hrc will be monitoring and keeping the commission apprised of any negative unintended consequences to the san francisco lbes regarding the requirement to fulfil the local hiring mandate. in july, i am hoping to have a presentation from the police department around the sit lie, how they are educating their officers and will be implementing this. that will be at our february meeting. bath oils and greece -- with fat oils and greease, it is waiting to be assigned to committee. with the board of supervisors, the new committees have not been established. in likelihood, we will know by the end of the weak who is assigned to what committees, and things will be scheduled. supervisor mirkarimi's plastic bag legislation is still under ceqa. you have seen things being installed in areas of the city on the parklets. the zoning controls for the van ess special use district ended up being -- the final result of the legislation ended up being that it is going to be a discretionary -- discretionary with internal review with the planning department. there were some interesting dialogues with the plann

when hrc announced the move, some of milk's friends and admirers said that the group's plans did not match those of harvey milk. >> i haven't heard any opposition from any of my colleagues in the council. when it passed in 2007 i think it was passed. this is a prudent way for us to provide a benefit. >> reporter: city officials would set aside $20,000 every year for gender reassignment surgery. as you just heard, the city says it adopted the benefit back in 2007 but it hasn't been able to get its health care provider to cover it. >> kaiser has already told us it's not going to provide it. health net would have required our premiums to go up significantly. i think this is the best way to provide this benefit to our employees who need it in a cost effective way. >> reporter: city council member moore says he is not aware of any city employees who may be interested of taking advantage of this benefit, at least not yet. >>> coming up next, more on the latest breaking story, where a storage facility where crews found a collection of pipebombs. >>> also coming up next -- >>> developing new