and i know as we get more data, we'll be having a longer conversation about this. i do hope as we think about future planning in our conversations with our south bay colleagues, that we take those factors into account as to where we resource and put more bikes. >> thanks. >> thanks. >> thank you. colleagues, seeing no further comment, is there a motion to forward item number 5, the resolution to the full board with recommendation? >> so moved. >> okay. and can we take that motion without objection? that will be the order. [gavel] >> mr. clerk, can you please call item number 6? >> item number 6 is an -- >> madam clerk, excuse me. >> item number 6 is an resolution approving the grant of a tieback subsurface easement on assessor's parcel block no. 192, lot no. 035, to the chinese hospital association required for the chinese hospital replacement project; adopting findings that the grant of subsurface easement is consistent with the general plan and the priority policies of planning code, section 101.1, and environmental findings; and authorizing the director of prope

i am opposed to this conversion plan. please vote no to this plan because there will be more homeless people, it is very hard to be evicted especially if you have been in a certain place for many, many years. i have experienced in the process of being eviction, in 1997 when our apartment was bought by a certain (inaudible) of the san francisco apartment authorization. and i thank the board and the tender loin housing clinic who have helped me and (inaudible) my apartment. and it is part, eviction, eviction is death, thank you. >> my name is (inaudible) and i work as a community organizer, but i am not here to talk as a community organizer, that is annoying, i am actually i leave in east bay and it is one of the reasons i can't afford to live in san francisco with my pay and another thing that i want to say is increasingly people have been from san francisco and they have families and such are moving out to oakland, berkeley, parts of the east bay because they can't afford to be here. i remember last year around this time,

that is very significant going to the condo conversion law. and by not having a lottery for at least the next ten years we will have a chance to reassess this whole tic business which has resulted in out of control condos and irresponsible sales to these tic owners by real estate speculators and take more advances in rent control housing stock. and i, too, want to reiterate that we have heard today from supervisor farrell that he would like to support these amendments, perhaps with some tweaks, that these are as far as tenants can give and we need to see these amendments adopted as is right now. and again, thanks for all your work, supervisors chiu, kim and yee who is no longer here. thanks. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> hi. i'd like to first of all just say that tenants are in need at this time. and i just really feel like tic owners knew what they were getting into when they purchased properties. and if they felt like they needed to have real estate financing down the line, that maybe they should have bought more modest investments. and th

the basic and the heart of these amendments are quite simple, to allow the existing condo conversion lottery participants to convert over the next few years with the payment of the fee that was proposed in the existing legislation, but to also ensure that as we expedite these conversions and we expect at least 2000 or more tic owners to convert, protect tenants by suspending the lottery for new participants for at least ten years. what i'd like to do, colleagues, in the next few minutes, is to summarize the specific amendments. there are really 7 elements to the amendments that we're offering. and i'm going to give to our clerk copies of the legislation that i'm introducing as well as a summary of them that members of the public wish, if you could please put that on the front table, folks wish to pick them up. so, let me just go through the amendments. first of all, similar to what supervisor farrell's proposal had put out, we will be creating an expedited conversion process, although it will involve a slightly larger class than what supervisor farrell had entailed. it would involve

in terms of the conversation around specifically prop h and the children's fund, some of the conversations that i hope that we can continue to discuss, and this won't be the last time we'll hear it at this committee, is that i'm very curious what we're going to do about the pre-k fund. i know that was a discussion that's come up since we passed this originally in march 2004. you know, sfusd also runs pre-k programs and i think it's incredibly important that as many families as possible get to participate in pre-k from my time on the board of education we learned that pre-k is one of the most important factors in narrowing an achievement gap because there's an achievement gap on the first day school starts in kindergarten. children already come in in terms of a gap on that very first day. so what we can do on the front end is incredibly important so i want to make sure that we are, if we are putting this back to the voters that pre-k is a part of the prop h reauthorization that we have a really robust conversation about where is that funding actually gets allocated to. i know there's alread

a lot of conversations sound promises to the future. one of the concerns i had coming in and not to take away from bullying as the target of the conversation but one of the concerns is discipline of individuals and bringing up the restorative justice model earlier and in california and the country and vast disparities from people suspended and expelled from schools and african-american base and a teenos and often expelled or suspended for things that would typically not merit that type of reaction from administration and authorities at the very least, so in the last panel and this panel i was thinking about social and emotional learning and i see that as a double entand ra. i think it's also a negative thing and this is why. there is a lot of social and emotional learning going on in these schools and especially around the group of individuals suspended and expelled at alarming rates and things of lesser things and goes back to messaging. what type of messaging situations are we imparting on these kids that get suspended for a couple of

