my first choice would be board one, then board two, then board three would be my choices. i've enjoyed board three, but i would like to move to board two or one. they're just a little bit typically larger properties. my experience, i'm a certified general appraiser and been in real estate over 30 years in commercial, residential, and investment. and i think being an appraiser is generally official because you're comparing what the investor and public says the property is worth. it's something i've enjoyed doing, so if you have any questions, thank you. >> chair ronen: all right. excuse me, miss nelson? >> supervisor walton: just a quick question, miss nelson. would you rather serve as a permanent member of one of the appeals boards or an alternate? >> i don't know exactly what the time commitment is, but i'm open to either two. i guess my first preference would be an alternate. thank you. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. is mr. paul bellar here? is there anyone from the investment appeals board that might be able to speak on his behalf? >> i'm sorry. no. my name is dawn

requirement board. additionally, someone of strong world character is required. this is a very robust fund, as the supervisors have mentioned earlier today, and it is doing quite well. there are a lot of political needs facing the city at this time. it is very easy to sometimes take advantage of some of the funds to solve political funds. i'll speed up on some of these factors. one will be to work through the best interests of beneficiaries. the primary purpose of this is so folks can have a stable retirement when they retire. it is very important that person take that into account. and we want a diverse board, equally composed of men and women. it is very important. and the ability to serve for many years and maintain continuity in the relationship. please give the retirement board a chance. [bell] >> good morning, madam chair, and members of the committee. my name is larry griffin, and i'm the political legislative vice president for local 21. i wasn't going to speak today, but i felt i had t to. this

on the board. they're unique and special in what they cover and the expertise they provide. i also want to thank the community advocates and friends and family, and everybody else who have also helped in this endeavor. i want to last -- i'm going to be very short on this. i had the opportunity, as many people did, to attend the american bicyclists summit. one of the days we are up on capitol hill. what i provided you this morning are my crew sheets for my presentations to six different house members and senate members -- not the members themselves, but the staff, which is actually more important than the members themselves, if you've done it before. i hope that's helpful because it shows that this is going to be a different year than it has the previous years. it appears that both sides and all sides are for increasing our spending on transportation and integral to that, transportation includes active transportation, which is us. so with that, i am open to any questions you may have. >> chair ronen

were they not brought before the board? >> so as the budget and legislative analyst have referenced to, we have brought them to our citywide loan committee, and it's through further clarification from the city attorney's office that we should be bringing them to the board of supervisors office. i'll defer to the city attorney to add any information to that question. >> supervisor peskin: and if i may, madam chair, i agree that in some form or fashion, the board sees some aspects of these projects. it's actually the second public policy piece that i would like to bring up relative to why it is important that these agreements -- these loan agreements come to the board, and i'll -- i'm happy to elucidate on that after we get guidance from the mayor's council and deputy city attorney. >> we have been looking at practices of the mayor's office of housing and community development for the last 30 to 35 years. it's been long practice for mohcd to have their loans approved through the loan committee, and we are looking into, you kn

she must follow the board's policy direction when the board acts. she must follow the state legislation committee's direction when they act. if neither have spoken to set position the mayor has discretion to coordinate communications and say what she will. one final point. because the mayor has the power to coordinate all city communications with the state and federal governments, and other government entities, other officers do not -- cannot lobby the state legislature without coordinating with the mayor. for instance, the fire department might have a position on a pending state bill relating to fire safety. the fire commission and the fire chief should not be lobbying the state legislature unless they are coordinating with the mayor and the mayor gives the o care. >> how does that relate to department one? >> same is true for department number one. of course, individual supervisors in personal capacities may communicate with state or federal legislatures but should not be using city resources t to engage in that activity and including staff time.

