commissioner fong: here. commissioner moore: here. commissioner sugaya: here. commissioner wu: here. >> items for continuance. case 2007.0030e, 8 washington street, certification of the final environmental impact report. . schiedam2a-g, case number is 2007.0030e, c, k, m, r, and z for 8 washington street. both of those items are proposed for a continuance to march 8, 2012. item three, case 2011.1216c, 9 west portal avenue. conditional use opposition to a proposed for an indefinite continuance. item 4, 2011.0207c, 112 seventh street, request for a conditional use authorization has been withdrawn. commissioners, further on your calendar, under your regular calendar, items 15, a case 2011.1304c, 1245 south van ness avenue, a conditional use authorization request. we just received a request from supervisor campos, of which is requested to be read into the record, regarding item 2011 he.1304c, fresh and easy grocery store. dear honorable commissioners, several of my constituents have contacted me to express their concerns about fresh and easy moving into the space a

commissioner lee commissioner lee: -- commissioner lee. commissioner lee: i want to comment on something commissioner murphy just said. please do not feel things have not been accomplished. we have accomplished a lot since you joined us. in and out probably the longest continuing survey member. commissioner walker may have more time based on her prior service, but when i got here, i was working with commissioner rivera -- romero. i want to thank him for his service in this commission. at that time, when i joined -- we will just say there were issues with the department, with the commission. we saw what it should be like. we knew what good government should be. we are good government people. we like to keep things transparent, open, have proper debate without intimidation, without any negativity, that sort of thing. we started it, and it really got going when you, commissioner murphy, got on board. we now have the department working properly. we have things like incompatible activities for our employees to follow. we have rules that our com

commissioner farrell: thank you, commissioner avalos. commissioner chiu? commissioner chiu: i want to echo the comments of my colleagues. i have been very pleased to have had the opportunity to work with him over the years over many years on transit justice, making sure that, particularly, low income communities, communities that need good transit but does not have access to it, gets that. happy to support him for that. i know it is slightly premature, but i also echo what supervisor cohen will say, having the second member of our party be a part of this conference. supervisor wiener has also worked hard here at the ta, and makes sense. commissioner farrell: any further nominations? with that, nominations are closed. we are going to take public comment. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? >> i approve the nomination of the chair david campos. as some of you supervisors have alluded to, he has stepped forward to do the right thing for those segments of our population that need help, whether they are the physically challe

>> commissioners clybum aye, commissioner dooley, aye, commissioner dwight, aye, commissioner o'brien, aye, commissioner riley, the motion passes 6-0. >> we will go back to item 13. recognition of commissioners janet clyde and michael o'connor. >> as part -- director and the office, do you want to take a moment to recognize the commissioners? commissioner o'connor could not be here tonight. he had already planned a business meeting. he is in las vegas at the magic show which is a great place to be. so i wanted to take a moment to a knowledge him and his service for being on the commission for eight years. two of the years he was president of the commission. one of the years, vice- president. he representing the hospitality industry has brought value in terms of feedback, input and an exciting entrepreneurial spirit to the commission. during his commission he worked kia hours on legislative and policy matters including extensive work on the health care security ordinance on that advisory board with commissioner dwight. and that helped to boost our support and the need for having entiti

commissioner dejesus: aye. >> commissioner chan is not present. commissioner kingsley: no. commissioner slaughter: aye. commissioner turman: aye. >> it passes 4-1. president mazzucco: call next item, please. >> next item, item seven, a report in discussion regarding the occ's 2012-2013 and 2013- 2014 budget. >> good evening again. nothing has changed since i last submitted a report to you. i believe you all have a report i submitted for the february 15 agenda. in that report, i indicated the positions that would be impacted, should these cuts be taken. the occ would lose 12% of its staff. two filled typist positions would be laid off. a vacant investigator position would be eliminated. at the end of five years, to meet the 1% per year 5% reduction in staff, the only finance position, a senior account clerk, would be laid off, and the occ would lose its language access in mandarin with the loss of that employee. in addition, if the contingency amounts were taken, the remaining clerk typists would be reduced from eight hours a day to four hours a day. there are two senior typ

commissioner antonini. >> aye. commissioner fong. >> aye.issioner moore. >> no. >> that motion passed 5-1. commissioner fong. my understanding is that unique accusal for item 16. -- you need recusal for item 16. [roll-call vote] commissioner antonini: same motion, item 16. >> thank you, commissioners. the ocean -- the motion before you is for continuance of item 16. that is to be a focus continuance on that motion. [roll-call vote] that motion passed 4-1. thank you, commissioners. commissioner antonini: there is only one more item left. let's take a 10-minute break. we have been sitting here a while.

