i think it will help tourism but i would like to see it citywide. >> i agree with you. vice president adams: i know there's the politics that you have to deal with but i can't thank you enough for this legislation because it will help a lot of these small businesses, especially the cafes and small restaurants and bars because a lot of them don't do entertainment because it costs too much. supervisor mirkarimi: so we're looking at about 30% of the cost of what is already required of what the permitting and the accessory costs are so for us to create a new tier at 70% reduction at the current costs and thinking there are hundreds -- and i'm not kidding, what we've been able to survey in the corridors eligible for this -- hundreds of cafes and restaurants that we think that could take advantage of this in the not-too-distant future over that period of time really could change the landscape of entertainment in san francisco and helping the businesses that really are looking for as much of a leg up as they possibly can. you know, and keep in mind, it wasn't that long ago tha

our child advocacy center will focus citywide. it will be citywide. it currently does. we service all of the children were exposed to violence and child abuse. this will continue to do that. supervisor mirkarimi: we have been seeing the yearly figures of the new census data that is coming out that, based on your child population figures here, might be undercounting what the true child population may be in san francisco, especially in areas that are routinely distressed in domestic violence or child abuse. wouldn't that add more reason to have a citywide focus on this question? >> absolutely. it will have a citywide focus. we also have a safe start project, looking at children 0 up to six that have been exposed to domestic violence. that is also citywide. we work with family research centers throughout the community. supervisor mirkarimi: i know this is extremely important to supervisor campos and myself. what about modeling will immigrant families -- monolingual immigrant families? there is lack of engagement with the city in dealing with these kinds of -- these kinds o

some of the big citywide issues that impact the district include transportation. we had more muni service and some other districts. it is not always reliable. some of the major bus lines in the district are not reliable. we have major projects like the renovation of delores park. it is an opportunity to define what the park is and what changes we want to make to it. that is going to be and port project, the same thing with glen canyon that is going to undergo a lot of work. one of the most challenging parts of the new district supervisor is that we elect the supervisors by district. it is very important to pay attention to the district, be engaged in the projects in the district. we also represent the whole city. any district supervisor that focuses on the district without addressing the citywide issues is not doing his or her job. every day, i make sure i am working on the major citywide issues and the district issues. i try to be disciplined about that. >> how will you approach the tough choices? >> i think we have to start by looking at the most critical city s

this kind of program needs to be citywide. for example, something i have recommended 16 years ago, to charge city employees for parking, has come to pass. it is now reaping $3.5 million in revenue. i have many ideas. i wish somebody would please listen to them. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker appeared >> hello. my name is karen and i am part of the japantown planning effort. i want to thank the city as a whole for being so supportive of the efforts we are making. over the last year, we have been reviewing in small committees are draft plan. we are now heading into our final community comment period and we need the support of the city. i also want to say to audience members, pick up one of these pink fliers. please come to our meetings if you can. what happens in japantown will have echoes and the facts on the larger and western admission -- addition. thank you. >> thank you, karen. daniel, please. >> mayor lee, supervisor mirkarimi, the department heads, i want to say two things that stick out in my mind about

what you see here, i think, reflects what you see from any other department, and citywide, the cost of our providing the base line of services that we provide is going up faster than the anticipated revenue growth, and it is largely driven by benefit cost increases, and this is based on -- although the mou's are not negotiated out, it is based on assumptions of basically the current level of wage and benefit increases. it is not at the moment a sustainable five-year outlook, as it is not for the rest of the city. there are not a lot of things that we at the department level can do to address that. pension reform would be the single biggest thing that would help bring us into balance. in terms of alternative revenue sources, supervisor wiener mentioned the idea of maybe getting tree care off of the -- directly funded by property owners. we have been exploring other cities do this, not just for trees, but for landscaping. were there to be a parcel tax or assessment district or some other revenue stream, those costs could come off the general revenue fund. but again, there's not a whole l

secondly, we also in our citywide groups we were participating in furloughs. in the fair collectors, they participated in the citywide furloughs, we ended up having to back fill them on an overtime basis so that citywide participation hurt us in terms ofover time. special events. there's two kinds of special events, there are two kinds of special events that happen every year, that we can plan for an others like the world series that we can't budget for. these special events are incredibly resource intensive from our agency's perspective because it requires a lot of our front line employees to be present and they almost all work overtime to do it. and in san francisco almost every weekend there's a special event in the city. we are trying to do a better job of tracking special events because right now our systems don't separate some of the hours we need to do a better job of that. the second bullet on this page is also critical because the facilities are in such poor condition, we're having to maintain and back fill them on a regular basis and it requires a lo

