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this is someone who have board of supervisors has praufd and he served as a board member on the neighborhood valley association and also it was important for me to find someone who had a deep commitment and knowledge around historic preservation issues. i think some of you are aware of his leadership roles with 1800 market among with many of his achievements secure the status for the harvey milk camera shop and on board and treasurer on the heritage and dolores community services which provides services to individuals with hiv and aids among others. dennis is someone who has a tremendous reputation for standing up for neighborhoods and historic preservation and working very well to helping to build community consensus. i do think i saw briefly outgoing commissioner bill sugaya. i want to take a moment to thank him for his eight 8 years of service. [ applause ] as i have spoken to bill about this again, the planning commission as are many recommendations but particularly the planning commission is a labor of love and i want to thank you for the countless handout yours that you put into the jo
this is someone who have board of supervisors has praufd and he served as a board member on the neighborhood valley association and also it was important for me to find someone who had a deep commitment and knowledge around historic preservation issues. i think some of you are aware of his leadership roles with 1800 market among with many of his achievements secure the status for the harvey milk camera shop and on board and treasurer on the heritage and dolores community services which provides...
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again thanks to the board for working together with us for creating the budget. in his second year supervisor farrell thank you for your steadfastly leadership and commitments to building this collaborative process (clapping) i want to say thanks to dan roman field to make sure not only his capacity as controller he keeps us on a due course (clapping) and the people that helped me to make sure i've got all the issues in hand and that's my chief of staff and kate howard both from the controller's office and the mayor's office for their excellent work thank you very much (clapping) budget whiz wards i call them. but i'd like to an opportunity to specially niefrt david for a few words he's been watching this in his district and the whole board of supervisors. supervisor david chiu >> thank you mr. mayor just a couple of words first of all, those of us who were here when i came into office we had half a billions of we were debating whether to close down first stations and trying to figure out where to cut hubt i publicity and services i want to thank dan roman field
again thanks to the board for working together with us for creating the budget. in his second year supervisor farrell thank you for your steadfastly leadership and commitments to building this collaborative process (clapping) i want to say thanks to dan roman field to make sure not only his capacity as controller he keeps us on a due course (clapping) and the people that helped me to make sure i've got all the issues in hand and that's my chief of staff and kate howard both from the...
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found in formula retail request if you review the boards decision and the boards minutes and tape you'll see that's not the case. so at this point the alternative points i'll speak to the formula retail >> hi dale with the bay area retail function whether we quality for formula retail under the name castro pharmacy will equal one, if the permit were e restated typically the formula retail issue becomes mute but i'd like to address the array of merchandising is not standards listed we buy from a variety of manufacturers and your during drugs are different labels donate to the standardized. the facade of our building is different. this is the proposed site an orange color this is our pharmacy about 5 hundred feet away it's brown and this is the color of our current pharmacy a pail yellow. in terms of impervious this is our pharmacy on 18 street different than the 1 on church street 3 will be long and narrow building you'll have a couple of buildings mostly walls and the color schemes are different we don't require the uniform of apparel this is our church street pafrm lastly wears a tie an
found in formula retail request if you review the boards decision and the boards minutes and tape you'll see that's not the case. so at this point the alternative points i'll speak to the formula retail >> hi dale with the bay area retail function whether we quality for formula retail under the name castro pharmacy will equal one, if the permit were e restated typically the formula retail issue becomes mute but i'd like to address the array of merchandising is not standards listed we buy...
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my personal interest in a seat on the board. one of them is that it will give me a reason and opportunity to come up here often. the other reason that i have applied and echo what i have heard and most supervisors campos asked. i think my business, the legal process has become far too complicated and far to expensive. people i think cannot exercise legitimate rights for that reason. i'm a strong believer in the assessment of appeals process especially the the process which gives people the relative inexpensive -- ability to exercise their rights. i work part-time now for two law firms in the los angeles area. one of the two firms i do worm representing taxpayers and property assessments. the counties i work for are orange and los angeles and san diego. i don't have any cases, haven't had, would not take any cases representing taxpayers in this jurisdiction. so those are my background qualifications and interest in the job. thank you for inviting me and i'm pleased and honored. >> supervisor tang? >>supervisor katy tang: thank yo
my personal interest in a seat on the board. one of them is that it will give me a reason and opportunity to come up here often. the other reason that i have applied and echo what i have heard and most supervisors campos asked. i think my business, the legal process has become far too complicated and far to expensive. people i think cannot exercise legitimate rights for that reason. i'm a strong believer in the assessment of appeals process especially the the process which gives people the...
