>> 12 is the initial allotment yes. >>> i would say six. but it's new counsel but they already have briefs. yeah, we can do it in six pages. >> six pages. okay so would that be six pages with unlimited exhibits and the appellate anti-'s submittal will be three thursdays prior and the department submittal one thursday prior that is the normal schedule. >> that doesn't really give much time though does it. >>> the appellate submittal would be due on the 27th. >> okay that is fine. >>> okay so do you all that you understand the board has made a motion if it fast passes the matter would be continued to january 16th with 6 pages of additional briefing allowed and your client's pages would be due three thursdays prior to the hearing and your brief is one day prior to the hearing which, is the 10th of january and before we take a vote, i want to ask was there an issue that came up that you need to clarify? >>> yes, they i have compelling evidence of appellate's lack of candor to this tribunal in which she has claimed that she is unable to speak eng

i would just like to reiterate we're out there everyday, and we're trained to use our radios and to act safely, and to get all the details. so i thank everybody for this. >> on behalf of the board of directors -- [ applause ] >> on behalf of the board of directors and the entire sfmta and the people of san francisco, thank you for your outstanding work and i'm glad that you brought so many of your fellow workers here. thank you for the great work that you do all the time for us. [ applause ] >> next is taxiety services division. he started as a volunteer clerk with the division, just after graduating from uc davis. when he began working for the sfmta, taxi services was not able to hire additional staff, because of budgetary considerations. so he stayed on as a volunteer. for two years he paid his own way on bart, commuting from union city. quite an achievement. at the time taxi services was at about 50% staffing levels and so he quickly branched out to help cover multiple facets of our operation, including customer service window, financial accounting, budgeting, driving training, super

i would just like to say that i am just honored to be receiving this award. it caught me by surprise, and honestly, it brought me to tears because i just honestly felt that in the event that somebody saw something happening to me that they would call and try to get help for me. and being that this man was being assaulted and just so brutally, it was just hurtful for me to just watch it as it unfolded. you know, as it began, and i drive the 37 line and i have regular amount of we set to accomplish three gonzales. one, to right side the service while minmizing inconveniences for our customers. two, to reduce overtime and three, reduce fuel and maintenance costs through operating fewer miles. we were encouraged by the results. we were able to provide 97.5% of service during that week. that represents a 3% increase from the same time period the previous year. we reduced operating time by $20,000 overall. we reduced mileage on our bus fleet by 10,000 miles per day. this results in maintenance and fuel savings of $51,000 per day or more than $2',000 in total mainte

this time you would just -- when i call roll call just state the name of the person you would like to select for president. >> commissioner adams? >> adams. >> [ laughter ] >> commissioner dooley? >> adams. >> commissioner dwight? >> i vote for adams. >> commissioner o'brien? >> commissioner adams. >>> commissioner ortiz-cartagena? >> adams >> commissioner white? >> adams >> commissioner yee riley? >> adams. >> that motion passes 7-0. >> thank you. >> congratulations. [ applause ] >> commissioners, would you like next item? >> next item, please >> item 9, election of vice president of the small business commission. allows the commission to elect a member of commission to serve as vice president of the commission and requires a motion and vote. at this time, with your discretion, i guess the first item would be to open nominations. >> open nominations for vice president. commissioner riley? >> i would like to nominate commissioner white to be the vice president. i think it's good to have new blood to serve on the leadership role and commissioner white has been very active and very enth

i'm glad to be going back to work, and i just would like to move this on. i am tired of hearing about me and these issues. >> all right. next i have dennis kelly. >> i haven't been called yet but i have two people that wanted to speak -- >> i'm sorry sir. i do have one. i am taken them in order how i received them. >> no. i am saying there were two other people that want to speak because they didn't have a chance to turn in because of the ceremony you were conducting they didn't bring them up so i would like them to be able to speak. >> we generally i will accept them but we do ask -- you don't disrupt the ceremony -- >> thank you. thank you. >> for future reference we ask that you turn in the speaker cards before the item is called. president kelly. >> thank you very much. and good evening members of the board, and our superintendent. even though our superintendent took off his 49er hat i still have my 49er tie on and i want to talk about that at the end. i said superintendent. i know how you're dressed. i appreciate it. i do want to see your under shirt? n

