president chiu >> thank you. i want to first acknowledge supervisor kim and the stakeholders with worked on this and let me say i know the stakeholder that were involved in this conversation helped e held genuine perspectives i do support the agreement that's been be wretched and acknowledge and appreciate that we are 0 not moving forward with what would have been an expensive to this and ultimately unproductive fight this sets us to find adequate financing i've public library called for and many members of the public and colleagues who believe on next year's ballot in 2015 we should put awning affordable housing bond we've lost between 70 and $80,000 a year of state funding due to the elimination of housing authorities and prop one c fund and out of the conversations we've had in recent weeks we'll be able to move forward i'm happy to support this and happy to add myself as a co-sponsor. >> no other comments same house, same call? without objection so this motion is approved. madam clerk please call the next ite

supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. there are 11 i's. this ordinance is passed on is first reading >> item 62. >> a resolution for an 19 period to clear the distinction in the planning code and affirming the planning department's environmental determination. >> colleagues, can we take that without objection same house, same call? without resolution with that we have results back for our two special p.m. i know we've called the first could you please announce the results of ballots. >> yes. mr. president, for the lower polk was 68.23 percent and the return ballots voting against was that 1 percent 77 percent further indicating there was no majority protest. >> it's been described i want to thank the community for all their work and no majority profits we can precede with the vote to adapt the resolution to establish the lower polk benefit district roll call vote. >> item 46. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervi

supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. there are 7 ayes and 4 nos. >> the ordinance is finally passed. [gavel] >> item 45. >> item 45 is an ordinance amending the heythv code to authorize the implementation of court-ordered assisted outpatient treatment for individuals with mental illness who meet the criteria established by california welfare and institutions code, sections 5345-5349.5, to require the county mental health officer create a care team to try to engage individuals referred for aot in voluntary treatment prior to the imposition of court-ordered treatment; and making a finding that this authorization will not result in a reduction of current adult and juvenile mental health programs. ~ court ordered treatment. >> roll call vote. >> on item 45, supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar no. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee. yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos no. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu?

we will move to supervisor chiu. >> thank you. i just want to comment. i appreciate the work that supervisor mar's been doing on issues around predictability and i want to thank the members of the task force that have worked with my office over the last year or so to address these issues. i hope -- i haven't had a chance to see the legislation, but hopefully there's ideas that overlap that we can work on together. the issue of predictability in scheduling is one i've been working on for a couple years now and certainly with what congressman george miller is proposing, this is an issue that's gathered a lot of attention with good thoughts and ideas around policies to address it and look forward to conversations we'll be having about it. >> with that -- >> thank you mr. president. >> supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. thank you. already ladies and gentlemen, i'm trying to make this as brief as possible, but i have several items that i want to talk about. first i want to acknowledge and thank the planning department for their unparalleled leadership

supervisor chiu? chiu aye. there are 8 ayes and three no's. >> the ordinance is passed on the first reading. [gavel] >> and with that, madam clerk, could you read the in memoriamses? >> today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. on behalf of supervisor cohen for the late ms. omega harden. on behalf of supervisor farrell, president chiu, and supervisor wiener for the late reverend anthony turney. on behalf of supervisor wiener for the late young ayal [speaker not understood], frank el, [speaker not understood] mohammed [speaker not understood] and on behalf of supervisor yee for the late dr. james wilson, ms. layton dong. and on behalf of supervisor avalos for the late ms. edna eileen flores lagunte. >> take a meetv to thank sfgov-tv's crew tonight hal kremenak and jim smith. and with that, madam clerk do we have any more business in froth of the board? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel] >> [gavel] >>

next speakers. >> good morning soup -- supervisor tang and chiu. thank you for hearing our testimony. i'm a firefighter in san francisco and i'm on the cancer foundation with tony stephany and i get nervous when i hear tony because he has the facts and i don't like hearing the facts because they're true, but i'm hear to shed a like on what it's like in our culture and what my experience has been. earlier in my career i was off probation and a firefighter came in and he was skinny, he looked like he was close to death but he was going through the journals so he can get a retirement benefit for his family and his death was imminent and i helped him. i never knew who he was. but that was early in my career and i remember when -- i've said this before when i raise my right hand to swear in to protect and serve san francisco which i still love to do, i never once thought of cancer. i thought be safe at fires and be smart and follow your protocols or whatever, and i also in 2003 contracted breast cancer and at the time was working with worker's comp on t

supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell absent. supervisor kim absent. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor yee. that item passes. >> okay. next item. >> this fiscal year has been a busy month it's been a busy month at the time transportation authority first our staff and the staff from the sfmta committed committee meeting in our 11 district to discuss the revenue measures for this fall and next year those include a $500 million obligation bond for transmission that all 11 supervisors want placed on the ballot in november and as well as 2015- 2016 the restoration of the vehicle license fee they'll build on the prop k tax and they'll level with the region funds to improve pedestrian safety and bicycle safety and smooth our roads and help with the offer burdened transportation system our staff worked closely with the agencies on the update of the prop k transportation programs we'll review at the board next week month neighbors in several districts gave their input and prioritizing the transportation consistently across the city the vision zero com

and supervisor cohen for covering it supervisor chiu laid it auto access to land and land thank you for the opportunity tenure it addresses and for a number of projects that will be a great help. there are two projects that supervisor chiu mentioned sf b and the garden they were not able to get here but interested should the ordinance pass i want to say we've thought about the city getting a good deal we don't want you to lose money and this provides a balance and quite a bit of oversight to not get abused clear interact threshold this requires the board review to do so and i will emphasis with supervisor chiu a lot of the people around the state are looking to us to set the model it will be important to a number of projects but like all things in san francisco it's a model if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them strongly encourage you to pass that and i want to take a moment to thank eli and spur we started you talking about this in 2011 this is our third local ordinance as well as the passage of our first state law >> thanks back to you. >> thank you. next speaker.

supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen. cohen aye. there are 1 ayes. >> these resolutions are passed on the first reading and resolutions are adopted. [gavel] ~ 11 >> with that, madam clerk, could we go to our 2:30 special commendation? i understand we have one commendation today. that's supervisor mar, and i will be jointly presenting and i would like to defer to supervisor mar. >> thank you, president chiu. i see former supervisor here in the chambers with us today as well. i wanted to say that along with president chiu, it's my honor to recognize an amazing community leader and education leader at social work and community leader nancy lim yee. and we have later on our agenda a resolution acknowledging her work as well. but i'd like to ask if nancy lim yee could come forward. i know her son robert is here with us, too. but, ms. lim yee is an incredibly inspiring leader. i worked closely with her on the first five commission. i know of her work through many others as well. she's the director of the chinatown children's development c

supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. there are 11 ayes. >> these items are approved. [gavel] >> why don't we call item number 8. >> item 8 is an ordinance calling for providing a special election to be held in the city and county of san francisco on tuesday, november 4, 2014, for the purpose of submitting to san francisco voters a proposition to incur the following bonded debt of the city and county; $500,000,000 to finance the construction, acquisition, and improvement of certain transportation and transit related improvements. ~ chapter 37. >> colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? without objection this ordinance is finally passed. [gavel] >> and if you could call items 9 through 38 related to the budget. >> item 9 through 38 are the annual appropriations salary and associated fee ordinances and grant resolutions. item 9 is the annual budget and appropriation ordinance appropriating all estimated receipts and all estimated expenditures for selected departments of the city and county of san francisco a

supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen no. there are 5 ayes and 6 nos. >> charter amendment is not submitted. [gavel] >> item 48. >> item 48 is an ordinance amending the administrative code, chapter 16, article xv, part 1, by amending section 16.703, regarding board approval of health service system plans and contribution rates. ~ contribution rates. >> supervisor farrell. >> thank you, president chiu. colleagues, i'll speak [speaker not understood] on this item in terms of our plans ask contribution rates for this upcoming year. as we all know, we went through a bit of an issue last year around our kaiser rates. a few comments. i want to say i believe we are extremely fortunate to have catherine dodd at the helm of hhs with her experience and the health care program she's help put in place. our hss rate increase has been below the local and national average the last four cycles. catherine has put in so many processes in place, [speaker not understood] working on transparency together. while most employees are seeing 8 to 9% c

