>>president david chiu: thank you very much. can i ask you to submit your comments to us. >> we advocate reasonable regulations and procedures. >> okay. thank you very much. we look forward to those comments. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> what i would like to ask if we can continue this item to march 13th. >>supervisor london breed: before we do, i want to get some clarification on what this means for non-profit organizations? >> the only real change that we make here is that when developers are trying to influence decisions around environmental impact reports, message orp developers there is a requirement that a developer who makes a contribution more than $5,000 to a non-profit organization to disclose that. we are often lobbied by many individuals around various project and we have non-profit organizations which approach us that have received contributions in the past. it doesn't say those contributions can't be made. it just that there is transparency around that so we can

use & economic development committee i'm supervisor scott wiener and malia cowen and joined by david chiu i want to thank sftv moimentd. >> yes. phones, devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room plea of april 1st agenda unless otherwise stated. >> we will be calling the items a bit out of order items 1 and 5 will be lengthy and we're going to call 2, 3, 4 first. so madam clerk item 2 >> that's an ordinance for the rent board to adjusted the tenant household for less than 20 days according to the consumer price index and president chiu. >> this is pretty straightforward to adjust the low avoidance payments for the consumer price index and there's a flat cap on what tenants can receive this is legislation that will require the rent board to you adjust this using the formula cost inflation and is there any public comment i want to thank the rented board for bringing this to your attention. >> thank you. any public comment on item 2. >> i'd like to suggest you should do 60 percent d bye b i and it should be at 60 perce

which >>president david chiu: thank you. the proposition placed this on the battle -- ballot, this is a measure overwhelmingly passed by voters and i have a cosponsor as supervisor wiener for the implementation and reduce the heavy burden that our residents and country faces from pharmaceutical drug prices. the united states spends more on pharmaceutical drugs than all of our country. even though the law addresses major problems with this. the issue of high cost is left untouched. to keep up with our cost, the department of public health has reduced by 25 percent over the last 5 years. we are paying $23 million of taxpayer money while drug manufactures have made billions of dollars in profits. these are tax dollars going to our schools and making our neighborhood safe. but unfortunately even our residents that have good coverage are spending this money on medications. there are a lot of complicated issues that under lie why drug pricing is so high. there are a couple things that i would like to note that i have certainly exp

to my left is supervisor david chiu. our clerk is erica major and we'd like it thank jim smith and jesse larsen at sfgov-tv for staffing this meeting. madam clerk do you have any announcements? >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. item acted upon today will appear on the march 25th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> all right, thank you. and madam clerk, can you please call the first item? >> is there a motion [speaker not understood]? >> i'll make that motion. >> all right. motion to recuse supervisor breed from our meeting today. >> item number 1 is an ordinance amending the campaign and government conduct code to expand the definition of a lobbyist; expand the definition of an officer of the city and county; expand the list of reportable lobbying contacts; hold employers and clients of lobbyists jointly and severally liable for violations of thi

i'm david chiu and i'm proud to represent our board of supervisors and the assistant district attorney and the domestic violence advocates fights on the front lines. i want to thank you all for being part of our city of love. in 1967 san francisco started the love and san francisco started love again, when we allowed lgbt couples to marry and on 1r58dz we're saying once again we know how to love and it doesn't 0 involve love against our women, children or families (clapping) i want to take a moment and recognize someone. 14 years ago the brutality murder of one person shocked us her soul and spirit is with us in that time in 1y67 we had one thousand domestic homicides a year and we've gone 44 months without one. loss month another woman died at the hands of her man. one out of the 3 look to our left and your right someone in your sight has been a victim but as we look at our horizon remember we share a dream a dream that someday no woman and child and family will not suffer from violence in san francisco. let me close if you could see what we see you're a beautiful mosaic of san franci

