chiu? >> chiu chiu >>president david chiu: i have circulated memos related to this and in addition to that i have circulated the language around the city administrator convening a working group and architecture that would report findings to the mayor by -- september 1st. and a clerk report read to ensure the requirements for the clerk are clear. what i would like to do is to make those amendments and to pass this out with recommendation out to the full board for tomorrow as a committee report. i do want to acknowledge the tremendous amount of work and there are a number of appeals process to the panel and i'm more than happy in the next 24 hours before the resolution to get to the board for tomorrow and i know cmd will be promulgating rules and regulations and if there is any clean up required, we can get to that. we would like to get this moved and if there are any issues to get revolved resolved over the next 24 hours. >> okay, the amendment has been moved and if there is any question we'll pass this without objection. without objection this item is moved to the full board for tuesday as

chiu supervisor mark farrell supervisor kim supervisor kim? there are 10 i's motion is approved as amended twice and final item and item 5 is to commend and honor david chiu for his distinguished appointment >> supervisor kim. >> i hope you'll allow me to assist you today, it's well, for me a sad day to see you go i've enjoyed seeing you for the past 3 terms and want i wanted to go over a couple of long list of accomplishments david chiu became our board want and leader of our member body and since then our long time serving want and the first asian-american president of the board of supervisors that is an incredible how are you honor and, of course, you prior to being elected to be supervisor doufd had a huge background working as a congressional staffer and criminal prosecutor and co-off and on a business if emphasis spare time and other community activities supervisor chiu is one of the harder working people he's passed over one hundred ordinances and 2 hundred and 40 resolution or so during his times on the board i know that i'm only able to talk to you is past 9:30 at night he's passed resolutions clirg affordable housing and job creation and workforce development and civically and language assess and the health care and transportation and family and citizens and small businesses just to name a few also he had offered many first in the country laws including as we've passed today along with supervisor mar's phasi

chiu supervisor mark farrell supervisor kim supervisor kim? there are 10 i's motion is approved as amended twice and final item and item 5 is to commend and honor david chiu for his distinguished appointment >> supervisor kim. >> i hope you'll allow me to assist you today, it's well, for me a sad day to see you go i've enjoyed seeing you for the past 3