i would like to nominate commissioner lazarus? she has served in official capacity before and i know she will be able to run the meeting in the absence of the president quite well. >> thank you. commissioner lazarus has been nominated foyer office of vice president. and is there any other nomination? >> i would second that nomination. >> okay. it has been seconded. is there any public comment before the board votes on this? eseeing none, if you could call the roll on the nomination of the vice president? >> okay. we have a motion from vice president fung to elevate commissioner lazarus to the vice presidency of the board of appeals. on that motion, president hwang? >> aye. >> commissioner hurtado is absent. commissioner lazarus? >> aye. >> and commissioner honda? >> aye. >> thank you. the vote is 4-0 and commissioner lazarus is elevated to vice president. >> congratulations, [ applause ] . moving on to the office of president, any nominations for that office >> if i may speak again. president hwang has only served for a few months.

it would be, i think, helpful to have language that would prevent that. because i don't think we want to handle the same complaint twice or have it go through both processes, if we don't have to. i mean, are there pitfalls there that i am missing about that? >> just one comment, chair. i think it would be difficult in the ethics commission regulations to address what the task force would do in terms of what it would hear, even if it is something that has been considered by us already. i think that may not be received necessarily well. >> and we couldn't enforce that anyway. >> right. at least one of those two eventualities we may not be able to address in these regulations. >> but what we could do is say that we will not take up a referral from the task force that has already adjudicated pursuant to chapter 3. >> right. right as a practical matter if we already decide there had is nothing there, even filed directly with us and went to the task force and got a referral back to us, even though they have a lesser burden of pervasion, i persuasion. >> theoreti

i would like to share a few quick reflections. i remember when alice fong yu didn't have enough student and we had to sell the program. and now we don't have to sell the program, in fact we are all sold out. i remember when students went to chinatown to practice the skills and the culture. and now students travel to china to speak the language and live the culture. and none of this it would be without liana szeto. i remember her tireless way to be sure of this success. and determined and still has tireless energy and still have the vision. only now she needs to see it in a slightly larger font. i am -- [laughter] i was going to take that out, but my staff said to keep it in. i am so honored to be a part of alice fong yu's past and present. and look forward to the future. many thanks to the students, parent and staff to make alice fong yu such an awesome place. i speak for all of us, truly no place we would rather be. congratulations to the afy school community and to liana szeto, our fearless leader forever. thank you. [applause] >

that is where i would be leaning.. >> well i'm inclient to a rehearing as well but i guess i would like to say to a number of the people here is that we are going to hear this matter based on a current law and the current ordinance that governors mobile food facility and is if that is not something that is not well done in your mind this is not the body that is going to be able to change it and i want to encourage all of you who feel that way to start weeking with your legislatures because those are the bun onces outly that are going to equity of the changes it's not glowing to come from here because we can only take this from a case by case basis and to conform with the current law. >> that was very well stated and something that i wanted to raise as well these issues come up regularly and are presented in a very articulate manner and i appreciate the testimony on it but this is not the body that is going to address what the legislatures intent the and those are policy questions and they are not for this board to rule on. >> i make a motion to have this reheard. this married reheard. >

what i would like to say also to the board of supervisors and all of you all is that i heard that the supervisor in district 8 talk about twin peaks. i still stay in the -- (indiscernible) the good thing about, we have two gay cities, for the super bowl. what i want to say to you, remember bare rust, harvey milk. bare ruston (sounds like) a black gay man. i believe the day would come when all of god's children, (indiscernible) (indiscernible) times have changed. i hope that you can get the gay pride (indiscernible) and these two supervisors. hopefully you can be there too. and speak on that date. thank you. >> thank you. >> any members of the public wish to speak in general public comment. seeing none it is close. >> items 33-40 are considered for immediate and unanimous adoption. if an board member request discussion that would be separate. roll call. >> items 33-40. >> supervisor campos: aye >> supervisor chiu: aye >> president: aye >> supervisor cohen: aye >> supervisor farrell: aye >> supervisor kim: aye >> supervisor mar: aye >> supervisor wiener: aye >> supervisor yee: aye >> su

