looking at all options for those positions, including matching up classifications at the housing authority with city jobs. and also while we are shrinking on the public housing side. we will still be managing about 1460 public housing units. but we will be growing on the public voucher jobs. some of those jobs will be to the voucher jobs, eligibility for example. >> so availability workers and property managers, what are the jobs we're talking about? >> and some maintenance workers impacted as well. >> so in previous years, i recall 2009, there were hundreds if not thousands of jobs of clerks in our human service agencies and as well as laguna honda and general hospital that were descaled. they were laid off and hired back at a lower rate. it was really terrible thing that happened. as a matter of fact all members of fciu put together their money so those descaled wouldn't lose their salaries. and we want to be sure that we transfer jobs, and if we transfer, the model is that we transfer with equal pay and benefits, and not lose anything at all in that process. everyone is trying to maintain their s

with the housing authority? what are the problems with the housing stock? and what can the city do to ensure that we have affordable housing for extremely low-income people. so the mayor convened the big-10 process, and we sought out ideas on how we can solve some of the problems of the housing authority. so over a period of four months, and there are many organizations involved. many city departments involved and many public meetings. and one of the things that we learned in this process, is doing nothing is not an option. what we heard from the folks at the housing authority is that they didn't have the resources to really take on some of the problems that related to the operational problems related to finding enough money to do the repairs. to do the capital improvements, and to really manage the housing authority. what we heard from the residents were, you know, what we really want in this process is we want a good place to live. like any other san franciscan, that we want to be able to press the button on the elevator and be able to get on the elevator and get down to the f

and the veterans administration, and moving on, is partnered also with sorts to the plow shares and the city and the housing authority will be working on initiative for vets who no longer need supportive housing, and these vets will be given a portable hud rental voucher to secure the housing in the community, this model can be used for non-vets using the vouchers and again, take an example like 150 odus which is a precious example and after a year or two years, a veteran might be able to be successful in the private housing market and open that opportunity up for a veteran that does need insensitive on sight services, public health and sf housing authorities and senior buildings and they are providing support for seniors and disabled and risk of housing authority buildings and model where the housing provider seeks service from the city is essential and the tiered supportive model and i am sure that trent will speak to and the work that the board did and thanks to the committee work and expanding and enhancing the program and i think that as we move in to providing more housing for transitional aged youth i think th

housing buildings to invest in the infrastructure to make sure that we have a sustainable and reliable accessible path of travel with functioning elevators. and, of course, the housing authority is not actually owned by the city of san francisco. it's owned by our u.s. housing and urban development properties. but what the city has done over this last year or more is really stepped up to try to provide resources to the population that lives in the housing authority properties. and remember that many of the people who live in public housing are our older adults and are people with disabilities. and, so, our mayor today announced in a press conference that through the mayor's office of housing that they have identified $4.5 million worth of money to do these incredibly critical elevator renovations to make sure that those elevators are going to be reliable in the future. and there are nine specific properties that they have identified as being buildingses where they're going to be making those improvements. also over the next few months you're going to be hearing more from our office about the housing authority because the housing authority properties taken under the umbrella of the mayor's office of housing ar

housing buildings to invest in the infrastructure to make sure that we have a sustainable and reliable accessible path of travel with functioning elevators. and, of course, the housing authority is not actually owned by the cityfrancisco. it's owned by our u.s. housing and urban development properties. but what the city has done over this last year or more is really stepped up to try to provide resources to the population that lives in the housing authority properties. and remember that many of the people who live

housing authority was established in 1938, under california state government code. it's separate from the city departments. and it provides housing subsidies for over 27,000 households. that's both with the housing choice voucher program and public housing. we currently have 5,372 public housing units that we are managing. that serve close to 10,000 public housing residents. the average household income is just $14,639. and the average rent that our residents are able to pay at 30% of their income is $312, which in san francisco, where the market rents are over $3,000 a month now, this is a very important resource for the city for low-income households. they could not compete in the market in san francisco. we also have 7,637 applicants on our public housing waiting list. and over 2,000 of those households are single. about 5,500 are two plus persons households. this is after we have done a clean-up of our wait list. these are people that are actively seeking public housing at this time. and the applicants were asked to self-certify their preferences. over half of the applicants did self-certify their preferences. we take applicants in based on their preferences. and over 1500 of tho

also committed as an authority talking with other employers to ask them to inform us of job opportunities of staff, including the city and county of san francisco and other bay housing authorities. and we want to be sure that if the employees hear of those opportunities to communicate to senior staff so we can get that information to employees and they can take advantage if they choose. with regards to communications, back in jan 6 we were advised that the housing authority was approved for the rad notification. and we wanted to meet and confer over the impacts of the program. and over a week we spent a letter to the bargaining units and a week after that sat down to have those meetings. to date we have had seven meetings with sciu and two meetings with special organization and three meetings with specialty crafts and to be specific about those employees that may be impacted. currently in negotiations still with all labor negotiations with the employees that work at the housing authority. we believe they have been very productive. we have a lot of work to do still. but to ensure transparency with everyone, we made promises and even items that don't need to be approv