so we will come a long, healthy moratorium on conversions. we especially cheer the ones who want affordable replacing housing as the 2500 units go through the conversion process over the next six years after which begins the moratorium. one thought comes to mind on this subject. not everybody can be a home owner but everybody needs a home thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> my name is (inaudible) ricum and i am the board of small property owners and a mom who raised three kids in this city. i read yesterday's chronicle that the board has decreed a year in the family and family friendly policies and preschools and play grounds are fine but where are these families going to live. here is my daughter and son-in-law as examples. their friends and co-workers have faced the same. he is a teacher and she (inaudible) bought a little one bedroom condo south of market, now three years later, with a toddler and an infant, they have to move but where, they are lucky p our flat is empty and they can live there until they save enough to buy a place, b

dpw allowed for an illegal condo conversion. that building should have been captured with the no pass [speaker not understood] legislation passed in 2004. and it didn't happen. there was supposed to be the protections of landlord statement they didn't do an eviction of senior or disabled catastrophically ill person under penalty of perjury. there was also supposed to be confirmation through the rent board and also the human rights commission. both of those entities submitved inaccurate statements that were in complete opposition to all the evidence in the files. ~ committed so, clearly the department of public works doesn't have the infrastructure or funding in place to adequately review all existing applications. ~ submitted so, i'm concerned about this new flood of applications that many buildings that did displace senior or disabled catastrophically disabled tenants will slip through the cracks unless funding in infrastructure. my preference would be to have something -- some kind of oversight outside of the dpw. so, a watchd

a conversation about latinos, coming up right now. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only halfway to completely eliminating hunger and we have work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [applause]tavis: my name is tavissmiley, and i am honored to be the monitor of this conversation, called latino nation, behind the numbers. the numbers are clear. his community is growing exponentially in america. 25% of our students in school identify as latinos. this is the new america. we are going to have to come to terms with what it means, what these numbers mean for the future of this great nation. i want to start with my friend tom saenz. the place to start, while we will get to immigration reform, is not with immigration. there is another issue that impacts, concerns, and frankl

i think that kind of conversation is counterproductive. i have written that trying to reach into somebody's head and figure out whether they're a racist or north, an uncle tom or not, is counterproductive. you can never in the that all you can do is look at what they say, look at the impact of their words and look at the history of what they say. so what i say about herman cain is a lot of consecutive conservatives like hem because he talks about place a way they talk about race there arlet of conservatives who are verse sensitive about being accused of being racist but they have beliefs about how race works in society that other people find objectionable. so, if you are going to go and say, well, racism doesn't hold back people back anymore, or if you say that black people have been brainwashed into voting for the democratic party. herman cain said those thing, so if you're a white conservative and believe those things you can say, well, there's a black conservative who thinks these things, too. he can't bay racist. how i can be racist? i

last month we had a conversation. i'm going to ask again, is this a build out, if it isn't, then what is? because today is the day to have that conversation. >> yes. >> as part of our commission meeting we talked about decoupling the actual cca program in the local build out. so what we talked about is that we really have to work with lpi to look at see about a local build out and so at the last commission meeting which you are probably going to talk more about is what were some of the issues that the commission had on the lpi model and the major was a billion dollars of bonding for a bunch of projects behind the meter and what had to come online to fit the model. i think that was the concern. so we are really planning on trying to see what appetite we have as far as building a local build out because once you start planning on local build out, you are going to have to sequel. so the question is what do we have an appetite to really fund. meanwhile we know that everyone enjoys going solar and it a job creation so that

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the holocaust museum is marking its 20th anniversary today, and already today some 1,000 holocaust survivors and world war ii veterans gathered here for former president bill clinton. we covered that live, and you can see it at c-span.org. while we wait for this to get under way, we'll hear about homeland security issues after boston marathon bombings. >> and today marks two weeks since the boston marathon bombing. even as the investigation comets, law enforcement officials -- continues, law enforcement officials and lawmakers continue studying the incident for lessons learned. we're joined now by a former white house special assistant for homeland security and director of the george washington university's homeland security policy institute to discuss these issues. mr. salufa, lots of discussion on the sunday shows yesterday over whether the u.s. information system failed leading up to this incident. want to play a clip graham yesterday, senator lindsey graham on "face the nation

repeal the conversion of more than four unit buildings into condos. [speaker not understood] small, medium, and large families, rentals, not to be converted into condos. number two, as muni says on their signs in froth of the bus, we want equal justice for all. number three, the french proclaim, liberty, equality, and [speaker not understood]. liberty, equality, and [speaker not understood]. god commanded love your neighbor as yourself. number five, [speaker not understood] love you and want you to live forever in paradise. [speaker not understood]. and happy easter to all. >> thank you very much. thank you. is there any additional public comment? and this is item number 1. the tic matter is item number 2. so, is there any other public comment for item number 1 having to do with the amendment of the planning code, not the tics? no, that is the next item. is there any additional public comment as to item number 1? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> colleagues, this matter is in the hands of the committee. >> i have one more question. i a