i would be thrilled and i hope i am as lucky as i am today and i hope i'm not working so i can come. thank you >> commissioner steve. on behalf of the project desire we request that the time be short as possible. thank you >> i'm not sure there was a second but i think as quickly as possible. >> i think if it hasn't been seconded i would second it. >> it has been seconded. commissioners then on the motion to continue items 12 and 13 a and b to january 31st. >> i vote i but i don't want to get into another fight about the date being too shorty think the 31st is fine. there was some earlier comment about it having to be two weeks because it's a major project but i'll vote on it >> so move the commissioners that vote passes 5 to zero. commissioners that will place you under items fourteen a, b, and c x c and v for 1321 mission street request for determination of appliance. >> good afternoon commissioners planning department staff. the question before you is for requests for the projects within the downtown area plan and the downtown planning zoning district. is project proposes the demo

i would like to share with you briefly the history of this award. i think it brings more meaning to what we are doing for teac r teache teachers. the carlson family began a company in the late 70s. and they took 5% of their profits and encouraged their employees to go out and work for not-for-profit in the bay area. and they could come back and ask for grants in support of their charity of choice. in the 90s. the company became a product of a hostile take-over but did not lose the endowment. and the family got together and said what do we do with this money. and they said let's do something that focused on teaches, and defined further. and let's focus on high schools that are in low-performing schools. and take this one step further and make this honor something that comes from students. the requirements for this award. first the teacher has to teach in difficult situations. low-performing schools. and secondly they must be nominated by a former student that enrolled or graduated from a four-year university. each year i get well over 100 nominations

i would think that the next issue would be again, just to remanufacture what they said. where is the money coming from a quarter of a million dollars or more and where is the money for the upkeep coming from and these are real numbers and then the impact that this closuresure is going to have in the community and if it's in forest it's going to be great and if they don't take recycling and there is no other autopsies in the neighborhood now there isn't and everyone is waiting for somebody else to do something so nobody else has to plan and they are talk with ri verse inventorying machines there is three in the whole city they don't work they breakdown and it's not a viable option at this point and gone remanufacture the process for the new community garden who's in charge of that, who gets to say who's going to have a plot or not none of this information is coming out of park and reek and we want know what is going on as a community and if you go to the park and reek commission meetings sometimes they are cancel would move around and so beyond that getet willing the comm

i mean that would be my suggestion. ms. miller, mr. fried any thoughts on that. >> i think that's exactly correct chair campos. some of these i could work on and in house and the tree stuff maybe outside consult aptds to help us and having an understanding from you what you think are the priorities and help us how we prioritize the work that gets done on them. >>i think one thing that might be helpful and for instance you take each of the items that was presented. maybe between now and the time that we come back on those items you can explain to us sort of what the work would look like. for instance if it's an issue that lends itself to internal staff work that is one thing. if it's an issue that we need to hire an outside consultant to do a study then just to give that idea because we be able to pursue more than one thing at the same time depending on what that work looks like. any member of the public that would like to add their 2-cents to this? >> yeah. eric brooks again. san francisco green party. thanks for the opportunity chair c

i knew they would be collecting at some point so i set it aside. i can appreciate that so many people don't. if i were asked, i would be happy to lend a hand and solve these problems. >> it is not the role of the assessment board to facilitate a process between our citizens and our homeowners or property owners but for me it is something that as citizens of san francisco, help push to make it easier for people to understand and easier to get a rebate. >> when i had my appeal i talk with five or six people who did not understand the comp period, were certain dates. they had come to the wrong dates. i helped each of them during my appeal to make an appointment for a new date. i spoke with a very nice woman who later asked me for a referral as a realtor to provide her right comps. people don't understand that. people don't understand that when they appeal one year, they need to appeal the next year if they don't they may not be allowed the next assessment. in my own experience, i have had this response, my messages are full. i will try to review messa