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that the board of education of the sfufth adapt a resolution for the board of education for the unified school district authorizing the issuance of one or more series of san francisco unified school district 2014 tax and revenue anticipation notes in the principle amount not to exceed $75 million authorizing the delivery of a preliminary official statement and office official notice of sale in approving the form and the execution of a certificate and the approval and execution of other documents related through to and certain action there with >> thank you, sir. >> we have no public comment any comments from the members. >> roll call vote. >> commissioner haney. commissioner maufas. commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. dr. murase >> commissioner wynns and fuf. 7 i's >> thank you. item n there are none. item o vote on consent calendar this is moved and seconded under section f. roll call please. we're on item o >> thank you. i have to go back. >> thank you. mr. chin >> commissioner haney. commissioner maufas. commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. i'm sorry we are >> consent calendar. >> we're doing
that the board of education of the sfufth adapt a resolution for the board of education for the unified school district authorizing the issuance of one or more series of san francisco unified school district 2014 tax and revenue anticipation notes in the principle amount not to exceed $75 million authorizing the delivery of a preliminary official statement and office official notice of sale in approving the form and the execution of a certificate and the approval and execution of other...
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of equation and if we could move those to the full board with positive recommendation. >> president chiu has suggested several amendments can can we take that without objection? >> the amendments are adapted. >> can we move this as a committee report. >> can i have a motion to move item 2 to the full board as a positive recommendation okay moved by supervisor kim we'll take that without objection.. thank you. madam clerk call items 3, 4, 5 together >> item 3 is a resolution declaring the intention of the board of supervisors to order the ma copy for the plazas project. item 4 is an ordinance vacating the plaza project and item 5 is an ordinance submitting the ma could be i think plaza >> thank you supervisor kim is the author of those items actually i'd like to add my name as a koran exciting project. >> thank you, supervisor wiener this is the boundary line of the district 6 and 8 and so just to give you a history behind the ma copy i think hub i introduced the first series to kickoff the creation of the small business comments that the city mad as part of the market street plan to
of equation and if we could move those to the full board with positive recommendation. >> president chiu has suggested several amendments can can we take that without objection? >> the amendments are adapted. >> can we move this as a committee report. >> can i have a motion to move item 2 to the full board as a positive recommendation okay moved by supervisor kim we'll take that without objection.. thank you. madam clerk call items 3, 4, 5 together >> item 3 is a...
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to the board of supervisors to request an independent audit or we disagree we'll not make a recommendation so one of the two. >> i'd adapt commissioner andrews first recommendation that we agree because if this has been done and money has gone back which should have been for photo and it illegal went to someone other than going to the city which should get the money it should be exposed so i would agree with commissioner andrews that we agree with the city attorney that the board of supervisors requiring an independent audit to see whether or not anything of those things happened. >> can i comment. i don't know the case this grand jury is talking about >> they're not talking about it. >> it was handed by the district attorney notice the ethics commission the law allows us to reduce certain forfeitures. when candidates and captions accept illegal contributions and bring it to our attendance we allow them to return the money >> you're not making sense in regards to my skew does he know of particular cases and he said no, he doesn't know of any you've got something nickel and dimed obviously
to the board of supervisors to request an independent audit or we disagree we'll not make a recommendation so one of the two. >> i'd adapt commissioner andrews first recommendation that we agree because if this has been done and money has gone back which should have been for photo and it illegal went to someone other than going to the city which should get the money it should be exposed so i would agree with commissioner andrews that we agree with the city attorney that the board of...
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before the board meeting or call the board office on mission street room 304. this meeting is broadcast live on sfgovtv cable channel 78 and dvds are available for purchase at this point we'll conduct our swearing in process if you wish to have the board give our testimony weight pleases stand and returned please note that any member of the public my speech without this thank you. do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> i do. >> thank you. >> thank you. the item one is general public comment this is for anyone that wants to speak on items not an tonight's agenda. seeing none, is converges questions or comments commissioner >> hello commissioners i'd like to point out you in our packet a letter from the commissioner president through the mayor's office regarding the attendance our obligation to strive for one hundred percent. >> thank you any other commissioner comments. any any public comment on that item? okay. seeing none item 3 commissioners is your consideration of the boards m
before the board meeting or call the board office on mission street room 304. this meeting is broadcast live on sfgovtv cable channel 78 and dvds are available for purchase at this point we'll conduct our swearing in process if you wish to have the board give our testimony weight pleases stand and returned please note that any member of the public my speech without this thank you. do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the whole truth and nothing but the...