number two,resolution approving the fy2014-2015 housing opportunities for persons with aids (hopwa) program; and authorizing the mayor, on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, to apply for, accept, and expend the city's fy2014-2015 hopwa program entitlement from the u.s. department of housing and urban development in the amount of $8,241,932 and to expend program income and reprogrammed funds in the amount of $647,857 for a combined total of $8,889,789 for the period of july 1, 2014, through june 30, 2019. item number three,resolution approving the fy2014-2015 emergency solutions grants program; and authorizing the mayor, on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, to apply for, accept, and expend the city's fy2014-2015 emergency solutions grants program entitlement in the amount of $1,393,730 from the u.s. department of housing and urban development, for an unspecified period starting july 1, 2014. >> item 4,resolution approving the fy2014-2015 community development block grant (cdbg) program; authorizing the mayor, on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, to apply for, accept, and expend the city's fy2014-2015

affordable housing for persons with developmental disabilities and one manager's unit; authorizing the execution and performance of an option to ground lease and a ground lease between the city and county of san francisco and mercy housing california 57, a california limited partnership; adopting findings under the california environmental quality act; and adopting findings that the conveyance is consistent with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of the planning code, section 101.1. >> okay, thank you very much. why don't we go right to mr. rose on this one. >> good afternoon, supervisor. we talked about supportive housing this morning. this is a supportive housing project. the item before you is a transfer agreement option to ground lease. it is a way for us to, one, get the property back from the current owner of the property, payoff an existing indebtedness on the property, create an option to lease so that the mercy housing corporation can apply for a low-income housing tax credit and create 17 units of housing for the -- for those who are developmentally challenged. this project has had a long history in the office. it predates a lot of the staff who have

are discussing this proposal with the mayor's office and throughout the city to look at different solutions. these solutions include turning over san francisco housing authority units that are currently vacant and providing additional local operating subsidies to families. and providing housing subsidies that will make market rate housing affordable to families in san francisco. as well as throughout the bay area. and we need to be creative to look at solutions. there are many solutions out there such as shared housing, looking at longer term subsidies, and looking at different flexible policies that will support families in moving into their own permanent long-term housing. so, i am encouraging you to look at our proposal and consider these solutions and if we do this, we can house 687 house holds at an average cost of $10,000 per household. we can bring the wait list for shelter, we believe to zero. but we need to come together and work together and look for solutions. thank you very much for listening to all of these concerns today and coming together with the whole... >> thank you very much. >> thank you supervisors for listening on this issue, first i wa

housing authority portfolio. they have had a long track record of working in san francisco and boards and with residents in san francisco. we want to award that through the rfq process. >> any other city or county like that? >> no, even in new york city. most cities have one or two nonprofit developers. even new york city has a few nonprofit developers. obviously their scale is greater and they rely much heavier for-profit developers. and we use for-profit developers in the city too, but they have san francisco experience. and it's important whether through the planning process or the commission process or the board process or through the building department requires a knowledge of what it takes to get through that process. as opposed to coming and sort of saying, well, i did this in st. louis, i can do it anywhere; right. so we really wanted to sort of encourage those folks who have been working in the field, providing affordable housing to take on this responsibility. one reporter early in the process asked me, these developers will get paid millions of dollars, won't they. i said they will get a developer fee from the mayor's office schedule. it's barely enough to compensate them f

author. why? the salary was sky high, pension that came with it was great, you got to travel over bridges for free and free housing in new york city. you got yourself a four-year vacation in new york city. that was the idea for the job. nobody imagined it would lead to lane closures and all of this other stuff, nobody imagined. but the port authority, it's open to this abuse for a long time. >> steesh, what does the widening federal investigation tell you? we know that folks who were -- christie team must have been -- camp christie, we'll call them, the fact that the legislative super committee was not able to subpoena documents was a shot in the arm for their defense. the scope of the federal investigation is widening cannot be good news. >> we know now that this part is widening. this is so opaque, we do not know what's go on in the u.s. attorney's office. this is deifferent than when chris christie was running it. the legislative committee represents the public face. the more important thing is what's happening privately in the u.s. attorney's office. we got a glimpse of that today and seeing it's widening as it relates to this

house and senate easily earlier this year with broad bipartisan support. the nra said the bill made kansas a model state. janet miller, a city council member in one of those cities who has seen authority stripped away, begs to differ. >> i don't care how often you go to the gun range and practice. i don't want guns around me and where i am. >> it's not just kansas that's preempting local governments from doing things they don't like in the name of clarification. it's not just guns. ten red states including kansas have laws on the books banning cities from passing paid sick leave bills and last month oklahoma governor mary fallon signed a bill barring localities from raising the minimum wage because local control is best except when it's not. >> joining me now is the former lobbyist for nra. richard, my understanding of the history is that in the 1980s when the nra came up with this legal strategy to go into the states and basically pass laws that would preempt any localities putting additional restrictions on firearms that were more restrictive than what the most conservative members of the legislature could get passed. >> chris, when i joined the nra as a lobbyist almost 30 years ago