david chiu/supervisor de san francisco 8:34:13 today americans buy more than half a billion of plasticvery week, which is enough to circle to globe twice. el autor de la medida dijo en rueda de prensa que estados unidos consume 500 millones de botellas de agua cada semana, suficiente para darle la vuelta al mundo dos veces. 44:26:16 this ordinance passed on first read. y la decisin fue unnime.. los 11 supervisores aprobaron la ordenanza que restringe el agua embotellada en propiedad o eventos municipales, e incrementa y fomenta el acceso a agua de la llave. s.o.t. joshua arce/comisión de medio ambiente de san francisco 16:48:02 el ley dice que no podemos usar o no podemos vender botellas plasticas en eventos, en lugares públicos. los impulsores seÑalan que este es un paso importante para incrementar el acceso a agua limpia y segura de la reserva hetch hetchy que surte a san francisco.. 140 ciudades, estados, parques nacionales y universidades han implementado normas para liberarse del agua embotellada. s.o.t. katherine sawyer/corporate accountaibility international 12:40:20 water is pu

use & economic development committee i'm supervisor scott wiener and malia cowen and joined by david chiu i want to thank sftv moimentd. >> yes. phones, devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room plea of

i speak on behalf of david chiu we speak about your cities different whether in san francisco or speaker prooerz has noted a strength throughout the state that will not be a strength unless their adequate communication particle in areas of emergency services and health care. this particular bill makes yet another strong effort to make sure that we can draw down invaluable fund fund that we would use effectively to make sure that health care is provided in the most meaningful way and health care under the federal act we've been working on for a long, long time i'm sure you're aware of san francisco had a healthy sf in working with net incomes and others that have been very effective in this we were able to breach a lot of cultural barriers but we know there's jurisdictions throughout the state that continue to struggle. we've got to make sure that health care is for everyone where their seniors or gnlts or protecting individual. that's why this bill is important. i know to thank speaker prooerz he is helping services and been helpful to san francisco for a lot of the years in the assembly

thank you very much and now i'd like to introduce the president of the board of supervisors david chiu >> good morning. i want to thank for coming to this seldom memorial for those who have fallen and serviced on behalf of may colleagues at board of supervisors i join any mayor in saluting the mainstream in the san francisco fire department particularly those who it died with their boats off we are a city had or that has burned and our firefighters have helped us time and time again. when tom o common practice briefed me on the links from an firefighters and cancer 2 hundred and 35 firefighters and 5 within the last is 3 months we've studied that 35 thousand firefighters around the countries have sharperly elevated cancer risk. too many people have had to fight for the san bernardino county in the environment. we have lead the way for our public servant and this is why i'm introducing lefthsz that any member of the san francisco fire department is diagnosed with cancer we'll presume that is due to your job unless there's - (clapping) and i want to say it this presumption you'll be elig

i don't think - i think that the planning and david chiu should go back to the drawing board and look at what they are he trying to do with the legal units. thank you very much >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm john. for more than 40 years i've seen this legislation and each time there's the chronic complaint but with was it didn't do i'll tell you what it does as an architect i've found a boarder spectrum of people who need this housing it's not only the process between the landlord and tenant i find this with all of the cases that i've found to their dismay my clients very much find in the process of remodeling their building that had a non-compliant unit 0 they could only remove the unit and we have a piece of legislation that ribbons this and in the eastern neighborhoods it is not meeting the supply so to retain the units that are the most affordable and remaining them it of utmost importance. the time spent on supervisor chiu's working group i find a broad spectrum of people who are giving talking about the problems and they've hammered out a reasonable piece of

we are also joined today by supervisor david chiu. madam clerk, are there any announcements? >> yes. please silence all cell

. >> thank you very much for kneeing and to the leadership of supervisor jane kim and david chiu for thinking about a strong ultimatetion program that's helping us to address the eviction crisis that's hitting residents and artists as supervisor campos said and community based orchestras and arts organizations. i think the work you're doing with the work group will be informative for a lot of groups i didn't want supervisor campos comment we're not letting the tech companies off the hook but to pay their fair share they're part of as well. i want to thank the budget analysis for the eye-opening report they did that points to the sharing of resources at facilities and a lot of other resources that supervisor chiu is going to help the artists organizations to utilize their resources but i'm hoping we can share that and to talk about the displacement crisis that's increasing in our community in mine as well >> supervisor campos. >> thank you president chiu. first of all, i thank supervisor breed for adding the points will be the community arts center like in the mission and the mission

