>> supervisor mirkarimi, deputy attorney cheryl adams. i will lay out a couple of principles to keep in mind. these community benefit agreements, first of all, will only apply to a company that has an annual payroll expense that exceeds $1 million. that is under the terms of the legislation. as the committee knows, section 2114 of the charter says that it is misconduct for board members to interfere in the administrative affairs of the department. also, charter section 9.118, which states the board only has authority over contracts that exceed $10 million or 10 years. so to the extent that one of these committed to benefit agreements was a 9.118 contract, then the board would have authority to review it. thbut if it is an agreement that will be entered into between the board and property owner, the board will not have any approval authority over it. by law, the board cannot grant itself a party that it does not have. we tested that a few years ago, you may recall in the sns trucking matter. so the board always has the power of inquiry, an

cheryl atoms from the city attorney's office. -- adams from the city attorney's office. >> this piece of legislation is part of a much larger package that went to the board last year. it was determined at that time that a handful of the areas were left out of the legislation. it was amended. that peace was severed out and send back through the planning process-- piece was severed out and sent back to the planning process. by law, there are things that have to be adopted by planning. there has to be a finding of consistency with the general plan. here, and that is accomplished by reference to the housing elements of affordable housing legislation. the eight priority policies -- you have probably seen this in a lot of legislation -- of the general plan. i will not go through all of them. it is things like not impede in commuter traffic, maintaining neighborhood character, diverse economic base, etc. planning did not hear this second piece because they had already heard the larger piece of it. the board needs to indicate that those findings are being made and that there is conformity wit