lastly, we are work with the public works because they are going to be doing repaving on west portal so we want to insure when we does get permits she doesn't tear the parklet down so we are timing that for her as well. if you have any questions i'm here to answer them >> no questions. thank you very much. next up with the [inaudible] from the office of economic and work force development. >> good morning mr. chair and supervisor [inaudible] office of economic and work force development and [inaudible] give an up date on the path way forward for a better west portal. and this is submitted by matte rogers on behalf of the [inaudible] association. 50 thousand dollars and [inaudible] back in may of 2014. then the grant was work ordered to our office and after conversations with our financial team and the city attorneys office we were advises we have to [inaudible] because through the budgetary process the project was [inaudible] but not the [inaudible] so then we rsp pd the project and [inaudible] was the only applicant for that particular project so we awarded a total of 20 thousand do

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project sponsors pay them leveling thousand dollars to remodel their home that's unreasonable and lastly the privacy screen we've addressed 1506 to 1508 by proposing an 8 foot tell you screen on the east side of the news deck and surrounding the rear wall one way or another we're happy to move the privacy screen we thought it was an improvement and providing provides them with privacy could or it wyoming conscious roved potrero hill provides shade and privacy for the new project as well as the existing homes and we don't think there is any reason for the open trellis to be removed and the rear yard is proposed over 40 feet deep and only 25 feet proposed so for the dr requesters so say this is is not wraebl is untrue. >> at this time i'll open up phenomenon the speakers in support of dr requester. >> this is in opposition to the project itself. >> sorry. >> it's part of dr requester team sorry you have to not be part of the dr requester team but in support of dr. and oh, sorry come on up. >> no, this is in opposition to the project or in support of dr requesters positions. >> i signed up

houses in district 5 can turn their garage into housing variance it reduces the bicyclist time and lastly it allows minimum parking requirements if doing so limits the rear yard and yard requirement so many building owners pay to have off-street parking but if people wants to remove the spot they can restore character to the neighborhoods the legislation passes the planning commission unanimous on february 26th the newest is the substitute that incorporates 3 small changes by the planning commission as well as one other issue that came up i'll address that we've incorporated a grandfathering progression for existing in the van ness district d for projects in the pipeline i'm happy to go into it in detail the legislation has options we can activate the improvement of bicycle safety and restore the yards hopefully that was quick enough i'll be happy to answer any questions supervisors thank you for your time. >> thank you very much any questions if the colleagues seeing none, is there any public comment on this item? item 2 seeing none, public comment is closed is there a motion on that ite

error term it is a portfolio of balanced risks that includes inflationary and deflationy concerns lastly i'll ask leslie do you want to contribute. >> the long term it is longer than than your horizon in your question inflation and exceptions have continued to fall when we look at the tips market and long term inflation perpetrated e exempted around 2 percent it is running lower we'll concur that inflation is like returning. >> commissioner if i can add i appreciate the question of my view or an individual verify but more importantly this is looking at what our team says about inflation and our actuary report we vote on what we anticipate inflation to be i believe the number was 3 and a half percent in the actuaries report so i think this is a better way to look at it rather than asking mr. corkers personal opinion or my opinion we've honed in on the number we've voted on could we ask what that number it i think it is - 3 and three-quarters. >> yeah. i think this is helpful i'll note there are members of this board including commissioner meiberger thinks it's grossly underestimated peopl

operators to shine the have you seen for a to shine and a filter for less scrupulous filters and lastly the conditions of approval that a accompany all permits and those for the planning code enforcement efforts we understand there are proposed amendments to the ordinance and the ones that concern the planning department and the planning codes are the sole practitioner dimensions as well as the amnesty program the massage from the conditional use authorization the city lose it ability to the planning process to weigh in an neighborhood issues this is one of the reasons that the land use were returned to local jurisdiction this exemption creates an initiative for one practice as a sole practitioner because of the racked land use process that is unclear from a land use prospective that a sole practitioner has a lessor land use than a regular establishment ate the lack of conditions of approval complicate the planning department issues and the planning department does recognize but use of the legitimate establishment and lucrative planning process we've been open to an amnesty practice tho

. >> if we made it systematic that would be easier to discuss and lastly a detergent why one is this way and that way those rates are good for 3 years and those 3 years and theirs didn't go up and mine did i'll take that to heart and make that a pirate in future reading sfaechlt. >> all right. when you say you're going to take it to heart it is going to be acted on. >> absolutely okay. so there is only one we can't do that we have to rate it every year for our risk. >> the self-funded ppo with that i have a list of 6 recommendations. >> please don't read them we have in in front of us. >> i move to approve that. >> i move we approve the recommendations for the dental plans. >> all right. there's been a motion to accept the approval as listed on this with the 6 domino plan and been improperly seconded any discussion by the members of the board any comments from the public? is there any comment from the public? yes, please save me, please come forward a good vendor that is quite all right. your name and raymond lee delta dental thank you very much for accepting is recommendation but i

lastly i just say i think we can balance public safety as supervisor farrell said, but i know we need to fund much more of the community safety as people from the pub lb have said. i feel safer whether there is empowered people from the communities that are watching each others backs and that we don't have to rely on armed and increases in police officers. with the coalition and others hopefully has we muv forward with the budget hearings woo we with can bring out moref inhuman safety net. i'll ask these questions through chief sir and get more of the data from him as we move forward with dialogue and debate >> supervisor wiener >> thank you mr. chairlen and calling the hearing today and thank you spl visor mar for calling the first hearing today. sometimes there is a perception that it is a either or, that you do health and human services and our safety net or public safety and the answer is all of the above. we have a lot of needs around housing and health care and human services and our seniors i youth. we valot of needs arounds transportation and public safety and we are in a posi