>>president david chiu: i have a couple of questions for the public. can you tell us what drugs come under this program? >> about 1/3 of our program. >> this program allows us to get from others. the bottom line is we are paying through one part of our system for lower prices because they are negotiated through the federal government but two parts of our drugs we purchase don't have that same level of lower prices. >> right. we use the organization to negotiate prices for the groups and it only applies to outpatient. >> on the drug purchasing that we do through innovation, my understanding is that the city and you are under agreement not to discuss the pricing? >> if i were to disclose somebody's price then the supplier might not be able to negotiate with me in the future. >> i understand that. from the city's perspective, we as policy makers we can't compare them to know what other low prices are in other parts of the country. >> correct, the prices we pay. as far as the prices to consumers, those are public. >> right. could i ask our city attorney, a

we are also joined today by supervisor david chiu. madam clerk, are there any announcements?yes. please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the march 4th, 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. and i'd also like to

i'm pleased to be with david chiu >> i want to thank you and all the men and women that behind me who have addressed a series of headaches i know within councilmember kersey district. in recent years we've seen a wild, wild west open our streets this is a way to bring order to our city and asking companies to pay a fair share. the fact is the men and women behind us have been thinking intellectually and based on facts what rules we need to make sure we're minimizing congestion on our streets and folks not to have to travel in private cars or be in vehicles where a multiple people are and our roads are are properly maintained. i want to thank all the companies with working with our sfmta and the mayor to get it right. we're going to get it right and that work will help us to grow as a 21st century. it's fitting in this press conventions you have mayor ed lee and other supervisors we will l be asking voters to help are the infrastructure. i want to thank the technology companies and the world leading companies who are helping us and i know they'll be working side to side with us to make

use & economic development committee i'm supervisor scott wiener and malia cowen and joined by david chiut to thank sftv moimentd. >> yes. phones, devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room plea of april 1st agenda unless otherwise stated. >> we will be calling the items a bit out of order items 1 and 5 will be lengthy and we're going to call 2, 3, 4 first. so madam clerk item 2 >> that's an ordinance for the rent board to adjusted the tenant household for less than 20 days according to the consumer price index and pr

-- or in two weeks i'd like to add a discussion around the broadway, what the legislation that david chiu has -- i think that we as a commission, since it is fitting, might want to have another talk about that, is my feeling. >> did you want any sort of action, or just a discussion? >> discussion, possible action. >> and commissioner, would you request that a representative from supervisor chiu's office come to update any changes? >> either that or have them available for us to read. >> okay. >> or if they want to come and tell us what's going on, that would be great, but -- >> i think it'd be great if they could come present so we have someone to talk to. >> okay. >> any other -- >> next week, i just wanted to say whenever they can make it. >> okay. >> any other new business items? >> do you guys want to talk anything about, you know, broadway's party bus situation or that's something kind of beyond our scope. seems like we're all tangled up in it all the time. >> i'd like to say i brought that up, you know, several times in my team

use & economic development committee i'm supervisor scott wiener and malia cowen and joined by david chiu i want to thank sftv

office and all of our public safety initiatives and on the eastern end of our district supervisor david chiu from district 3 is also in the tenderloin in the lower union square area. we have three special assessment districts. we work closely with the cbbd and the union square improvement district is also in the tenderloin and as is the civic center community benefit district. now, the union square bid recently went from 10 square blocks to 27. you will see part of those 27 blocks, the red outline is what is carved out for the tenderloin. we used to have a full time officer who was dedicated to the 27 blocks in the grid. now we share that responsibility with the central district which is north of the red line the tenderloin in the southern district. i think it's important to illustrate one of the social issues that we have in the tenderloin. i push this information out in the week and i think it's important to discuss these issues that challenge this area. there is a red dot that include all the alcohol sale outlets. that cluster there is the tenderloin. this is your core of liquor stores ge

to my left is supervisor david chiu. our clerk is erica major and we'd like it thank jim smith and jesse larsen at sfgov-tv for staffing this meeting. madam clerk do you have any announcements? >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. item acted upon today will appear on the march 25th board of supervisors agenda unless