the meeting is adjourned. >> pars3 my name is john avalos, the chair, joined to my left by supervisor london breed and to my right vice chair cynthia cruz and also joined by lindo lafco commissioner. madam clerk. >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic quieses. any copies of documents to be included in the file should be submitted to the clerk. >> thank you very much. let's go to our second item. roll call? >> i can do roll call. >> commissioner avalos, present. commissioner breed, breed present. commissioner cam poes is absent. cruz is present. lindo is present. commissioner mar is present. mr. chair, you have a quorum. >> let's go on to our second item ?oo sfoo item 2 is approval of the lafco minutes from february 27, 2015 regular meeting. >> colleagues, any ques, changes to the minutes? let's go on to public comment on item no. 2. skiiing no one come forward we will close public comment and we can have a motion to approve the minutes. motion from commissioner cruz, seconded by commissioner breed and we'll take that without objection. next item, please. >> item

i want to thank supervisor john avalos who has cosponsored this resolution and note that tim paulson the executive director of the library council he was trying to be here in his schedule but it became impossible but i know he wants me to let folks know that him and the labor council see this is as very important priority but the long and short of what we're talking about today we have a resolution that would put san francisco on the record as the first city to come out in full support of the gerawan farm workers who have been fighting for the rights for a number of decades now. in 1990 farm workers at gerawan farming voting for representation by the united farm workers and was a state conducted secret ballot election. the labor relations board at this point certified the united farm workers as the farm workers union representative for those workers and for almost a quarter of a century this company -- gerawan, has been fighting the effort of these workers to simply exercise their rights. they have pulling all the stops to prevent implementation of the union contract. in fact things

we are now joined by our chair, supervisor john avalos. welcome. would you like to take over now? >> let's take over. i thought we all took over already. thank you, sorry i'm late, i had some medical stuff with my family but everything is good so thank you for your patience and thank you, my colleagues, for getting started. so we are on item no. 1? >> through the chair, we just concluded public comment on item 1. i would be happy to make a motion to appoint and move forward ilyse iris magy for seat 9 for the bicycle committee. >> although i wasn't here for public comment, i have reviewed the file and i am fine with that motion. we will take it without objection. i believe we're actually going to be pausing on item no. 2, hearing that last, is that correct? they are still working on amendments for that legislation so let's go to item no. 3, please. >> item no. 3 is a hearing to consider appointing 7 members for one year terms to be determined by the energy efficiency coordinating committee. there are 7 seats and 7 applicants. >> i believe all the applicants are here, it's an issue

i know our chair, john avalos, will join us shortly and to my left is supervisor maria cohen. >> please silence cell phones and all electronic devices. items acted upon today will be on the april 21 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you, madam clerk, please call item 1, please. >> item no. 1 is a hearing to consider appointing one member to the bicycle advisory committee term ending november 19, 2016 or the tenure of the nominating supervisor, whichever is shorter in duration. there is one seat and one applicant. >> thank you, since we have one applicant for the seat we can call up miss magy up and give us a presentation. >> hello, supervisors, my name is ilyse magy and i am interested in seat 9 on the bicycle advisory commit ee. i work as an artist and organizor and focus on pedestrian advocacy and alternative transportation in both my professional and personal life. i currently work as an organizer with sf advocacy riders, we work to improve public transportation in san francisco. i also volunteer with walk sf, creating projects to bring forth project visio

i know our chair, john avalos, will join us shortly and to my left is supervisor maria cohen. >> pleasece cell phones and all electronic devices. items acted upon today will be on the april 21 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you, madam clerk, please call item 1, please. >> item no. 1 is a hearing to consider appointing one member to the bicycle advisory committee term

i am john avalos joined by david campos maliha cohen and we will be joined by other colleagues. mr. clerk. do we have any announcements? >> there are no announcements. let's go on to our next item. roll taken. >> we have quorum. >> next item is part of our consent calendar. items two to three comprise the consent calendar. staff is not going to present. >> colleagues changes to the amendments. comments on item 3 of the consent calendar. we will go to public comment. any member that would like to speak come forward. we will close public comment. may we have a motion to approve. >> move to approve. >> seconded by commissioner cohen. >> we need a roll call vote for the first one. okay. on the consent calendar. commissioner avalos. aye. >> kim, abcent. maher, absent. >> four, state and federal legislative update. this is an action item. >> good morning, chair and members, mark wats representing sacramento. two items of interest. on the matrix we added constitutional amendment number 5 and relates to the voter threshold for local special taxes, not designating a purpose for the tax, but

