there are real problems in the board, the board is trying to maintain itself and they forget that there are members, that there are rules and there is reasons for rules and that's so we can all be actually involved but what's starting to happen is manipulation. there was a discussion and we were told there were 12 board members, now there was 10. that was heartbreaking. i was hoping there were 15. the secretary cannot get the meetings out because she's too busy. they need more help. to turn this around again the manipulation. one last thing. i know people bring up this whole idea about contentious. continue getting contentious until you get it right. doesn't mean you have to be disrespect, but it doesn't mean we haven't to prevent ourselves from speaking up until they hear us. >> thank you very much. is there anymore people from the public who would like to come and speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i want to ask a couple follow up questions to the president of the board. >> yes, supervisor. >> thank you. it really does concern me some of the things that have been said in

again i haven't seen the board minutes. two planning meetings in may and august of 2013 were canceled and only one was rescheduled. these meetings are mandated by the corporation's bylaws and set boo i the approval of annual ship of the meeting. i was e-mailed on july 30th stating that first resolution adopted by the membership, pride's board has the right to reschedule the meeting when the interest of the organization so dictates. i have not been able to find any meetings of the organization that verifies this claim. then he e-mailed me on august 3rd that did face resolution which is ratified by members that gives pride membership meetings. i have no minutes that substantiate these claims. i was given a copy of the bylaws back in early june which were reported to me presented to me as the most up to date policies and procedures and board bylaws. another issue is the membership sign up switched from an online application to a system whenever the form had to be printed out and submitted to the office. this happened at a time

at the september 3, 2013, board meeting, learn lest than 2 weeks before the annual meeting of the board election, the directors change the number of board seats from 12 to 10. it was at 15. the previous standing rule stated a third of the board members that had previously been elected had to stand at election. in the case of a fraction, you end up with a fraction, the previous standing rules say the numbers had to be rounded up at this meeting last week. this has changed to round to the nearest whole numbers who stand for election. there is relevant document in the attachment i gave you. finally board president lisa williams stated that the organization policies and procedures was a reason that they had to -- relay chelsey manning as this year grand -- marshall in this parade. the policies clearly states they are authorized to a point up to three. i have provided relevant document. i have one short closing. i think a lot of the issues about problems with keeping good executive directors is the board is not properly trained on its relationship with the executive director. i think from wh

i also want to thank the members of the pride board, president of the board, the general council and their acting executive director for being here today and i want to thank the members of the public, of our community who are involved in doing this and i also appreciate from the vendors who shared their experiences. what i want to say to be completely fair what we heard here was in many respects was a mixed bag in the sense that there was the positive development on the issue of the finances of the organization and i think we need to give credit where credit is due and we are grateful to the board and the staff that worked so hard to make that happen. i think it's something we should be very proud of and lisa williams who made that happen. but there are comments that i heard that there are issues that remain around governance, around transparency and around accountability and when you hear fromse

the rent board has the authority and i charted the provision in my brief discussing the rent board. >counsel can i stop you, we are dealing with the issues of the case. not with the merits oovment -- if i may address that point briefly? >> you did already. you had your time. okay. >> thank you. >> mr. sanchez? >> thank you, scott sanchez planning department. the case was reviewed in 2012. it was not issued until april 18th of this year. there was a block notations request submitted by the requesters and that was received by june 4. th. at the time we reviewed and approved this permit it was before the cbn was permitted. it requires no notification under the planning code. the jury's requester. when that i would turn it over to chief inspector. >> before you leave, mr. sanchez, the definition of a structural addition that triggers a planning code notification requirement, this does not conform to that in your opinion? >> that's correct. the work that is being done under this permitted is what we would view and repair or maintenance does not expand the building envelope. most building e

