residential properties that qualify for property assessed clean energy financing in the city and county of san francisco. resolution authorizing the city and county of san francisco to join the californiafirst program; authorizing the california statewide communities development authority to accept applications from property owners, conduct contractual assessment proceedings, and levy contractual assessments within the territory of the city and county; and authorizing related actions as defined in the resolution. resolution consenting to the inclusion of properties within the city's jurisdiction in the california home energy renovation opportunity program to finance distributed generation renewable energy sources, energy and water efficiency improvements, and electric vehicle charging infrastructure; and approving the amendment to a certain joint powers agreement related thereto. >> thank you, madam clerk, so in front of us today we have a hearing which will be relatively short and two resolutions that i am co-responsering with mayor lee, to restart, degree ssf, we approved the legislation to have the d

department of finances the refunding of certain bonds of the redevelopment agency of the city and county of san francisco and authorizing the execution and delivery of redemption agreement by the city of san francisco county of finance and authority and approving other matters relating to various project areas resolution december 2nd , 2014. >> thank you, madam secretary. you will now consider this refunding transaction which is you know as the state department of finance approves and the chair indicated in a previous capacity certainly saves this commission money given current interest rates. with that, i would like to ask john diego to make a brief presentation on the specifics under the compassey of -- capacity of the financing authority. >> thank you, once again my name is john diego, senior analyst. basically resolution no. 2, 2014, approved the execution of the redemption agreement which allowed the bonds that are being refunded allows the refunding to complete. those are three party agreements among the ocii, the financing authority which are the issuer of the bonds that we are refunding and the e

2015, to bring a potential policy issue to you as a policy for the [skpha-urpbs/] city and county of san francisco to be disability and senior-friendly, which means a lot of things. so they will come to you with that and i think you will find it quite an exciting potential policy for the city and county of san francisco. we also have a financial and policy committee. this group is actually working on a special study with the controller's office. which i think is a very -- is going to be very interesting, because they are looking at individual seniors, who are above the medical eligibility. focusing on consumers and caregivers. because they are going to define the income brackets for this particular group and basically we're talking about middle-income people, and as you know in the city and county of san francisco, there is a larger number of people in the middle-income that are kind of getting left behind. and so the controller's study is going to really try to collect the data for this and come to our council for some potential policy issues. we also have another committee and this our newest co

. >> >> welcome back to the three time world series city and county of san francisco. [ cheers and applause ] >> i just want you to remember that phrase because whenever you have residents or people at your commission complaining about something, let them know you are the commissioner of a city of three time world champion, so please take it down. i'm going to welcome everybody here to this wonderful event where i get to rewelcome and also welcome new members of our official city family who are going to spend personal hours of sacrifice and time to help me manage this wonderful wonderful city. today we have some 21 people who are joining the ranks of a variety of 11 different agencies that assist and you are invaluable to this administration. let me tell you that i truly believe that it is through all of your capacities that provide us with the necessary with the necessary public input to run this incredible agencies that is so successful and i impose this with a great deal of seriousness in that we are a city of people, it has always been that way and as we celebrate the centennial what ha

authorizing the mayor's office of housing and community development, on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, to accept and expend an innovation fund research contract in the amount of $442,996 from the u.s. department of the treasury, internal revenue service, for the period of september 30, 2014, through december 21, 2016. >> chair and supervisor campos, thank you so much, office of the tax collector here on behalf of my friends of mayor's office of community develop sxment they have been wonderful in stepping up and doing the processing for the grant that we received, and actually that the contract from the u.s. department of treasury and it is a 443,000 dollars over two years to provide, financial counseling to the residents at the four sf sites and we are going to be testing whether allowing enabling electronic payment of rent, reduces the likelihood of eviction at these four sites and i think that this is a very exciting initiative to bring the high quality, financial service and products to the housing authority residents and to particularly target the residents who are working and th

thompson from the high speed rail group and jillian the director of the policy of the city and county of san francisco and this panel was moderated by dina, and when i attended that discussion, really reaffirmed that the issue must be and that issue must be studied closely, providing the funders of the high speed rail and mou and the opportunity to collaborate on upcoming decisions. we must maximize our operational flexibility and capacity, and passenger accessibility. and it is critical, that the appropriate agencies and funding partners, be informed on the assumptions, alternatives, trade offs, and decision-making criteria to make the best decisions now. decisions to design and build in any up front constraints must be analyzed closely and approved at the highest levels and the key issue now is front and center is the question of uniform height and level boarding, which will drive the vehicle procurement decisions and these decisions will impact transportation, options, and our economy, for decades to come. and i am glad to see the discussion has proceeded to this point and that an update will be pr