commissioner chu: north dakota. commissioner campos: -- commissioner chu: thank you. commissioner campos: i think it is totally appropriate for this board to set conditions on the approval and it is something this board has done before. even though we are not legally allowed to make specific changes to the dda, it is totally appropriate for us to set limitations on what we are willing to do. i also think it is important to provide some context to the issue of participation, that even if you approve this one% on the second sale, even if you add future sales, the level of participation the board is getting is actually lower than it could get. you could require participation on a number of transactions that are not included here. it is already a pretty modest level of participation. i don't see why we should not provide that guidance to staff to make it clear where we are as open negotiations are finalized. commissioner kim: i agree with my colleagues that i would like to see this included in the dda in order to have my support. i don't support it as an amendment to the

commissioner lee: commissioner clinch: yes -- commissioner lee: yes. commissioner clinch: yes.ioner mar: yes. commissioner murphy: yes. >> the motion carried unanimously. commissioner lee: you have another three months. >> thank you very much to all. and the next, the approval of the minutes. commissioner lee: ok, we are back to the minutes. >> commissioners, if you would like additional time to review these sets of minutes, you could continue this item to a future meeting, but if you want to vote on them now, you can do so. commissioner murphy: i think it is the to commissionerme melgard. i have read them. i made the motion. commissioner lee: there is a motion to accept all the meeting minutes with the header. is there a second? >> the motion is by commissioner murphy to approve all four sets of minutes with the request of adding the change of header. is there a second? >> second. >> any public comment on this motion? seeing none, i will take a roll call vote. commissioner lee: yes. commissioner clinch: yes. commissioner hechanova: yes. commissioner mar: yes. commissioner murp

commissioner lee: present. commissioner clinch: here. commissioner hechanova: here. commissioner mar: here. commissioner murphy: here. vice-president walker is excused. we have a quorum. the next item is election of officers, president, and vice president. commissioner lee: why don't i start by welcoming our new commissioner. i wanted to mention that she has joined us. regarding the agenda item, election of officers, i would like to propose that maybe we push this off until next meeting when we have a full seven members here. would that be ok? motion? commissioner murphy: i will second that. >> any public comment on the motion to continue this item? seeing none, can we had a roll call vote on the motion to continue the election of officers? commissioner lee: yes. commissioner clinch: yes. commissioner hechanova: yes. commissioner mar: yes. commissioner murphy: yes. >> the motion carried unanimously. the next item is the oath. will all parties giving testimony today please stand and give -- raise your right hand? all parties in the audience. yes, if you are going to g

commissioner adams: aye. commissioner clyde: aye. commissioner dooley: aye. president o'brien: aye. commissioner o'connor: aye. commissioner riley: aye. >> that motion passes 6-0. congratulations, commissioner adams. president o'brien: next item, please. >> commissioners, you warare now on ite 11, election of the vice- president to the small business commission. it requires a motion and vote. the same procedures will be followed. president o'brien: do we have any other nominations? commissioner clyde? commissioner clyde: i would like to nominate kathleen dooley for vice president. president o'brien: commissioner o'connoriley? commissioner riley: i like to nominate commissioner o'brien to vice president. >president o'brien: nominee statements. commissioner dooley: i think my record is quite clear. i began my experience with this commission, i worked to bring the problems of ada lawsuits to this commission. i hope to continue further in any way i can to help small businesses to maintain themselves as a strong force. i have also worked very hard with small business corridors to help pr

