supervisor chiu? chiu present. supervisor cohen? cohen present. supervisor farrell? farrell present. supervisor kim? kim absent. supervisor mar? mar absent. supervisor tang? tang present. supervisor wiener? wiener present. supervisor yee? yee present. mr. president -- supervisor mar? mar present. mr. president, you have a quorum. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us for the pledge of allegiance? i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands; one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> madam clerk, do we have any communications? >> i have no communications, mr. president. >> could we go to our new business, item 1? >> item 1 is an ordinance amending the business and tax regulations code to remove provisions that refer to the former transfer tax review board that expired by operation of law on january 1, 2013. >> roll call, please. >> on item 1, supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim absent. supervisor mar? mar aye. s

croix, my name is justin true, and i am the legislative aid to chiu and this is a long-standing case. and i did appear on the matter before the sunshine task force some years ago as well. and i officially only represent supervisor chiu, at least, some of my other colleagues are aware that i am here this evening and they can obviously see it now. and i don't want to go into a great deal of detail around the item, i think that the staff report is clear. and i think that the main point that i would make is that, at the land use committee meeting in question where supervisor chiu announced and introduced essentially changes to underlying development agreement that was before the committee through a resolution, that those changes, were within the scope of the noticed hearing. and very clearly, the hearing described that there was a development agreement and not much else about it and the changes themselves, and technically, they are probably more changes than amendments and although president chiu will call them amendments were designed and although the substance is not relevant to strengt

i want to acknowledge something that president chiu said earlier. i think it's amazing we leave in a city with the business leadership of san francisco has not opposed this it's not officially in the supportive column it speaks to the real special plays that san francisco is that we can have people like jim lazarus and others not being opposed to this ordinance. you know, i think this is something that's in a larger context of keeping families in san francisco and it's a good beginning to a conversation and i know you've all been huge supporters of the folks in san francisco. there are any pieces we need to work on so thank you >> thank you for your work and a next speaker. >> hi. i work with the next generation and work with the statewide family coalition. we work on with that policy in the state. i really want to express in my appreciation especially for president chu's leadership on this issue. there so many benefits and our work group really seeing our group is workers and parents so we can be both things. and one of the things i love about our

supervisor chiu? chiu aye. there are 11 ayes. >> resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> madam clerk, could you read the in memoriams? >> yes, mr. president. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals. on behalf of supervisor cohen, for the late mr. bill thread gill. >> and is there any more business in front of the body? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> i want to thank sfgov-tv for their coverage of tonight apt 1850sing and with that unless there is any more business, ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel] and check out our you tube page. >> hello san francisco, here with the buzz worthy events and activists including a big one that is gearing up in golden gate park, this is the weekly buzz, on tuesday, september 17th, come and make the works of art with your friends and they will provide the pants and brushes and all you need is to bring your creativity and enjoy the live art by the local artist and obtain a piece of your own by a bike crews through golden gate park with fabulous costumes and e

supervisor chiu? chiu aye. there are 11 ayes. >> resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> madam clerk, could you read the in memoriams? >> yes, mr. president. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals. on behalf of supervisor cohen, for the late mr. bill thread gill. >> and is there any more business in front of the body? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> i want to thank sfgov-tv for their coverage of tonight apt 1850sing and with that unless there is any more business, ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel] so good morning and wel to all of you i'm joseph i'm the director of prime care for homeless services and urban higher or speaks louder you still can't hear me. okay. i've joseph with urban house thank you for coming distinguished gifts and staff and community partners and many, many other wlor here today. i can't believe we're here and it's so great to share this exist day with you and this exciting new chapter in homeless services and a principle care for our most vulnerable co- citizens of

we welcome president chiu welcome. without further adieu a man who's no stranger to this area mayor edwin lee. thank you. it's great to be here on 24th street i can literally see all the changes and the constant very brnt area. it gets crowded up here. i'm glad to join president chiu and the other supervisors who are supporting this neighborhood. all over the city we have 11 of these cb ds thought the city and 5 entire districts. the latest one i want to thank the board for the district that is raising their own money that can really compliment the downtown moscone. the neighborhoods i enjoy just as much because the neighborhood are constantly working to find ways to improve. i'm glad to see public works that helps get the permits done for those parks that have been here for 26 years and having funny; right? >> and that's at the way it should be. we have fun where we live and it's always a great investment to have the agencies working together with the neighborhoods association and the community benefit districts to im

