brecht's actually, there are two terminations. one termination requires an upfront payment of $1 million under the terms that you outlined. but they still have the second right of termination where they do not pay anything? >> the 2011 agreement had -- was structured so that there was an early termination clause within that agreement, which in that settlement and lease agreement. there is an early termination clause in the 2011 agreement. this is referred to the -- referred to as the early agreement termination the new early agreement option -- the new early termination option allows them to terminate prior to 2014 and the new one allows them to terminate prior to 2015. >> if they blow past the new termination, they can still pick up the second. >> exactly. but regardless, if this is approved, they will owe us $1 million this next fiscal year for the right to have the new early termination. brecht's the 2011 lease amendment has an early provision that allows -- >> the 2011 lease agreement has an early provision that allows that 49

brecht's -- >> under a certain height. we need to make sure that the intention is there in the different sections of the code. the environmental apartment referred to studies concluding that it had health benefits, but did not say that this is part of the green building code. unless it was added as part of the green building code, it is an amendment to the san francisco building code, which makes the california code more restrictive, -- which makes the san francisco code more restrictive than the california code, and can be removed if it is not part of the green building code in another section. that is my take on it. >> commissioner lee? >> i'm not sold on eliminating this requirement that rooms -- habitable rooms need natural light. for a number of reasons. one, i think habitable rooms with sunlight, fresh air is a good thing. it is a good design, and if you eliminate it, you have to substitute it somehow. which means you are actually increasing the cost of the building. you're increasing the cost of energy use in the bu

brecht's -- >> mr. wolf, if i could interrupt, i know this was not a question for you to respond to, but given what my colleagues are saying and i strongly agree as well, if we appoint you to the task force, would you consider complying under the charter and working with as to figure out how we can structurally work with the task force to ensure that u.s. quorum -- that you have quorum over adjudicative decisions? gregg's absolutely. -- >> absolutely. i think as far as quorum, we had it once, but we have not had a problem with it since. since the rules have been more explicit, everybody has been on notice. thank you very much. >> we are glad to see you are back in house, and we know that you were out for health reasons. thank you very much. next we have karen and then the lease. -- louise. >> i am here today because i believe that's t

brecht's -- >> may ask mr. o'connor to come to the microphone for a second? obviously, we do not have staff here to address. with the buildings under appeal on this, what size building? rex a larger type construction. >> was a high rise? >> no, it would be me -- and it dries. -- it would be a midrise. above the fourth floor it does not require egress windows. staff can correct me if i'm wrong on that. gregg's and in regard to the light -- >> and in regard to the light eliminated? >> the building code is quite clear in section 1205.2.1 where you are like from next door. it has a specific section. the room is not dark. it is borrowing like. it just does not have lighting for exterior gazing. gregg's it is in direct light? >> yes. >> i'm confused about the interpretation and why it was denied. i see clearly that it says by means of exterior glazed openings, but bennett said in section 1205.2 which then has section 1205.2.1 that allows for natural light to come in from adjoining spaces. my question is, how did we interpret it? did we interpreted to not allow that

brecht's we have a number of programs. outreach, you are talking about outreach. we have programs where we are trying to do is lower the minimum requirements as low as we can possibly go so there is an artificial barrier. we have the apprentice programs. human served -- human services has a number of job training programs. we're trying to use those as a substitute for a minimum meeting of requirements. >> that is good to hear. >> ok, the next slide compares the two different programs. the position-based testing started around 2006. there's a whole set of civil service rules that define this program. its intent was to speed the selection process, and in particular, the large number of provisional employees that existed at that time the goal is to -- at that time. the goal is to have a list within 60 days that is adopted. the next item -- the class-based test we have a 10-day minimum window for opposing an announcement whereas in the position-based test we have a five-day minimum. when they come in to inspect their papers to see whether there were scored correctly,

brecht's -- >> under a certain height. we need to make sure that the intention is there in the different sections of the code. the environmental apartment referred to studies concluding that it had health benefits, but did not say that this is part of the green building code. unless it was added as part of the green building code, it is an amendment to the san francisco building code, which makes the california code more restrictive, -- which makes the san francisco code more restrictive than the california code, and can be removed if it is not part of the green building code in another section. that is my take on it. >> commissioner lee? >> i'm not sold on eliminating this requirement that rooms -- habitable rooms need natural light. for a number of reasons. one, i think habitable rooms with sunlight, fresh air is a good thing. it is a good design, and if you eliminate it, you have to substitute it somehow. which means you are actually increasing the cost of the building. you're increasing the cost of energy use in the bu