. >> commissioner dooley? commissioner cooley: -- dooley: i am agreement commissioner declined. i think we need to raise this -- in agreement with commissioner acly -- clyde. we should raise the local to 13%. there has to be a balance, because we are already at a disadvantage, and i do not want to say. commissioner clyde: going back to the president o'brien's comment, i would go to 13% or so. it needs to be done. again, san francisco has a unique, and expensive, mandated employment and work environments. >> commissioner riley? commissioner riley: maybe we should ask them to take the health care and the issues, that they have to pay, to take that into consideration and come up with a recommendation of how much percentage. >> director? director: moving forward, in order to provide supervisor chiu in order to move forward, we may have to weigh in before the final vote on a piece of legislation. i just want to make sure that you are also taking into consideration that there could be a contract where there is an lbe that is not a benefit corporation bidding on an item, and right now,

commissioner hechanova: here. commissioner mar: here. commissioner clinch: here. commissioner lee: here. commissioner murphy: here. commissioner melgar: here. >> commissioner walker is excused. we have a quorum. next item on the agenda is president's announcements. commissioner hechanova: good morning. those in chambers, welcome to the february meeting. we would like to also start out by giving some thank you -- tahnk -- thank-yous to staff. [reading names] where there has been the category of expressed appreciation from the public that you have served, to say thank you very much for the service you have rendered them in a most professional way and expeditious manner. also, from steve, the complimentary letter from bruce murphy, thanking senior plumbing inspector alex corn. for that, thank you very much for maintaining the high level of service and along with that, the continued service you will provide the city and building department. >> if anyone has their cell phone on them, if you could turn it off, not on vibrate because it will still make feedback. >> could

i would like to see that put forward. >> commissioner client? commissioner -- commissioner clyde? commissioner clyde: i want to be careful because there are companies that hire in san francisco and are outside of the border. in oakland. i just want to be a little bit careful of that. we are in a regional economy, and i just want to be careful with that. we are in a regional economy. we are not somehow more arduous because we live in san francisco. i do want to support the companies that are doing socially responsible private, for-profit companies that are taking it upon themselves in their companies to be socially responsible, and it is harder than it looks, and it should be more than a branding campaign. you know, i absolutely agree with that, so i would propose at a minimum, we were all the non local back to 5% in that we increase the local, and the local would be on top of, i guess 10% if you are local. right now, they are proposing 2%. perhaps that can be increased. i do not know. >> commissioner dooley? commissioner cooley: -- dooley: i am agreement commissioner declined. i t

commissioner hechanova: no. commissioner mar: aye. no. commissioner lee: no. commissioner murphy: no. commissioner walker: yes. >> the motion fails 4-2. commissioner lee: i would like to move that we continue the budget hearing. >> public comment on the motion to continue the budget? ok, seeing none, i will do an additional roll call vote on the motion to continue the budget to our next meeting. commissioner hechanova: yes. commissioner mar: yes. commissioner clinch: yes. commissioner lee: yes. commissioner walker: yes. >> the motion carried unanimously. item three, a discussion to and then permit extension procedures. >> we had a public advisory committee meeting, and i have attached a draft of the proposed changes to the building codes regarding the extension and cancellations of permit applications and issued permits. as you can see in the blue column, which is the last meeting that we had, they asked to have the application expiration for over $1 million extended for 720 days instead of 360 days, which is two years instead of one year. that would allow the

commissioner campos: commissioner jim? commissioner kim: i did not catch your name. >> simone jacque. commissioner kim: i just want to say, i am extraordinarily upset about how this is coming to us. i have a number of questions. who owns the community of reach for the project? who owns that portion of this work? >> dpw and mta should be doing that together, in terms of the bike components. to our knowledge, -- commissioner kim: why was the last meeting in 2009? why has there been a hold on two years on community outreach, and for this item to say there is community opposition, how do we know, if we have not had a meeting for two years? >> i cannot speak to the bike planning -- commissioner kim: when this comes to us today, why months ago, nobody said we need to read gauges the community in this process? we knew we had to meet the deadline on february 1. where did things fall apart? our office has never been informed we were about to lose $4.8 million for this project. had we have known, we would have held these committee m

commissioner hechanova: commissioners? commissioner mar: -- commissioner murphy: just one more thing. in fairness, our director tweaks this budget, and she was -- i believe she is definitely on the right track as far as some of the changes she is talking about making, and i appreciate that. i just want to say that. >> thank you. commissioner hechanova: commissioners? >> let me add my comment also before we put it to action. the category being that we are trying to propose this year's budget, but also, coincident with that is for the second year, given one, operating and one being a project that will be adjustable relative to what we will perform this year. dbi as an enterprise department has also the category by which we are kind of lagging if we do not have the personnel or at least the budget in place necessary to address the issues relative to categories that we could almost fill those vacancies by virtue of what is the pool of technical talent that will not only need now, but also a pool that basically is being impeded

