also dpw talked about the healthy streets operation center. the health department also has an active role in that program. when calls come in from 311 the health department is there and able to hear if it's an issue where it's just syring syringes. how can we utilize resources with our city partners to address the issues of people out on the streets. so there's multiple different avenues of safe disposal that we are working on. we are working on the sweeps with peers and that's a way for the community of users to get involved in safe clean up and then receive an incentive. some that have volunteers for programs have been going to go and get full time employment. >> supervisor fewer: so we have kiosks that are placed throughout the city at hot spots; is that correct? >> correct. >> supervisor fewer: do you have someplaplaces where therea placed? i have friends in a park and it's green beltway. so i'm wondering do you have any of those that are in other areas where they can just dispose of the syringes? >> currently we do not have any in that ar

i don't know if dpw can answer that. so again, that's something i would like to know. >> would we be allowed to submit evidence regarding the rec and park at this point? >> i think we're requesting dpw to reach out to the city family member in rec and park to show up on the date and provide the information that we are requesting so that would be unnecessary for you to do. >> thank you. >> ok, thank you. so now we move to item 9. let's continue. >> item 9 is appeal number 18-012, subject property 245 11th avenue, albert tom versus department of building inspection, planning department approval. protesting issuance to james she gown of a site permit of existing light court at ground floor for laundry and common half bathroom. application number 2016, 06, 03, 9132 s. we'll hear from the appellant. >> i'm albert tom. the property granted the permit is 245 and the appellant property is 241. my first argument is around youth accessory dwelling units and my argument, infill addition and expansion mean the same thing. building o

a number of different components in puc and dpw. >> supervisor ronen: yeah. i guess what i'm looking for -- this isn't rocket science. you're 1 is 00% affordable project. and here is each department that's going to speed your project through, move it to the department of the pile and work with you hand in hand to make sure there's not a day's delay in your project. i know it's a complicated project, and you have to work on several processes at the same time, including very complicated financing for these projects. i know that -- that affordable housing development in general is very complicated, but parts of it are simplistic, and i just feel like if we really have this robust priority processing system, it should be much easier to -- to figure out who the person is, how we jump to the front of the line, exactly how much time is saved. you know, that we're making sure that anything we can do in advance of things coming to the department once they get there are quicker and they get done. and i guess i'm just not seeing that level of prioritization of these pro

we just call the dpa and make this request that they not remove the sign>> thought we had -- snshgs dpw. sorry. can we make that? >> thank you. >> commissioners on behalf of the chief's office we made that request in the past and i will make it again. >> thank you so much. >> secretary can you prepare a letter for the dpw for my signature to that effect as well, please? thanks. >> next speaker. next member of the public? next one of yous. all right. thank you so much. public comment on items 1a through d is now closed. secretary, next line item. >> line 3 discussion and possible action to approve revised department general order 2 .04 complain04 complaints agas and draft memorandum and understanding between department police accountability. and meet and confer bross the police officers association. discussion and possible action. >> all right. dgo2 .04 complain04 complaints officers and the draft mou. my good right hand, our good right hand adwon is out ill and not able to help us guide through. i've had several meetings with the department and the dpa on the issues. i will ask -- well

the commanding officer and chief the head of dpw and supervisor, we can council -- counsel, r retrain and remove that officer from that type of environment. for us to handle it we can handle in multiple ways and we have gotten complaints. for a department from the fire department to the chief taking care of going vernment agencies how it's to work. i don't discount members of the public making complaints. i think dpa could also involve city agencies with how the complaint process works out. they all have westbounds -- websit websites. when it comes from a person officially doing work with the san francisco police department on duty and that person sees behaver that needs to be corr t corrected it needs to be brought to the department's attention to handle that. if you give this power to the dpa what the chief is asking res and the department would like, under the charter the chief without a complaint can investigate anything through the department. we ask that we are neildly notified and receive the documentation so if we need to -- our preference is to keep us as the first line to ha