brecht's -- or do you want someone from the planning department as well? >> yes. >> i can help a little bit with the process. the san francisco building code provides that all code amendments are initiated by the director based on input from various sources rather than the code advisory committee, the board of examiners. it is fairly open in its process. it has been established that the code changes that the director puts forward go through a particular process with the structure advisory committee and the code advisory committee, and there are other steps. and eventually, it goes back to the building inspection commission for a hearing under the charter that is all that is required. -- for a hearing. under the charter that is all that is required. you're not required to take action. and did you do take action or not, that will depend on if it goes forward to the board of supervisors. cracks the director is responsible for implementing -- >> the director is responsible for implementing a code change. >> that is correct. gregg's -- >> has there been a propo

brecht's linda chapman. -- >> linda chapman. i came to continue the colloquy about polk street, i guess. the chief wrote to me a few months ago to say there is always hope. and i am sending my chief of operations, or something like that, to no. station to try to work out a plan to get polk street under control. and i do now see outside the very bars along the restaurants acting as nightclubs, three or four security people each with their t-shirts on. that is a step in the right direction. but it is still a very disorderly area. even that, it is not the kind of thing that would encourage people to come for regular restaurants or shopping, etc. yesterday, i called one of the residents on polk street, not to ask him to come here, but about something else. but he immediately said and i cannot go testify. because of the intimidation, because of the threats. two of the tenants and landlords on polk street from the bars and from their customers. some of them have actually been very overt, whether to me or in meetings or to the property

brecht's linda chapman. -- >> linda chapman. i came to continue the colloquy about polk street, i guess. the chief wrote to me a few months ago to say there is always hope. and i am sending my chief of operations

brecht's thank you, mr. conner. -- >> i hear you. >> thank you mr. connor. commissioners, do you feel that we need to continue? >> if you like. >> at this point, based on what commissioner walker said, there needs to be more discussion on this. i want to be clear on this. this would go back to the code advisory, is that correct? >> maybe we could get some staff in place and then make a recommendation through the code advisory and then us. gregg's we could have staff and the code advisory committee -- >> we could have staff and the code advisory committee present at the next meeting. and may be resolved it because they voted against it. >> i also like to ask how many projects that want to get this rule deleted? other projects are designed without this exemption. information on that. -- >> i would have to get you information on that. >> i would think we ought to have more input from coded by three. when i first -- code advisory. when i first read this, i thought it was old warehouses that were converted into live and work spaces. a lot of those places became m

brecht's this is the item j -- >> this is item j. >> we were trying to correlate our rates so that theysense to each other. we did lower the junior rate at lincoln to $17, but i fail to do the same thing for sharp. but we are lowering that to $18, because if you remember correctly, we raise all of the resident rates by $2 instead of one at sharp. -- two dollars instead of $1 at sharp. >> does this change the bottom line? rex it will have a minimal change to the bottom line financially. but also this week, thanks to the incredible help of the city attorney, francesca kisner, we were able to corral the nine areas of the gulf information of the bar code into wine. it was during that process of the analysis and looking at it that i realized i had failed to lower that one right. i would like to be able to do that before we pass this going forward. >> thank you, tom. i think we should ask for public comment on these modifications. >> i will say that i called all of the courses this morning. all of the rate changes that are in your packet were posted at the golf course, and riposted last thurs

brecht's -- >> workers' compensation coverage its stature torelli required -- statutorily required and right now, our fund is over $40,000 a year. going with our current provider for general liability and properties program, we will see significant savings. it is also a very good program. the combined ratio is referred to as a measure of expenses to the premiums collected. and the combined ratio is always historically lower than the industry average benchmark. they have a very good program. they're very proud of their approach to loss prevention and preventing injuries, rather than having to pay claims after that fact. it may i answer any questions? >> any questions from directors? >> motion to approve. >> i want to commend the director and her staff for bringing this. it is not a lot of money, but every dollar we can say is great. there is reference in the staff report to -- in relation to being self insured. the purpose of this is basically to buy the insurance for workers, -- workers' comp. >> it puts us into the risk insurance pool that thefdrma is in. the date combination of purch