. >> today we have communication dated yesterday from supervisor john avalos. stated he will not be in attendance today and request to be accused. >> is there a motion to excuse avalos. without objection, supervisor avalos is excused from today's meeting. madam clerk, are there any changes to the agenda? >> i have no changes. >> can you please rate the consent agenda. >> items 1 through 12 comprised consent calen der. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you, i like to remove item 10. >> okay. seeing no other names on the roster, please call the roll on remaining items. >> supervisor campos. >> aye. >> supervisor christensen? >> aye. >> supervisor cohen. >> aye. >> supervisor farrell. >> aye. >> supervisor kim >> aye. >> supervisor tang. >> aye. >> supervisor breed. >> aye. >> these items are passed unanimously. madam clerk read item number ten. >> it's an ordinance to modify the rental payment differential to evicted tenants. >> thank you madam president. i'm removing this item to make one technical amendment. on page 10 line 19 i'm adding the word service of. i make

john avalos took a street car to work. supervisor jane kim said she walked to work today but she ventured out and took muni to grab some coffee. and london breed tweeted this picture on the 9 bus with her high he'll heels kicked up. >>> sunny skies across the bay area today. your bay area forecast is coming up. >>> and could young horses be the key to unlocking some of the mysteries surrounding autismle? the research a uc davis veteran nare run is doing -- vet nare run is do -- veterinarian is doing that you will only see here. ?.=(=pcpcpcpcpcpcpcpcpc2h >>> a woman's been shot and a school is in lockdown near sacramento while cutes search for the perp -- while deputies search for the person who shot the person. this happened in carmichael. they say the woman is being treated for a life-threatening wound. witnesses say they saw her covered in blood and bleeding near the neck. the aria is near homes and a -- area is near homes and a strip mall. no word yet on what led up to the shooting. >>> friends and family are mourning

officer michael johnson >> good morning, welcome to the meeting of the board of supervisors i am john, avalos and joined by tang and cohen and our clerk is lisa and do you have any announcements for us? >> be sure to silence devices, items today will

city of san francisco >> good morning, welcome to the meeting of the board of supervisors i am john, avalos and joined by tang and cohen and our clerk is lisa and do you have any announcements for us? >> be sure to silence devices, items today will be on the april 7th board agenda, unless others stated. >> the first part of the agenda includes the members of the board of supervisors who are applying for the outside committee and regional bodies and there

receive the advocate award at the coleman advocate's 40th anniversary together with supervisor john avalos and that is scheduled for thursday, may 7th. any other announcements? commissioner? >> thank you i'd just like to on behalf of roseti and malone to invite to the education revolution event saturday april 25th from 9 to 4 at, at and t park and it's designed for families with students with learning differences so it's joining the education revolution for a day of resources celebration and community and feature workshops and exhibits and student activities again that's saturday april 25th from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at at and t park. >> when is the summer job fair? >> thank you so the summer job fair is on april 21st st and it's going to be at moscone -- no, it's a saturday. then i lied. april 11th. so it will be be april 11th at moscone center south, 747 howard street and it's going to be from ten until 4 and we encourage all of our young people between 17 and 24 to come down for job support interview, resume writing on the job -- there will be some on the spot hiring from some of our e

. >> we like >> good morning, welcome to the meeting of the board of supervisors i am john, avalos andned by tang and cohen and our clerk is lisa and do you have any announcements for us? >> be sure to silence devices, items today will be on the april 7th board agenda, unless others stated. >> the first part of the agenda includes the members of the board of supervisors who are applying for the outside committee and regional bodies and there will be an opening perhaps, that has to leave at noon, and we will open that up and continue it to the end of the agenda, when we will do the other interviewwise the monitor committee applicant and let's go to the first item. >> item number one is a motion >> purpose mar has been there and he does not need to be here to present and so we can open it up for any comment, and any member of the public that would like to comment on the application to lafco, and seeing none, we will close the public comment and could we have a motion to move forward. >> i would like to move supervisor mar to lafco and this to the full board with the positive recommendati

--el supervisor john avalos dice que cuando se suspende la licencia los costos son muy elevados para bajos ingresos o desempleadas, esto es un gran obstaculo en sus vidas. --habra una audiencia para discutir esta propuesta en mayo. cesar-vo --dato interesante! el indice de votantes republicanos registrados continua bajando. --de hecho en 13 condados hay mas personas que no tienen preferencia de partido que el numero de republicanos registrados en california. --tambien los votantes independientes superaron a los democratas registrados en 14 ciudades pero no en condados segun documentacion de la secretaria de estado. blanca ---varios buques de bomberos son utilizados para combatir el incendio en una plataforma de explotacin petrolera que tuvo consecuencias mortales en el golfo de mexico. cesar ---desde la capital mexicana jazive perez nos hace un recuento de las labores de los bomberos y de las personas afectadas por este siniestro.... take pkg ;01 ;35 ;55 1;34 las imgenes fueron grabadas desde lejos arriba de lo que parece un embarcacion y muestran el momento en que las llamas envuelv