role. >> kim no, ma i, tang no, wiener i, yee no, breed no, campos i, chiu i, cohen i, farrell i. there is six is and four nos. >> the motion is approved. [applause] >> and with that, colleagues, why don't we go to our 23:30 special commendation. >> thank you very much mr. president. it is my great honor today to provide accomodation to a very special individual timmy trong. timmy here? [applause] if you could please come up to the podium right there. today it is my great honor to recognize the amazing work and service of an incredible leader and youth advocate. our outgoing director of the san francisco youth commission, sammy trong. arriving in san francisco more than a decade ago to attend san francisco state, sammy came to the youth commission in 2011 after having served as an employment coordinator with the vietnamese youth development center and became the commissions director in march of 2013. during rur incredible tenure, she for youth program that is now serving more than 30,000 young people here in san francisco. i know that i in my office had the pleasure of working clo

president chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. no. supervisor kim. there are 7 i's and 4 nos per the resolution it adapted and madam clerk could you read our end memoriams. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals on behalf of of the president chiu ms. jane kim write and supervisor kim for the late mr. mark anthony >> with that, i want to thank sfgovtv for their coverage with mel and tholg and with that colleagues wish everyone a wonderful recess and next open september 2nd michelle's. there's no further business. . ladies and gentlemen, we're adjourned. good afternoon ladie gentlemen, welcome to the special meeting of the san francisco municipal transportation agency and parking horticulture commission. >> director brinkman. director lee. director nolan and chair we have quorum. item 3 announcement of prohibition of sound like pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices

. >> president chiu is the lead author. >> thank you, mr. chair and members of the public i'm happy to move forward legislation to make us the urban incentive zones act. and which was carried and responded by assemblyman and supervisor kim for her co-chairship this is the 3 piece of urban agriculture and in 2011, we updated our zoning to allow the sale of produce by our san francisco residents a year later the urban architectural committee came to our office and we passed the legislation that established a competitive urban strategy and budgeting streaming and thank to the rec and park department this is to address something we've heard from residents and urban farmers around san francisco there's not enough space to farm in our city i consulting that is a long existing gardens have been lost to other uses because land is expensive the use is landowners are developing their property in other ways we have an act that is important this proposal encourages some property owners allows them to pay lower tax for 5 years for agriculture use i want

supervisor chiu? chiu aye. there are 11 ayes. >> those ordinances are finally passed and motions approved. madam clerk, can you call item 4? >> item 4 is appointing r. geary [speaker not understood] to the [speaker not understood]. >> colleagues, can i have a motion to excuse -- recuse supervisor wiener from this vote? ~ motion by supervisor mar, seconded by supervisor tang. without objection, he shall be excused. [gavel] >> and with that, madam clerk, can you call the roll? >> on item 4, supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? exhaust aye. there are 10 aye a. >> motion is approved. [gavel] >> item 6. >> item 6 is ordinance amending the general plan by updating the recreational and open space element of the general plan; and making findings, including environmental findings, and find

president chiu made about it would be better if this happened at a federal or state level. supervisor tang, i will say i agree a thousand percent, but this is a congress that has not passed a budget in about six years, that is incapable of even reauthorizing the highway -- federal highway fund. our state legislature has killed this measure repeatedly and could not even move a labeling bill out of committee in the assembly. we have to do what we always have done and lead. >> any final comments? madam clerk call the roll. role. >> kim no, ma i, tang no, wiener i, yee no, breed no, campos i, chiu i, cohen i, farrell i. there is six is and four nos. >> the motion is approved. [applause] >> and with that, colleagues, why don't we go to our 23:30 special commendation. >> thank you very much mr. president. it is my great honor today to provide accomodation to a very special individual timmy trong. timmy here? [applause] if you could please come up to the podium right there. today it is my great honor to recognize the amazing work and service of an incredible leader and youth advoc

so moved. >> thank you president chiu. and with that, madam clerk, can you please call item number 2. >> resolution authorizing the mayor, or his designees, to cast assessment ballots in the affirmative on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, as the owner of three parcels of real property over which the board of supervisors has jurisdiction, that would be subject to assessment in the proposed property and business improvement district to be the lower polk community benefit district. >> resolution authorizing the mayor, or his designees, to cast assessment ballots in the affirmative on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, as the owner of three parcels of real property over which the board of supervisors has jurisdiction, that would be subject to assessment in the proposed property and business improvement district to be the lower polk community benefit district. >> thank you, and again, our sponsor president chiu, i would like to turn it over to you. >> thank you madam chair. this is a simple item. a n