i want to acknowledge something that president chiu said earlier. i think it's amazing we leave in a city with the business leadership of san fraco has no opposed this it's not officially in the supportive column it speaks to the real special plays that san francisco is that we can have people like jim lazarus and others not being opposed to this ordinance. you know, i think this is something that's in a larger context of keeping families in san francisco and it's a good beginning to a conversation and i know you've all been huge supporters of the folks in san francisco. there are any pieces we need to work on so thank you >> thank you for your work and a next speaker. >> hi. i work

in this urban environment in which families struggle every year the board of supervisors president chiu could not be more welcome. month nonprofit organizations have these proposals in plays. the expectation is articulated for family strength. the stadiums underscored that paying attention to the needs of staff is just as important for the quality it's our firm belief it employers who demonstrate understanding and flexibility for the appreciation that supports moral. san francisco families are needed and we the general public need to join together in this issue >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. i work with parents with young children mostly. i belong to the sandwich generation. i live with my mother and two teenage children's. i work in an organizations that allows for flextime i work with the parents and this make sense but many of the parents and the parents don't have this flexible time in their workplace. this would help families in dramatic ways or ways that just makes work more productive and workers more efficient. for example, being able to drive pie mom to a doc

supervisor chiu? chiu aye. there are 11 ayes. >> resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> madam clerk, could you read the in memoriams? >> yes, mr. president. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals. on behalf of supervisor cohen, for the late mr. bill thread gill. >> and is there any more business in front of the body? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> i want to thank sfgov-tv for their coverage of tonight apt 1850sing and with that unless there is any more business, ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel] okay. our final speaker is a friend a friend to the business community. a man who understands was it take to a create a job which is an investment. mayor ed lee is a person who have's brought a lot of stability to san francisco especially, after steady eddy were because ed has a background in administration and being tasked what getting things done and maneuvering through the san francisco policies. so to talk about the future of san francisco from the mayors prospective and the city's prospec

chiu?he building inspection commission mayor failed to provide oversight as required by the charter condoning government sanctioned racism. i have not been shy calling them the corrupt racists they are. recently a grand jury report was released which confirmed most of the problems i brought up along with some others. the dbi responses typically denial of problems. previous grand jury report issued 10 years ago and equally damning is basically ignored. [speaker not understood] current report will also be ignored and nothing done. i am here to request [speaker not understood] involvement. the building inspection commission is about to choose a new director possibly as soon as tomorrow. [speaker not understood] elected representatives of san francisco not yet committed to perpetuating corruption or racism in dbi must immediately call the mayor and commissioners request they not choose any of the persons who are currently departmental political appointees as director. are you listening, mr. chi

supervisor chiu? >> here. >> chiu present. supervisor cohen? cohen present. supervisor farrell? farrell present. supervisor kim? kim present. supervisor mar? mar present. supervisor tang? tang present. supervisor wiener? wiener absent. supervisor yee? yee present. supervisor campos? campos present. mr. president, you have a quorum. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of allegiance? i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands; one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all . >> madam clerk, any communications? >> i have no communications, mr. president. >> and could you read our 2:00 p.m. special order? >> the first item of business is the policy discussion between mayor edwin lee and members of the board of supervisors. this week representing the odd districts, specifically districts 1, 3, 5, 9, and 11. the mayor may address the board initially for up to five minutes. the president will recognize the supervisor who will present their own questions to the mayor

found that president, david chiu, and supervisor weiner and violated sunshine ordinance section 67.7 b for not providing the public with copies of the development to the agreement and which were provided to the policy body. >> and if you are not willing to discuss the contents and then how can you be prepared to say that the contents were not substantive. and i also would like to say that the supervisor testimony initially said that the public was able to comment, the public, i think that he corrected himself. it should be clear that the public is not allowed to comment at a board of supervisors meeting when it has been held at a committee meeting. >> thank you. >> with all due respect for the city attorney's office, the single deputy city attorney sitting in front of the podium, is not necessarily the best person to determine what is substantive and what isn't, is this agreement. and if the change took 14 pages, how long was the entire agreement. i really think that the roll of the investigator in this matter, should have been to put himself in the position of the lawyer, who is goi

