chair peskin, vice chair mandelman and to member connie chan. i'm the president of the chinese company. i grew up here in chinatown and also was born in chinese hospital. i played throughout the parks here when i was young and i continued into my young adult so i know what vanita has done and i've known their family for over 20 years and they're a hardworking and i have known vanita's family and her husband and i truly support her no, ma'am nomination as the rec and park commissioner and we continue to break the glass ceilings for women. i'm very proud of her and very proud to be here to say. i am speaking to the rules committee that please voter in and we're looking forward to working with her in the community and this coming four years, actually. so on item number three, on item number four, larry griffin, i have worked with him as a union member for over twelve years. we have sat side by side fighting for the working class, the economic injustice that happened so, he's an excellent choice as well. so you have two great nominees. i hope you vo

. >> vice chair peskin: i'll be presiding on behalf of chair mandelman, who will hopefully be joining us later. our clerk is britney milton. could you call the roll? >> supervisor chan: present. >> supervisor haney: present. manned -- >> supervisor mar: present. >> supervisor melgar: present. >> supervisor peskin: present. >> supervisor ronen: present. safai absent. >> supervisor stefani: present. >> supervisor walton: present. vice chair, we have quorum. >> vice chair peskin: thank you, madame clerk. just one housekeeping matter which is if i could ask my friend and former colleague and bart board member to turn your camera off until we get to item number 9 when you can turn your camera on. we go to our executive director's report. the floor is yours. >> good morning, vice chair and commissioners. may i suggest -- at the end of the meeting so that we can prioritize the information items from m.t.a. and the bart staff? >> vice chair peskin: sure, without objection we'll continue the item until the end of the meeting. with that, please read item number 3. >> prior to reading item 3, i

>> thank you, chair peskin. to save everyone's time, i have the general question for all candidates, and i would like them to add it to their comments individually. so the general question is: what will be your approach to understand the intent of the ballot measures, whether to work with the legislature that put forward -- the policy-maker that put forward the ballot measures, as well as the petition for the ballot measures? if you could add a little bit of a comment on your approach, i would really appreciate it. thank you so much. >> chair: thank you for that great suggestion. all right. mr. patterson? >> hi, folks. can you hear me okay? i'm not sure you can hear me. you can? >> chair: we can hear you. >> thank you. thank you very much, supervisor peskin. i'm scott patterson, and i'm looking forward to serving on the ballot simplification committee again. it is a committee close to my passion, which is encouraging everybody to vote. and that's my driving intent by being on this committee, is by the work we do

thank you, chair peskin. >> chairman: thank you. supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, mr. chair. i guess i look forward to try to understand the amendments over the next week as well. if the chair could explain why. i understand this legislation is not banning the behested payments in its entirety. it's banning from elected parties. so why would elected officials no longer be filing the behested payment filings? >> chairman: so i do want to thank patrick ford from ethics and as well as supervisor haney and his staff and deputy city attorney andrew schenn who pivoted quickly in the last week. some of the behested payments are requirements of the state law and they are then additional behested payment requirements up to $5,000 under local law, but i am personally happen to file behested payment stuff from noninterested parties at any dollar point pursuant to local and state law, but why don't i defer to mr. ford or the city attorney for an answer to your question as it relates to noninteres

i am the chair of the committee, aaron peskin joined by vice chair rafael mandelman and connie chan. your clerk is mr. victor young. do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. the board of supervisors legislative chamber committee meeting room is closed. committee members will attend the meeting through video conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. public comment will be available on each item on this agenda both channel 26, 78, 99, and sfgovtv.org are streaming the number across the screen. public comment ask available via phone by calling (415) 655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 24849472191 then press pound and pound again. you will be muted but in listening mode only. dial star three to be added to the speaker line. best practices are to call from a quiet location. speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. alternatively, you may submit public comment via e-mail to the rules committee clerk at victoryoung@sfgov.org. it will be forwarded to the supervisors as part of the official file. that completes my in