"honorable board of supervisors in 2008 the city and county of san francisco board of supervisors established the voting systems -- mr. turner, she's in your county registrar of voters, correct? >> she's the registrar of voters and the president of cabo. she's elected. thank you. at the time and currently the san francisco department of elections was under a contract with dominion voting systems formerly sequoyah voting systems for services. one of own two vendors that responded to a request for proposal for a new system. the report by the task force in 2011 recommended that san francisco be an active participant in the movement toward more open and transparent voting systems. we acknowledge the complexity of moving from the existing marketplace toward more innovative voting systems and urge san francisco to move steadily toward the goal of transparency even if in incremental steps and urge the city to be a strong advocate for transparent systems and open as well to new collaborative developmental models. significant changes have occurred to improve the voting system certification process in

and entered as departments similar within the city and county of san francisco. we recommend consistent with past practices that the benefits and working conditions for our executive director be in accordance with the municipal executives association and the mou, memorandum of understanding. most city department head are represented by nea. to the salary survey, we surveyed eight ports and really looked specifically at five of those which are sea ports. they have a salary, $272,000 as of november 5th of this year. and it ranges between 225 in stockton to 350,000 in long beach. the other salary is 279,000, nearly 280,000, 2 19 for public works [speaker not understood]. our director salary is lower than the average of other sea ports by 21,43 2 and lower than the average of similar department head in the city and county of san francisco ~ by $29,000. as a matter of practice, you typically set our executive director's increase consistent with mea. this year, all mea represented staff have a 3% increase effective october 11th. that is really equivalent to a 2.07% incr

san francisco, recology golden gate, and recology sunset scavenger - refuse collection - not to exceed $44,000,000] resolution approving under charter, section 9.1188bb, a contract agreement between the city and county of san francisco and recology san francisco, recology golden gate, and recology sunset scavenger contractorss, for refuse services, resulting in total compensation to contractors in an amount not to exceed $44,000,000 for the term of december 1, 2014, through november 30, 2020. city clerk: sf 21234 >> i have j d fong who will speak ton this matter today. >> good afternoon supervisors, jackie fong from contact of administration i'm requesting an mou from the city andy -- ecology from november 24th #shgs 2014 to december -- november 30, 2020 , to not compete the amount of $44 million. this amount negotiated 11.4 percent increase in refuse waste in the agreement. the average annual increase for years 1-4 is between 8.25 percent and in addition the mou grants annual cost-of-living judgements to the rates beginning july 2015 through november 20th. this table indicates the city's estimated spend for the term of the contract. the recology group of companies are the only license use of refuse in

finance the issuance and sale of success or agency to redevelopment agency of the city and county of san francisco taxable and tax empty refunding tax allocation bonds in a combined aggregate principal amount not to exceed $300,000. >> commissioners, you have taken a serious of -- series of steps relating to bonds given to current market conditions to help us reduce our debt and will certainly help us and help the city over all. this is the final step in your actions. i'm pleased also to report that the state department of finance has approved this refunding already so it's no longer subject to the department of finance approval. with that, i would like to ask john diegos senior financial analyst to walk over the actions before you. >> good afternoon, director, chair rosales. my name is john diego senior financial analyst for ocii. item c is two series of tax allocations refunding bonds not to exceed $300 million. it confirmation actions adopted september 12th of this year and actions required to complete the financing including the preliminary official statement. the official statement and the co