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we are going to establish a new board rule hopefully. the youth commission will be monitoring the legislation and making the request to the relevant committee chair and then the committee chair would be strongly urged to respond to that request and hopefully make that hearing at a time that would be appropriate for young people, probably around 4 :00 p.m. or after and last thing is outreach. the youth commission has stated resolution that youth commission will be held accountable for outreach coming out to the hearings. we don't want the commission having to wait for after school hearings. now that we have adopted specifically at the youth commission, we feel that will be easier to do. with that, i would like to thank you for your time and thank supervisors mar and campos for your support and angela carve i and would like to thank rodriguez from david campos office. he was one of the first to think of this idea and did a lot of the research when he was on the commission last year. again, thank you so much. if you have any questions, i wo
we are going to establish a new board rule hopefully. the youth commission will be monitoring the legislation and making the request to the relevant committee chair and then the committee chair would be strongly urged to respond to that request and hopefully make that hearing at a time that would be appropriate for young people, probably around 4 :00 p.m. or after and last thing is outreach. the youth commission has stated resolution that youth commission will be held accountable for outreach...
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>> good evening welcome to the wednesday, july 23, 2014, san francisco board of appeals. the presiding officer is commissioner president lazarus and joined by commissioner fung and commissioner honda and our vice chair will be absent tonight to my left is deputy city attorney and at the controls is the person victor i'm sdooej we'll be joined by the representatives from the city scott sanchez will be representing the planning department and planning commission and the senior engineer will be here and deputy city attorney will be here on behalf of the department of public health will you go over the rules >> ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices. please carry on conversation in the halfway appellants and permit holders and department representatives have 7 minutes to present their cases and 3 minutes for rebuttals all pa parcels parties who are not affiliated with the parties have up to 3 minutes to address the board with no rebuttals to assist the board members of the public who wish to speak are ask but not required to s
>> good evening welcome to the wednesday, july 23, 2014, san francisco board of appeals. the presiding officer is commissioner president lazarus and joined by commissioner fung and commissioner honda and our vice chair will be absent tonight to my left is deputy city attorney and at the controls is the person victor i'm sdooej we'll be joined by the representatives from the city scott sanchez will be representing the planning department and planning commission and the senior engineer will...
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the board is calendaring new cases on october 8th. our calendar prior to that are full >> october 8th or the falling 15th. is that appropriate for all 3 parties? >> please come to the mike. >> obviously we'd prefer it to be done tonight but i know that mr. shep has to have surgery and will be out of commission at least six or eight weeks and require additional recovery time after all. so >> the 15 accounting will be 3 months from now. >> that's fine. >> you didn't kg agree to give up the permit. >> we understand your position. >> mr. purdue. >> i'll be away from the 23rd to the - >> the 29. >> the department october 29th. >> s ms. carmichael. okay >> into the microphone please. i couldn't hear you a 3 page commission on. >> whatever you want to supply us. >> any additional information you want to supply to the board to be considered. >> thank you. i'm going to move we continue this until october 29th all parties may submit up to a 3 page belief with no exhibits with the condition that the audio cds be provide >> the dvd coming from th
the board is calendaring new cases on october 8th. our calendar prior to that are full >> october 8th or the falling 15th. is that appropriate for all 3 parties? >> please come to the mike. >> obviously we'd prefer it to be done tonight but i know that mr. shep has to have surgery and will be out of commission at least six or eight weeks and require additional recovery time after all. so >> the 15 accounting will be 3 months from now. >> that's fine. >> you...
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the four months that most paddle boards are sold. >> getting these boards in august or september, it's too late. we would have lost a tremendous amount of opportunity to sell and maintain margins and keep the company profitable. >> on top of that, mike just brought on a new partner who had made a big investment in the company. >> i was mortified. i thought maybe he would contact legal counsel and say i don't know what i've gotten myself into. you sold me a little of goods. >> not getting the boards in time would be a major blow to the company mike and his wife started three years earlier. life-long outdoor enthusiasts, they opened a paddle board retail store to capture what they saw as a growing trend. >> when you started the company, how big was stand up paddle boarding compared to now? >> i believe at the time, the sport was the fastest growing water sport. now it's just the fastest growing sport. >> with a front-row seat to this explosive growth, mike started to see an even bigger opportunity in manufacturing his own brand of boards. >> we could double our margins and we could becom
the four months that most paddle boards are sold. >> getting these boards in august or september, it's too late. we would have lost a tremendous amount of opportunity to sell and maintain margins and keep the company profitable. >> on top of that, mike just brought on a new partner who had made a big investment in the company. >> i was mortified. i thought maybe he would contact legal counsel and say i don't know what i've gotten myself into. you sold me a little of goods....