i'm sure that you've had an opportunity to read the briefs prepared by crown castle and dpw. i have to note for the average resident, the playing field is not level as you heard from a prior appellant a little while ago. the process is daunting. the legal costs to seek review of arbitrary decisions made by large corporations can be exorbitant. in the case of crown castle and dpw they've had the benefit of having legal counsel throughout the process, where as mr. daigian was only able to recently secure counsel. he hasn't had the opportunity to scrutinize if all the requirements have been met through the process. i'll note that one of the area residents who will speak later today receive an incomplete package and what i believe would be a defective notice. crown castle and dpw, they cite article 25 of the public works code, telecommunications act, which relies on very dated scientific data, the adverse health impact to frequent exposure. and they can pride themselves on advancing policies that serve the residents, however because telecom companies have spent millions of dollar

i just want to appreciate dpw for your incredible work. i, too, work with you pretty much every day, and i really think that this use of unassigned funds in our current budget makes perfect sense. now if we were tapping into reserve funds or some other source of funding, i would have reservations and think we should plan it according to the normal budget process, but given it -- the condition of our streets and how hazardous the condition is -- the materials are, i would say that this is appropriate. i do want to appreciate chair cohen for the approach you're taking to the budget this year. i'm really excited about it. i think it's the type of leadership that we need. i think it's going to make us have a different experience than we've had in previous years. i appreciate your comments, supervisor cohen, and i'm really excited about participating in the process that you've setup, but i'm really in support of this supplemental whether it's the full 2.5 million amount or a lesser amount that we might discuss in a minute. i do think it's somet

another company, verd, sent a statement wb enforcement by the dpw. spokesman kenneth baird said the city respects this effort and pledged they would increase its effort to educate riders. the city's land, use and transportation committee will raise legislation aimed at these three companies. that meeting will be held here tomorrow afternoon at city hall at 1:30 p.m. reporting live in san francisco, for nbc bay area news. >> thank you. >>> house minority leader nancy pelosi took to the streets protesting. nbc bay area is live to explain. >> reporter: today nancy pelosi called this republican tax law an attack on working families. one rb we spoke with here in san francisco says it may just come across as anti-president trump. >> so this is a complete fraud scam -- >> reporter: house minority leader nancy pelosi says the rub tax law will have long-term effects. >> by the way, it's unfair to america's working families and the taxes in the bill stop, corporate america's tax continue. >> reporter: speaking today in san francisco at the labor council she sa

dpw has an impressive amount of curb ramps. also the ada transition plan should be updated, it's been many years since the previous update. much progress has been made in constructing curb ramps, but much remains to be done. according to the february 20, 2018 board, there are 9701 locations in san francisco with no curb ramps, where a curb ramp could be constructed. meaning there are no physical constraints that prevent construction. there are 5511 curb ramps with scores below 70, which means many of those are physically dangerous and present a liability risk for san francisco and need to be replaced with new ones. all told, 15,212 new curb ramps need to be constructed and at this time pass some existing curb ramps with 70 or above, need to be replaced. if the goal of 1300 curb ramps per year, it would make 12 years to construct all the new curb ramps that are needed. if 1500 are constructed, it would still take a decade. considering the ada was passed in 1990, it is simply not right that will take san francisco at least 10 or

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these are held typically at the 30 vanness offices of dpw, so that's vanness and market, with multiple muni lines intersecting, and it's after work, like 6:00 to 7:30 so whatever job you have, you can get there. it's not every month, but you can come, make public comment. m.o.d. can get on-line and send it to you folks. i do want to say that separate from, in addition to enforcement regarding what has been already acknowledged as a bike anythiflagrant violation it's going to help if the board makes some resolution or public comment about the need for education and enforcement, and here's why. a couple of years ago i persuaded a then command staff police officer whose responsibility included that area to do a sting for a couple of weeks about bicyclists blowing through the midblock crossing between 7th and 8th, because i mentioned that's where the m.o.d., that's where the b.a.r.t. elevator is, that's where the muni crossing is. it happened for about two weeks. and he was transferred to the equivalent of siberia that's not conducive for advancement career wise. he's back now in the mains