documenting health service board meeting since october 2010. we commend shane for his professional dedication and technical expertise. this creation of the hss youtube channel has provided meeting access to hss members, elected officials, news media, and others who could not attend in person. these recordings were also used to document requests and questions posed by the board and public comment. in addition to his work for hss, we would like to acknowledge sean's commitment to the oakland digital arts and literary center, a nonprofit that empowers students and small businesses in undeserved communities to succeed in the digital economy. we encourage sean tai and zty media to be among the vendors that bid on other digital video services proposals issued by health service system. the members of the health service board wish sean tai the best of luck in his future and professional endeavors. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. (applause) >> also, as you know -- probably know by now, the board of supervisors recently passed a resoluti

item s, board members report. commissioner murase, would you give a report from the committee of the whole meeting of june 24th, 2013? >> yes. at the june meeting there was one information item, review discussion of no child left behind california office to reform education waiver. and i'm very pleased to report that the waiver was granted by secretary of edward jones indication arney duncan, making us one of the first and only district-level waivers of the no child left behind, which means we no longer have to punish our students in high stakes testing and really impossible score improvements, and that we we're really at the cutting edge of school reform nationally. and i just want to recognize our superintendent, richard carranza, who has been working very closely with superintendent of multiple districts up and down the state. he has really proven to be a leader among these superintendents. i really appreciate you and the whole team of district staff who put together the waiver. >> yes, commissioner wynns. >> s

board. >> thank you, mr. president. the one thing i would say in reference to the notice, my office has been in contact with your then executive director for weeks and we have left a number of messages about the fact that a hearing would be held in early september. so i just want to be very clear about that. this is not something where 3 days ago we decided to have a hearing. this is something where we announced that there would be a hearing before the summer and we have communicated through pride through the existing structure which is you talk to the duly appointed executive director and that's what we've tried to do. i want to be very clear about that. that said, the extent to additional opportunity to speak and that is needed we are happy to provide that opportunity. i also want to note as distinguished by this report by miss stevenson, this is a resort that -- report that came out in 2010. the issues have been the subject of discussion for quite some time. we understand and we want to g

board members proposals for first reading there are none. >> item s. board members report. by board members. >> and i believe that commissioner wynns, my want to announce ta there is a budget committee meeting on september, or the 19th. starting at 6 p.m.; is that correct?? >> yes. and commissioner murase? >> yes, i would like to report on the september 9th meeting of the augmented curriculum and program committee. >> we had an action item sponsored by haney expanding athrough g course offering to usfd high schools and supporting the course development and submission there was a positive recommendation from the committee and there were three informational items and on the issue of human trafficking, san francisco has been included in the sdi list of top 13 list of destinations for human trafficking. it is a list that we don't want to be on. and we have started a conversation about training people who come into contact with young people, at risk people, and in oakland, unified school district, the school board approved a curriculum on human trafficking, that all 7th graders

>> thank you, board president chiu. i agreed with the majority of the public utilities commission when they asserted that the community choice aggregation program that was presented to them no longer had any direct immediate local environmental benefit. but the lack of a true climate change impact of this cca is not its only fatal flaw. it's also gotten progressively more expensive as time has gone on. back in 2007 the board insisted that a cca program would meet or beat pg&e's rate, meaning that cca power should cost 7.9 cents or less per kilowatt hour. the theory was that if we wanted to convince people to participate in a green energy program, we couldn't hit them with massive monthly bills or they'd likely opt out. that was good logic. but over the years the costs crept up and up and up, and last year this board authorized the puc to set rates at 12.8 cents per kilowatt hour. we ran the risk of large scale opt outs, but the logic was that the environmental benefits were so strong that san francisco would vote with t

>> good evening, board members. we are asking for membership appointment to the sfusd clear technical education advisory committee the requested action that the board of education to the advisory committee. tarn tad oh, gary frund, stephen curie, glen, eagle son, charles vez gnaw, kimberly will cough, >> thank you, no public speakers. any comments? >> yes, i think these appointments are fine. except i would like to see somebody from ucsf there and someone from city built considering we have a new round of internships. i believe i have spoken to staff about it. i just want to put it on the record. >> thank you. we'll be adding more members. there are other members and we'll be happy to add those. we can expand this committee. >> i want to be sure that the committee reflects our student body as well. i want to be sure that asian americans, african americans, latinos, pacific islanders are represented among the group. can you tell me that? >> we have some diversity on this group. as you see we've got more in particular

