the issuance on type 40 sales license for fillmore street to serve the public convenience. >> okay. madam clerk, can you please call the roll. item nine. cohen. >> i. >> farrell. >> i. >> kim. >> i. >> mar. >> i. >> tang. >> i. >> wiener. >> i. >> yee. >> i. >> avalos. >> i. >> breed. >> i. >> campos. >> i. >> christensen. >> i. >> there are 11 i's. >> this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, can you please call the next item. >> item ten is to determine the issuance on sale beer license to serve the public of the city. >> supervisor wiener. >> i'm certainly supportive of this item for the roxie theatre. as you may know, supervisor kim, campos and i and a series of legislation were able to loosen the restrictions that provide a little bit more balance and one of the things we were able to d

. >> thank you supervisor avalos. i am very pleased and surprised that i am here, and black history month and i am here because i believe in the work of karl barns and his father aaron barns senior who we miss now. and i had no idea that i would be receiving some tribute or acknowledgment. but i am pleased and i thank you i thank the supervisor breed and cohen and supervisor weiner even said that he is going to come to our senior program at the it book man community center and i appreciate that. and i have been in san francisco for not that long maybe since 59. and served in the engleside area for about 20 years total. and it is the best job and i am still working and i should be retired by now and i think that it might be pretty soon thank you very much. [ applause ] i want to thank supervisor avalos and he is a strong supporter of the community and i thought very highly of him and i would like to thank the pilgrim members and i have my brother alan and my sister, could you stand up and come on up here. >> and just r

now this supplemental is cosponsors by supervisor campos supervisor avalos supervisor kim supervisor kim and myself and it was contingent on revenue and saves above the projected estimates of the fiscal year 2013 and 14. the city's comprehensive annual financial report for the fiscal year 2013 showed a year end general fund surplus of 21.6 $21.6 million that came from unanticipated year end revenue and i think that many of the community based organizations that have been coming to the board the nonprofit workers and leaders of community based groups have emphasized they are a critical part of the statement part of the safety net and the nonprofit sector i believe and with neighborhood stability and efforts to really assist the nonprofit sector, they are an often undervalued and under acknowledged part of our city family in many ways i think they are undervalued and i think they are taken for granted and at times belittled by government and i think they deserve the same respect as public employees and for profit contract ors with the city and i think this small supplemental is a key p

we voted on the amendment now the item as amended. >> on item 5 supervisor avalos supervisor avalos. >> mr. reid supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee absent oar the amended item passes. >> thank you mr. clerk, call the next item. >> item 67 adopt the fiscal year 2015-2016 transportation fund for the clean air transportation this is an action item. >> okay. colleagues if there are no questions or comments we'll open up for public comment any public comment on item 6 seeing none, public comment is closed mr. clerk, please call the roll. >> on item 6 arrest commissioner avalos mr. reid supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor malia cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee absent this item passes. >> so item no. 7. >> item 7 appoint angela miller to the advisory committee this is an action item. >> supervisor mar thank you, colleagues. i want to thank the programs and policy committee for forwardin

supervisor avalos. >> submit >> president breed >> thank you colleagues. today i'm introducing an up date to finance reform ordinance. san francisco has some of the strongest campaign finance laws in the country and rightly so. our citizens have r entitleed to know who is influencing the votes. unfortunately the campaign finance laws are not a single construct. they are the product of differing and overlapping efforts that differ and overlap with state laws. what we are left with is a imns patch work of regulation whos complexities can undermine the very goal of transsknaerns accountability we seek >> student achieve. for example, under the current campaign finance reform ordinance, one must consult 5 different sections of the law to sign all the different disclaimer requirements. an independent group such as a neighborhoods political club can be required to file 2 different forms as 2 different times just to report a single campaign mailer. this complexity makes it harder for the paverage voter to assess the information being disclosed and it can by troub

. >> thank you supervisor kim supervisor avalos? >> just very briefly this morning i had a conversation with the controller's office about this very issue and i had a sense of how the vote appears to be going down as it appears right now and it's a complicated issue there are nonprofits that can pay higher salaries with the cola and so what i'd like to do is to work with eric mar so we can actually have a hearing to really start to tackle this issue not wait until the june budget process but really start a conversation with the mayor about this cola and what's it going to take to make it happen. how do we see different departments face this problem with their nonprofit contractors and that would be a really great discussion to have to initiate that conversation but when we needed the political will to actually have the cola resolved once and for all. >> thank you. madam clerk can you please call the roll. >> supervisor farrell no. >> supervisor kim aye. >> supervisor mar aye. >> supervisor tang no. >> supervisor wiener no. >> superv

if you could call the roll. >> commissioner avalos supervisor campos supervisor cowen supervisor kim absent supervisor mar we have quorum. >> okay. very good go on to our next item and item number 2 approval of the minutes of the february 10, 2015 an action item. >> okay. colleagues i'm sure you had a chance to review the minutes and no one on the roster to speak open up for public comment public comment is closed and we can have a roll call vote and item 2. >> commissioner avalos supervisor campos supervisor cohen supervisor kim absent supervisor mar this item passes. >> great this item passes next item, please. >> item 3 state and federal update an action item. >> mr. watts here to present. >> good morning, chair and committee a number of bills to recommend for action i thought i'd start with the 0 opposed bills are on the agenda and go into the support mr. patterson introduced ab 1138 only page 38 of your matrix is the acquisition of the railways upon having a full funding understanding for the entire sect so to put that into terms the initial construction seethe the first is unde

as supervisor avalos alluded to it's a very difficult decision. today i would just say that i am inclined to support the reappointment of our current president, mr. steven nutsell, mr. baldanado as well. in terms of seat 7, i was actually -- there were a few people who were qualifid for that so i would say i would love to see mr. kefrpb -- kevin miller serve in that role. i think what he does at swords to plowshares and what he would bring to that role i would love to see on that board. in terms of seat 1 i would like to give my endorsement to mr. brendan rogers, not only in terms of his work at the library, which is really creative when you think about it, it is a place that people enter especially if they are homeless. i am grateful that you took on a leadership role to start a program there, as well as again the representation from the coast guard. in terms of seat 4, very torn about that but i'll wait to hear from supervisor cohen but i think that the representation from whether it's the women or lgbt community is really important so i would b

my name is john avalos, the chair of lafco. lack -- the clerk today is lisa. it's brought to you today by sf govtv staff. madam clerk, any announcements? >> yes, please silence your cell phones and any devices. >> >>clerk, please call the roll. >> commissioner avalos, present, commissioner breed, absent, campos present, crews present mar present. you have a quorum. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you, let's go item no. 2. >> item no. 2 approval of the lafco minutes from the december 12th #shgs #34i regular meeting and the january 30, 2015, joint special meeting with the san francisco public utilities commission. >> colleagues, any comment? is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we have a motion on the minutes? the motion of

. >> president caen and fellow commissioners and supervisor avalos thank you for the chance to speak before your commission and i'd actually like to speak to item number 7, the urban agriculture program that's being proposed under the public utilities commission jurisdiction but let's first talk about clean power sf and i want to thank the general manager and staff for working closely with jason freed of lafco and that was a request that came from the general manager kelly and i thought it was great to show that we're building a strong relationship to move clean power san francisco forward and i've been briefed on the timeline and i see that some that some of the things that we expected to be happening at the very end of the timeline are actually earlier so it looks like the more difficult work is going to be around procurement and other things and i believe there's ways to shorten the timeline proposed and it wouldn't actually be very hard to do. the pro can you procurement process is projected to take 3 months but i believe if the puc staff works with me and my colleagues and the m