farrell is here. >> is there a representative of many farrell here? >> thank you, commissioners for the opportunity to discuss this matter i'm sure you're aware of we submitted a detailed letter outlining the reasons why we believe strongly that forfeiture is not warranted in that matter and it is on the city's behave of the forfeiture request most noblely supervisor farrell has done absolutely nothing wrong the fcc xhublthd a two year discussion where everyone involved with this looked at hundreds of thousands of e-mails and they completely exaggerated supervisor farrell in demi had not teen any action that warranted any type of fine yet we are here basically 5 years later two elections later with a letter demanding he pay $191,000 perp there's absolutely no factual or local basis for such an equitable request again most notably because he didn't violate the law at all also on a procedural ground the establishment bars the commission if the commission wants to ask the committee to forfeit money back to the city the law says it do very clearly your po

while working for supervisor farrell. >> supervisor farrell certainly takes full responsible for the action of his committee. >> no, he has never said or done anything he fully coordinated with the ftc c and the commission in this matter he was interviewed empty the f bbc an two occasions follow-up phone calls they've determined that given the facts all the information they gathered that it was not - he had done nothing wrong the consultant did, yes the committee they sent out the 3 overwhelms they've talked about in their stipulation and the packet ever materials there is - supervisor farrell is not acquit the opposite he's not very happy to find out what it is it 3 years laterthree or four e-mails and he took responsibility. >> i'm sure he's not happy no one is saying in this factual information that supervisor farrell is an evil man what's being said that the arrangement it was set up clearly violated the section of the san francisco campaign and government code this is that supervisor farrells campaign staff consultant worked with this other committee and channeled illegal campai

chair do you happen to know how much was spent overhead on the campaign the mark farrell campaign. >> i apologize. i don't it might be 2, 3, 4 some of the documents i don't know if you know. >> and i ask because to me. >> several hundred thousands of dollars. >> it brings some of the when you're spending half a million dollars half a million dollars is a lot when you're running for president you spend billion dollars it is a small campaign with hundreds of dollars of dollars on local television so see that amount of activities and that level of an expenditure within a campaign that probably is somewhere in the mid hundreds of thousand dollars it is for me a little bit hard to believe that r a reasonable person wouldn't know about this activity because that amount of money paid for a lot of things it is not a significant immaterial amount of money in relationship to the money spent on the campaign with the xhuchdz. >> everyone told the f b b credit that everyone involved in the campaign had 90 no idea i think corresponding all medical cannabis mail pieces that's when we learned about a

clearly violated the section of the san francisco campaign and government code this is that supervisor farrells campaign staff consultant worked with this other committee and channeled illegal campaign contributions in the form of money and also as all sorts of things to help supervisor farrell that is an illegal campaign contribution that's the one thing that remains left after the mc congressional and the hunching even and citizens united that whole idea that contributions can be closely regulated and illegal attractions can be prohibited and punished as they are under the section that's the only thing that remains to the people in the electrical process if becoming corrupt that's policing campaign attractions if we go ahead and just wave this away we're essentially saying san francisco is saying well, it doesn't matter we have a committee that is channeling this illegal campaign money to supervisor farrell well, we may have not known even though he didn't he is still responsible under the law if we don't have that we'll have this evil man washington his hands in order for this section to hav

committee that is channeling this illegal campaign money to supervisor farrell well, we may have not known even though he didn't he is still responsible under the law if we don't have that we'll have this evil man washington his hands in order for this section to have validity. >> any other questions for mr. sutton. >> thank you, mr. chair do you happen to know how much was spent overhead on the campaign the mark farrell campaign. >> i apologize. i don't it might be 2, 3, 4 some of the documents i don't know if you know. >> and i ask because to me. >> several hundred thousands of dollars. >> it brings some of the when you're spending half a million dollars half a million dollars is a lot when you're running for president you spend billion dollars it is a small campaign with hundreds of dollars of dollars on local television so see that amount of activities and that level of an expenditure within a campaign that probably is somewhere in the mid hundreds of thousand dollars it is for me a little bit hard to believe that r a reasonable person wouldn't know about this activity because th