card or business card to board staff. speaker cards are available on the left side of the poem yum -- podium. this meeting is broadcast live on s.f.gov tv and rebroadcast friday on channel 26. the video is available on our website and downloaded from sfgovtv.org. if you intendl intend to testife your hand and say i do. if you're here to testify, please rise. do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth? thank you. we are now move on to item number one. which is general public comment. this is an opportunity for anyone who like to speak on a matter within the board's jurisdiction. anyone here for public comment? >> good afternoon peter alexander. i like to share some information i believe what might be helpful or interest to you. about 9 or 10 years ago a woman named christine harris filed $5 million lawsuit against the city, the police department, law firm and certain individuals including one particular police officer. i'm sure if he was on the fo

the board. so we made announcements about public comment and moved up public comment to start of the meeting for a non-agenda itemized item. if it's for a particular agenda item, it's later in the meeting. number two, super delegates report, dr. matthews. >> thank you, president cook. (brief pause). >> thank you all! there's no place i'd rather be than with all my family so thank you all. good evening, everyone. i'm going to try that again. good evening, everyone! >> good evening! march is national women's history month. [cheers and applause] during this month we recognize the contributions that women have made to history, culture and society. this gives us the opportunity in our schools, our workplaces and our communities to recognize and celebrate the often over-looked achievements of women. the theme for 2019 is visionary women, champions of peace and nonviolence. as we know, women and girls face many challenges in our communities, nation and world and strive to overcome them everyday. women

i will now hand it to the national board certified teacher and programme coordinator for national board support programme to give this year's update. i would like to now call up nia ross. >> i'm niar ross, one of the co-coordinatorrers of the co-support programme. thank you for this opportunity to bring awareness to the accomplishments of the sfusd national certified board teachers. this is an equity strategy to provide convulsio construction n francisco. our students need educators who are focused on them as individuals, who know their histories, their likes and dislikes and need the teachers to know what they teach and reflect on what is and is not working in the classroom. we know we need to work better for back and brown students. these beliefs are at the core of the national core for national standards. talk, for example, a cohort of seven teachers at paul revere who strive to embody the dispostions of the national board. these teachers choose focal students and are committed to genuinely knowing these children in multidimensional ways to achieve success. they share a video of prac

if the board consider the inordinate step that the board of urban forestry took in this matter. and finally, i ask the board to issue a statement to the department of public works asking it to evaluate its handling of this matter and all future matters from both a procedural and substantive standpoint especially given all of the dysfunctional processes highlighted by the facts of this case. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. we will now hear from the permit holder, miss pelosi. >> good evening, president fung and members of the board of appeal. alexis pelosi, pelosi law group, on behalf of webcor. on behalf of webcor, i want to express our apologies for not being present at the february 29 hearing and for not submitting a briefing. what has happened here on all accounts is unacceptable. i want to ensure the board that webcor is fully aware of the seriousness of its actions and the role that this body plays in the development, permitting and construction in san francisco. simply put, there is no excuse for not attending that hearing, not respecting this body's rules and procedures a

i am the representative of the board on the retirement board for our body. i had the pleasure of sitting down with mr. helfun and talking to him -- >> in your district. >> in my district, right. i wanted to say a few things for the record that we talked about, and i think it is important that it be noted that our retirement fund has grown over the last number of years. many city employees are here, including ourselves. our number one responsibility is to grow that fund so we are fully funded for those that retire. we have that feduciary responsibility. we are 90% funded for all of our retir retirees. so we're doing exceedingly well. one of the things that has frustrated me, and i see some of the advocates here for fossel fuel, we had the conversations, passed the resolutions, and then the response has been, if we don't invest, other funds will. i like the example of the norwegian fund. but what are some of the concrete steps that we can take when staff say, if we don't, others will invest in that fund? >> i guess the thing that allowed me to say yes, that i'