>> so moved. >> chair: let's take role please. >> clerk: on amotion by supervisor preston, supervisor peskine . >> clerk: supervisorpreston . >> aye. >> clerk: supervisor melgar. >> chair: aye. that motion passes unanimously. thank you president walton. madam clerk will you please call item number two. >> clerk: item 2 is an ordinance submitting the planning code to allow neighborhood social service and philanthropic facility uses in the chinatown mixed-use district with conditional use authorization. change the provision of abandonment of a use that exceeds a use five maximum in chinatown mixed-use district, change the use size limit and size maximum in chinatown, exempt institutional community uses and legacy businesslimits . members of the public who wish to provide public comment, the caller number on the screen is 415-655-0001. the meeting id is 2497 312 070 . then press pound, pound. if you have not done so already press star 3 to line up to speed. thesystem will indicate you have lined up to speak .>> chair: we continue this item from last week for some amendmentsthat were introduced

madam chair. >> thank you, supervisor peskin for introducing this item. there are a number of organizations and individuals that would like to testify on this. to start i will thank not just one community but three communities for doing zoning changes the right way. to my knowledge, there is no opposing any aspect of this because it is the subject of a lot of community discussion and deliberation and consensus building. i want to thank and acknowledge my land use staff who took the time it takes to iron out all of these things in the chinatown mixed-use district as well as in the north east and polk street commercial district. all of that is set forth in this legislation that has been heard by the planning commission with some suggestions of very minor modifications. most of which we agree with, some of which i am ready to amend today and some of which we are waiting on technical tweaks from the city attorney that were recommendations from the department and the commission that will be ready next week so we can hear the public testimony today and do the fi

and thanks again vice chair peskin for chairing the first two hours of the meeting. and madame clerk, please call item 13. >> item 13 is adjournment. >> chair mandelman: we are adjourned. >> thank you, commissioners. >> one more statement. we are the one. that is our first single that we made. that is our opinion. >> i can't argue with you. >> you are responsible please do not know his exact. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> i had a break when i was on a major label for my musical career. i took a seven year break. and then i came back. i worked in the library for a long time. when i started working the san francisco history centre, i noticed they had the hippie collection. i thought, if they have a hippie collection, they really need to have a punk collection as well. so i talked to the city archivist who is my boss. she was very interested. one of the things that i wanted to get to the library was the avengers collection. this is definitely a valuable poster. because it is petty bone. it has that weird look because it was framed. it had something acid on it and something not a

. >> chair peskin, mute yourself. thank you, commissioner preston. commissioner melgar and then walton. and i will only caution my colleagues that we are pressing up against 1:00. we're going to have to take public comment on this item and we're going to have to take general public comment. so commissioner melgar. >> supervisor melgar: i'll be quick, chair. first, i want to thank you director powers for your collaborativeness with director chang for my district, district 7 on the west side. it has been really important to have that collaboration on the study for the ocean avenue corridor. because that's bart muni station. that will now have affordable housing. so it's such an important hub for both district 11, 7 and also the connection to city college. thank you so much for that and your collaboration on the dream of having a subway connection connecting north and the west side. i'm not giving up on that [laughter], so i think that i appreciate your efforts. my question was, director duffy just touched on, the muni, the bart -- free bart for youth.

if not, can we get a motion to continue this hearing at the call of this chair. >> supervisor peskin:thank you, madam chair. yes, i think this is productive and helpful and looking forward to the intermediate linked occupancy hearing in the weeks to come and we'll work to develop that with planning department staff and certainly encourage planning department staff to make a more clear application process in the intervening minutes on the web page and i think it could be a lot more friendly to applicants and look forward to answers to some of the questions we talked about relative to short-term rentals. and i'd like to make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair. >> chairman: thank you very muches, supervisor peskin. before we take the roll, i just wanted to add that i'm also very interested in what the rent board has to say about the issues of group housing and membership as it applies to intermediate short-term renting. thank you, madam clerk. can you please call roll. >> clerk: on the motion made to the call of the chair made by supervisor peskin, [roll call] the mo