i know there are issues like treasure island that amount to a citywide issues. everyone will have their opinion. but this is about one building, one story of one building. where does it stop? if i do not like bill looks up the door in your district, am i going to introduce legislation? it becomes a poster child of why we do not need district elections. that is inappropriate. it is a slippery slope and we need to think about that as a board. this is a different vision of how we will do housing in our neighborhood. quite frankly, i do not care if it is affordable housing. to me, the 55 foot project is literally telling the neighbors , this is the produce, take-it- or-leave-it. we will not listen to your concerns. you have to take exactly what we give you. i had a different vision. i want to listen to my neighbors. i think we should all do that as supervisors. if we bring affordable housing into our neighborhoods, which is a good idea, we can do that with -- in conjunction with our neighborhoods. that is the long-term vision. if we continue to stick it in the eye o

>> there was some discussion, but we have expanded the citywide time limit. we have moved at the city wide standard to two hours across the city as well. we are trying to give citizens more time to do what they need to do. right now the city wide standard is two hours. supervisor avalos: under the current parking meter program that we have, outside of park sf, how long does it take for a leader to get fix medicared? >> it depends on the exact meter. it takes us about 24 hours to 48 hours, once we are notified that the meter is broken. right now we do not have the backup software to tell us, in the background, and someone has to call us to tell us that the meter's broken. on sf park we can tell immediately. timing for those are much shorter. for the other city-wide meters, it takes 2448 hours. supervisor avalos: how often according to a collection? >> it depends on the routes. some routes we go there daily. other routes, we go there less frequently. we deploy the forces as they fill up. supervisor avalos: so, generally it is about one week? when does that go c

and now to our general fund allocation. >> just quickly, the citywide membership that's a result of being able to recover from enterprise performance? >> that's correct. while we're seeing an increase in general fund support, the proposed budget is $508,000. so the cost saving measures we have taken over the last several years are still showing results. you can see from this chart that reductions in budget and legislative analyst services by far is the largest -- is the division that's taken the largest decrease. the youth commission is also down due to holding a position vacant. the a.a.b. and sunshine have been given additional resources from the clerk's office based on workload demands. and all other increases are reflecting the growth of fringe increases. i'm confident that our department has done its very best to cut costs and still deliver our core services required in the charter and the administrative code and now to the five-year fork. as is this trend in general fund depends this department's expenditure growth will outpace growth in the general fund revenue. according to the co

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this is a citywide technology plan. we have taken a lot of care to get input from various departments. we have gone to a number of public hearings about this plan. this plan is really designed to be a structure that departments can look at and see how their day-to-day operations and long- term plans for technology in their apartment fit into where they want to go in the future. having said that, the place we are at in this plan is asking for your approval of this as really a strategy for the city to pursue. the vision for this plan really is creating a connected city. when we created the plan, we did not want to put initially a lot of detail into specific hardware and software. what we wanted to do is create a vision for where we want to go as a city. san francisco is seen as a leader in using technology to deliver better services. every department, as you have probably heard, through the budget hearings, are really trying to leverage technology now to better deliver services within that department. the public health de

it is a citywide issue. i do want to thank all of the advocates that came out today. this is an issue that has not been at the forefront. it is important that you are raising this issue for the city and raising its visibility. thank you so much for your work. this has been going on for many years. i think that the supervisor has been doing a great job in terms of being an advocate and i appreciate your work on this. >> thank you. i do want to thank all the members of the public who have spoken on this item. all the residents have spent a lot of time advocating on this issue. it has been a very interesting case to listen to and to hear the comments that have been made. i do want to thank all of my colleagues. i think that this is one of those projects where it is important for us to be responsible at how we talk about the issues that are before us. it is one of those projects where there could be hyperbole that could be negative to the underlying goal. the reality is that you are looking at a number of good people who have different views. i did not co-sponsor item 5 b

. >> the recommendation is specific to an understanding said wide -- citywide, and employees on standby can receive 40% of their rate of pay and receive a pager or cell phone or 25% update. the concept is they have to be near a location of a telethon to be available. gradually the apartments are moving away from that and providing -- departments are moving away from that and providing a cellular phone. it is understood city-wide that everyone will be provided a pager or cellular phone and be paid a portion of pay. we do include the cost of the cellular phone in this recommendation. so as not to impair the ability of the individual to respond. supervisor chu: supervisor mirkarimi. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. said the $10,000 difference the department is asking us about, is that in the making of this cellular phone? where is that $10,000 coming from? >> it is actually $10,000 reduction in premium pay, and then we have recommended that you add $750 for a cellular phone. it is a net reduction of $10,065. again, as ms. campbell stated, it is to implement the existing provisions of the m

