dufty. and now we will take questions from the council first and then we will have public comment. councilmembers? chip. >> thank you mr. dufty. i didn't know much about the program about hope at all and at first glance it's innovative, compassionate, and smart. i like how you look at people with different levels of disabilities and different types of disabilities and try to achieve accommodation for that. it's very important. yeah, i kind of don't know where to start. i have a few comments. i work at the needle exchange at glide and i see the folks lining up outside to sleep in the cold for the following day's beds and it's highly discriminatory with people with any mobility issues, for women, for just anyone who might feel their safety is compromised by laying on the street. it's disturbing, and i would really like to see some efforts go into examining that system and seeing what we can do about that. yeah, yeah. i have personal experience being homeless, and this was before cell phones an

dufty at sfgov .org and i have a team of three individuals that work with me. we love going to anyplace and invite us to come and see something or participate and i will share with director johnson information both about the cell phone life lines and ways that we can partner together. i think it's very exciting to do things together. i will try to think of individuals who have overcome adversity to be successful in programs that might be good to bring to your attention, and you can certainly help me in this work, and as i said just even if it's appropriate and you send a letter to chp to say that you have consistent advocacy around smoke free environments and supportive is a great thing and i will think of people to present before the council as i am so you know what is going on in terms of affordable housing and other initiatives important to the consichancy served. >> thank you very much. oh my god we go back. >> we always hug on muni. we make muni a party bus. >> exactly, thank you. thank you very much dufty and now we will be opening this up for public comm

dufty. >> good evening commissioners. joel dufty, dbi. this permit was obtained for a notice of violation. we received a complaint about the rear studio at the building. we issued two notices of violation and an order of abatement has been issued and posted on the property on december 6, 2012. we generally like to keep this in place and get the work done. it appears that the construction was done many, many years ago because there was no penalty on the violation which we normally said the work was done pre-1960 so i am available for any questions. >> have you received any response from the requester from the notices of violation? >> only that they came in and got their permits to comply with it but i didn't receive anything. they acted on the notice of violation to pull the permit and pay the permit to keep the illegal studio apartment. it's illegal with the studio in the year on the ground floor. >> so you didn't engage in that conversation? >> no, not me personally. if they came to the department but i'm not aware of it. >> it's illegal

i wanted to make a couple of comments and i wanted to ask supervisor dufty and again one point i know there are differences in opinion how to proceed with these issues, but one thing that is very clear i don't think that anyone should question or doubt the motives. i think people here are trying to do the right thing, and we may have disagreements how to do certain things, but i know every supervisor here cares about the comments that were made and certainly cares about people, and i think something else that we're probably all in agreement about is the fact that that i am certainly grateful that supervisor dufty and his office are working with the mta because i know they're going to bring a certain level of respect and understanding to the needs of the folks that are impacted that i think is really important, so supervisor i was just wondering if you could tell us about for folks that find themselves in this situation that they maybe you know living in vehicles that are covered -- i mean what are the things we would like them to know and to do? one gentleman i think rightly noted we

dufty is here. yes. he's passing out some information but he will be right up to the mic. thank you very much. it's a pleasure. hey. >> hi everyone. thank you for welcome being me. i am bevan dufty and i am in charge of the housing opportunity, partnerships, and engagement and when i sat with mayor lee and maybe a week ago i said at 57 -- soon to be 58 i was too young to be the director of losing so i asked him for something more inspirational. when you say that it's not portraying winning the hearts in the task. i think that all of you are familiar with individuals who have been helped but most members of our city engage with people or see people who are not succeeding and not engaged with services or we're not getting where we want to go, so i want to take that approach and i am excited to be here because i think we have a shared passion about individuals who sometimes are falling outside of the system or sometimes the homeless system is not meeting their needs so one of the things we did was partner with supervisor zane kim, the coalition on homeless and other groups an

the mayor also talked about his program to address homelessness but i think bevan dufty really covered that better than any of us could and overall the mayor gave a good speech that was well received by our audience. i will skip over my briefing on the single room occupancy grab bar legislation because i think senior and disability action covered that pretty well. what is coming next with the grab bar legislation it will be going before the board of supervisors for their final hearing on february 26 at which time when it passes, and i expect it to pass because it was unanimously approved at the first hearing. after the board of supervisors make their ruling then it would go to the mayor to be signed, and our office will be providing assistance to the department of building inspection, housing inspection services by developing a technical assistance manual to help the sro hotel owners make a grab bar installation that will be truly safe and secure which can be kind of difficult in these older buildings so we want to give them step by step directions how to do it right. for the last two

dufty. >> commissioners, 63 presidio i am familiar with it. i started getting callos it in the middle of last year from the neighbor mr. greenwald, mostly phone calls and more to do probably with tidiness, noise. he was a little concerned about his foundation, stuff like that, so i have been out there about four times. my recent visit i met with the architect to get at the bottom of the complete scope of work and when there are five permits issued on a job -- i mean there is nothing against it. you it do it but if you have a new building you have one big set of plans or pretty much start off, but with these big remodels that we're seeing a lot of in san francisco it's the common practice now to piecemeal the permits maybe to get the permits through because if you submit everything at once maybe it will take a long time to get through planing and building and dpw could take a long time if you show the complete scope of work. a lot of people do it the other way and one to get going and subsequently do revisions. what happens in that process we d

supervisor kim, supervisor yeee, supervisor cohen and supervisor dufty and those are just too name a few. for mercy, these opportunitis are just few and far between. we were talking earlier, barry and i about how many people st. anthony's sees on a regular basis. these 89 affordable housing units and one manager's unit is an unbelievable accomplishment. and the sad thing it's just a drop in the bucket compared to the need we have. i think all of you know that, which is why you are here today. we're blessed to have the leader here today and i wish all your colleagues in congress could be as supportive as you have been over the years so people would understand the need. unfortunately with the situation that we have nationally, the funding for programs like this are really stretched and there is a lot the doubt if we'll see more of this funding in the future. it's phenomenal to have such a champion here today with us to bring that word back to the folks. [phra*-uplt/] >> i'm going to do more thank yous as we go through the process, but i wanted to just turn it over to barry to talk a li