our vice chair is aaron peskin. our clerk is brittany milton. madam clerk, will you please call the roll. >> clerk: of course. [roll call taken] >> clerk: we have -- oh, commissioner chan has noted she is present in the chat. and we have quorum. >> chairman: great. thank you, madam clerk. i believe you have some announcements for us. >> clerk: yes. i will make an announcement about public comment. public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via fell foe by calling 415-655-0001, and when prompted access code 1469580594 and then pound and pound again. once you join, you'll be able to listen to the meets as a participant. to make public comment, dial *3. when the line says you're line is unmuted, you will have two minutes to speak. calls will be taken in the order in which they are received. best practices are to speak slowly and to turn down the volume of any televisions or radios around you. and that concludes my announcement. >> chairman: thank you, madam clerk. >> clerk: and, also, i do note that chan and melgar are here. >> c

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peskin: and i see, mr. teague, you have your hand up. is that in response to any of this? >> there's actually a follow-up to chair melgar's questions about the system for ensuring affordable housing, so i'm happy to respond to that when you're complete with this line of questioning. >> supervisor peskin: got it. mr. teague, do you have any information -- i assume it's not just the project sponsor, but it's a contractor with a valid contractor's license, it's an architect with the state of california, architectural license to practice in the state of california. here's what happens. this goes back to my original thing, which is i expect that when crooks employ crooks, that we have an affirmative obligation to go to the licensing board of architects, to go to the licensing board of general contractors, and to have them disbarred and have their licensed revoked by the state of california. have we done that? >> we have the ability to do that to the state licensing board. we have done it in some cases? in this case, we have not. it's not one of the issues here, is that it is unclear who did the illegal work beyond the

our vice chair is aaron peskin. our clerk is brittany milton. madam clerk, will you please call the roll. >> clerk: of course. [roll call taken] >> clerk: we have -- oh, commissioner chan has noted she is present in the chat. and we have quorum. >> chairman: great. thank you, madam clerk. i believe you have some announcements for us. >> clerk: yes. i will make an announcement about public comment. public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via fell foe by calling 415-655-0001, and when prompted access code 1469580594 and then pound and pound again. once you join, you'll be able to listen to the meets as a participant. to make public comment, dial *3. when the line says you're line is unmuted, you will have two minutes to speak. calls will be taken in the order in which they are received. best practices are to speak slowly and to turn down the volume of any televisions or radios around you. and that concludes my announcement. >> chairman: thank you, madam clerk. >> clerk: and, also, i do note that chan and melgar are here. >> c

our vice chair is aaron peskin. our clerk is brittany milton. madam clerk, will you please call the roll. >> clerk: of course. [roll call taken] >> clerk: we have -- oh, commissioner chan has noted she is present in the chat. and we have quorum. >> chairman: great. thank you, madam clerk. i believe you have some announcements for us. >> clerk: yes. i will make an announcement about public comment. public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via fell foe by calling 415-655-0001, and when prompted access code 1469580594 and then pound and pound again. once you join, you'll be able to listen to the meets as a participant. to make public comment, dial *3. when the line says you're line is unmuted, you will have two minutes to speak. calls will be taken in the order in which they are received. best practices are to speak slowly and to turn down the volume of any televisions or radios around you. and that concludes my announcement. >> chairman: thank you, madam clerk. >> clerk: and, also, i do note that chan and melgar are here. >> c

peskin: and i see, mr. teague, you have your hand up. is that in response to any of this? >> there's actually a follow-up to chair melgar's questions about the system for ensuring affordable housing, so i'm happy to respond to that when you're complete with this line of questioning. >> supervisor peskin: got it. mr. teague, do you have any information -- i assume it's not just the project sponsor, but it's a contractor with a valid contractor's license, it's an architect with the state of california, architectural license to practice in the state of california. here's what happens. this goes back to my original thing, which is i expect that when crooks employ crooks, that we have an affirmative obligation to go to the licensing board of architects, to go to the licensing board of general contractors, and to have them disbarred and have their licensed revoked by the state of california. have we done that? >> we have the ability to do that to the state licensing board. we have done it in some cases? in this case, we have not. it's not one of the issues here, is that it is unclear who did the illegal work beyond the

i am the chair of the rules committee aaron peskin joined by vice chair supervisor rafael mandelman joined by connie chan, and our clerk mr. young. mr. young, do you have any announcements. >> clerk: yes. city and public, the board of