. >> the congress of the of the united states resolution of the city and county of san francisco board of supervisors calling for the rescission of house joint resolution in the 107th congress authorizes the president to use armed forces in the in the united states as in the united states as he determines to to be necessary bases on lies on wmd and iraq. to call the president into actual service of the of the united states to execute a declaration of war as a commander in chief. 373 members of the 107th congress including elected california elected public officers -- authorized the president to use the armed forces of the of the united states as he determined to be necessary. evading a resolution to declare war as he determined to be necessary at the expense and danger to the people whereas every member of congress and public officer in the united states bound by oath of office and -- to defend this constitution for the united states of america without any reservation. whereas a direct result of duly elected public officers have been deprived of their lives without a resolution of cong

it's now my distinct pleasure to introduce our mayor ed lee with the city and county of san francisco. about a month ago we went to your office to ask you to bring relief to the merchants who have dealt with so much construction. we are grateful. mayor edwin m. lee: thank you for all of your great work at the bid as well. happy holidays! before it rains, i want to make sure you know this, i told you the world series will end the drought. so it's happening. congratulations, everyone. welcome to our pedestrian pop up place right here at union square. i want to begin by saying thank you to the union square merchants, the bid for working so closely with us but a very special thanks to manuela king whose vision and idea here really sparked this and you spent countless volunteer hours just visualizing how this could happen. i'm going to say just a special thank you because it's people like you in this business that really care about what happens down here, what happens with our shops and will is -- also the experience that people should have as they shop here during the holidays. we have on

san francisco. specifically, the geographic area of 17th and if fulson and actually a couple of blocks around that area is actually the lowest point in the city and county of san francisco and because of that it actually has on a yearly basis for as long as we remember, been flooded. and so we know that we expect additional rain in the next few days and so i will simply take this opportunity to thank the puc and to ask them and ask the mayor's office to please work with my office because there's a lot of frustration right now in the in the neighborhood. many homes and businesses have already been flooded and we expect additional flooding to take place and something as basic as simply having sandbags provided to the neighborhoods but i think we may actually be running out of sandbags here in in san francisco ultimately the city will have some responsibility as the flooding happens and we're talking about not just hundreds of thousands but millions of dollars in damages and so we have an opportunity tonight and in the next coming days to be proactive and i know that the department of public works, which is actually not responsible for the flooding that ha

paradigm. >> public comment, please. >> greetings commissioners, david elliot louis, from the county of san francisco and so collaborative which we have members in the audience here about the issue of redistricting. i have 2 minutes. i want to say i'm will also on the cit oversight committee. we have trained over 280 officers in the commission. i'm hoping we are going to get the entire police force trained. regarding redistricting i'm glad to see my neighborhood tenderloin is going to extend it's boundaries. i live near the current boundary of larkin street where some of the drug dealers figured out it's the tenderloin with the precinct in a no man's zone . i think they found a loophole. however i hope that you institute a full public process and get a lot of community feedback in these new boundary proposals and this precinct has given a lot of thought. but the input is more crucial. may believe you will do some here and in public forums. that's all. thank you for your time and attention. >> thank you, mr. louis, we will be announcing all public meetings in all areas especially those affected by red

address the fact beven said that well, the entire community needs to be responding to san francisco it's a city and county of san francisco issue and national issue is but our system does attempt to respond to the concerns of people as they come up we also over homeless storage to people that are looking to find better and more expansive space so people don't have to keep all their belonging to them our resource centers help that includes showers and meals and mother brown's united you council is a parking lot in that program. >> i've talked with the fire captain he's been good about situations where individuals are brought if with medical problems and after their home as left them their picking up them either for clove induced problems is there a system in place to find the homes for people that need that. >> i should mention that san francisco has a enter departmental homeless team trying to engage people on the street that may not have made use of the facilities and housing as the solution permanent support of housing is the primary response of san francisco through the mayor's office of housing and the d

certainly i know the city and county of san francisco has a strong interest in policies and imperatives moving forward and this is an opportunity to hear from all agencies on how discussions have been going thus far. we know that a lot of headway has been made over the last couple of months. i want to appreciate all of our agencies for working so closely together and through the presentations we'll understand both the technical complexities of making this a blended system with compatible vehicle and platform heights. but also figure out what the pathway is to get to space where we're really building a system that is going last us for decades and decades into the future. and so i just wanted to recognize the effort that has already been made on a regional level by both agencies and we look forward to the update that will be happening today. i did want to give an opportunity for my colleagues on land use committee to make opening remarks as well >> thank you, supervisor kim for calling this hearing today. i think it's a very important hearing. and this particular issue about the compatibi