20 -- i'm want sure on the number, veteran vouchers of home units negotiated by former supervisor dufty and i think that is a wonderful and positive thing to share with each other. it's described in the paper today if anyone wants more detail on that. >> thank you. commissioner antonini. >> thank you. i read in interest about the story i think the chairperson of yahoo that ask employees not work from home anywhere and in the future go to their campus to work, and being in the line of work i am it's pretty impossible for someone to work from home so i can't comment on -- unless they're equipped and have the patients go to the homes. i can't comment on tech businesses but seems to me in a creative type of atmosphere you would not as much interaction for employees face-to-face and you can multi-task and network and do a lot of things that aren't easy to did if you're at different locations and the other thing i would suggest being a san francisco resident and having a business here would be as we know many of the employees at these companies are san francisco residents and have to commute

six, presentation by bevan dufty, director of the mayor's office of hope. at 2:30 p.m. there will be a break. the council will take about a 10 minute break. seven, senior and disability action, a presentation by jessica lehman. eight, action item, cochair election. nine, report from the physical access submit. 10, a presentation from the sfmta advisory committee. 11, public comment, items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the mdc. again each speaker is limited to three minutes. 12 correspondence. 13, discussion item, council members comments and announcements. 14, adjourn. >> >> thank you. i have made some changes to the agenda. team six will be prepared before team five at 115 to accommodate our speaker's schedule. can i have a motion to a -- approve the agenda. >> i move it. >> second. >> okay. public -- so we're -- we're back on public comment. oh i am sorry you guys. this is my first time. we are definitely going to agree. we had a second. >> i second the motion. >> thank you very much. we all agree? >> aye. >> next is the public comment, and i ha

supervisor kim, supervisor yeee, supervisor cohen and supervisor dufty and those are just too name a. for mercy, these opportunitis are just few and far between. we were talking earlier, barry and i about how many people st. anthony's sees on a regular basis. these 89 affordable housing units and one manager's unit is an unbelievable accomplishment. and the sad thing it's just a drop in the bucket compared to the need we have. i think all of you know that, ic

dufty said he was called out there for complaints -- >> we heard the report. >> we submitted the report from them and this is a safe project. they're going beyond for the safety of them and the neighbors. >> i understand that. your list of future permits are minor items and curb cuts and minor items until you won't finish until the end of the project anyway. >> right. >> one last question. i guess they were at the project site today and the garage door had been wided. >> if mr. sanchez checks his email there say picture that has been removed. nobody knows why it was there. we speculate maybe the previous builder made a mistake. it's not being widened. the garage is finished. they took a sledge hammer as soon as it was pointed out. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> it appears that one issue is related to the designation of the garage. more quantitative. when i looked at the finish drawing for what it represents doesn't appear the garage can fit five cars. that is one issue. you had another issue with the new windows and the appropriate -- either environmental or historical resour

i am bevin dufty director of hope and engagement for mayor ed lee and i overwhelming there are construction vehicles and boats and other things that are impacting neighbors and the community, but unquestionably because of homelessness in san francisco there are people that reside in their vehicles and have the opportunity to work with families living in their vehicles and others and i know the coalition and individuals that are impacted are here and i am interested in hearing their perspective going forward. some information i want to share our city's homeless count was done and we had 500 individuals dispersed in the city that were involved and identify vehicles that people were living on. imon of them were knocked on. nobody flashed a flashlight but to identify those vehicles. that data is verified by a third party so it's carefully reviewed so we will not have that until the 20 of march -- >> excuse me. i have a question. who is verifying the data? >> it's a third party contractor and megan owens from the board is responsible it and they have a haven'tor working with them and these numbe

there is an interesting program that's being commended by bevan dufty. our city has secured a million dollars in state funding to expand and improve our shelter system such as the one i'm living in at providence. this bayview shelter requires approval by the city planning commission. there will also be an opportunity to participate in that process later this year, he he said, and again there will be a public notice. if approved, there will be a competitive bidding process to designate the shelter operator. i was going to offer a name of a church. i know there are many you know here in the city including st. francis of assissi. i would like to offer up saint john's church and mother brown as a parties -- participant for three reasons. one is the brain trust we allow. also the second reason * of course is the teachings of the prophecy by john of jesus christ. and third, an address [speaker not understood] 66 sixth street. i would like to include -- have i run out of time? >> you have 20 seconds left. >>> thank you. you're part of the contract. god told him

i also see former supervisor bevan dufty who is in the audience that represented the castro districtepresented by harvey milk. (applause) >> i see our city attorney, dennis herrera who is here and whose office has been fighting for the rights of our community to marry the person they love. (applause) >> so thank you, dennis. i see donna who is another institution in the lgbt community. [cheering and applauding] >> so, in closing, i want to say that the way that i remember george moscone, the way that i remember harvey milk is to simply be true to who i am and to not be afraid to be who i am, even if it means doing and being something that is unpopular at times. thank you. (applause) >> thank you so much, supervisor. i wanted to acknowledge our co-sponsors today, the san francisco -- san francisco. the harvey milk foundation which was started by stuart milk and myself, worked to put this on in partnership with the san francisco harvey milk gay democratic club, gay and lesbian democratic club, the harvey milk civil rights academy and of course the gay men's chorus who are performing he