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i also wyoming would like to say to my fellow board members although i'm the president of the board and facilitating those meetings i'm happy if you think something should be brought to my attendance i feel like rational equality it ends with all of us that's our leadership roll it a starts with the leadership of the district we expect our schools and our school communities to have those difficult conversations so i want to again extend my sincere apologizes for not protecting the parent voice this was brought forward to us about a subject we have a hard time talking about which is arbitrary equality and all the hours of collecting the will finding and the voices of those parent and thank them to them and extend a sincere apologize all i can say in closing one thing i've learned as a braids member we're all learning here and i know that's a good place to start from thank you. >> commissioners any comments. thank you very much for your report >> i would like to give a plug to the advisory committee georgia correct me if i am wrong is there 11 here there is a body that has built parent le
i also wyoming would like to say to my fellow board members although i'm the president of the board and facilitating those meetings i'm happy if you think something should be brought to my attendance i feel like rational equality it ends with all of us that's our leadership roll it a starts with the leadership of the district we expect our schools and our school communities to have those difficult conversations so i want to again extend my sincere apologizes for not protecting the parent voice...
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members of the board i'm mr. shuman >> speak into the microphone. >> i'm sorry. >> lift it up. >> thanks. >> my first time we're the owns on 29 street we appreciate the opportunity to speak it is your understanding is that the city inadvertently caused us to be late in filing the appeal we've opening engaged with the requester by multiple phone calls and e-mails and meeting at their home take the opportunity at the end of june my wife and i live in a small condo and this project will provide space for our family we've spent the last year taking care of what the department asked us. one the first one is direct impact if the site of living room this was over the phone as well as in perch that or person they don't want thaib their baby to be impacted and their view is not protected. i feel like prior to this jurisdictional request all the views were not mentioned. i'm putting up two things priority to the board that shows those views are distant. this shows the view that the requester had a living room window and as
members of the board i'm mr. shuman >> speak into the microphone. >> i'm sorry. >> lift it up. >> thanks. >> my first time we're the owns on 29 street we appreciate the opportunity to speak it is your understanding is that the city inadvertently caused us to be late in filing the appeal we've opening engaged with the requester by multiple phone calls and e-mails and meeting at their home take the opportunity at the end of june my wife and i live in a small condo...
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as aemthsd here in and the board suspend the board policy requiring the provisions made 3 months before sfusd invents accepting applications so the provisions shall be effective immediately would the commissions like for me to read the background >> commissioners do you - i think just the recommended action thank you. commissioners we have no public speakers commissioners any questions or comments >> yes. commissioner norton. >> so i'm going to support this recommendation i had to get my head around it and the student assignment committee whatever that was but i do feel like we need to still keep thinking about how you to attract robust enrollment at willie brown and i definitely hope i'd like to have the board get an update on the problematic work maybe as item m the project manager has reached out to me but this is an important conversation it should come to the board and be on the radio but i'm wondering superintendent if you can tonight shed light to attract a more robust and better enrollment to the willie brown. >> thank you commissioner norton we do have a multi departmental team
as aemthsd here in and the board suspend the board policy requiring the provisions made 3 months before sfusd invents accepting applications so the provisions shall be effective immediately would the commissions like for me to read the background >> commissioners do you - i think just the recommended action thank you. commissioners we have no public speakers commissioners any questions or comments >> yes. commissioner norton. >> so i'm going to support this recommendation i...
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i would propose an amendment in the mayor or board makes a request i ask we comply with it. on 25 the recommendation i mean, i think to see what commissioner keanes comments that is sort of apple pie here, of course, if we had the resources shouldn't we do the things that be suggested in recommendation 25? and so i would change the recommendation to say provide with sufficient resources the commission could and would do the work - do more work as indicated by the findings of something to the effect. any comments from the commissioners? is there a motion to amend 24, 25 as proposed by commissioner keane and commissioner hur? >> yes. so moved. >> second. >> second. public comment? >> a couple of comments on 24 t it is where the grand jury made a recommendation go you should be doing an annual report to the board of supervisors. i want to talk about that part. remember commissioner keane talked about it earlier you're also kind of the example of what should be happening in showing what good government it ethnics is incredibly important to the citizens they don't get a chance to
i would propose an amendment in the mayor or board makes a request i ask we comply with it. on 25 the recommendation i mean, i think to see what commissioner keanes comments that is sort of apple pie here, of course, if we had the resources shouldn't we do the things that be suggested in recommendation 25? and so i would change the recommendation to say provide with sufficient resources the commission could and would do the work - do more work as indicated by the findings of something to the...