david chiu. (applause) >> thank you, mr. mayor. and for the record, my recollection was there was only one door slammed, and i can't remember exactly who did it. [laughter] >> this is a great day for the health of san francisco. this is a great day for the future health of our city. i'm so delighted to be here. and let me also say that it was about a year ago that a couple of us at the board, including supervisor cohen, we held a very different press conference over on the board side and i am just amazed and so grateful that we have come as far as we have gotten to where we are today. it takes a village to build two hospitals and i want to take just a brief moment to thank everyone who has been part of that village starting first and foremost with the community. the leadership behind the elected leaders here who ensured that this is a deal that's not only good for health care, but ensures that we are meeting our local hiring needs, our housing needs, our transportation needs, our neighborhood needs around the city. and, of course,

president chiu. (applause) >> thank you, and good morning, everyone. first of all, i want to join the mayor in thanking all the folk behind me who represent the funding community that has so wonderfully stepped up. thank you, dr. sandra hernandez and your colleagues. i of course want to thank all the amazing nonprofit social service providers and immigrant rights organizations that have been part of the fabric of why i'm so proud of san francisco as a city that welcomes and protects our immigrant communities. and i also want to take a moment and thank all of you. you're taking pictures of us because i think behind us represents the diversity of our city. but we are looking at you. if you actually looked among yourselves, this room effects the diversity of the world. san francisco, we were built by immigrants. the presence of our city is successful because of the vitality of our immigrant community. and we know the future of san francisco rests with the future of our immigration and i am grab community. so, i want to thank you for being part of this. ~

which was approved by the board of supervisors, around the time that i started working for president chiu, there were, i don't know, about dozens but over ten changes to the agreement proposed at the full board and some of them were, and accepted at the full board and no further public comment was given. and some of them were rejected by the board. but there was no, in a similar sense to this instance there was no presumption that there was additional public comment based on changes to an underlying agreement and all of the over all arching principals and concepts of the agreement remained. i think that there are constantly changes to something like this development agreement up to the time that it goes to the board and so, i am not positive that it occurred in this case but there could have been changes made in the previous week and going in the file that is available to the public and the committee members up before the hearing. so it is a process. i hope that that answers the question. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> further questions? or discussion commissioners? >> is there a motion t

president chiu. >> just two last points. first of all, i want to support supervisor wiener's comments around pedestrian safety and reiterate how important it is for us to continue with the spirit and the letter of the legislation that we had passed earlier this year around the changes that we need to make to our streetscape, to both ensure safety in the instance of fire as well as pedestrian safety. and i want to just take a moment and thank our fire chief, fire marshal wong, assistant deputy shoe and trayctioning director villa, as well as local 798 and their leadership for extensive education, colleagues, on these issues. and with that, colleagues, ask you for your support. ~ >> thank you, president chiu. i just want to note that the clerk of the board has informed me that there has been a request made by former supervisor michael yaki to speak on this item. as you know, public comment was presented and was given during the committee meeting and it is up to the board if that needs to be done. and, of course, it would requi

we'd like to thank supervisor chiu for his concerns on this issue regarding the elimination of the bus stops closest to the building. /wo*ut the south and northbound stops at northbound and vallejo, seniors will be able to walk a 10 percent grade hill or walk three blocks downhill to the nearest stop on union. this is a large burden -- >> thank you. >> /hr*rb -- and the disabled who live in the community. thank you. >> next speaker please. few more cards, robert vincent, jamal, alex. jeff >> my name is barbara vin /srepbts. vincent. i am here to share our support of this project. i am writing on behalf of the golden gate bridge highway transportation district to support the rapid transportation that is coming before you for eir certification. we hope to see it approved rapidly. the center running brt lains are the best way to create better service for transit that extends north of san francisco. the choice to make the line right door accessible [inaudible] in addition if we were to increase operations between north bay and san francisco in the future, the lpa of the van ness brt projec

we've learned and this was mentioned by president chiu this has been done in other countries. it's been like the u.s. is the last catch on but a number of those laws - i'm jumping ahead a little bit. backing up. there's been studies that show these are all the different benefits. it definitely helps with improvement and with retention customer levels and increased cost savings and increased attendance. it that means that it reduce the all that u amount of workers coming to work when they're sick because they can have a flexible schedule. in addition and this was most of this information came out at the white house council on the just that they did and best buy studied a program called the results only work environment and that means that employees can do whatever they want so long as the work gets done. this was analyzed by the university of the minnesota and found it reduced turnover by 46 percent. this is the new workforce in the the 21st century workforce. san francisco also in 2003 analyzed its own tell communicates policy and they saved $119 million by letting employees t

thank you very much >> president chiu. >> so at this point, i want to ask the fire department to make a presentation on this issue of the firefighter remresht system. i'd like to visit up the fire marshall and detective to make a presentation and then we'll precede >> sftv if there's a way to show the