farrell has the attitude that he's not accountable for hi staff i wonder if he served in the u.s. military your answering or answerable so for it and i'll take the commissioners question on one hand and $91,000 was spent on material that bend his campaign getting yet he was total unbe aware of it never wonder who this generous person was spent all the tens of the thousands of dollars to support his campaign either directly or indirectly he didn't ask anybody on the staff gee who are those nice people i find that ludicrous but again we hear the explanation that was a person and i'll go back to commissioner keane's point you hire someone you're responsible inform war they do or not your answerable and he took the measures to see this person didn't gadget in illegal activity and saying i didn't know he was doing it to tell us the whole responsibility thing on its head if you hire someone and they do something illegal on our on behalf accountable and something that is familiar with supervisor farrell he never comes himself to those kinds of hearing why isn't he hear to openly and hone

emphasis fiduciary duties to farrell to hold farrell responsible for the action of lee is unjustify after one and a half years i'm not sure of investigation did not find farrell for custodial believable but in my opinion to preserve the litigation against farrell in a 5 year old action would be a waste of city resources and worse co-whatever the outcome of the litigation i understand you're an attorney and other attorneys but we all know if you go through litigation whatever the outcome it can effect our repgs reputation that's the more and more most important fact if the city is going to consider whether or not to through this process and consider taking this to litigation it can do greatest harm to someone that was x-rated and this procedure should stop it up for your time. >> any other public comment particularly on who the commission should go into closed session? commissioner want to express or make a motion in in regards to whether or not we go into closed session >> so moved. >> second. >> all right. all in favor, say i. >> i all right. we will then >> we're back in public se

>> aye. >> farrell aye. >> supervisor kim? >> aye. >> kim aye. >> ten as. >> these items are passed and adopted unanimously. madame clerk can you please call the net iteming. >> item 14 is an ordinance to amend the code to repeal article 3 which contains a license requirement and tax on transient merchants, which are currently suspended. >> same house same call without objection this ordinance is passed on the firsted read >> ing madame clerk next item, please. >> item 15 an universe to retroactively authorize the office of the tax collector treasurer to extend after100,000 grant from earned resource network for implementing the ordinance for fiscal year 15 through 2016 to provide for one grant funded position in the office of financial empowerment. >> same house, same call without objection this ordinance spased on the first reading unanimously. [ gavel ] >> madame clerk, can you call item no. 16. >> an ordinance to retroactively authorize the department of technology and contract administrate tossing enter into the second am

farrell's refusal to pay or acknowledge responsibility or pay for the forfeiture my letter details that in quite a bit of detail i'd like to address a few points that were made in argument first with respect to the issue of the f p pc stimulation mr. lee stipulated on behalf of common sense voters that was a controlled community of mark farrell new mr. fairly wouldn't have let him stipulate to that unless i audience add this phoney independent committee was controlled by mr. farrell it's a indisputable and of legal significance with respect to the stauchltstute of limitations he was required to file year-end statements on the year-end statement of common sense voters coming back to the fact the supervisor farrell committee it should have been executed as a controlled committee of mark farrell so the statute of limitation wouldn't have run at the thought it running now as his personal responsibility the candidate is responsible for the liabilities of his committee and mr. farrell is responsible for the controlled committees that one in particular and there's no escaping that i think with

do we have a motion to excuse supervisor farrell? without objection, supervisor farrell is excused. can you please call the roll? >> on item 25. supervisor cohen. >> i. >> farrell. >> i. >> tang. >> i. >> kim. >> i. >> wiener. >> i. >> avalos. >> i. >> breed. >> i. >> campos. >> i. >> christensen. >> i. >> there are ten i's. >> okay. this motion is approved unanimously. madam clerk can you please call item number 26? >> item 26 is a motion to confirm the mayor's motion to ike quan of the portion of a four-year term ending august 1, 2018. >> okay. supervisor avalos. >> thank you president breed. colleagues, i want to urge you to support the appointment of iquan to the public utility commission. mr. quan comes with a great deal of experience certainly at the academy of sciences where he serves as a general manager but also in the community and the 7th district where he lives. i have seen mr. quan's work at the academy. and it has been really strong forth in making sure the academy meets the public's needs. he certainly demonstrated tha

