we brought forward a charter amendment and passed it, thank you jon givner. and protected bike lanes. we were very busy in the last six months. i want to appreciate you for working on both of my campaigns and i'm taking the hard and audacious step of working in this office and taking the heat. you took a lot of heat, worked under fire and i'm so impressed. i want to recognize some other legislative aides that i had apart from their upbringing. sorry my speech is so long. jen lowe, supervisor yee's office who worked on my 2010 campaign. tim and supervisor safai's office, angelina and kelvin in supervisor peskin's office. i've had the honor of knowing them since they were 14, 15 years old and it great to see the next generation of youth leaders that are serving you all so well. they don't do anything for me. i'm just recognizing them. they work really hard for their bosses, but i'm super proud of them. i want to thank my campaign team. it's too countless to name owl of them, but kayla who is the audience, jeffrey, brandon, who was here earlier and spoke at publ

notice provisions, and there are many definitions of notice, and i will ask deputy city attorney jon givner to opine about the definition of notice. >> mr. givner: deputy city attorney jon givner. i'm not sure whether in article 15 or elsewhere in the public works code, there's any requirement for the director of public works when providing mailed notice to do it by certified mail. i can check. you can certainly make this amendment next tuesday at the board. >> supervisor safai: yeah. i guess i started a little bit later through the chair. i started -- no longer a question to you, deputy city attorney, but my question would be i sounded like you had interns do a lot of research. one of my questions was how many, if any, have ever been -- how many major encroachments have not been revoked? and i would imagine because we're talking about, when often times -- just for the public's edification, i know you're aware of this. often times when you're doing development, some of that development leads into or has a relationship in the public right-of-way, and that's what the minor and major encroachm

givner: deputy city attorney jon givner. the -- under state law, the city engineer, which is housed in -- works for d.p.w. has exclusive authority to determine engineering design issues. i believe that the -- that the term is -- i don't know if that specific term is defined, but the scope of the city engineer's authority is defined in state law rather than this ordinance. >> supervisor safai: okay. i just wanted to clarify. that was it. thank you, mr. peskin. it seems, mr. chair, that the only thing we'll hear back on is the issue of certified mail. >> chair peskin: well i said in the beginning, i'm okay with it, but i could careless. okay. if there's any member of the public that would like to testify on item 2, please come forward. seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. colleagues, if there are no amendments, i would entertain a motion to send this to the full board with a positive recommendation, we can handle that on tuesday. >> supervisor safai: move. >> chair peskin: so moved by supervisor safai, and with

deputy city attorney jon givner can answer any questions you may have, but i ask to move the amendments. >> president yee: okay. before we take any action, i wanted to make sure madam clerk will read the item for item nine. >> clerk: item nine is an administrative ordinance to require city employees to complete harassment training annually, department of human resources to post the training and complaint information on their website and for there to be reports from d.h.r. and the city attorney and to recommend that the civil service commission adopting a rule requiring d.h.r. to accept complaints of harassment, discrimination or retaliation for up to one year after the date of the alleged incident. >> president yee: okay. colleagues, we have a motion on the floor. do we have a second? seconded by supervisor ronen. can we take this item amended, same house, same call. >> clerk: mr. president, we'll take the amendment first. >> president yee: can we take this item as amended, or do i need to say -- >> clerk: you'll just -- without objection on the amendment, and then, we'll take the item

givner: deputy city attorney jon givner. the board doesn't have the authority to place conditions on the permit. the state does, and so, the board could, if you were going to find public convenience and necessity here, the board could urge the state to adopt conditions of different hours. >> chair mandelman: looks like my colleagues do not object. >> thank you. i just wanted to say, my apologies for not consulting your office prior? i don't handle a lot of p.c.n. hearings, and i didn't realize that was the protocol. and i would have. i meant no disrespect by it. i appreciate any ability to work with us on this because it is a successful business model, but they're an innovative company, and they've taken a huge expense to operate out of 1 grant avenue. the intent is not to have a bustling bar up there all day. it's a separate area of the mezzanine. i'm not sure if diagrams were included in your packet. it's more of an additional experience to the piece, to your point. it's not going to replace what the current attraction of

givner: deputy city attorney jon givner. the way the ethics commission's bylaws are structured, which i think is atypical for many city commissions, the general comment can be both items that are appearing on today's agenda or not appearing on today's agenda, so it's okay for members of the public to comment on items that are appearing on the agenda. although typically, in these situations, the public comment comes with the agenda item. but mr. hill could speak on public financing now during general public comment and also speak on item five when public comment is called on that item. >> chair chiu: i see. okay. thank you. go ahead. >> thank you. my name's steven hill. i'm one of the original coauthors of the prop o, which was passed in 2000 that setup the public financing law in san francisco. and i was also involved in subsequent amendments in 2005-2006 to extend that to the mayor's office, and then also amendments in 2009 and 2012. so i have a long history with this, and i also was responsible for getting 15% of the publi