chiu, president chiu, as you know he is going to be stepping away from his job, as a board of supervisor member, and he has given the ordinance over to london breed, supervisor breed will be taking over the responsibility and mar will be the co-sponsor and so we will be meeting with breed's staff and her as well to bring them up to speed on this, so i am very excited about where it is going to go. and i think that it could get, it will get interesting. we are certainly being looked at, very carefully, by the pharmaceutical industry and there is concerns, obviously, things happen here, and they don't stay here. and we, of course, are following the lead of alameda county and king county up in washington state. and so this is a very exciting time for us. and we have learned a lot from our pilot, and we feel that we are on very strong ground in terms of understanding how pharmaceutical selection occurs and what the costs are and the challenges are for the industry as they implement this and another exciting milestone, for us, is residential pace. and so pace, is the financing mechanism to allow, in this case, home owners and residents, to take advantage of their property tax assessment, as a way to pay for energy and in an earthquake, and water upgrades. we have this in the commercial sector but we have not been able to implement it on the residential sector and we have worked on it now for several years and we have reached a very important point in time where the mayor is introduced a resolution, that would authorize the city to join with some existing providers, and we once we work through those, milestones, or those hurtles we expect that in december, it will be taken up by the board of supervisor budget committee once it is adopted by the board of supervisors we can go and start to have the contracts put together with the financing entities and offer this to the residents of san francisco. so it is a very important piece if we are going to promoting the responsibility that we all have to retrofit our homes, to whether it be for energy or water, or to retrofit in terms of earthquake safety and we need to help the people finance the changes and this is one mechanism that the people can take advantage of as far as any reimbursements and incentives and i just want to note that commissioner wan and i were in a very wonderful meeting and i, myself had a pretty impactful tour yesterday, where i saw the sro's of china town and some of of them, and i had never been inside of an sro i didn't understand that you can put your arms out and touch each side of the room, and that is where not only one person may live, but an entire family may live, so that was very impactful to me and we got a grant, the department of the environment and the planning department, together, got a grant with ccdc, to work on greening china town, and doing that, in a very thoughtful way, that engage the community, and with a particular focus on the pings, and that the housing, and the public housing, that was part of the housing authority, is going to be going over, and to ccdc for their management and so this is a pretty phenomenal opportunity for the department to work closely with those organizations in china town, and see how they can bring the best in place and sort of the best practices to public housing so that they can have the green and livable space and we just kicked it off and i was pleased that commissioner wan could be there and it was a phenomenal group of people around the table and i am excited to see how this progresses and i will be coming back to the commission and give you updates on that and i just wanted you to know what was going on and we have selected a contractor, to help with our reevaluation and reorganization of our energy and green building programs. and those are 40 percent of our budget and they need special attention and we finished the scope of work and we selected the contract and her finished the scope of work and now it is going through the process of getting auf all of the signatures but we are excited about moving forward. and we are in some final negotiations with the energy efficiency work and the good news is that we are going to have the full funding for 2015, with a public goods charge as well as with these strategic energy resources, the ser funding which gives us more flexibility to be creative in our energy efficiency world. and so, i am going to be and i am very hopeful that 2015, is going to be aa very strong year in terms of energy efficiency. i also wanted to call your attention to a wonderful movie that features robert hailly and raising to zero and i would have a way for the commission, screening, thank you. the word just... of that movie, it was wonderful to see, our programs, our mayor, our zero waste ethic put in a story mode and the story line followed robert from start to finish and so it was a great owed to robert himself and i highly suggest watching it if you can find it on you tube or we can find racing to zero and the last piece of news that i wanted to share with you and something that warmed my heart tremendously, where press matters and i think that is something that we know and the last commission meeting i talked about an event that we did where we celebrated five janitor companies that had decided to go green and that meant that not only were the products that they were using green, and benefiting the occupants of the buildings but also, tremendously benefiting the people who were using them eight hours a day, five or six days a week. and well, after, that aired, on public radio, and on local tv. we got five different companies calling us and saying, well, why wasn't i mentioned i am a green company and we said, well you may be green but you are not certificated green by us so the amount of square footage that we will green tripled by these new entities coming in. and it is exciting and they have not finished yet and they are anxious to be certificated and it is just an example that when we do a better job of getting out there and so the people know what we do and it snow balls and we can get an acceleration of the up take of the programs that we offer and i thought that it was a great piece of news and so that is it tonight. >> thank you, any questions or comments? >> commissioner wald? >> i have three comments. the first i would want to say, i really like the new format of this. and it is much easier for me to read, and understand, so i appreciate that. and second, i was excited to hear about the new work in china town and i wanted to suggest possibly that the next or a future meeting of the commission that we have in the field, and broaden the input that we are going to get at the time of her review, and i think that starting that practice >> thank you for all of those. >> any other questions for the director? >> thank you for that report and i appreciate getting it in advance of the meeting because i am a slow reader and there is so much to die ject, and that was especially interested to notice in the staff changes, tina is leaving the environment now to pursue a career with the investigative conducting group and that sounds fabulous. it blows my mind, especially when i hear the stories of environment now, staff who come to us never having a job, in the case of tina she has two young children and in a prison and in a halfway house, she was told that she either needed to volunteer or get a job, she wanted to get a job. less than two years with us, she was hired, and she will be making upwards of 50,000 a year and i hope that she does not mind me saying that on the record. it is about the colleague that she had in the department who were with her every step of the way and to see the pride in her face, when she talked about her telling her children, what she was doing and the kind of