supervisor farrell >> motion to table all those items. >> okay. supervisor, before we move forward, i would like to recognize attorney john gib ner. >> you have two options. because an appeal has been held, if you attempt to perform the sequel for the department, you should pass item 28 and table items 29 and 30. >> okay. i will recognize supervisor farrell. >> madam president, i would like to withdraw my motion and approve items 28 and table 29 and 30. >> okay. is there a second? without objection, we will move forward in approval of supervisor farrell's recommendation unanimously. mad ma'am clerk, is there anything else in regards to the matter we need to deal with? >> you have properly disposed of items 29 through 30. >> okay. and could we presume roll call for introduction? >> next on roll call to introduce new business is supervisor farrell. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i have a number of items today. the first one i would say i wish was not in front of us. but as an elected official who is an educated catholic, i do believe i have

. >> farrell. >> yea. >> kim. >> yea. >> kim yea. there are ten yeas. >> okay. those items passed unanimously. madam clerk, can we go back to item 29. >> item 29 is a resolution to declare. it is the intention of the board of supervisors to work with other cities to sell these at risk loans to qualify non-profits that have the funding and infrastructure to purchase and structure and withhold the property and help /kwaoep struggling home owners in their homes. >> supervisors avalos. >> thank you supervisor breed. the seatbelt southeast part of san francisco, there are millions of distressed mortgages, of course, not millions in our part of san francisco but many thousands. there's been a plan in place to assure there can be greater local control and support from nonprofit organizations to help households struggling with their mortgages. right now, there are many banks who own these distressed struggling mortgages. often, they sell these mortgages on wall street taken over by hedge funds which don't have the intent of helping home owners. they have the intent of m

i would like to thank representative farrell on taking away the chewing tobacco. thank you for your leadership. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, my 3 it's worse than any country and you are talking to politics of the united states. the biggest mistake is when the jewish organization came to the soviet union and said if you come to the united states, you will live like people. no, we're living like dogs, like animals. this is not people on the street, it's animals. we call them homeless people. it's a lie. it's animals. >> thank you. are there any other mexico who would like to provide any public comment at this time? seeing none, public comment is closed. madam clerk, can you please read the reference to committee items, ? >> items 22 through 26 are being considered for adoption without committee reference. these items are considered routine unless a member objects. >> does any member want to severe any items without reference to committee? see none, madam clerk, can you please call the roll? >> on items 22 through 26, supervisor kim? >> yea. >> mar.

. >> and now, farrell takes the field. and now shgs, the same reason that farrell wore the same number in all games, with the kansas city a's, it was a drum up

avalos supervisor president breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar not present pursue supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee not present madam president we have quorum. >> ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all okay. >> madam clerk any communication. >> yes. madam president two communications dated march twhith one from supervisor yee they'll not been able to attend and request to be excuses eye is there a motion to excuse supervisor mar and supervisor yee we'll take that without objection. those two are excused okay and colleagues before we move on supervisor christensen i see you think the roster supervisor christensen do you have comments. >> no. >> colleagues, any changes to the march 24th seeing no changes a motion by supervisor farrell and seconded by supervisor campos we'll take that without objection. those minutes will be approved after the minutes public comment. >> af

. >> commissioner farrell. >> absent. >> kim. >> present. >> commissioner mar. >> here. >> tang? >> present. >> and president lee. >> present. >> yee? >> present. >> commissioner avalos? >> present. >> we have a quorum. >> thank you and i want to thank sfgtv for broadcasting today's hearing. and mr. clerk, please call item number 2. >> approve the minutes of the february 24, 2015, meeting this is an action item. >> okay, our colleagues, are there any changes to the minutes? can i have a motion or actually could i just call the roll in a number two? >> on item two. >> avalos. >> aye. >> my apologies. >> is there any public comment on item number two? >> seeing number, public comment is closed please call the roll. >> item two, commissioner avalos? >> aye. >> commissioner breed? >> aye. >> commissioner campos? >> absent. >> christensen? >> aye. >> cohen. >> aye. >> commissioner farrell. >> absent. >> commissioner kim. >> aye. >> commissioner mar. >> aye. >> taning. >> aye. >> commissioner weiner. >> aye. >> commissioner yee aye. >> the item passes. >> okay, mr. clerk, could you cal