within the board's jurisdiction. we ask that you refrain from using student or employee names. if you have a complaint about an employee, you can submit it to the employee supervisor. as a reminder, board rules do not allow us to respond to comments or attempt to answer questions during the public comment time. if appropriate, the superintendent will ask that staff follow up with speakers. so i have a list of names, once you hear your name called, if you can make your way to the podium, you'll have two minutes to speak. and if -- if i call your name and i don't see you, i'm going to keep moving on with the other names. so i have francisco. make your way to the podium if you're hear. reverend branner. reverend birch. jerry nixon. danielle daniel. dorothy curry. shatar. nathan holman. latasha lynn. you have two minutes, sir. state your name for the record, please. >> my name is francisco. i'm the director of environmental justice advocacy. for the last 40 years, i've been in the trenches. i used to come here a lot. and

say you've seen a large increase in the volume of the board package and board meetings. i'm going to touch upon real quickly why, because this is one of them. we're doing so many new things than we did four or five years ago. we're doing private credit. real assets, absolute return, risk management. we have a much more diversified asset allocation. we now have $25 billion in assets. five years ago we had 17, and then lastly is we are emphasizing more unique niche and specialist strategies. so there are really seven core reasons why you've seen the volume of your board package go up. again, we're doing a lot, lot of different things. now, it's showing up in your returns, the numbers that you see allen provided, so the story is good but with the consequence you have a much larger board package and longer board meetings. with that, we'll turn it over to the board. >> president stansbury: questions from the board? commissioner driscoll? >> commissioner driscoll: two observations. we were doing private credit for a long time. >> president stansbury: not anywhere near -- >> co

we'll open up to the board. any questions for the board? commissioner driscoll? >> commissioner driscoll: glad to help continue this reshaping of the total portfolio, as well as the equity portfolio, particularly, but can you make the case for the conversion of the russell 2000 growth to the 2000 core? not that i'm opposed to it, but where's the data? >> so our u.s. small cap portfolio we have a core portfolio and the dfa small cap value, and prior to several years ago, we had a u.s. small cap growth manager that were terminating and put into a russell 2000 growth to offset the dfa value. now that we're getting rid of value, we would need to put that into a core just from a portfolio construction standpoint. >> in other words, commissioner, we're terminating one value manager, so we're terminating a growth index so that we retain core exposure. we don't have an overweight to grow. >> commissioner driscoll: okay, i guess i should have figured out how to guess that from the information given to us rather than one table of numbers. then i would have seen it. all i h

policy 3460, financial reports and accountability, board policy 6152.1, math placement policy, board policy 5141.52, suicide prevention, and board policy 1312.3, uniform complaint procedures. >> president cook: section k, proposals for immediate action. there are none. section 3, board member reports. commissioner sanchez? >> vice president sanchez: [inaudible] -- we don't have a secure timeline on all the funding yet, but we're very hopeful that we'll be able to makeup the private capital campaign of -- let's see -- it's about 107 to $127 million that's still in traffic funds that we need to complete the project. it's a good presentation if the public wants to see it. just go to sfusd.edu and go to board agendas and you can access it there. >> president cook: thank you. report from ad hoc committee on personnel matters. commissioner collins? >> commissioner collins: yeah. actually, we had a really engaging meeting? we only had one topic that really fits into a lot of what we're talking about, and a lot of the programs we can't really have unless we have qualified teachers, and for s

to send this item to the full board. >> i would like to make a motion to send this item to the full board with positive recommendation. >> chairman: can we take that without recommendation -- i mean without objection with recommendation. congratulations, supervisor fewer, and thank you. ms. major, the next item please. >> item number two is an ordinance in ordering the summary street vacation, bragdon street and within the perimeter of the farmers' market, approving jurisdictional transfers of property from the site of market and public works, and agricultural commissioner to the g.s.a., and a affirming appropriate findings. >> chairman: mr. stores, our county surveyor, my notes say this presentation is coming from claudia gore from the department of real estate. [inaudible] >> this is really a department of public works ordinance because they're the ones that come,. >> chairman: in that case, we should probably get mr. stores back up here. >> it doesn't matter. who would you like? >> chairman: whoever wants to present. >> okay. good afternoon, chair peskin and supervisors. today is an or