presentaron a la delegacion una resolucion donde oficialmente la ciudad se solidariza con esta causa john avalossta resolucion significa esperanza para las familias, que hay personas en un gobierno que los esta escuchando, eso es lo que vale la pena de esta resolucion 45:40 ademas, fustiga la impunidad y falta de diligencia con que las autoridades mexicanas actuaron cuando recien ocurrieron los hechos.... agregaron que buscaran apoyo oficial para que estados unidos no financie mas armas hacia mexico... y ademas... 46:07 voy a hacer una carta con david campos a las naciones unidas pidiendo una investigacion independiente 46:16 el consulado de mexico en san francisco no se pronuncio sobre las manifestaciones de hoy 14:12 con una oracion con lo que puedan exigirle al gobierno porque yo se que de aqui si pueden exigirle al gobierno de alla para que no los entreguen 14:20 50:52 de aqui de san francisco, la caravana saldra para san rafael el objetivo es reunirse con las otras dos el 26 de abril en nueva york.... desde san francisco... pilar nino 51:03 blanca ---la seguridad publica es el enfoque de un

supervisor john avalos is also calling for a parcel tax on downtown commercial properties. hoping to put a half billion-dollar bond measure on the ballots. all the money would be pulled to build lower cost homes in the city. >>> president obama is in jamaica today beginning a three- day trip to the caribbean and central america. he is expected to address energy security in a region eager to ease its dependence on venezuelan oil. tomorrow and saturday the president attends the summit of the americas in panama. >> let's check in with liza to check our traffic. >>> good morning. we are seeing slow traffic now at the bay bridge toll plaza. the metering lights are now on. and traffic delayed out of oakland. so unfortunately a slow start to the bay bridge commute. once you're on the bridge though traffic picks up and no delays on the bridge itself getting into the city. but certainly expect delays on the nimitz later today. we have the a's playing midday then we have the warriors playing 7:30 game so you're going to expect slow traffic on 880 for both those periods affecting the

avalos has weighed in. >> he has recommended john more i more i son. >> we have yet that he has yet to appear before this committee. >> so he with not be eligible at this time. >> commissioner breed and then we will --. >> i think if there is, and can you and did he have is an explanation for why he has not communicated or has the supervisor received any communication from this person? because, i just want to make it clear that i want to choose someone who will have good attendance because this is important and which recently happened with one of my appointees whose attendance fell short of the requirements and there was a whole other process. >> i want to be sure that we have assurances that the individual is prepared to make it to the meetings if he can being recommended by supervisor avalos. >> i think that we can follow up on him and we don't have any knowledge at this time. >> okay. >> i would like to suggest then that since there was a recommendation and it is the district eleven seat that can we continue this item then? >> all right. >> we have a motion for that? >> okay. >> motion continues to th

. >> good morning, chair avalos and vice chair tang and supervisor cohen, my name is john caldera and today's my birthday, today i'm 51 years old. i love san francisco and i lived here for more than half of my life and in that service, i've been committed to our veterans of san francisco. for the last 16 years, i've been a member of the american legion and served two terms of the veterans affair commissions. wi first joined in 2007, i found the commission to be very much of a gold old boy network and i was met with quite a great deal of resistance and in 2008, a document was introduced to attack me personally and that document was submitted to the board of supervisors but it was fraudulent in the fact that the author of that document introduced paragraphs that were not known to be seen -- the veterans affairs commissioners did not see that, that's when i went back to the commission the very next month and told them this, you've been played, and that is why that letter has had no action taken whatsoever, that letter died when it was confronted as being falsified. as a gala teen know ma

supervisor avalos, before we move to a vote for the amendments, deputy city attorney john gibner can you explain if these amendments were to pass today what the process would be >> sure. if the amendment passes the board will continue this item either to committee of the whole at the full board or send it to committee for further public comment. either way with the amendment it would require further public comments >> seeing no other members name on the roster, on the motion to amund we have a first and second. roll call vote >> supervisor tang- >> just to make a clarification, >> yes, this is to support or deny the proposed amendments by supervisor avalos to item number 15 >> thank you. no. tang no. supervise wiener no. supervisor yee aye. superavalos, aye. breed, no. supervisor campus aye. supervisor christensen. no. supervisor cohen. no. supervisor ferrule. no. for visor kim. aye: supervisor mar. aye. 5 aye and 6 no's with supervisor tang, wiener, christensen co00 and ferrule with descentsing vote >> the amendments fail. oorkss item 15, supervisor tang, aye. wiener aye. supervisor

john ma. when we had our sf campaign that was led by supervisor cohen, wiener, avalos and i. as we honored people he was a true champion for children's health and to address the diabetes epidemic here in san francisco but throughout the country as well. it's my honor on the day before earth day to honor three amazing organizers and activists from san francisco foundation. and i'd like to ask if the chair brian dow could come forward. and the campaign co-chairs for rap which is called "rise above plastic." eva and shannon. come forward. i'd like to say the san francisco sur fighter are amazing. it's a grass roots force in san francisco but also throughout the country to create stewards for the environment, to protect the ocean, and to create a more sustainable future. but i was struck in going to their meetings how fun and engaging they are, how creativity and resourcefulness are really encouraged. it's just a great culture of organization that's trying to help not only the west side sunset richmond but throughout the city. rise above plastic is a sur fighter foundation nation