. >> sfgtv >> >> >>> good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the board of supervisors neighborhood services and safety committee. my name is david campos. we are joined by norman yee and eric mar will be excused and today we have been joined by supervisor scott wiener. i want to acknowledge the clerk of the committee, derrick evans as well as the following members of the sfgtv staff. thank you for covering this meeting. jessie larson, jenny low. >> mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and speak are cards should be submitted to the clerk. items are on the board of supervisors agenda. >> before we begin i would like to entertain a motion to excuse supervisor mar. motioned by supervisor wiener. >> please call item no. 1. item 1: agenda[hearing - fiscal and operational state of san francisco pride]1308331.sponsors: campos; wienerhearing on san francisco pride's fiscal and governance shortcomings as outlined in the 2010 memorandum from the office of the controller, steps taken to resolve said shortcomings and the current state of the san francis

please write or call the board right away. and that reporting would be captured whether or not the supervisor's names were attached to it or not. and you know, it is kind of that would not be it is not associated with like a ballot measure or something like that, so there is actually no political reporting attached to this. >> i see. >> does that answer your question? >> i think that it does. basically, the same thing is endorsed. and i was thinking more fire house number 9 and they and there is a particular initiative or some ballot measure that is endorsed by these candidates already. and then you list that or those candidates who have endorsed this particular initiative to the fire house number nine and that will fall within this as well. >> yes. >> it gets tricky in the range before an election, anything that contains the candidate's names kind of becomes election material and therefore will be regulated differently. and i think that a good example and i hope that i, construct this correctly there was a prop f about fire h

the department would not oppose the rescheduling and differ to the board on this matter. i would like to take this opportunity to note it came to my attention this week we didn't submit the dr action memo and the planning department case report that were prepared last we're for the hearing so with the board would agree i would like to submit these for the record and also to the parties. again these are materials that were prepared by the commission back in september, 2012. >> we will accept those. >> thank you. >> so commissioners if you entertain a motion to continue this then we need to take public comment on that. >> i would move to continue. >> well, we need the public -- >> you're going to explain a motion so it sounds like you're going to so we can take public comment. let me see a show of hands how many wish to speak on the matter of whether this is rescheduled? okay. so there is no public comment? there is no public comment then commissioners. >> okay. i would renew my motion to continue. >> i think there is good cause and it would be most efficient to allow that

board members proposals. there are none tonight. >> and now, we are going to move on to request to speak regarding general matters. i have two speaker cards. i guess that i have three. walter wal lace and bill ford, and it will take a moment and let the members of the trade, and we will do two minutes. i presume, >> i am a local resident, and i am sin tell, and it will help to preserve the reputation of the other votes in the future, and i got the idea a year ago after reading an article, about a young girl she was in high school and her boyfriend sent her an inappropriate picture and felt the social pressure to send one in return and when she did everything was fine for a few months and a few months lailter they ended up breaking up. they broke up, and when they broke up, her ex-boyfriend sent the picture around the campus and it got back to her and she was embarrassed and she had severe anxiety and felt ridiculed and she had to leave the school. and after she left the school she ended up committing suicide

any board comments or discussions? >> yes, doctor. >> mendosa mcdonald. >> i was curious and i don't know if you know this. with regards to our own school district, i think it's great for our employees but for our employees, what's been our policy on this and will it have financial img pact. we're like the second largest employer in the city. >> my understanding who will correct me if i'm wrong is this will not apply to the district employees because we're a state agency. and it's for san francisco employers: >> there's a lot of parents who are teachers so my question is it wouldn't -- the ordinance wouldn't apply to our teachers and so i'm wondering what policies are. >> i know as a school district we have it and that's when the kids are there and at the central office and i can tell you from personal experience as a general council i many currently have employees on flex schedules because i've figured out a way to do comdate. that's one section of the section. it's legal to do that. accept with a meeting at 6:00. we'