i think one of the things that commissioner wynns always reminds me that is left out of this conversation i think is so important and i hope that she will correct my numbers if i get these wrong, but over the last 10 years the san francisco unified's actual budget has slung by 20 percent. it's gone from $500 million dollars to $400 million dollars. well, the city has run a budget deficit, its actual budget dollars have increased in the same time frame. its expenses have gone up faster than its revenues have, but at san francisco unified the actual dollars have gone down while expenses and pension obligations continue to rise. so i think it's an incredible thing that the voters of san francisco have 100 percent of the time supported local funding for our public schools and for our children and that the only place that there ever seems to be a debate as to whether there's an appropriate use of local funds, of the city funds for public schools is inside this chamber. the voters have already spoken and that 100 percent of the time we support these local funds. and so i think that that's a rea

the conversations we have with this new law and the conversations we have fundamentally if the business is having issues, it will be harder for us to maintain the job count that we want. it will be harder for us to hire folks. those are realities that we live with as business owners. difficult issue for us to just say, we are excited that obamacare is here. on the other hand, i have visited emergency rooms. you -- go to an emergency room on a saturday evening in a major urban center and that will be enough for you to say, we need something to change. >> obamacare is a very positive development to urban areas? -- that public health systems provided services to everyone, including the undocumented. as should be the case with an institution that is dedicated to caring for the most vulnerable populations in society. having said that, the strain placed on the public health system is very significant. one that is unsustainable, but for some intervention. enter obamacare. obamacare is enabling us to expand the number of individuals who are covered by medicare, thus insuring the first time that

where does this take this conversation now? well it just was received in the last couple of days that they intercepted the conversation. the shame is that, you know, in 2007 when the first letter came from the russians, the investigation was conducted at that time, they did not provide the underlying basis for why they believed tamerlan or the younger son was being radicalized. so there was no way to know were they picking up rumors on the street or was there some for definite information. that doesn't come out until this week when they finally say guess what, we had a wiretap. now the fbi going through phone records an internet records would have seen that tamerlan is talking to him mother. so you wouldn't normally expect that the mother and the son are going to be talking jihad and all of that. so no information about that was furnished to the fbi back at the time the investigation was run. and then when the fbi says we're going to have to close this, we've done everything we can do, please give us more information, they aske

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we'll be back tomorrow for our final conversation about latino conversation beyond the numbers. until next time good night from los angeles. thanks for watching. and as always keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley on pbs.org. tavis: join me next time on the final night o our conversation with latino thought leaders about the influence and political power. that's next time. we'll see you then. >> there's a saying that dr. king had. he said it's always the right time to do the right thing. i just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. >> we know that we're only about halfway to completely eliminate hunger. and we have a lot of work to do. wal-mart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we could stamp hunger out. >> brought to you by american income life and national income life insurance companies, protecting working families. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

last night'so see conversation. i started this program last night by listing all the accolades you receive, and --ar, an attorney, an emmy, a tony, an emmy, a grammy. what does all that mean to you? >> in one way absolutely nothing, and in another way, is very important, because i am a those awards.earn i did not buy them. them. got one reason it is so meaningful to me is because of who gave it to me. i grabbed them. i was so undignified. all morning i rehearse. and your head so you can put the metal over you and all that, and i am about the fifth one he calls to the podium common and i oh!s there and go, i am surprised i did not put my leg around him. michelle was there, and i went, fine. >> you can get away with that. she has earned the right to hug and kiss and squeeze the president. it is a life well lived at 81. she ain't slowing down. i do not believe she is 81, but that is what her driver's license says. even with two nights, i have not done justice to what you will read in this book. it is inspiring. if dise

this is why these kind of conversations are so helpful and we no doubt learn more from you than we could ever impact. that is because there is no one size fits all to this. this is about, it is what gives rise to cultures that promote a bullying and harassment on a regular -- are about community and it's about what feeds into community. now, some of those tools, as tom mentioned, as we've been talking about, are very much the civil rights laws. in my mind, having had the privilege of working on education issues for a very long time, i have come to realize that the civil rights laws are the most, have been historically the most sorely underutilized tools for change. it is in the context of civil rights as we talked about with the lgbt community. we have also, as tom mentioned, seen and we were reading about all too frequently a kind of bullying and harassment for students of certain religious groups. in our guidance we also made it clear while we don't have jurisdiction over religion in the same way we don't over sexual orientation, what we're seeing in all of these -- and all of these ar