i want to thank supervisor farrell for his leadership and of course to ms. stephanie for all of the work that went into this and i know they're going to continue to push for this very important issue, and supervisor farrell is the chair of budget so that's a good alley to have on your side as the budget process begins. and i always want to thank larkin and all of the organizations, meta that have been here and of course adele and allen who do a incredible job with the commission and it's important to make this a priority and i think having a bill of rights makes a great deal of sense and we want to make sure it's not just words only but actually a real thing so i look forward to working with you. thank you mr. chairman and supervisor christensen and look forward to working with you guys. >> and to ms. burton from the rec and park department and mr. rafa from presidio trust we will follow up with you and work with supervisor farrell on some of the great ideas from the young people and thank you very much to catherine and stephanie from supervisor farrell's of

this was a no brainer for supervisor farrell. as you know supervisor farrell is a former park director and is raising his kids here and understands that the children should be introduced to these areas and playing in the mud and sand and discovering wildlife and riding a bike among other things. the reason this is before you today it was originally on the adoption without reference to calendar but it was asked to refer it so the committee could hear it and we're glad they did that. i appeared before the youth commission twice and i was blown away by their analysis, their thoughtful questions and the way they looked at this resolution for us it's a no brainer. of course every child has a right to these experiences listed in the resolution and what i liked about what we heard in the youth commission is that what are we going to do about it? it's easy to pass a resolution but where does the real work begin? so what we realized is that the real work comes together -- i mean comes by everyone works together, asking how we make it happ

sxhurlts mentioned our first mayor and irish mayors coming together with on the other hand farrell i'm a little bit bias but people that make san francisco what it is i have the great pleasure of introducing mop o someone that is an important part of the government but symptom i consider a friend and been with the irish services tin i since 1992 and spent omen how many in the home other was and pointed out as a consul general to the western united states phillip grant (clapping) >> the microphones keep getting higher i have a grant and may not think irish but the irish are a little bit part of those modern time and mayor ed lee and commissioners and 3 conceives i've seeing it is wonderful to see so much many of you that warms my heart to see it an amazing honor to stand here last year was the first time opportunity i had i was new and didn't know too many of you now too many of you know who i am this is the way it should be and to use this opportunity to thank the mayor for the purposes of this week st. patrick's day and all of that we got a special deposition and their lending you the

patrick's day we have supervisor breed and supervisor farrell today and i guess we don't have supervisor yee with that mr. clerk any announcements. >> no one roll call. >> supervisor breed supervisor christensen supervisor farrell supervisor tang supervisor yee absent we have quorum. >> thank you very much and now item 2. >> item 2 citizens advisory committee report an informational item. >> all right. chris the cac chair for presentation. >> good morning commissioner two items 5 and 6 we dealt with this past month the allocation of $51 million for the prop k this was passed the cac unanimously and the dedication classes on tenderloin four not part of this moss month i said you ask that to be continued to next month most of the discussion is around the specific obtain projects a grateful was on the project not quite responded out not possible for mr. g to give specification and the freeway quarterly study was passed with one abstinence one concern was at travel danced and the strategies like major increases in caltrain capacity and bus transcript might chief those goals and in the abc 78

restated his commitment to enforce the law and supervisor farrell wants the issues recorded on and the city may subpoena some of the organizations and supervisor christensen wanted to increase the motivation for register and throughout the city should be clear about the timeline for the hosting and supervisor mar that is true it was hypocritical for a billion dollars firm not no cooperate he likes the idea of adding a cap and supervisor kim said the planning tell you has put the department in a difficult position and noted she had a proposed bill on april 2nd and separate set of maechlts amendments that pending before the land use commission and at the end it was filed at the board of supervisors we had one item the interim zoning controls empty supervisor jane kim and supervisor cowen and supervisor wiener the introductions started adopt i don't many have this list that completes my comments. >> thank you. >> good afternoon tim frye here to share a few ideas from the historic preservation commission the commission began by welcoming the reappointment jones we believe that now they've