so, since 2010, since the report, we have had board members come on board with professional backgrounds. one good thing that i have seen great thing that i have seen in the last two 2 years on the board is that the turnover rate hasn't been as high as it's been in previous years. i know during difficult times and during certain circumstances people may come and go. however during the past 2 years, the board of directors' has been a little bit more stable. >> related to that question and the issue of bylaws, my experience having worked with many organizations is that you can learn a lot about an organization by how the bylaws are followed and one of the things that, and that's actually something that was raised in the report as well. one of the things that we have read and in news outlets and of course you can't believe everything you read and which is i did i wanted to get clarity from you in this that there has been concern about pride's general membership that a current and updated copy of the bylaws for some reason as reported has been difficult to obtain and there are fear there are

just delete the word loaned with the rent boards. on page 3 on line 19 the word determined should be determines. on page 5 line 14 the word landlord should be struck so is it notices tenant applications. as we were talking about ms. new on page 3 lines 12 through fourteen there are a couple of words on tenant hardship applications with capital letters on each. first of all, i want to move those are clean up amendments if we can >> can we take those maementsz without objection. >> amendments b are adopted. >> i have one question for the rent board. there's a preference to do a hearing mooivendz if the rent board needs to do one necessarily they'll do one >> as you know there's always a hearing. it would not be if those 3 criteria were met. the loaned has a right to request and hearing but it's not automatic. bead be making a determination based on the evidence or the documents provided by the tenant and the observation that the landlords has raised and any documents. i'm a little bit like porter stewards definition of porn because we'

board. the one area he didn't speak to was the community advisory board. that help offset, such as legal, human resources and finances. i want to speak a little bit too about the change in management. we have had some consultant come talk to us about the governance and process. we've had three different consultants that meet with us, we continue to do board retreats. we'll work on that diligently and i think that we are headed in the right direction. another part of pride that really makes a huge fference is our contractors. some of them are had are with us today. they play a huge role with many many years of service of pride that helps with the operations, our parade, exhibitors and they stick with us since day one for at least, some of you guys average 20 years. they have a lot of years. we also have legal council a long time with us. brook is here with us today and played a big role in supporting us during this time year. so i just want to thank you, i want to thank the community that cam

and some of them were rejected by the board. but there was no, in a similar sense to this instance there was no presumption that there was additional public comment based on changes to an underlying agreement and all of the over all arching principals and concepts of the agreement remained. i think that there are constantly changes to something like this development agreement up to the time that it goes to the board and so, i am not positive that it occurred in this case but there could have been changes made in the previous week and going in the file that is available to the public and the committee members up before the hearing. so it is a process. i hope that that answers the question. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> further questions? or discussion commissioners? >> is there a motion that we wish to present? >> >> do you want to hear the public comment first or would you like a motion? >> i would like a motion first and then we can have public comment. >> so, there could either be a motion that the respondent has committed a

i want to be clear i'm not an appointed member of the board, i'm a staff to the board. my name is megan -- >> perfect, megan, you're the person i'm looking for. can you tell me how many people serve on this body? >> nine. >> nine people total. today we have an opportunity to appoint one person to three vacancies? >> there is one currently. >> correct. can you describe to me the current composition of this nine-member body. >> members are appointed three ways. members appointed by the board of supervisors, one vacancy in that group. so, three persona pointed by the board of supervisors. one persona pointed by the mayor and one persona pointed by the city controller. of the three named by the board of supervisors he is kim arm buster. he has a drop-in center at glide foundation. the other persona pointed by the boer -- i'll run through all of their names because i don't know where all folks are appointed. board of supervisors laura guzman. wendy phillips. ken [speaker not understood]. and eric brown. >> actually what i'm trying to understand is to get -- i want to make su