mom she got to be now. it is something that does not happen that often. and i give tremendous credit to the staff of the environment now to kara and donny and the people that work underneath them that are so dedicated to making sure that everyone who comes in their door leaves that that kind of potential. >> are there any members of the public who wish to comment on the director's report? >> this is about raising to zero the movie, we have a screening on november third, at our department from 9:30 to 10:30, so you guys are all welcome. >> in the morning. >> please come. november third, wednesday. >> thank you so much, for that. i appreciate it. very much. >> december third, at 9:30, great. seeing no further public comment, let's call the next item please. >> announcements information and discussion. >> any announcements? >> i would have just one. and i think that everybody knows that for quite some time now we have had a vacancy on the commission due to the leaving of nicholas who left the campaign for the bart board and successful in achieve thating seat, we are about to have another vacancy soon because i will be leaving as of the end of this month and i am urging everyone to search far and wide, for some environmentalists whose names we can submit to the mayor for consideration to fill those vacancies. it is really difficult to function as well as we would like when we don't have a full commission. so that was just my request that please, do get names to people. so that we can get them to the mayor. >> commissioner wald? >> i was so, i know that i am going to get another chance to say this, but i just have to say what a loss your leaving retiring, will be ruth, even if we get a grateful commission shortly after. you are the best environmentalist on this commission. your knowledge of the san francisco environment and the issues that are effect it as well as the broad sweep of relationships that you have built with the activists and the individuals and the environmental organizations and the people in the city departments, and including but not limited to the department of the environment, have been an enormous to the commission, and then have enhanced the work of the department as well as the commission. and we are going to be poorer for your leaving, and i hope you know how much we all have appreciated and benefited from your service on this commission. >> thank you, so much. for that. >> i really appreciate it. very, very much. and you all will be very much missed, in the capacity in which i currently know you but i am probably not going very far and may return to be kind of a pain. >> you better. >> thanks. >> any more announcements or any comments on the announcements? >> public comment? >> yes. >> shrada. >> so almost 15 years ago, i sat in monica's seat of the commission secretary and there was a member of the public who came to most of the commission meetings if not all, and that was ruth gravanis and she came to the department with a lot of wonderful ideas, talked about sustainability bio diversity and i am sad to hear that you are leaving the commission. thank you for all of your dedication to the department and to san francisco. >> thank you, so much for that. >> you are one of the people that i am really going to miss. >> any more public comment? >> there being none, next item. >> operation's committee chair's report, highlights of the november 12, 2014 meeting, this is an information and discussion item would a member like to report on the previous meeting >> sure. the operation's committee meeting, and we covered three main topics and it was a good meeting one of my favorite meetings ever. we had an update on the budget, which is heartening, because after more than a year of budget update wheres we had a shortfall, we were caught up and everything was good. so i felt good about that. and we still did discuss the fact that there is some concern over the fact that we were still heavily grant funded and we don't have then the benefits because the grants actually articulate the money has to only go into the actual hours, worked and against whatever the project and program is, and it can't cover things like vacation and healthcare and so we have another discussion around whether or not it was time to go back and ask for the general fund dollars to cover that and we talked about at the prior meeting we suggested that there could be some conversations or working group put together with the other departments that saw the same problems and in fact there are not that many other departments that have the level of problem that we see at the department of the environment. and so, we are thinking that maybe the general fund money the right way to go. and then we had a fantastic presentation on the urban agriculture which made me happy. and we got to speak with the person from parks and recr, who is covering the program and we had a lot of discussion around whether or not parks and rec should own the program or if it should be ours. >> but we learned and we learned fantastic things about the community gardens and the city owned property you know, that the people are creating, and they are growing food and some of that is going for feed the people who don't have other access to food in the city and it is heartening and fantastic presentation and then finally, we discussed the community meeting that we had and we learned as to whether or not the staff could accommodate that level of work, whether it was too much work to put the community meetings together and talked about what worked but didn't, and donny said that they had learned a lot from the first two that we had down about nine months apparent and that he felt that while there was a learning curve that made the work and the task for the department had to under taig take harder to know that they had it under their belt a little bit and we could show case what the department is doing would be a good way to go forward, a good meeting >> great. thank you. >> any meants or questions about the operation's committee report? >> any public comment on the operation's committee report. next item please. >> policy committee report. chair report highlights of the october 8, november 12 meetings and information and discussion. >> commissioner wald? >> thank you. on october 8, the two main topics that we addressed were review and approval of the resolution in support of the municipal transportation agency and the muni forward program that kept program that we have a great presentation and a great discussion and provided a very timely resolution, which the muni staff assured us that they absolutely needed and then we also, are very interesting update on the san francisco green business program, from anna wright. and... thank you. >> and then on monday, november 10th, we had a excellent presentation and discussion on the proposed safe medicine disposal stewardship ordinance which debbie referred to as the safe medicine ordinance and i think that i will go forward with chris, giger and a representative from supervisor chiu's office and it a terrific discussion and we also, no, that was a major thing, that we did at that meeting and i have to tell you all that we have canceled our december 8th, 2014 meeting due to the fact that as of the end of this month, november 30th, that will be one member of the policy committee and that is me, hopefully we will have a plan and maybe even two members for the january meeting and we have what looked to be a very exciting agenda if we in fact have enough people. >> so thank you. >> thanks. >> any comments, or questions? >> members of the public? comments on the policy committee report. >> next item please? >> commission secretary's written report, the and you also have in your packet a copy of the commission's correspondence log and listed on