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our vice chair is aaron peskin. our clerk is brittany milton. madam clerk, will you please call the roll. >> clerk: of course. [roll call taken]

madam chair. >> thank you, supervisor peskin for introducing this item. would you like to share your remarks? >> thank you, chair melgar and thank you for calling this item out of order. i know there are a number of organizations and individuals that would like to testify on this. to start i will thank not just one community but three communities for doing zoning changes the right way. to my knowledge, there is no opposing any aspect of this because it is the subject of a lot of community discussion and deliberation and consensus building. i want to thank and acknowledge my land use staff who took the time it takes to iron out all of these things in the chinatown mixed-use district as well as in the north east and polk street commercial district. all of that is set forth in this legislation that has been heard by the planning commission with some suggestions of very minor modifications. most of which we agree with, some of which i am ready to amend today and some of which we are waiting on technical tweaks from the city attorney that were recommendations f

peskin is purporting to maintain some control over that. we'll be looking at and that will advise if we can approve later in the meeting. >> thank you. through the chair, supervisor peskin, i know that we have had -- supervisor chan noted we did duplicate the file. there are certain aspects of what she's looking at. i wanted to get clarity on what the procedure was that you were trying to implement. but i understand now. i understand from the explanation from the city attorney. i wanted you to know why i asked that. we've been having extensive conversations if we can put certain language in. come back and gave us updates on supervisor preston and i were having the conversation about the contracting authority and final authorization for l.r.v. purchases, parking meters. so we're in this back-and-forth with the city attorney as it pertains to the authority of the sfmta. so i was curious where this is trying to land. i understand we do retain certain powers as it pertains to the sfmta fees and park setting. >> supervisor peskin: i don't know that supervisor safai's question is a question, but i'll do my best to respond as the author of division one and d

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chair: thank you. and i believe this item passes unanimously on first reading. madam clerk, we are now at roll call for introductions. >> clerk: yes, first member to introduce new business is supervisor peskin. >> thank you, madam clerk. as i mentioned yesterday, colleagues, at our land use hearing that supervisor ronin called, today i'm introducing a hearing that follows a number of complaints and concerns that i have received regarding the recent reorganization of the planning department, including what some believe might undermine the charter authorized zoning administrator who for decades has reported directly to the planning director that was true through all of bob hasner's tenure and until recently cory teagues tenure and that covers almost half a century. previous iterations of the department have prided themselves on internal architectural expertise and interpreting the code that we create and modify in a fair, consistent, transparent, and unbiased manner. the way that the department is being structured i think gives me a modicum of concern that the zoning administrator in particular may be compromised, and i want to hear from staff on that as well as what i'm hearing with regard t

chair: thank you. and i believe this item passes unanimously on first reading. madam clerk, we are now at roll call for introductions. >> clerk: yes, first member to introduce new business is supervisor peskin. >> thank you, madam clerk. as i mentioned yesterday, colleagues, at our land use hearing that supervisor ronin called, today i'm introducing a hearing that follows a number of complaints and concerns that i have received regarding the recent reorganization of the planning department, including what some believe might undermine the charter authorized zoning administrator who for decades has reported directly to the planning director that was true through all of bob hasner's tenure and until recently cory teagues tenure and that covers almost half a century. previous iterations of the department have prided themselves on internal architectural expertise and interpreting the code that we create and modify in a fair, consistent, transparent, and unbiased manner. the way that the department is being structured i think gives me a modicum of concern that the zoning administrator in particular may be compromised, and i want to hear from staff on that as well as what i'm hearing with regard t