madam clerk, item 31 and 32. >> on items 31 and 32, supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? >> supervisor kim? >> supervisor kim, on items 31 and 32. kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the resolutions are adopted, motions approved. [gavel] >> item 29. >> item 29 is a resolution reiterating the board of supervisors's support for cleanpowersf, citing the board's role as the preeminent policymaking body in san francisco, urging the public utilities commission to set not-to-exceed rates for cleanpowersf without any further delay, and promising further action if the public utilities commission fails to set rates. >> supervisor breed? >> thank you. since this item is up for adoption without reference to committee, i'm going to try and keep my comments as brief as possible. but this issue really addresses two things

supervisor cohen. supervisor cohen? do you have a commendation for today? >> why, yes, mr. president, i have several. this is my favorite time of the day where i get to honor people who are doing outstanding work in san francisco. so, please put your hands together and please welcome mr. emanuel stewart. mr. stewart, where are you? (applause) >> don't be shy. i am going to go on and on about how wonderful you are. so, ladies and gentlemen, this is mr. manuel stewart. he is a teacher here within the san francisco unified school district. he completed his bachelor's degree and teaching credential program at san francisco state. he obtained -- got a fan right here. he obtained his masters of education administration from u.c. berkeley in 2012. he's been an elementary school teacher since 2003 with the district and he serves on the school district committee and the task force that focuses on science curriculum for elementary schools as well as selects the textbooks. mr. stewart has developed in owe v-8 i have curriculum and approaches teaching that has helped him relate to his

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

supervisor cohen.

bill thompson and tom philpot, we're also joined by allison cohen, the senior program director of why hunger, which builds grass roots antipoverty movement. bill, what are they fieting over with the -- fighting over over the snap program? >> they say this is an out of control program that people are becoming dependent upon and not lifting themselves up because they have these resources and other side sees this as a growing and expanding program to meet a growing and expanding problem that they have been seeing hard times and this helps them from hitting bottom. >> allison cohen? >> i think the primary reason for increase it is higher than it ever has been since we started you know looking at these numbers, some years ago. we've got more americans up to 49 million americans that are hungry today. and increase of course is due to the downturn in the economy, the economic recession, but also the growing inequality in this country. so a growing economy alone is not going to have a tremendous impact on hunger and on the number of people that are relying on food stamps. we also have to addr

. >> on item 20, supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> colleagues, why don't we go to our second special order at 3:00 p.m.. madam clerk, could you call items 21 through 24? >> items 21 through 24 comprise the special order at 3:00 p.m.. persons interested in planning commission approval on july 8, 2013, conditional use authorization to increase enrollment at an existing preschool and allow for an accessory religious facility within the preschool on property located at 3771 and 3781 cesar chavez street. item 22 is the motion approving the commission's decision to approve the conditional use authorization. item 23 is a motion disapproving the commission's decision. and item 24 is the motion directing the clerk to prepare findings. >> colleagues, for

>> i mean, i think you're right on congressman cohen. and we see it time and time again that the liberals can't debate the issues so what do they do? they resort to personal attacks. thankfully the constitution allows him to speak his mind but also allows us freedom of religion, freedom of speech and the second amendment, the right to own guns. so i think you're dead on there. on the congress issue and defunding obamacare, bill, i have to disagree with you. because this is a law, it's a bad law that continues to get worse every day. as we're seeing with more and more people taking away benefits from their employees, cutting their hours back, that sort of thing. the president himself has already delayed portions of this law for big business, for congress, special interests. why not do the same for the middle class average american? why not delay it. >> i will tell you, ms. cramer, what you are trying to do, the tea party is trying to do, is impossible. so do you not know that? the senate is not going to go along, even if the house were to

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this included supervisor campos, mar, and cohen. secondly, supervisor yee introduced an ordinance [speaker not understood] proposed child care facility oversight from the department of children and youth and their families to the office of early education and care. and strangely, it is the planning code that kind of talks about that sort of monitoring and facility oversight requirement. and lastly, supervisor campos introduced an ordinance that would amend the planning code to allow a choice hotel to rent rooms to the homeless veterans for a period of time without abandoning a designated tourist hotel use clarification. so, those last two ordinances will be scheduled for you before you for hearings in the next three months. and that concludes my report this week unless there are any questions. >> commissioner sugaya. >> yes, one comment on the eminent domain in the city of richmond. it's been reported that actually the city council doesn't have a super majority to actually pass that legislation. so, at the moment i think it's in lim

cohen p. advises you under rules of house us rules of the committee you're entitled to be advised by council. do you want to be advised by counsel today. thank you. you swear the testimony you're about to give the truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth? thank you. subject to the penalties set for the in title 18 section 1.001, united states code. you may give a five-minute summary of your written testimony. >> good morning chairman murphy, ranking member degette. members of the subcommittee i look forward to answer questions of cms on going work with of affordable care act and navigator program. cms and all our partners across the country are focused signing people up for affordable health care coverage that begins on january 1st. we're already seeing competition works. creation of new marketplaces is edge encouraging insures to offer plans in h with competitive states. rates are 19% less expensive as ccms expect. according to recent estimates as congresswoman degette mentioned many cons