i heard what the board wanted to do was they would be sued by the developmenter. people in our neighborhood were threatened with subpoenas that were so what we have here is a process that we can't allow to be the normal thing. i was actually threatened by the lawyer from the church and the church was going to sue me. now, of course, that didn't represent what the church had in mind. i can tell you that diane 92 son will be meeting with them. i'll have to come back and talk more about this >> further comments? sue i would like to second the request from the local sierra club that when you get to item 12 the certification of the e i r you'll not hold it over for two weeks. the documents are available for 2 weeks in advance. i further ask that the staff do a much better presentation on the role of the concourse for gatherings in the city. if you will go to the back thought i example you will find a lot of the issues listed here >> i go to the craft fair and i alerted them, they were about to lose their venue and it's news to them. people who are using the space didn't

i would like to welcome you back to what i know is a successful spring this year. and i hope you enjoyed your break. you got your rest, because we will need it. we have a lot of work ahead of us. and exciting work nonetheless. and congratulations to president norton and vice president fewer. as i share other comments, i want to remind us of a tragic event that happened at the close of the last semester. we were shocked and saddened by the tragedy that took the lives at sandy hook elementary school. we want to give our most sincere condolences to our colleagues and friends and fellow americans in connecticut. but we are very fortunate in san francisco, as we have had an opportunity to reflect with the established partnerships we have in this city. not only with the city of san francisco and the mayor's office. but the police department. the department of public health. our community-based organizations. and all the multitudes of others in this community that work with us arm in arm to provide services to our students and community. we strive to bring safety to our w

>> sorry, commissioner lee. >> i would suggest that. i think any late property owners applying will pay the full fee and maybe we can recoup part of that. >> see how they feel at the end of the day it's all good work if they buy into this. >> absolutely. >> sorry, commissioner lee. >> i just want to encourage some of the previous speakers, please come back in a couple months because i think a lot of times, no disrespect to the legislature, we pass legislation and it makes everybody feel good but i am really interested in the implementation. so please come and tell us that the phone jacks are in or not, or the grab bars are in or not, and that it's working. and if it's not then hold us accountable for the violations and, you know, let us know that this is happening and hopefully with the incentive, the fee waivers, people will get it done. but i would really like to reinvite everybody back in a couple months and let us know what's going on. thank you very much. >> thank you. so we need to take that vote now, right? john, would you frame t

>> i would have to take a closer look at that. but i believe in many jurisdictions that it is across the board use. i don't think that you see too many jurisdictions in which you have a cit officer, for example as is proposed here or one of the proposals here. and so, i think that we see the risk if this is introduced as a pilot program and we see that once that this becomes institutionalized that we do run the risk of this becoming a department-wide phenomena and since the department has shown itself to be some what flow, for example, in instituting cit we really have questions about if and when that taser, that the tasers are kind of spread to the rest of department, is the department able to keep up with the necessary training, monitoring, you know, both on the front and the back end that is needed to keep this or to have a safe taser use policy. we have big questions about whether or not they will be able to keep up with that. >> okay. >> do you have anything else to add? >> i think that i have said anything and i am available

i would like to share a few quick reflections. i remember when alice fong yu didn't have enough student and we had to sell the program. and now we don't have to sell the program, in fact we are all sold out. i remember when students went to chinatown to practice the skills and the culture. and now students travelo

i would like to look here. this is kind of like describing the result of the process over the last six months. the major design revisions on the left are all of the parking goes into one basement, with one garbage -- garage entrance. the height has been reduced one full story, and it's actually down to 53'. the mapping along clay, adjacent to 1630 clay. four story against four story the same is true of the larkin. it was at one time a ga

i was. >> >> going to bring that up. why would you put the sky light in when the construction hadn't started? i agreed because the construction would block it and no reason to do it before construction. great point. commissioner fung exactly right what you pointed out. all of the neighbors here and even lana machely was here and all three appeared. they were given -- they met with mr. wall and myself and we went over the plans in detail and june 1 we have the formal meeting with everyone there and the 311 notice went out and no one objected and the reason they didn't object we agreed to make those three promises to the three parties and i made that while you were out on the record, so the promise you made there was no communication is because there was no changes. if i had a change i wouldn't went to the neighbors and said that. i feel mr. wall is upset i didn't keep in touch with him but we're not friends and i didn't him him well and no reason to go back until that time. the air and light by mr. rogers that was went over in deta

