>>president david chiu: roll cal. cl eric clerk supervisors yee, avalos, aye, breed aye, supervisor campos, aye, supervisor chiu, aye, cohen aye, ferrell aye, kim aye, mar aye, tang aye, wiener aye. there are 11 ayes. >>president david chiu: those ordinances finally passed. next item. city clerk: item 4. item 4: avalos4.140918[appropriation - legal services for unaccompanied children and families -mayor's office of housing - $2,127,600 - fys 2014-2015 and 2015-2016]sponsors: campos; avalos and yeeordinance appropriating $2,127,600 from the general fund reserve to the mayor's office of housing, $1,063,800 in fy2014-2015 and $1,063,800 in fy2015-2016, for legal services for unaccompanied children and families on the san francisco immigration court's expedited removal docket. sf 41234 >>president david chiu: supervisors campos? >>supervisor david campos: can we come back to this item. >> >>president david chiu: let's go to item 5. city clerk: item 5: 5.140754[sublease and property management agreement - john stewart comp

thank you president chiu. >> i did have one question i know that a number of colleagues raised around the collection of taxes. i think everyone in the room agrees at the moment there's significant economic activity that's occurring on home sharing platforms platforms and yet the city is not seeing a progression at amount of taxes i'm sure you're aware of this is important to me, in fact, i refuted to introduce legislation until air b and b made a public commitment you public library committed you'll facilitate the collection and remittance of taxes percent a requirement for the online platforms and your platform still has not yet move forward with the technology to facilitate that if i could ask you for an update on what air b and b will help the city to collect taxes. >> we announced by this summer we'll have a procedure in collecting taxes. and where the preliminary obligation exists to collect hotel taxes whether on our platform we've been working diligently along with the city attorney and thank you to the city attorney's office this is a complicated go issue and it raise novel is

>> item five, commissioner chiu? >> aye. >> chiu, aye. >> cohen? aye. >> commissioner farrell? >> aye. >> commissioner tang? >> aye. >> tang, aye. >> commissioner weiner? >> aye. >> the item passes what is the next item on the agenda. >> adopt motion of a support for a contract in the parsons brinckerhoffinc. in an amount not to exceed $250,000, for system engineering services for the treasure island mobility management program and for authorizing the executive director to negotiate contract payment terms and non-material contract terms and conditions. this is an action item. >> welcome, good to see you. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen and commissioners of the finance committee and chair cohen, i am the principle engineer of the transportation authority and i am here to request your support for item number 6 and as you are aware on april 1, 2014, the transportation authority was designated the treasure island mowbility management agency, to implement the transportation program to support the upcoming development project on the yerba buena and treasure island including 8,0

>>president david chiu: colleagues, do we need a roll call vote? can we do this same call same vote? this item passes on the first reading. [ applause [ cheers and applause ] >>president david chiu: with that, at this time why don't we go to general public comment. madam clerk? city clerk: sf public comment. public comment:at this time, members of the public may address the board on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the board will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting with one exception. when the agenda item has already been reviewed in a public hearing at which members of the public were allowed to testify and the board has closed the public hearing, your opportunity to address the board must be exercised during the public comment portion of the calendar. each member of the public may address the board for up to 3 minutes. if it is demonstrated that comments by the public will exceed 15 minutes, th

. >> thank you supervisor campos president chiu. >> thank you mr. clerk colleagues today, i'm excited to introduce our ordinance for predictable schedule for formula retail employees with which is the bill of rights introduced by supervisor mar the ordinance we're introducing is the first in the country to deal with the unbe predictabilityable schedule and unfair practices that effect our low income wage workers i proposed the family ordinance and thanks to you san francisco became the first to establish caregivers to request flexible work schedules and president obama expended the right to over 2 million workers and part of the rights we included provisions for predictable schedules but the topic was i suggested a separate label for employers to address this topic 0 for much of this year we've through the discussions learned and unpredictable schedules and last minute on call practices creates work family challenges and undermines workers well-being we've heard about the best practices how to manage the schedules as well as the fact that the larges