(applause) >> supervisor campos and supervisor malia cohen.oing to speak too much because i know the nominater took not only is she a part of this community, but she has taken the time to really outline all the achievements of the community. but i will say on behalf of my boss, amy cohen, the portola never had a drop down on the yelp. it never had a drop down on the cdbg grant application process. and they used to have t-shirts that said best little neighborhood you never knew. so, i'm going to bring up lindy lynetsky from dpw. (applause) >> we stole all her lines already. >> yeah, stole all my lines. you just stole another. all right. tonight is called the portola sweep, right? [cheering and applauding] >> i know there are several people here tonight who nominated the portola as the come back neighborhood of the award of the year. neighborhood of the year award. i'm sure there were several nominaters. so, i'm very humble to be able to present my nomination and the reasons why i think we deserve tonight's award. i'm a relative newcomer to the

cohen carter made a bold bond call.ttom. >> you buy the old and sell the new. we would play for a balance, if you will in tlt or a pullback in raise. >> mike thought, this guy must be on to something. mike made a bullish bet on tlt, the etf that tracks bond prices. there was a slight problem. 100 shares cost over $10,000. >> are you nuts? come on, let's get nuts. >> so to spend less, mike said, he bought the tlt december 104 strike call for $2.90. that gives mike the right to buy the stock at that strike price or in this case $404 before december expiration. but in order to make money, mike needs tlt to rise above that 104 level by more than the cost of that call or above 106.90 by december expiration. below $106.90 and he sees losses by expiration. it gets better because if tlt shares rise above that break-even, the call will increase in value faster than the stock will gain value, meaning more money in mike's pocket. >> this is like discovering plutonium by accident. >> it is even better than that. because since the t

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but today i'm happy to support the recommendation made by supervisor cohen. >> great. s >> we'll make a motion, then, and vote on t. for the two candidates who have not been selected, i think all three of us feel the same way. you are great candidates ~ and we want to note our appreciation for you to step forward and apply for these positions. it's not always the case where we have really 100% of the candidates stepping forward to be such qualified people. and i'm going to echo supervisor breed's words that don't be discouraged. there are going to be other opportunities and we really hope that you will step forward again. so, i'm hearing that there's a motion. is there a motion for del seymour? >> i think we need to make a motion first to waive the residency requirement. so, i'm happy to make that motion. >> i'm happy to second that motion. >> okay, it's unanimous. that motion passes. would you like to make -- >> sure. i'd like to make a motion that we appoint mr. del seymour to seat number 2 on the local homeless coordinating board. >> is there a second? okay, by cons

>> supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? >> supervisor kim? >> supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos. campos aye. supervisor chiu. chiu aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the motion passes. [gavel] >> thank you, supervisor wiener and to all the parties of that appeal. why don't we go to our committee reports. madam clerk, could you call items 25 and 26. >> items 25 and 26 were considered by the government and audit oversight committee at a regular meeting september 12, 2013 and forwarded to the board as committee reports. ordinance 25 is a ordinance adopting and implementing amendment no. 5 to the 2007-2015 memorandum of understanding between the city and county of san francisco and the san francisco police officers' association (units p-1 & p-2a) by implementing specified term and conditionses of employment for fiscal years 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, and 2017-2018

air strikes, former defense secretary william cohen with me. >>> and the remarkable story of one woman's unusual rise in the corporate world. "on the money" begins right now. >> this is america's number one financial news program, "on the money," now, maria bartiromo. >>> here is a look at what is making news as we head into a new week on the money, a mixed report card when it comes to america's unemployment. the labor department reports that the economy created 106,000 new jobs, the unemployment rate fell, 6.3%, but the decline came because fewer americans are actually looking for work. the holiday shortened week saw light volume this week, the dow up 90 points on wednesday on strong auto sales, the s&p 500, and the nasdaq having their best day in almost two weeks, general motors, saw sales up 15%, toyota up 23%, both above analysts expectations. ford and chrysler, each up 12%, big news, telecom and tech, microsoft, the giant, acquiring nokia's hand set business, that was not the only big deal. verizon acquired vodafone, for $130 billion in stock and cash. this was the biggest merger in