i worked for dpw back in the late 90s and we had litter enforcement officers. there's one for our district that's a supervisor but there needs some enforcement. people are behaving badly. they need to put it out at the right times, lock their bins and be responsible. >> i think this is concluding this very long day of budget priorities. i would like to close out and open up to public comment. if you guys are able to stick around i would love for you to stick around for public >> thank you. i'm robin ross, who is part of the hepatitis c task force and we've come here today because our budget ask, while general, will directly and inappropriately help san francisco achieve cleaner streets. >> which organization? >> san francisco hepatitis c task force. i've spoke with you before. as we heard, one of the biggest complaints is used needles and syringes littering the streets. we're asking for funds to expand the hepatitis c navigation staff because these people are out on the streets. they're talking to people who are doing the drugs on the streets and probably half

at that meeting everyone had pretty much negative comments to dpw about that change. i hope to continue to contribute to making the station safer, more usable and efficient for neighbors if appointed. thank you again for your consideration. >> supervisor safai: thank you. any members of the public wish to comment on these items, please come forward. seeing none, public comment -- >> chelsea approximated uellard from supervisor stefani's office. i definitely want to express important on behalf of supervisor fewer for him. he's a balboa high school student, city college student, has lived in the area for a long, long time, is very interested in transportation policy, and supervisor fewer feels that he would serve the community well, particularly the interests of pedestrians and bicyclists on this advisory board. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you. any other -- >> hi. my name is could ily huffmakyl. i'm a youth commissioner, and i just want to say he's extremely passionate about the community he lives and goes to school in. i can't imagine another person taking th

now it's a matter of talking to the dprks pw and arts -- dpw and responsibilities and whether they have to acknowledge it's part of the art collection then we'll be able to move forward with the hearing full board. i'll keep you updated. but overall, everyone left fairly happy with the way things are moving along. >> president wolfram: thank you. seeing no questions, we can move on to commission matters. item three, president's report. >> no report or anaouncement today. >> item four, consideration of draft minutes for the hisser toic preservation hearing of march 21, 2018. >> commissioners, any amendments to the minutes? at this time we'll take public comment on the draft meeting minutes of wednesday, march 21st, seeing no one to speak we'll close the comment section. >> i move theb they be approved. >> second. >> thank you on that motion for the hearing for march 21st, with 2018 commissioner black. commissioner black. >> yes. >> commissioner johnck. >> yes. >> commissioner pearlman. that passions unanimously 6-0. item five, commission comments and questions. >> looks like we have no c

out and try to work together ahead of time to avoid delays and then when those projects are going to dpw and fire and the mayor's office of disability and possibly the puc, are you working to coordinate and get those in the top of the line? >> yes, under the late mayor lee's housing directive 17-02, the city has assembled a task force and we just finished the action plan, streamlining and strengthening coordinations between city departments to expedite the process. now, back to the point that i make sometimes the design team could cause delay. and since i've become the housing coordinator, i have instructed my staff to take the initiative to contact the design team preemptively. if we don't hear from them in a week or two. so that's ongoing communication with the design team to shorten the review and approval process. >> supervisor ronen: and as the housing director, is there any additional changes that you can think of that can be made knowing these processes inside and out to speed up the projects? >> sorry, can you ask again. >> supervisor ronen: sure. you're living and breathing this

putting them this is the logical thing to do after the city took them out under dpw. also, there must be a police code. i have actually walked down the street and i see people in front of me just dropping things on to the ground. there is no enforcement on that. there must be a police code or another code from dpw or something referring to people just thinking they can throw anything on to the sidewalk. this seems to be a big issue. they pick it out but outside the cb d. this is city wide. people come to drop things on the sidewalk. they are putting in some garbage cans outside these bids there are no large amount of trash. >> thank you. >> i was wondering why the needle exchange program doesn't pay a nickel each for the return of products that they are distributing to the population that is using the needles since they would retape the needles they are using after they have used them. also, i believe garbage can on the curb are a fairly recent practice. when i returned to san francisco some years ago i recall calling the garbage collection agency and explaining that