thank you president chiu >> thank you president chiu i don't have my disagreements i was happy to support the legislation basically to strengthen our regulations around transparency i will say i want to stop the flow in particular with recommendation or finding number 2 and recommendation number 2 i wanted to point out that, you know, as a campaign we're subject to regular auditing so i felt strongly about that there are existing procures in place that subject candidates that take a look at some of the instances talking about u talked about but i look forward to working with the board if we should come up with future legislation or further resources or sunshine task force to be able to properly sure we do everything with transparent. >> thank you commissioner chan. >> president chiu. >> i think the final comment i know with the civil grand jury thought about the suction that in some salesman's we may partially agree or disagreeable or not implement them in many instances it's a function of the fact either something was directed to a body outside the board or i don't think this is necessar

another roll call vote. >> supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos absent supervisor chiu supervisor cohen supervisor farrell absent supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee that item passes. >> okay. let's go to the next item. >> 11 prop k strategic plan this is an action item. >> no comments from the transportation authority on to. public comment is seeing none, seeing none, public comment is closed another roll call vote >> supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos absent supervisor chiu supervisor cohen supervisor farrell absent supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee that item passes. >> violated item 12. >> item 11 introduction of new items an informational items. >> colleagues any new items seeing none, any public comment on that item? seeing none, public comment is closed actually, i closed public comment. >> no problem. >> our next item is general public comment. >> item 13 general public comment. >> general public comment is open for matters for the transportation authority. >

supervisor david chiu >> thank you mr. mayor just a couple of words first of all, those of us who were here when i came into office we had half a billions of we were debating whether to close down first stations and trying to figure out where to cut hubt i publicity and services i want to thank dan roman field in 149 we passed two year bushlt. >> hydrahave a healthy budget due to our budget wizards i want to congratulate us was likely the easily budget to move forward because our economy is healthier but we're working together to fourth our top priorities and what we're going to invest in i want this thank obviously there's a tremendous amount of work that happens at the board of supervisors i want to thank the staff and the budget committee their hard work led lbe their fear also leaders supervisor farrell and he can go home earlier to spend time with his kids in the evening supervisor farrell. >> (clapping) >> thank you president chiu and mayor ed lee it's maiming two years in a row we've passed this out of the committee

. >> president chiu. >> thank you, chairman breed and colleagues on this issue we're and i'll mention to the public we're required for various finding to agree or disagree it wholly or partiallyly i suggest that we patricia disagree in my mind i partially agtitates semi narcotics i agree with our suggestion we parkinson's disagree let me say a couple of thing i absolutely appreciate the frustration mr. taylor because of the decisions made by the port let me use the most significant example in recent years business owner around the washington eight project they know my prospective on the project the hope and desire when we were going through the process when we were going to be able to figure out how that project could meet the community needs as ended up obeying being proposed as the lead champion on the board of supervisors i had a significant disagreement with the port that being said there's a process for how port commissioners are selected it goes through the board i am the one person here at least on this committee for example, choose to vote against a port commissioner property

. >> supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos absent supervisor chiu supervisor cohen supervisor farrell absent supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee that item passes. >> great. next item. >> item 6 authorize the executive director to execute all master agreement and fund transfer agreement and corporation and any things before the transportation authority including a pales in comparison planning grant to support the freeway initiative study and the yerba buena improvement this is an action item. >> seeing no comment from the board we'll open this up for public comment. >> actually, i may know in san francisco there is a place out on corner street with the agency i go there ever morning all the time on that commercial lane a little further up a thank you pay cultural center it's a nice place for me and other commissioners to attend san francisco mission parkway for the chinese people you know to take courses like a gentlemen room a nice place and that placed closing monday but on tuesday and wednesday and thursday and friday open from 9 to

comment is closed. >> tome 6 supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos absent supervisor chiu supervisor cohen supervisor farrell absent supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee that item passes. >> great next item. >> item 7 award a 12 month contract for the treasure island mobility management program and authorize the executive director negotiate the director terms an action item. >> very good seeing no comments from the board going on gone to public comment. >> i'm sure you're aware of in san francisco chinatown there are two chinese bunch of roadside i go every day monday and tuesday and wednesday, i go to both stockton and wells fargo is bargaining of course i know the best banker i'm sure you're aware of the union bargaining, however, the chinatown's for me is a good place to go to meet the - i mean in chinatown the only square area we have such quality of professional and work area it is like for me, i have a bank at wells fargo we go to other stair bucks and in that chinatown the wells fargo is forever the virtue norman yee is a go