>> on a motion for item number three, avalos i, breed i, campos i, chiu i, cohen i, farrell i, kim i, mar i, tang i, wiener nay, yee i. motion passes. >> commissioner wiener. >> thank you, i look forward to voting for van ness brt project. as with any major transportation project it entails very hard choices and we have limited roadway and there are always going to be difficult choices and you're never going to make everyone happy. i completely respect those who have concerns about the project in terms of the parking, traffic impacts. i understand that, but now is the time for us to move forward with making muni work for san francisco and right now in many ways, muni is not working for san francisco and it's not reliable enough, it is not fast enough, it is not predictable enough in terms of when it's going to arrive and how quickly and officially it's going to travel. one of the reasons on why it is not predictable and reliable is because of the intense mixture of buses and traffic. it is almost impossible to predict with any significant degree of accuracy whether a bus will stick to

both mayor and chiu mentioned this. we have a new wall to recognize the special contribution that asians and asian americans have made to this part of the waterfront and the city. as was mentioned, 9 the waterfront was the place asian immigration came to the united states and the california gold rush certainly brought a steady influx of asian american laborers who helped to build the infrastructure of this country, including our railroads. on june 23rd, 1877, a huge mob attacked chinese businesses here and headed for the local symbol of chinese immigration, the pacific mall wharf where we stand today. they tried to burn the beer, but failed. i think it's important that we recognize and remember our history because as we move forward, as we celebrate our victories, our progress, it's really important to remember those that came before us and the history that was here today. but most importantly, i'm here to celebrate this open space, will be an incredibly important addition and resource for our families, our kids, our se

supervisor chiu. chiu aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the motion passes. [gavel] >> thank you, supervisor wiener and to all the parties of that appeal. why don't we go to our committee reports. madam clerk, could you call items 25 and 26. >> items 25 and 26 were considered by the government and audit oversight committee at a regular meeting september 12, 2013 and forwarded to the board as committee reports. ordinance 25 is a ordinance adopting and implementing amendment no. 5 to the 2007-2015 memorandum of understanding between the city and county of san francisco and the san francisco police officers' association (units p-1 & p-2a) by implementing specified term and conditionses of employment for fiscal years 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, and 2017-2018. ~ >> colleagues, can we take these items same house same call? without objection, these items are passed on the first read. [gavel] >> mr. president, pardon me, mr. president. i only read item 25. i'd like to call 26. >> call item 26. >> >> item 26, an ordinance adopting and implementing amen

lieutenant governor newsom and the port and commissioners and president david chiu and the entire board of supervisors and the elected officials for being part of this extraordinary effort. and thank you for making this a dream, making this dream a reality for children and adults in our city and around the world. and before i lay my part of the ring on this bell, i will proclaim this to be april 17, 2013, exporatorium day in san francisco. all right. and with that, my contribution on the ring is the third ring, which is called the catalyst ring. and it represents the contributions of civic leadership and public agencies working altogether to make this dream a reality. another hand for mayor ed lee, please? >> our next speaker was mayor of this great city from 2003, to 2011 and his support was crucial to its success. and he is also a proud native san franciscoan who grew up with the appreciation for the exporatorium and the role of education in our civic life. >> i would like to introduce newsom who is a passionate for transforming that into the future of our society and works tirelessly

as the mayor and supervisor chiu said, we are a nation ~ and a city of immigrants. we are a testament to america's spirit of risk and its spirit of innovation. and the heart of every immigrant is a risk taker, a bold and courageous person who has risked everything to make a better life for themselves, but also to make a better life for all of their neighbors and communities in which they live ~. like mayor lee and the supervisor, i'm a proud daughter of american immigrants. they came to this country with odds stacked against them to build a better future for my siblings and my cousins. my father served in the army, but more important to him was that he served at every polling station in every election from the time he was legally able to do so. and at breakfast before every election was a very, very, very engaged, vivid, enlightened conversation about how my mother should vote, even though she didn't always agree with him, and that really it was our responsibility to comment on the things that mayor lee referenced. what kind of health care should we have? what shoul