brecht's supervisor campos, this is probably not addressed -- >> supervisor campos, this is probably not addressed to you. >> can the sunshine task force to make a motion to disregard the charter legally? cracks through the chair, no, it has been our position and our guys that they cannot. >> what i would say is -- and i am a strong supporter of the sunshine task force and sunshine in general, and continue to be -- i understand the reasoning behind that, but i do not been that is how you address issues about not having a quorum and not having enough people show up to a body like this. i think the way to address that is to make sure that those of us on the board of supervisors, the rules committee, the mayor's office, that we are aware that is happening and if people are not showing up, then people need to be replaced. but legally, and in terms of the charter, the charter is the constitution of the people and city and county of san francisco. and that constitution cannot be set aside by any government body. it is unfortunate that happen to -- happened, certainly not something that any

brecht's -- >> public comment is closed. supervisor olague? rex i do respect the members of the public -- >> i do respect the members of the public coming in this morning asking that the uss harvey milk be christened. but i received quite an outcry from members also of the lgbt community who were concerned by the fact that a warship would be named after harvey milk, who in the final days of his life was in opposition to the vietnam war and was also against war in general. at this point, i would not support a resolution to name a warship after harvey milk. but i think, instead, i would like to -- and maybe i will write this congressman myself that' he be honored in this way, since he was the first man out in the military. he fought vigorously for an end to the ban on gays in the military. and he was quite courageous. from that perspective, i think that is something i would support. also, i would like to mention that a week ago here, on the board last tuesday i introduced a resolution to urge congress to name harvey milk's birthday national holi

brecht's we will go ahead with f and g, k and l, and others. all in favor? all opposed?can we go ahead and have public comment on all of these items together? >> i would like to do public comment on f and g, and k an l together. this is about taxi service. f and g are related to the fact that cab drivers take tours to quite tower. they take pictures, they take a look. sometimes you get an overzealous pco that are just tagging cabdrivers. people want to have over to the airport and take a picture of quite tower, or they want to take a look at it for 15 minutes. you've got to allow a provision for cabdrivers to be exempt from f and g. this is what san francisco is about, tourism. i urge you to put this on hold until we get this resolved. in regard to kate and out, -- k and l, because we're going to expand more cabs in the city, there's not enough space for the caps to park. you say it is a private business, but you regulate the businesses and the cab industry. if you want more cabs on the street, you have got to not eliminate parking. it is already eliminated on a lot of c

brecht's i want to give a shout out to be friends of the playground you have been very patient. it is helpful to have friends and groups around particular playgrounds and clubhouses and parks. thank you for everything you do. >> with that, seeing no comments come i cannot entertain a motion? >> so moved. greg second. >> all in favor? opposed? it is unanimous. >> item 9, memorandum of understanding and gift acceptance for water from playground at ssu beman ssusue bierman part. >> the afternoon. i'm abigail from the rec and park's renovation team. i'm asking you to approve a memorandum of understanding between the san francisco park alliance, the friends of waterfront playground and the wrecked part for the construction of the waterfront playground and to accept a gift on behalf of the friends group. it is valued in thesupport the a new playground at the park. the proposed mou, which is in your packet establishes a framework for collaboration between park alliance, the friends, and rec and park and assigned roles and responsibilities to expand design and construction of the playgr

brecht's or pipes?ight of yesterday's incident, because there are acts of violence and one demonstrator was seriously injured. in light of that it was felt that the operation needed to be initiated. the man hit by the burke refused medical assistance but his injuries were serious enough to nacelle state medical attention derrier e >>will: did police initially protesters in giving up? >> again, i do not have the details as any contact with the officers, but there were no reports of resistance and again, we feel it was done very successfully. >>will: moving forward, what would you be doing to make sure this building is not occupied again? >>officer: we are in communication with the property owners. obviously there will be discussions in that regard but i do not have any specifics on that at this moment. at this juncture we are in the process of trying to process the >> they look very weary. >>officer: we feel the operation was very successful. there was no report any incidents or use of force. the strateg

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