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

>>president david chiu: colleagues, any additional comments? i want to echo supervisor ferrell and just note that yesterday marked the first important deadline of our mandatory retrofit program for individuals to step up and conduct a screening process and we saw a 90 percent compliance rate which was an incredibly high compliance rate for this first step. i want to congratulations mr. leaney and look forward to further work in this area. with that, colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? without objection this ordinance is pass side on the first reading. why don't we skip over our 230 :30 special order and go to item 10. city clerk: item 10: 2014.10.140939[board response - civil grand jury - the port of san francisco, caughtbetween public trust and private dollars]resolution responding to the presiding judge of the superior court on the findings and recommendations contained in the 2013-2014 civil grand jury report, entitled "the port of san francisco, caught between public trust and private dollars;" and urging the mayor to ca

for bringing this to us. >> thank you very much president chiu. >> one thing i'll suggest colleagues you've raised a number of issues we have the director of planning i can you and your staff have pit in a lot of work and i understand that there are representatives from air b and b i've heard from colleagues a they might very specific questions around insurance and taxation why that hadn't been collected i tlbls a representative from air b and b and other platforms but irrational questions we may do that or up to the committee for public comment. >> i'll suggest we hear from planning and if air b and b and other planners i'd like to hear from them. >> director ram. >> thank you, john ram from the planning department just to you know scott sanchez the zoning administrator and over the enforcement and christen the manager of the code enforcement program and audrey has done a lot of research in what other cities have done i want to thank president chiu and for working closely with the department and commission is this is a complicated issue sequoa i think there's basic agreement the pla

by supervisor kim. >> at the tights my understanding this is also being co-sponsored by president chiu. >> supervisor david chiu as well as its my privilege and my honor to be recognizing the couple that's standing here today first lieutenant dennis and his partnering jeff jonathan on their marriage in city hall that takes place after they he get the accomodation outside of chambers they've met almost 8 years through the catholic church and jonathan sank in the choir their faith is a bond and their friendship is something we're going to accommodate at city hall those men have served our country in valuable ways jonathan as a teacher of religion to aspire his students how the church can be an instrument to bring love and acceptance and support to all members is a try mission listened church and christianity aid an ordained minister he served in the army thank you for your years of service fighting for our community and provided mental health and to the men and women in the gnat zone dealing with post traumatic stress serving in our gnat area he supports homeless veterans in the veterans

. >> hi, i'm skate thanks for having me back i'm encouraged that supervisor david chiu is looking at regulating home sharing in the city and airbnb is paying the tax legal missing home sharing in san francisco we're close to approving the legislation it's important to look at the restrictions i'm discouraged its been decides two difficult to tell if someone lives in their home that's across the board time limit on hurrying i'm discouraged the time limit is still be considered i'm determined the city continues to shut down hosts like me awhile greedy landlord continue to ellis act in what should be affordable apartment building and homeowners are not the reason for that high hotel rates in unindirectly areas we not responsible for buildings that are ellis act and not converting affordable housing shock into short-term rentals please don't paint us with the same brush as bad folks help us to stay in the city without a cap on the 90 days it's good for holand security and good for our neighborhoods and good for our city thank you very much for listening. >> thank you very much. next spea

so president chiu would you like to make any introductory remarks >> thank you, colleagues foyer your consideration again of our proposal i want to take another moment and thank everyone every evyone a it's in been involved in the last couple of years and particularly the last couple of months from tenant and landlords the hotel community and neighborhood advocates, the human resources community and the department of building inspection and the city attorney all of the commissioners of various department as well my aid amy chang let me start with a couple of preliminary comments everyone in this room in this chamber agrees that the status quo is not working when it comes to short-term rentals in san francisco we need a regulatory and framework how to move forward with considering the activity around short-term rentals in san francisco that doesn't exist today as i've said before the flying value to address the activity in the context of our city's affordability crisis how do we afford to live in the city this legislation addresses that it would for bid the activity for those individua

supervisor chiu. supervisor cowen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. there are 11 i's. those ordinances are passed on that first reading. madam clerk could you please read the memoriams >> just mr. president, today's meeting will be adjourned on behalf of the supervisor wiener for the late ms. nancy and mr. bryan higgins on behalf of supervisor yee so far nancy and on behalf of supervisor chiu and supervisor kim for the late zach watson and on behalf of the president chiu mar and on behalf of the the young ms. greg. >> i want to thank sfgovtv and charles for your services today in bringing this broadcast into the homes of san franciscans and with that, madam clerk, any other business before this committee? >> there's no further business. ladies and gentlemen, we're adjourned. for tuesday, august 26, 2014, is now called to order. roll call please. thank you mr. haney. complauf u ms. maufas. dr. murase. ms. norton. ms. wynns. president fewer. ms. jones mr. caan. thank you >> please join me in the pledge of allegiance. and to the republic for which it sta