exciting and one is the safe medicine, disposal ordinance that was introduced by supervisor, chiu, president chiu, as you know he is going to be stepping away from his job, as a board of supervisor member, and he has given the ordinance over to london breed, supervisor breed will be taking over the responsibility and mar will be the co-sponsor and so we will be meeting with breed's staff and her as well to bring them up to speed on this, so i am very excited about where it is going to go. and i think that it could get, it will get interesting. we are certainly being looked at, very carefully, by the pharmaceutical industry and there is concerns, obviously, things happen here, and they don't stay here. and we, of course, are following the lead of alameda county and king county up in washington state. and so this is a very exciting time for us. and we have learned a lot from our pilot, and we feel that we are on very strong ground in terms of understanding how pharmaceutical selection occurs and what the costs are and the challenges are for the industry as they implement this and another exciting m

chiu is now assemblyman chiu and this is one of the pieces of legislation that he had planned to move forward. it was my understanding that the last line of the legislation was put into the legislation as somewhat of a mistake and this was legislation to correct that mistake. unfortunately i was not prepared for a lot of the backlash that would come with bringing this legislation forward in order to help assemblyman chiu complete his agenda on the board of supervisors so i had agreed to table it because it wasn't a issue that i was actively engaged in and i didn't feel comfortable fighting for legislation that i was not instrumental in preparing and proposing. and so at this time, and hearing some of the feedback from some of the members here, i'm happy instead of to table it, continue this to the call of the chair in order to develop a more detailed understand and do more outreach to some of those individuals who have concerns about removing that line in the first place and make sure that i understand their concerns and understand the intent, not only of the folks of assemblyman chiu, but i understand some of the folks that were instrumental in developing this legislation, i want to make sure they're comfortable with this legislation, and it's my understanding that some are not and that's what the problem is. i mean, the fact of the matter is i didn't think that it would be as time consuming and con

chiu observe reasons i'll submit. >> thank you president chiu seeing no other another name on the rafrt. >> general public comment. >> this is the opportunity for the public to address the board park and rec your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded translation folks will be allowed twice the times and if you want the document on the screen return it to yourself after the meeting. >> go to palm 22 you you know many kirsten's are told when they go out and witness this is circular reasoning that's not reasoning to the ma say most injuring are not jewish and those process seize are the same in the old testament their bible was the old testament in the gates upon their mouts this took place in matthew 27 and they crews inside him and part of the garments cast were spoken by the proof tests and they parted my remnant and they watched him there it says in palm 22 they looked and stair upon him they watched him and set up over his heading head this is jesus the king of the justin you destroy the temple and build it in 3 days liquor store the chief privity and scribes this was 0 their job they said he saved others himself we can't save if he be the king of usized he trusted in god las vegas let him delivery him, i said i am the son of god. >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you mr. president the victims of the ca balance i live 14 meters and 10 blocks from supervisor campos was asbestos and also in the election had been filed to - but any adult can tell you what went on they say count the votes one faction had a 6 to 4 vague this week it's 6 to 5 supervisor campos absences no president next year there won't be a periphery snow majority or want all demoralizing the crewman of lack of information what exactly was madam clerk comments on want and the constitutional novels one side overrated a humors and the other the today is franchise time and the voters you all treated this like a zoning variance hadn't anyone heard of skype how about the secret passwords it would have been over at 6 to 5 recognized verified telephone presence as the presence madam clerk would only need too see the smiling face or video to count the roll this this is the 21st century please catch up. >> next speaker >> president chiu the clerk is kind enough to make copies i believe this is in our box that is relevant i'll talk about the hate crimes against me city attorney this letter is my i'll notify you thought city and county of san francisco 2015 such claim is false medical records in my name that were held in those record is is is diagnoses with me being psych and the verbal content for undisclosed treatment it was a means to benefit any landlord at this point whereby some reported he uses to file a detainer summons and sold did house on april 14, 2014, a letter was sent to the department of public health providing accident director with investigation about those records as i've not discovered those records until march 22 not given any choices i choice or information about the treatment and contrary to - lastly this is in the packet those records were created and there's a secular group that is stalking me and its a hate crime and by the