and so part of the challenge moving forward and i have had many conversations with superintendents and law enforcement officials as well about how we can address this data integrity issue and how a school won't be hoisted by their own petard because they had the courage to collect the data when other schools kind of look the other way. so, again, it's a hard question to answer in ways that are other than anecdote. there have been survey data and things of that nature, but i feel uncomfortable saying unequivocally this is what we know, these are the trends. i like to be evidence based and i'm not sure the evidence allows that. >> roslyn, challenges to you and secretary duncan. >> for the first time you can see data for the first time about the -- discipline and students referred to law enforcement, suspensions more than once. on the bullying and harassment we are also collecting for the first time ever data on the number of incidents of students disciplined for bullying and harassment. they are not exactly reliable. lots of folks aren't collecting this. our collection is at the school l

so i just wanted to talk for five seconds about condo conversion and what it means. condo conversion, i think without a doubt is the last protection of the rental stock that we have. for many different reasons, increases in condos will drive up the rental market. that being said i think that the moratorium is the best compromise that this has come to and i support it as amended right now with no further down the line compromises. i want to talk about the idea of crisis and the home owner's crisis and with respect to the many tic owners who are in foreclosure right now. the fact is that san francisco has been in foreclosure crisis for the last since the economy crash, last year was a bad year which impacted all of our rentals and there has been ways to look at organizing and supporting the community around that and i think that it is hard for me to see this group as being exceptional in wanting protection with all due respect. and i just want to talk on the mission resident and right now, the average price of a 1, bedroom is like 2,000 or something, and somewhere in t

four units or three owner occupants for buildings that are 5 to 6 units, would be eligible for conversion once they meet the six-year occupancy requirement. so, that's the first piece of our amendments. the second piece of our amendments -- by the way, if there are not enough copies, there should be. folks can stop by my office down the hall and we can certainly make more copies and this will be online shortly. the second element, though, as i alluded to before, would be a suspension of the lottery. and a slightly complicated formula but it would be as follows. the lottery would be suspended for at least a minimum of 10 years. the maximum period of the suspension would be the number of converted units divided by 200, which is the current annual number under the lottery. and then there's an additional element that supervisor yee had suggested that if the city were to produce affordable housing units beyond both 300 per year envisioned under last year's proposition c, 2012 housing trust fund and the number of units that are converted under the lottery, the suspension could be closer to 10 y

, in the back of our minds with these conversations i see it as important. i don't have all the solutions and answers but i think it's important to add that perspective to the conversation. >> point well taken. >> i have the answer. >> okay. alice has the answer. >> i don't mean to be facetious and worked as a teacher and nonprofit organizationses, both in media and out and now for a for profit company if we spent as much money and time as training teachers as i became a teacher i think my big skill coming out i went to nyu and bachelor's in elementary ed. i could thread a projector with the best of them and my career in the 70's and in the last panel "if you had all the money what would you invest in?" . i would invest in education and we're not investing in the future of the children and the in the country and the global future of our world and i agree absolutely with everything you said. we're short changing our kids and not giving teachers the resources. there is mold in the teacher's work room. if i worked in the building that many children go to school

what you can, what you can't do, and also determines the cost, so we have that conversation. where do they want to be? where do they want to open up their business? in certain areas of the city to open up a kof a is permitted as a right and in certain areas it's a conditional use and a conditional use process could be up to four to six months and additional timing to get your business open, and approximately additional $4,000. then for businesses that are corporations or llc's they need to form -- they need to do a business formation and that is registering with the state. sole proprietary tors do not need to do that but they need to get a registration with the city and county of san francisco and then the irs to obtain their tax id, employer identification number. the tax and treasurer's office -- any entity or business that does business within the san francisco boundaries for seven days or more in a calendar year needs to obtain a business registration and that is -- in san francisco we call it a business registration. that business registration. they may need to and most

conversation. because it is clearly not just about tic. but happy to support these amendments and send it out with a positive recommendation. >> thank you, supervisor kim. >> so, i want to thank everyone who spent a lot of time in negotiations around this. even though i am a co-sponsor of the legislation because of the brown act and president chiu's involvement i was unable to participate in those discussions consistent with my obligations under the open government laws which is unfortunate because i wanted to be involved in negotiations and the discussions. you know, it is this, and however many other hearings that we have had have really brought to the forefront a lot of the very, very legitimate and understandable anxiety across the spectrum, in terms of home owners, fee owners and tenants about the affordbility crisis in our cities. unfortunately and this is not true for many of our public commentsers, but we have some commentary about this legislation on both sides. where the other side gets d