. >> good morning supervisor cohen, supervisor tang and supervisor campos. i'm delighted to being here this morning. i appreciate the chance to address this committee about an idea whose time has finally arrived. my colleague tom walker has already laid out the reasons why optimizing the city owned real estate is important for the fiscal and economic health of this city. any decision it makes about it's property translates into something even more significant in terms of how it affects the lives and education opportunities of thousands of our city's young people. because of such high stakes, the civil grand jury is very pleased and excited with the school district's response to our recommendation no. 6. which highlights the option of converting the historic school buildings at 170 and 135 van ness plus auditorium to a new campus for the school of the arts. we commend the school district, school board and especially superintendent richard carranza for his leadership and foresight to go forward with this project after so many years of set backs and disappointm

of the station and my community would say the horse is out of the barn, please do what supervisor cohen said, have our tax paying health providers and service and non-profit groups go out there and expand, access instead of spending 150 thousand dollars or more to come and show you more slides on no new evidence. >> thank you very much. >> hi, i'm sar i with local 5299, we represent patient care and service workers at ucla medical center websinger ear here to support the health care security ordinance and healthy san francisco, while most of our members are fortunate enough to receive benefits, they have a class of secondhand workers who are hired at part time hours, they'll often work full time hours and they're not provided with health care, however, under the affordable care act, more employers will have incentive tos do exactly what uc is doing and cut employees's hours so they don't have to provide health insurance, healthy san francisco has the incentive to cut hours as well as to provide health insurance to the many san francisco residents who will not quality under the affordabl

former defense secretary william cohen with me on what may be a lose-lose situation. >>> she went from hooters girl to the top job at cinnabon, building a brand and a career and the remarkable story of one woman's unusual ride in the corporate world. "on the money" begins right now. >> this is america's number one financial news program. "on the money." now, maria bartiromo. >> here's a look at what's making news heading into a new week. a mixed report card. the labor department reportling the economy created 160,000 new jobs in the month of august, slightly below expectations. the unemployment rate still fell to 3.7%, the lowest since december of 2008. but the decline came mostly because fewer americans are actually looking for work. the number of jobs created for the few previous months revised downward as well. the holiday-shortened week saw light volume. the dow up 90 points on wednesday on strong auto sales. the s&p 500 and nasdaq having their best days in almost two weeks. the u.s. auto sales had great numbers in august. ford and chrysler were each up 12%. big news in telecom and

. >> reporter: the juke box sitting in jack cohen's living room is filled with his favorites. memories going back 50 years. >> the earliest days when i joined ibm and -- all of these songs in here were so popular. >> reporter: 31 years at ibm, retiring with health benefits, but last week, ibm notified its retirees that it will out-source its retiree medical benefits coverage. >> that was a surprise, it really bothered us. >> reporter: the problem? kate cohen is suffering from stage 4 breast cancer that has spread to her bones, lungs and brain. and her current doctors are not in the new plan. >> earth-shattering. i mean, beyond earth-shattering, to go out and have to find doctors and take all of my medical records of which there are many. >> reporter: in a youtube message to retirees, ibm's chief health director said the company had to act. >> we project that health care cost in the current ibm plan will triple in the next few years. >> reporter: ibm is the latest big company acting to contain skyrocketing medical costs for retirees. in 1993, 40% of employers offered insurance

>> avalos i, breed i, cohen i, farrell i, kim i, mar i, tang i, wiener i, yee i. item passes. >> very good. our next item please? >> item number three, certify the environmental impact report, approve the findings of fact, approval statement of overriding of mitigations and approval [inaudible] single median and limited left turns at the preferred alternative for the van ness avenue bus rapid transit project. this is an action item. >> i want to thank the transportation awe authority and the lpa. i want to reiterate that the authority and the sfmta staff were able to bring bus rapid traffic to the middle of the roadway where it'll be less imimmediated by turning and slow traffic. this is clearly the right alternative for this project on a number of i want to recognize the good work that went into the eir. this is a well written and informative document that allows us to make a measured decision about approval and modification. it makes it much easier than a standard document of this size and nature. i want to recognize the large amount of work in outreach that sta

and to my left is supervisor cohen. and to my right is supervisor breed. the clerk is linda wong today. actually every meeting is linda work. the committee would also like to acknowledge the staff at s.f.g. tv, charles kriminak and jennifer low who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. ~ madam clerk, are there any announcements? >> yes, mr. chair. please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. [speaker not understood] should be included as part of the file submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the october 1st board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay, great. let's move on to items, let's put them together, items 1 and 2. >> item number 1, ordinance declaring that future appointments done by the city and county of san francisco for road commissioner shall be enacted by resolution. item number 2, ordinance appointing mohammed nuru, director of the department of public works, as road commissioner for the city and county of san francisco; repealing or