. >> good afternoon president chiu i'm chaerl with the operators union i'm here to encourage the city and tjpa to continue discussions to enter maturing believable and the tax prelims in the district that's essential in the transbay that's phase one and to start phase two which will take caltrain fourth and king underground to the transbay term and ultimately high speed rail if the high speed rail box will be powdered in the next most they've gathered funds in charge their project the melrose is part of the funding plan it is a great opportunity for the board to continue it's commitment to an infrastructure project that will take the cars off the streets and the passenger load off airplanes that's from the lease efficient mode of transport. the cost the project is a going up daily as the need. the costs are associated with any delay and the question of jobs the operating engineers there are 44 members as of this morning arrest pits 2 hundred and 44 workers that are in danger oflogies housing. the engineers recognize the private investment in the district and the infrastructure project

. >> thank you chair wiener sequoa i want to thank you supervisor david chiu for this complex issue when i first heard of air b and b i couldn't fathom the regulations of the new legislation it was first kind of a great way to visit other cities and who wants to make additional revenue in the city that is expensive i'm dissolving into the multiple layers i definitely support recollecting this activity it is something that has been happening to a great step up to the plate in san francisco and will certainly continue on we should grapple it as a city and make sure it's something that works for our neighborhoods and landowners as well sequoa kind of reviewing the planning commission and hearing from the multiple stakeholders i've identified 12 to 13 issuance that i think have questions on or have not come to a position on the way i feel sequoa i'll say one i'm disappointed it the short term vacation rental sites have not collected tax this is not something that needs to be implemented before the legislation today they don't need to wait for the board of supervisors to pass the legislation

hearing that martha be continued after the next hearing i wanted to make sure and heard president chiu was hearing if i heard correctly to be honest i'm cancerous to here dbi's take particularly on the code so i share in supervisor kim's desire to know this information for october 2nd did the director come to the meeting. >> i asked the director. >> today. >> no, he didn't come. >> when you spoke one half an hour or so ago. >> i called him on the phenomenon i also knew that this hearing on october 2nd there are suggestion we continue this item until after that date but that joint hearing is not going to resolve those issues we get dbi staff with the planning staff and talk about the issues. so the idea to bring the staff here to the board rather than having us at the forum so we can directly ask staff on the issues that he knows there are questions on. >> so mr. huey was not here today but will be here technique auto correct. >> and i'm looking to supervisor kim if we can get our questions and answers satisfied and if i'm not mistaken the october 2nd is not an action but an information

president chiu. supervisor cowen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. there are 11 eyes. the resolution is adopted now let's go to item 22 mr. clerk you called this >> you called it. with that, i i would like to entertain a motion to go into closed session first a motion is there any public comment? whether we should go into closed session >> oh, the imperative items. okay. let's >> mr. president, i'm on the roster. supervisor kim >> i want to make a motion to resend the vote. >> okay. let's make a motion first to resend - supervisor kim which items did you miss. >> i believe the on item 23 through 29 except for 27. >> let's resends and revote supervisor kim has made a motion to resend we'll take that without objection. on items 23 through 29 a roll call vote vote. >> with 27 as amended. >> supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. president chiu. supervisor cowen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. there are 11 eyes. those resolutions are adopted two imp

. >> president chiu is the author of item 2. >> thank you, mr. chair i want to thank all the members of the public who came here to testify both for the seconvey tree and the non astrological topic of home sharing sequoa i want to thank everyone from tenants to landlords and owners representatives of the hotel and tourism community both on the management and the labor side any public comment? neighborhood advocates and the super bowls and thank the members of the staff including the doesn't have and our commissioners the department of building inspection and colleagues you've taken meeting to tangle this topic and particularly my aid erica chang who is breathed this for the past two years sequoa i want to talk about where we are today this is a complex issue we need to get the policy details as right as we can sequoa and this is why my office spent over two years to research and refine and work and hear from an incredible variety of stakeholders sequoa unlike a ballot initiative it allows to incorporate the comments from the public and i will tal