i would like to congratulate supervisor yee for knocking me off as the last on the roll call. i'm still the tallest. i want to thank my colleagues who were willing to support me as a potential board member and i want to thank the many, many people in the community over the past number of months who have approached me. i am deeply appreciative and humbled by those and by that support. i have asked not to be nominated for the board presidency and i would like to second the nomination of david chiu for reelection as president of the board of supervisors. over the past two years that i have been on the board i have seen president chiu - we don't agree on everything - and we have had significant disagreements, president chiu has done extraordinary job putting his own opinions aside and being a fair president of the board. and someone who has done an exemplary job. i will be supporting president chiu today. >> supervisor avalos. >> supervisor avalos: i'm standing in support for the nomination of jane kim. we have not had a woman serve as board president for many years and the time ha

i never thought i would see a black president. so it is to be we've talked a great deal about the movement and very little about you but i think we are getting to know you're here in your comments. you ended dr. king's papers. there are several peepers in boston university. how are the papers that you edited -- >> guest: they're all very different. the papers line editing, the papers at boston, the papers in atlanta, the papers and so many different places, hundreds of archives around the world. i found papers in india. we bring them all together and decide how to publish them and make them available to people. that's been my job for the last 25 years. >> host: do ra history and african-american, i can see your interest. what really brought you to want to do this? his wife asked you, but what was your motivation for wanting to do it? >> guest: i had a lot of doubts when she called and asked because i didn't know if i wanted to devote the rest of my career to doing this. >> host: how did she ask you? >> guest: she asked me if i woul

i think she would i would but i'm sure she would she would love. the sunday or something you'd like to ask. something special you like to talk about discuss something. difficult but you know because where when you see when you hear about. some actresses some seniors when you see the movie of levy of wars which was a great movie but they always showed the. dramatical part there must have been some nice parts in the life or she wouldn't have done this passion so you say john you think i live here cause it is to me too dark is it a bit too dramatic overdriven thousands of very good very words you know she was a person who was very extreme on all what she did maybe i don't know because she didn't know what her life is going to be and she wanted to enjoy everything but very much i'm much more disciplined. than her and you know she she was forty seven when she died she was young and she was our father he really was she died with the age that i gonna have when i sing her next year he so. my discipline a part is not too good in a way for that but i don't k

but really i would rather not be here. i am a lawyer and for all of my professional career, i have worked with public agencies. i would rather be sitting at a time to work out a reasonable solution that puts all obstacles on the table. but so far staff has not taken our concerns seriously. and to give one example, yesterday i looked at documents for public act requests. and one document was a summary of the golden gate campus and the summary of the creative arts and gateway for proposition 39. it gives the space of the campus and gives what looks look a long demand of space. and for gateway they asked for 13 classrooms. and when i read this, it looks like creative arts is asking for more than gateway. and i looked at their request, and they are asking for the same things that we are asking for. including an art room and teacher work room and many other things. and my purpose in bringing this up, is not to suggest that gateway's request are unreasonable. they are not, but only that staff created in this summary that creative

i would also note there is a new state law that now requires campaign filers to pay -- what is it? a $50 annual registration fee to the secretary of state. i don't know if we would be able to do that here, if we were, that would be interesting. and we could cover some of our campaign filing-related costs through that program. i'm not suggesting that the audit or public financing program costs should be covered, but there are certainly costs related to filing of statements that are now being born by the general fund. so i think we should look more carefully at what our general fund costs and what could be program costs. i will leave it at that, unless there are questions. thank you. >> there is no action that needs to be taken, is there? >> normally you would have a vote. >> a vote. >> from the action that the commission is acting me to take. >> is there a motion to affirm the executive director submiting a budget that does not include the requested 1.5% cut in the department's funding? >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? hearing none, the motion passes. the