in 2009 the board unanimously approved the services. the sf. puc staff officers customers a hundred percent renewable resources. in december of 2011 they endorsed a contract and they authored the contract. and in september of 2012 a sprurt majority of board approved 19 point plus to approve the program. the committee was brought up to date on the issues. on july '89 including four members who are co-sponsors voted unanimously to approve it not to exceed the rate yet on 2012 e 2013 while the board was on legislative break they vote to request the motion not to exceed rate. the rates fairness board has determined that clean twoerp phase program is technically fair and it's a policy choice. well, the board of supervisors is the body of the city and county of san francisco and over the course of 89 years the numerous changes the board of supervisors has consistently and overwhelmingly sponsored the sf. it will bring us 1 hundred percent power and b will create new jobs for san franciscans. i support clean power sf but if you don't support this the

robert's rules and board rules as follows. according to robert, once the chair calls for a vote on a resolution there should be no comments while the vote proceeds, that is members should just respond ai or no because such comments are discussion that might influence other member's vote. members desiring to speak, must submit a card prior to the item being called, while i realize that in dealing with the public, it is necessary to be some what lenient, perhaps an announcement would help the public to be aware of the rules. and also, according to robert, and evlyn the gavel is not a hammer and should be used with one firm tap to call the meeting to order and continues to be my privilege to serve as parliamentarian and time keeper for the board. >> and now, i would like to call on her neighbor, mr. bill alard who would like to share a few memories of her with us. >> thank you very much for giving me this opportunity. my name is bill alard and 1996 my wife margaret and i bought a house at 2163, 42nd avenue and the sunset, and nex

members of the board, members of the public and staff. first i would like to start out with special recognition awards as we do at the first meeting every month and we have every sustainable streets to come forward with a team of folks that we want to recognize today. good afternoon. >> good afternoon, mr. chairman, members of board mr. riis skin. my pleasure to introduce the person. this is a very mature program that we have that we bring in interns from both high school and colleges from the bay area and also throughout the country to help us during the summer and to relieve our work load and give them experience. we have been pretty successful. we have graduated over 300 former interns and now they are in the field of practicing in the bay area as well as throughout the country. some of the graduates of the program include our current city traffic engineer, the manager for our sf gov program and these students are driven and they do this on their own time and only motivated by the reward of seen others get exposed to the field and hope

we are moving on to the next board policy. we have item 139-10 sp # revision to board policy. this item was already moved and seconded on september 9th. mr. davis please read the requested action. >> thank you, the requested action that the board revise the policy on titled community relations uniform complaint. >> any comments from board members? seeing none. roll call. >> mr. logan, fewer, haney, maufas, mendoza mcdonnell, murase, wynns, norton, 7 ayes. >> we'll move to the third policy of the evening. 139-10 s p 3. this item was already moved and seconded on september 9th. mr. davis please read the recommended action. >> mr. trut would like to read more for you tonight. i do my theme song at some point that i wanted to listen to. requested action that the board of education san francisco unified school district entitled homeless education. >> there are no public speakers. are this any comments from the board? we are -- seeing no amendments or comments from board members. roll call, please. >> miss wei, mr. logan, mr. fewer, mr. haney, mr. maufas, mr. mendoza mcdonnell, dr.

send item 11 to the full board. mr. clerk >> item 12 providing revenue and levying property takes at 180 to the city and county of san francisco, san francisco you've had school districts and bay rapid transit districts at the rate of .088 zero pursuant to administrative code chapter 3637 for the fiscal year ending 2013. >> okay. mr. whitaker thanks for being here. >> i'll be brief i have a slide for the last 4 years the ordinance is about the tax levy to establish .118 percent and it's per $100. proposition 13 passed by california voter no 1993 is property is assessed at the base rate. the bay area and bay area air quality districts for the fund for the bond account for the additional 1.84 levy above the taxation rate. it's based on an inflation rate. for the typical folks in the prior fiscal year the assessed value infiltrates the property tax bill will be 2 hundred plus higher than last year. i'd like to acknowledge my colleague for preparing the clauktsz and i'm happy to answer any questions and a colleague any ques