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

steve cohen is worth $8 billion. allow sac to continue to operate after basically saying they'd operated for much of its existence -- particularly over the last 10 or 12 years, this is the government saying this -- as a criminal enterprise. so these are all the things the government's going to have to take in mind as they come to this, and that's why i think, you know, just take a deep breath here h. we should point out that settlement negotiations like this are routine. people throw stuff back and forth all the time, you know? the government -- we don't know what the government asks for aside from money. money isn't only thing here. does sac continue to operate? that's a big issue. does, you know, is the charges, any potential charges against steve cohen wiped away with this stuff? i'm sure they would like that, the lawyers for sac, i'm not sure if the government's willing to do that. what we have here is you remember the government settled with sac, the securities and exchange commission settled for $616 million, b

ray kelly working with david cohen from the cia.hey set out to create basically a map of all new york's ethnic neighborhoods? >> that is with the demographics unit was doing. they wanted to literally map the human terrain of the five boroughs of new york. they went beyond -- they went to new york and new jersey as well. ,hey had this year after 9/11 looking at queens and brooklyn and these other places where there were a lot of muslim americans and thought, we don't know much about these communities and they looked at people like one of the 9/11 hijackers. he had radicalized, grown more religious, and given off the signals in front of the community. they wanted to be in the communities of new york, so if there is anyone like him, -- anyone like that there would be radicalizing -- they could have listening posts. they would have eyes and ears in the community to pick up on that. >> one of the things you write about is how the undercover officers would go to the best arab food restaurants, not coming up with leads, but because the foo

supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. there are 11 ayes. >> those resolutionses are adopted and motions accepted. [gavel] >> and item 5. >> item 5 is a resolution reiterating the board of supervisors's support for clean power sf, citing the board's role as the preeminent policy making body in san francisco, urging the public utilities commission to set not-to-exceed rates for clean power sf without any further delay, and promising further action if the public utilities commission fails to set rates. >> supervisor breed. >> thank you. colleagues, i would like to ask for a continuance for this item to next week's board meeting. >> colleagues, supervisor breed has made a motion to continue for one week. seconded by supervisor avalos. if we could take that motion to continue without objection. that shall be the case to the 17th of

seconded by supervisor cohen. supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. president. and i, whatever folks' differing views of aspects of the legislation, i want to thank everyone who has worked on getting us to where we are today, including i know the flurry of activity today in terms of having dialogue and coming up with different creative ideas. i think it did achieve a goal that i'm going to speculate that all of us share, and that is to try to pass legislation that fosters -- allows us to foster trust to immigrant communities and law enforcement and to continue to struggle locally hopefully in a positive direction to do what we can do in light of a completely broken and disfunctional and awful federal immigration system ~ and one that has not yet been fixed and i hope will be fixed in the near future. i came out early and publicly in opposition to secure communities. i came out early publicly in favor as a trust act. i very much would like to be able to support this legislation. i want us to pass it unanimously to send a strong message to our immigrant communitie

oh, actually there is one other person that wishes to speak, supervisor cohen. >> thank you. thank you. i just also wanted to take an opportunity to acknowledge the consul general fantastic contribution. it expands far beyond the latino community. also you've done work with me in my office within the boundaries of district 10. i just wanted you to know you and your wife are a very lovely couple and i have enjoyed yourcompany and your thoughtful guidance. thank you. >> i just wanted to read, carlos, the certificate that says to ambassador carlos felix for your exceptional work as a public servant who champions values that transcend borders, for helping to forge a strong bond between the united states and mexico by promoting education, culture, and human rights, for your unwaivering commitment to nurturing the human spirit beyond san francisco and throughout the americas, by helping people find common ground, solace, and understanding. for this, the city and county of san francisco honors you for a stellar career spanning over three decades, [spanish]. (applause) >> president c

. ~ supervisor cohen. again, can i have a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair? >> so moved. >> second? motion by consensus, moved. [gavel] >> madam clerk, can we have item number 6? >> item number 6, hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending november 23, 2014, to the shelter monitoring committee. there are two seats and three applicants. >> thank you. we will now hear from the applicants in the order they are listed on the agenda. ms. amanda reichmuth. >>> hello, my name is amanda reichmuth. i currently work as a victim advocate with the district attorney's office. but in my background i used to work at hamilton family residences, which is the biggest family shelter, and i was there as a case manager. so, i have a lot of firsthand experience working with folks within shelter and being familiar with the shelter monitoring committee in the capacity that they were coming to visit us and to see how we were meeting with those standards of care. for the past five years i've worked between there, also with [speaker not understood] and rosalie house which