chiu said at a recent meeting no, i shouldn't - supervisor chiu said he was initially opposed to the idea of home sharing until he heard how it helps people stay in the homes in our city city of meant a lot to me to be a participant to speak on protective that changes that will have a tremendously positive and life changing folk for home sharers across the city we thank commissioner hur for peterson thank you to supervisor breed supervisor cohen supervisor tang and especially supervisor wiener who chaired the land use committee thank you, mayor ed lee and thank you all (clapping). >> again there are so many people to thank but we have a person that representatives thousands of people in san francisco nancy (clapping.) good morning mayor ed lee and supervisor chiu and keep in mind guests i'm honored to tell my story on potrero hill as we sign the mayor select short-term rental activities in san francisco seeing our democratic process in action and participating in that process had not been an sxrirgs i want to thank our board of supervisors for their thoughtful deliberations on this complex legislation their attendance to all our e-mails and hundreds of stories how sharing our homes helps to benefit our lives and neighborhoods and city i thank in particular president chiu for his navigation of our city politics supervisor wiener for his skillful advocates and supervisor malia cohen for her votes and passionate remarks at the last board meeting and thank you to amy chang i must also acknowledge pier 27 for his sponsoring i arrived in san francisco 42 years ago and have would on potrero hill ever since bought a two unit building in 1975 i couldn't afford to buy today, i rent the second floor and contribute to the human resources historically char

chiu as supervisor tang has learned quickly it's not an easy role but david chiu has navigated diffused i'm going to miss you it's not going to be the same place without you but the same skills and tan tenacity that has severed you well is to all our benefit as you represent us in the state assembly and do us all proud. >> supervisor wiener supervisor farrell thank you, david this is a surreal day for many of us who come in when you are that the president of the board we've known nothing but you and i have been on many sides of the issues and campaigns but there are a few things coming to the board meeting today reminded me of the last four years with you first of all, as we shared a border your impressive pace of the calendar but i would go to one or two but the 5th of yours it boggled my mind but it's been a hallmark that's served you well and just know how impressive that is and people around town the schedule you keep up and appear everything politically and per diem it's admirable i'll remember you've had a snack for the theatre phone boxes up open our podium during legislative times but you've done it very, very well and one time i'll remember in a community meeting during the board you were late and it come out you got concocted on your heels biking on pomp street with a massive wound on our chin but a imply who limited into a community meeting i'll never forget that moment and ultimately though i'll remember about you with your work on the board it's flut for people on other side you've done one of the best jobs trying to find common ground at the board and been effective and again you know a lot of 6 to 5 votes and thiazine but i think it's a hallmark of a person that's a good legislator you've done our job well and your staff you know, i will say this i think coming in 4 years ago you set a benchmark and amy and the whole team but we'll never forth that the late nights being in the hallways you've done an amazing job and people noted that but david chiu congratulations best of luck up in sacramento and still in good hands so congratulations. >> thank you supervisor farrell supervisor mar i'm not going to call you president only defied when you step into the shoes of tom had for years that will now be assemblyman chiu whew what were elected president it was a proud moment in the chinese community you severed us co-sponsor rallying us at times with dignity and real effort as supervisor farrell mentioned to bring us together at times it seemed like we couldn't be brought together i won't pious that money will mistake me for you (laughter). >> and call me david and i don't think there's anyone else that might be mistaken for me but the shoes will be big to fill you'll do that with dignity and effectiveness we were talking about how many years but scott's known you longer than and it's been about 18 years i think your work in sifrz is impressive in sacramento you'll continue the sacramento workers bill of rights and the predictability sch