and then it just goes on to say that dbi and dpw can issue permits allowing work outside of the hours. so we do get a lot of complaints on the jackhammer and impact tools, the noise. they are exempt. so why we sympathize with anybody having to put up with noise, there is not much in our code we can do, or the police code to stop someone from using a jackhammer between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. and again, you know, we did suspend the permits, that's as much as we could do. and in regards to the noise before 7 a.m., we did receive a complaint and we saw the videos that were sent to us as well. our building inspector went out there, spoke to the superintendent and told him to stop it, basically start work at 7 a.m. the 5 decibel exception is -- it's in there because there are certain types of work that happen in san francisco. there is maintenance of buildings. there is people that change light bulbs, there is different types of work, especially in the financial district. so there is that exception, but i personally think that the 5 decibels, it's not for doing this type of work. it shouldn't be

both dpw and the planning commission by unanimous vote have rejected this application. you should do the same thing. in addition, you, the board of supervisors can send a message loud and clear that here in san francisco, we don't tolerate the eviction of seniors, especially not for the purpose of condo conversions. please don't let people profit from this eviction. when iris canada was diing, she asked to go home, home to page street where she had spent half her life, to the paintings, the family photos, her favorite red sofa in the living room. that's all she wanted. please say no to this appeal. thank you. [applause]. >> president breed: thank you. >> clerk: just a reminder to the members of the public, if you are in support of the speaker's comments, please just give him a support of hands. >> good afternoon, supervisors. tony robles representing san francisco senior and disability action. urging you to vote no on this appeal. i, too, was there on the night of iris canada's eviction. the applicants clearly misrepresented the facts on two condo conversion application

so you know, this is actually one program i do have particular experience with, having worked with dpw, helping director nuru to set the 99-16 program up, and the way that we did this over a decade ago was we did work with nonprofits, we did work some with hsa, but not as much then, and it was targeted towards some violence intervention stat gees and first time employment opportunities. and one of the problems i have with at least this proposal is that for me, it's not -- you know, if you just think about it in terms of the streets and the conditions of the street, i think we're all 100% on board. i see that your budget has gone up significantly as it has over the last six years for street cleaning, but when you think about the actual employees themselves, we made a commitment back with the 99-16 a decade ago, to have at least a year or longer, and it was actually a preapprenticeship program, and the idea was they would graduate into potentially permanent positions. and tso the idea of hiring the in a very short of time is you give them a sense of hope, you do hire them for a very shor

. >> so corridor workers as it relates to the dpw program and also working with nonprofit agencies to identify individuals to expand their particular programs. >> yes. >> okay. so i mean in terms of additional hours, do you have any idea of how many additional hours per week we're specifically talking about, and how much of an impact do you believe this would actually have on some of the challenges on our streets? would it be noticeable? would there be a noticeable difference? >> given -- it would depend on the given area. i would have to say that. some areas, we could deploy extra resources, and you would see a significant change. there might be other areas where we would deemploy the resource -- deploy the resources. >> and mr. stringer, you're out there on a regular basis, i know that for sure. could you give us specific examples. you're responsible for allocating the resources for specific areas. and so what would be your plan, and where would you allocate those resources to, and where do you think they would make the most difference? >> there would be a resource allocation defini

dpw related represent about a third of the actual mobile food facility permits. a lot of applicants will operate with off the grid or some of these gathering sites on private property which have already done the work for their use agreement through planning department and such. there's also fiscal decisions for mobile food facilities which operate just an community events which can be cheaper if they operate at a small of them rather than go through the events perevent licensing. that's kind of the big overview of our permitting process. any questions? [ inaudible ] >> once again, thank you very much for the time and preparation of your presentation. the comments that you mentioned that the commissaries are a big part of mobile food facility food delivery. just out of interest, what percentage of the food which is served on food trucks in san francisco is sourced from -- from san francisco or to put it another way, how much of the food -- what percentage comes from outside of the city from commissaries outside of the city? have you done that research? >> not yet.