i think the small business commission would do well to consider prohibiting the citywide. it is not just district by district. i do not think i have to repeat myself. it is pretty straightforward. i hope you vote for this. they keep. president o'brien: thank you. clerk: [reading names] susan. >> good evening. i am representing and merchants alliance, and i just wanted to remind all the commissioners here that there is another reason, another thing to consider, which is the economic benefit of locally owned businesses. there have been studies done throughout the united states, including in san francisco chronicle a study that has shown conclusively that locally owned businesses returned economic money back into the city. citizens of san francisco spend $100 at a chain pet food store. statistics say that $25 goes back into the san francisco economy. if the same hundred dollars is spent at a locally-owned cut store, $43 is reinvested in the community. aside from the other reasons you have heard, there is an economic benefit to supporting the locally-owned businesses for san f

this major's office development citywide, which is more appropriate -- meters office development citywide, which is more appropriate. instead of legislating the metering, we would prefer something along the lines of, "the board would urge the planning commission to consider the goals of the western soma task force with an objective of balancing affordable and market rate housing." if not, we request more time to study the issue and discuss alternatives with the community. the director has a meeting with community representatives on june 14. therefore, we would respectfully request a continuance of the resolution until that meeting. chairperson mar: thank you, ms. rogers. supervisor kim: thank you for including me at your committee meeting. good afternoon. i am sponsoring a resolution urging the planning commission to incorporate the western soma community plan and the objectives of the community stabilization policy accepted by the task force in 2009. this is why my office is involved. the central market revitalization and attraction of businesses sparked a conversation on how to do devel

this major's office development citywide, which is more appropriate -- meters office development citywide, which is more appropriate. instead of legislating the metering, we would prefer something along the lines of, "the board would urge the planning commission to consider the goals of the western soma task force with an objective of balancing affordable and market rate housing."

this major's office development citywide, which is more appropriate -- meters office development citywide, which is more appropriate. instead of legislating the metering, we would prefer something along the lines of, "the board would urge the planning commission to consider the goals of the western soma task force with an objective of balancing affordable and market rate housing." if not, we request more time to study the issue and discuss alternatives with the community. the director has a meeting with community representatives on june 14. therefore, we would respectfully request a continuance of the request a continuance of the resolution until that meeting.

supervisors, i would have not understood the availability -- also want to understood there are a citywide seat. i am very cognizant that may be a possibility. thank you for your time. >> i appreciate that this is a difficult task and a lot of great candidates. supervisor kim: next, we have mr. keith baraka. >> thank you. i am a firefighter. i have been a firefighter for 14 years in san francisco. i live in district 8. as a graduate of ohio state university, i excelled in and thoroughly enjoyed every class having to do with statistics. i love maps and find them fascinating. i always been interested in facts, figures and data. in my job as researcher for the public utilities commission of ohio, was in charge of reporting on an energy assistance program, so i am familiar with about a leading populations and statistical representations'. as an investigator, i was charged with investigating residential complaints across the state. an ever-present component of regulation. at the public interest center, was my job to make sure the public was well informed and represented an heard throughout the

>> i motion to approve this ordinance but i'd like to motion that we approve it citywide including the south of market and westportal and pacific avenue. >> make that a recommendation? >> approving it, recommending that we also include the south of market, westportal and pacific avenue n.c.d.'s. >> can we also incorporate the 11:00 p.m.? >> yes, at 11:00. >> i second. president o'brien: o.k. do we need to read it out, chris? or just take a count? secretary: read it out. >> point of clarification. is the modification for the 11:00 p.m., then, to extend the 10:00 p.m. time to 11:00 p.m. and then but not include the additional hours up to 12 p.m.? president o'brien: yes. all those in favor, i guess. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. president o'brien: any no's? motion is approved. secretary: commissioners, you are on item no. 7. briefly, item no. 2, presentation of the small business commission certificate of honor recognizing a local small business, mac, as part of s.b.c.'s small business recognition program. >> it's my pleasure to give this award this evening to an outstanding small business, mac

as a supervisor, i do have to be able to balance managing citywide issues, which is very important, but at the same time, focusing on the specific needs of your neighborhood. that is really important to us. one of the things we need to prioritize is that making sure we focus on the nuts and bolts of government. a lot of the calls we get involved fixing alights, replacing a pothole. i think it is really important to make sure we get those things right and we try to work very closely with the city agency to make sure government is responsive. if we do not do those things right, those little things, which are big things in life of a neighborhood. >> how you reconcile the needs of your district with the needs of the city? supervisor campos: i think it is possible to do that. even though we have these great districtwide elections, i think district election still allow you to deal with larger issues. we feel that we certainly have demonstrated that as a board. individual supervisors have demonstrated that. one of the pieces of legislation we worked on last year that we are very proud of is th