president chiu? chiu present. supervisor cohen? cohen absent. supervisor farrell?rell not present. supervisor kim? supervisor kim? kim present. supervisor mar? mar present. supervisor tang? tang present. supervisor wiener? wiener present. supervisor yee? yee present. mr. president, you have a quorum. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, 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. >> colleagues, we have our june 10th, 2014 board meeting minutes as well as the june 11, 2014 special meeting minutes of the rules committee. could i have a motion to approve those minutes? motion by supervisor mar, seconded by supervisor breed. without objection, those meeting minutes are approved. [gavel] >> and with that, madam clerk, are there any communications? >> there are no communication, mr. president. >> and could you read our 2:00 p.m. special order? >> the first item of the business is the policy discussio

thank you. >> good afternoon chairperson and president chiu and supervisor breed. i'm the executive director of the be rna l heights neighborhood. our organizations work closely with agencies and often we do end up playing the role of translators and interpreters just an example alone providing hundreds of hours of translation and as a native filipino speaker myself i'm an immigrant as well and it's important that the language access ordinance continues to get enforced and as a member of the language access network and we and the other organizations who are doing the day-to-day on the ground work are committed to work closely with ocea and city agencies to make sure that the city is able to provide the highest quality services and accessible services as possible. i know we're talking about language right now but as someone who is an immigrant there is cultural context so i was a little bit dismayed to hear the chief talk about google translate i understand the inadequacies of that program. requires human connection to properly address community members who just wan

president chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. no. supervisor kim. there are 7 i's and 4 nos per the resolution it adapted and madam clerk could you read our end memoriams. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals on behalf of of the president chiu ms. jane kim write and supervisor kim for the late mr. mark anthony >> with that, i want to thank sfgovtv for their coverage with mel and tholg and with that colleagues wish everyone a wonderful recess and next open september 2nd michelle's. there's no furhe

ron case and president chiu so and thank them for their work. i'm here in support of the community district and a resident on sutter street as well. what strikes me since i've moved into this neighborhood 4 years ago the process establishing the community district really upped the ante in involvement with people tenants and business owners and, of course, larkin has been extremely supportive i feel like it represents a community grassroots driven endeavor. bottom line lower polk neighbors is very excited about working hand to hand hopefully with the community district board to continue our goals for a safer cleaner and more beautiful neighborhood thank you very much. thank you. next speaker. . >> president chiu i supervisor kim i'm batter thomas my brother shell pass away last month it's been my honor to visit our city i come from texas and spent time in the military and seen parts of europe especially like san francisco that have renewed themselves i see the quality of life in the people. i realize that sometimes, people need money and help to

supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar absent. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. we have quorum. thank you. item number 2 >> item 2 approval of the meeting of the june 24th. >> can you have is a motion to approve the june 24th meeting minutes and can we same house, same call? - you want to we'll take a roll call. >> on item - public comment. >> public comment on the minutes seeing none, public comment is closed. if you have public comment please come forward you don't need to raise your hand >> man has only the sole purpose even if existence no matter what is the position in life all pertains to the wholly mission. everywhere in time and in status thank you. >> okay is there any additional public comment on item two the minutes seeing none, public comment is closed. madam clerk call roll >> supervisor avalos absent. supervisor breed. supervisor campos absent. supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar absent. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. that item

supervisor david chiu. the sun is shining >> >> we're going to do a couple more hearings i want to thank you all for coming together. first of all, i'm excited about today's announcement because you know i played the violin and placed in a lot of semii didn't orchestras and we have a symphony that is including but particularly on the environmental and green level is tremendous but i'm here to thank the mayor and puc for all and all of you for a model how we take care of the environment go solar started in 2008, and after 25 installations on rooftops around the city has quadruped for businesses and nonprofit organizations and we know that the rest of the state and country has been looking to do wasn't we've done but because of our budget challenges and by the way, i appreciate the budget challenges and thank you mr. kelly and mar. in recent years the funding for this program has been chafrjdz. we know that installations have come down and the community today approached any office to focus attention e aforeme