and so that's why we believe that it's before the board today. but i would have to go back and research what happened in 2014. >> president fewer: okay, thank you very much. anyone want to make a motion on this? >> yes. >> i'll move that we forward to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> president fewer: we can take that without objection. thank you very much. madam clerk. call item 2. cloik ordinance amending the business and tax regulations code to add provisions to administer the homelessness gross receipts tax. >> president fewer: yes. i believe that we have amanda fried here. okay. from the treasurer office. >> good morning, chair fewer and supervisors. this ordinance defines the administration the homelessness gross receipts tax passed in november. last year the voters passed three taxzs, two effective january 1, 2019. one of the reasons that we were able to begin the collections nearly immediately is that we worked hard to fold the new taxes into our current administrative procedures to streamline our work and to ease the tran

it was created as an advisory group to the school board to monitor e.l.l. school boards. because it was a creation of the consent decree, this particular paragraph regarding the b.c.c. was terminated on december 31, 2018, along with 101 paragraphs. we still have eight paragraphs remaining that remain open until june 30, 2019. so in january of this year, existing b.c.c. members discussed how the b.c.c. functions can possibly be folded into delac given the number of purpose and duties. essentially, we didn't want the work to go away. we wanted to make sure that the work and monitoring of english learners continued to live in a place that included many english learner parents. >> all right. so i'll be going briefly through the b.c.c. purpose. so the bilingual community council was established out of the lau and nichols planning committee. >> and the purpose is -- [inaudible] >> -- english learner programs and services. and the duties is from -- i just want to highlight a few of those and we want to have the continue with the delac. it's development and distribute a master pl

on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board to include the january 15th, 2019 board meeting minutes. item 43, the closed session on existing litigation including whether or not to go into closed session, or on the possibility that the board continue this item to a future date. item 44 through 47, additionally are also welcome to be commented on during public comment. speakers using interpretation will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify. if you like to display a document on the overhead projector, please just place it under the projection and then remove it when you would like to return to live coverage of the meeting. >> okay. , come on up. >> first and foremost, i would like to offer our condolences to our elected public defender from all of us in san francisco. the workers at the public defender's office, and the numerous supporters of jeff adachi. having said that, i am on a mission today to address a situation in san francisco at 555 santon street. we have serious problems additively browned middle school and others. we have supervisors who are involv

and in terms of vision zero and ada compliance, modular boarding islands are com rable to concrete boarding islands. in terms of cost performance, modular boarding items are $50,000 compared to $150,000 for concrete. photo 1, on the overhead is a boarding island in oakland. photo number 2 is a boarding platform in downtown los angeles. i took this photograph myself. i showed it this morning at the -- modular boarding island would be a transition to hi-tech solutions. i believe the mta should proactively fund development of hi-tech alternatives to concrete boarding islands that way we would not have to do trade offs between pedestrian safety and emergency response. >> thank you. any other public comments on this item? seeing none. ok mr. winier. >> herbert winier. i want to plead that you not have this idea with feet and concrete about the boarding island. i think overhead traffic lights, you know, would ensure safety. and i think it's very important that these boarding islands not endangerer the life of people who are in critical need. i mean, seconds count sometimes in saving the life of a

not so much in the board room.owing very slow progress when it comes to female representation on company boards perhaps more shocking is a significant number of consumer companies that rely on disproportionately demale buyers have zero female board members of the russell 3000 a total of 457 companies have no women on the boards and a slight improvement of 2016 with 738 with zero female representation and really wanted to see consumer companies, 31 of them had no female board members. again, tiny improvement from two years ago and in many of the cases we have found it goes well beyond the board skechers, nine board directors, no women on the executive management team. we asked why no comment national beverage corporation behind the popular soda and all-male board and all management team. trip adviser said a female stepped down the company says we have been working with the current board of directors to identify and evaluate candidates and expect to announce next week the addition of two female board members. j&j all