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bush pointed out this is separate from the annual report and that's required for the boards. we understand we've seen opinion from city attorney that the form of this report is not specified and it could be prepared the in a lot of different wausz ways but we've seen no evidence it's been present at all it's a violation of the chapter. now we did ask the mayor and board of supervisors to request it but i think you should think about being pro-active it's an important policy for the commission to render on an annual basis how the laws are doing. and it, you know, provide the fraction for changes you might entertain in the future you're looking at one piece of the law at that time, and not looking at things in a board sense so this report is very important. and the republicans to the recommendation so say prelims is not up to the ethics commission is just i don't really quite get that >> to be fair the recommendation does refer to the mayor and the board making the requests. >> yes, but ultimately you/have to prepare. >> right. >> we should prepare it anyway but i'm not it's fa
bush pointed out this is separate from the annual report and that's required for the boards. we understand we've seen opinion from city attorney that the form of this report is not specified and it could be prepared the in a lot of different wausz ways but we've seen no evidence it's been present at all it's a violation of the chapter. now we did ask the mayor and board of supervisors to request it but i think you should think about being pro-active it's an important policy for the commission...
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we have a board of supervisors, not just we have two on the board, but because we have other sympathetic members of the board who care about this issue and the time to deal with legislation is now, and the time to deal with the appropriate funding and appropriate planning and data collection and all of those things is now, but a big part of what is going to help us achieve that goal is strong leadership from the mayor's office, and strong support from his various departments who have the ability to effectively not only, implement this work, but hold folks accountable insure that the numbers meet the need and specifically, with the western edition, neighborhood access point, which is the job system in district five, which i know, many of you know about, we are checking, every single month to make sure that those 61 people that have gotten jobs through the problem and how many of them are employed after the next month and after the next month, and after the next month and yes we have lost two or three folks through this particular opportunity, and but we can't just say, here is the money,
we have a board of supervisors, not just we have two on the board, but because we have other sympathetic members of the board who care about this issue and the time to deal with legislation is now, and the time to deal with the appropriate funding and appropriate planning and data collection and all of those things is now, but a big part of what is going to help us achieve that goal is strong leadership from the mayor's office, and strong support from his various departments who have the...
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next speaker. >> good afternoon board.my name is a merry beard i've got units in the hate ashbury at the property address. i believe that the assessment or the lean that's pending is extensive. and the problems arose out of a toilet replacement where the wax ring was two short that created a problem. so that's been repaired. i was required to pull a permit which i did do but they requested that i get a contractor to replace the toilet. this was not necessary for the remnant of the toilet so i'm asking we review the costs 13 hundred bucks. i've got limited resources if operating my building it's not like i can do the repairs at hand because of the limited resources so i need to talk with whoever the - to the department to wave should some of those fees. thank you. thank you. next speaker. and if any other members of the public who wish to speak step forward >> i - when my company purchased the property the street address is 2574, 31st avenue. and we have a dilemma where we receiving notices for code violation but the proper
next speaker. >> good afternoon board.my name is a merry beard i've got units in the hate ashbury at the property address. i believe that the assessment or the lean that's pending is extensive. and the problems arose out of a toilet replacement where the wax ring was two short that created a problem. so that's been repaired. i was required to pull a permit which i did do but they requested that i get a contractor to replace the toilet. this was not necessary for the remnant of the toilet...
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jurisdiction of the board and not on the agenda. with hon su kim and you filled out a card for public comment followed by kristine rogers and anthony balister. >> good afternoon, and directors and president of the cab company. this past week, the city tax and limo system put a seize and desize on the lift vehicles trying to operate in the city. >> these companies that have technologies that the company likes, and is a technology that we all should be supporting which is booking of a vehicle through a app and we can see the vehicle and so forth. that is not the issue, the issues like the tlc has found is that taking your personal car and acting like a taxi cab without any medallion requirements and inspection of the vehicles is not in the industry. and today i am going to talk about
jurisdiction of the board and not on the agenda. with hon su kim and you filled out a card for public comment followed by kristine rogers and anthony balister. >> good afternoon, and directors and president of the cab company. this past week, the city tax and limo system put a seize and desize on the lift vehicles trying to operate in the city. >> these companies that have technologies that the company likes, and is a technology that we all should be supporting which is booking of a...