commissioner hechanova? >> yes. commissioner mar: yes. commissioner clinch: yes. commissioner lee: yes. commissioner murphy: yes. commissioner melgar: yes. >> the motion carries unanimously, and the budget is approved. commissioner hechanova: thank you very much, pam, and your crew. >> onto item number 5, directors report. 5a, update on dbi's finances. >> good morning. i am with finance services that the dbi. i wanted to talk about the finance report. i put their revenue chart up on the screen. so our revenue projections are actually quite similar to what we have been talking about in the past. we are continuing to receive more funds than we expected undercharges for services. that is pretty much our main surplus in revenue projection. everything else is coming in fairly close to what we had budgeted for this year. we do expect it to continue to come in very close to budget. so we are not projecting a surplus, except for in charges for services. we do see increased amounts there. everything else, like i said, is pretty much what we expected. we are seeing less ref

commissioner campos: thank you, commissioner. commissioner pimentel. commissioner pimentel: i think it is a good idea to see if rank choice voting has confused citizens who might not understand. has it decrease turnout or increased. i think it is an opportunity to see how it has affected residents of san francisco. commissioner campos: great. i welcome those comments. that is one of the reasons i wanted to have this item because i do think that these are the kinds of things that we can do, and i think that one approach might be to simply give direction to staff to continue gathering what is available and may be to compile some of that information. depending on where that is, at some point, we also have the ability in our funding, if we need to hire any experts to shed light on some of the data to do that. staff could definitely come back to us with a more specific proposal on what that would look like. commissioner avalos: i would recommend that we move forward on that. again, i just want to reiterate -- i think it is worthwhile looking at how many pla

commissioner fong: yes. commissioner moore: yes. commissioner sugaya: is. commissioner miguel: yes. so moved, that passes unanimously and places you under your consent calendar. all matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar and are considered routine by the planning commission and will be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. and those of the discussion at these items unless a member of the public, commission, or staff requests. in which event, it will be removed from the calendar and considered as a separate item. item five is the 2012.0016t, proposed amendments to planning code section.1179d. the commission will consider an ordinance to extend by 90 days, the period of time in which existing uses in the eastern neighborhoods area that have operated without filing an application for legitimization. item six, 2011.1059c, 211 sutter street, a conditional use authorization request. i would like to bring to your attention, for this particular case, the second paragraph under surrounding properties and neighborhood under the executive summary can be omitt

commissioner antonini: aye. commissioner borden: no. commissioner fong: aye.ent miguel: aye. i]>> the motion again fails. president miguel: is there any further commission comment on this item? >> the commission failed to take action on this item. the original motion stands. thank you. commissioners, you are now on item #9. 2500 bryant st. there is a note that falling public testimony, beacon -- the commission continue the matter to this stage by a vote of 5-0. the project sponsor was with his neighbor. commissioner fong was absent. commissioner wu was not on the commission at that time. çcommissioner fong, were you ae to review the record? commissioner fong: yes. >> and commissioner wu would need you to reduce her from participation. is there a motion from a roof -- for a refusal? on the motion to recuse -- commissioner antonini: aye. ñrcommissioner fong: aye. commissioner sugaya: aye. president miguel: aye. commissioner borden: aye. >> you have before you a request for kermit -- for a conditional use authorization to convert a grocery store to a full-servic

commissioner: i think it is really great. clerk: commissioner o'brien? president o'brien: they do not necessarily have to do an upgrade except under the current standard of readily achievable, right? so opposed this legislation, we never situation where that category would not exist anymore. they would just be under an obligation to do it when they renew the lease? >> the exact same readily achievable and technical standards that are part of the federal ada law exists. it is more of timing. president o'brien: to say that it has to be done right now because they are renewing the lease. so that is different. ok. ok, so be readily achievable will still apply, meaning if it was prohibitive at the time that they are renewing the lease, then that would still -- so i am trying to figure out what will the difference be then? if they still have the readily achievable problem, so what does it do? what exactly what the legislation do then? >> they would then have done what they needed to do. they could sign the lease. there is no agency keeping track of who did wha