chiu's office or working to show there's a relatively small number of employees that is impacted and along with president chiu harding this back in to 20 is a critical part especially for those types of small franchises that are being sensitive to our legislation. >> actually, i, second the first amendment i really don't understand the rational for going back up to the threshold of 20 anyhow mecca that work we want to be able to establish retention policies and predictable scheduling in small businesses through this legislation. >> formula retail i don't see the size of the business it should matter when overriding policy is to build retention policies for scheduling why shouldn't he apply to those businesses because their smaller seems like the workers will have the same need of predictability if we're creating a position where the scheduling is enhancing the employment capacity of the store or the franchise it is a policy we want to create we want to create better jobs we're doing that it is two-fold i'm not clear why we want to weaken the legislation. >> if i could through the chair respond. >> i'll just say i won't speak for president chiu but a difference of employees with h and m or jay crew that can transfer employees across different stores from downtown to the san francisco westerfield center but when it's a franchise like a mcdonald or k f c that hazard employees for that franchise it's a different story they can't have the employees coming from the other franchise it's a small number and makes sense given the smaller picture of moving forward with the legislation that flexibility for those types of franchises. >> okay supervisor you have two motions and the third around the six months effective date i'm in agreement from a number of speakers from the public six months effective date but not on the six months ramp up that's a discussion based on decide from the office of economic workforce development and on that was the original lead in the legislation to me it makes sense to extend that to six months but not nor the ramp up to eliminate the six months ramp up period. >> so to be clear six months ramp up now a 9

chiu said can be worked on in the future amendments to this ordinance. we would that -- thank you for this ordinance. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, am -- alex chiu. i would like to thank you for this legislation. we realize it's a complicated legislation and we do look forward to working further with how to improve the legislation. i just want to point out a couple of things. we represent the minority organizations and even though they struggling with the economy, we feel it's important. a lot of members of our organizations, a number of firms are micro lbe's and we have a strong interest in making it an opportunity to compete on an equal basis with other firms. i just have a couple of other things. this legislation meets a number of our concerns but as mentioned there is a lot of areas to be worked on. in one area supervisor chiu was the area of anti-retaliation and as firms happen to be retaliated against and what we thought was a more stringent mechanism for enforcing anti-retaliation. we have proposed provided stronger remedies, also provide for a proper right of action and also the legislation refers to a section refers to the campaign government code for it's provisions and we are not sure how that field applies in a lot of provisions in this applies to the employees in the city. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, next speaker, please? >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is darren davis and i have a business in san francisco and lbe and sit on the advisory committee and also a member of cee and i'm glad to be here. thank you very much for bringing this legislation forward. there are a lot of great things in it and i have to say that you have come a long way in a short period of time and a lot of issues have been covered. however there are a couple of

swearing-in of david chiu, our legislator and the first item he put on his sponsorship is $400 million for the repairing of the sfo residence for seniors. i hope we can support david chiu's legislation. $400 million for repair to the sro throughout the state to have a better facility. >> we'll look it up. thank you. >> thank you. >> now tacc report. >> long-term care. >> long-term care. >> good morning, president james and members of the commission and miss mcspadden. i'm a member of the long-term care coordinating council and i want to give you highlights of the meeting that we had last month. we have several work groups that are basically spending energy and time on a specific subject-matter. so one of the work groups is the communications committee. we just hired a consultant, because we got a grant from the scan foundation, and we hired rick crane to work with us and the whole objective of the grant is to build capacity and sustainability of the long-term care coordinating council. so he will be conducting town hall meetings with external and internal stakeholders, and also start working on the updating of the website of the council. we also will be meeting with the