>> lastly, mayor, this book, "a jewel city" i bet we can get this at a good price. and this is the gift to people who come to see the jewel city. >> one last thing i just wanted to thank those for bringing this incredible model t today. it's exactly what you would have seen coming off the ford assembly line at the exhibition. >> thank you and welcome. let's go open those doors. >> >> >>

large number of people that are going to opt into this even though not requiring them to do it and lastly working on how we can get the department of motor vehicles to add a licensing question and information to both their drivers manual for truck drivers and the exam they take in order to be will to be licensed in the state. if you have any questions? >> great. any questions? supervisor yee. >> actually i realize the questions that i have around education and budging and so forth goes beyond the scope of this particular presentation and i might just bring it up in item number 7. >> okay we can also make sure that that at the next vision zero subcommittee hearing we put in an item around the larger education efforts around large vehicles that this program was focussed on. >> yeah actually that would be my request including looking at the bubbling in at the budget in terms of how much money is put into education. . >> absolutely we're trying to schedule in may prior to budget decisions being made and make sure to include that and work with your office to ensure the right questions are bein

lastly, our weekend tours setup organized exploration of san francisco for our early conference with attendees, providing for a tour with our enthusiastic tour leaders. thank you so much for taking the time to listen. >> just a quick addendum to rebecca presentation, mayor lee will open the conference sunday night. the keynote speaker on monday and our own chair mark buell is moderating the panel of mayors and parks that will also include mayor lee. >> i just want to say that was an excellent presentation by a college intern. >> i couldn't agree more. >> thank you very much. [ applause ] >> is there any public comment on this item? being none, public comment is closed. we are now on general public comment, this is continued from item 4. if you spoke on item 4, you cannot speak on item 10, but if not, and you would like to make general public comment, please come on up. >> good morning again, richard fong. i attended the betty ann ong center and having a technical issue -- i think it's more mr. ginsburg, i had spoken about they are trying to form a partnership with the rotary club and

lastly we are working to host a technology conference. right now people are using their smartphones or apps. we want to tap into applications that people are using right now and see how we can apply it to bart to make it more accessible. if you are using a speech to text or if you have hearing, maybe you can go to a designated speaker so it translates for deaf passengers. or, we are also looking at indoor navigation system like indoors. but sfo where you can be directed. it's 30 feet wide. so we can't have the features that sf 0 has but the key features. that's it for my presentation. i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you. i would like to start with council member roland wong. >> thank you, mr. franklin. i have two comments. one of them is when we deploy the first phase of the new bart cars, i think it may get very confusing when you have two older existing cars with two doors and the new cars with three doors. i can't really picture how people can actually navigate to figure out which door and you know even with si

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forward and expect the contract to be in place and approved by the start of the new fiscal year and lastly there was a recommendation related to reviewing expired taxi driver permits that's been implemented we've been in contract with controllers staff and implemented that with a manual process it remained open because we added language about an additional process that will be coming down the pipeline but because in fact we're doing it manually that will be slated to be closed that's all i have to say today thank you. >> thank you. >> no questions. >> thank you. >> thank you supervisor yee and supervisor breed so we're done for today. >> a questioning quick question on page 6 of the report i noticed it 31 percent of your requests to departments for i guess answers. >> yeah. >> were answered more than 31 days. >> yeah. >> is that sort of a usual thing. >> we'd like for it not to be a usual metric, if you will, simply because again with anything we'd like on time response and we tried to make sure we gave adequate time for the departments to respond but on the other hand, we recognize that t

and lastly world war. if we live in an era with an industry invested in conflict going to the most conflict prone places on the planet we will likely have world war. so thank you for this and i would like to welcome my college general hamm and mr. markey said he. >> thank you very much for that presentation sean and it's quite an ample scope for discussion and to kick this off we will turn it over to general hamm. >> as you look at this group on the stage you might be reminded of that sesame street broke them which of these things is not like the other? i think i'm the one that doesn't quite fit here. i had a good occasion to meet a number of times in africa and he has forgotten more about africa than i would ever know. i got to the point at the end of my tenure my knowledge of africa could be best summed up by saying i was just beginning to understand how much i didn't know about africa at the end of my tour. sean of course is a noted author and professor. i was a pretty marginal students and certainly no

. >> and lastly as a followup to our last hearing the cultural assets hearing the staff went to the small business commission to represent the hpc and the department and their discussions about the legacy business register they were - they have agendized discussing criteria and administration around the registry and another item open their calendar that took quite a bit of time and didn't have enough time we reiterated our willingness to assist and provide technical assistance to the commission in developing the registry and overseeing the registry as well as the historic preservation commissions interest so we'll continue to attend their hearing and keep you posted on their developments that concludes my comments. >> commissioners seeing no questions portsz and unanimously. >> no one. >> the draft minutes for the ar c meeting the draft minutes for excuse me. the kushlt heritage committee meeting for march 18 and the minutes for the regular historic preservation commission meeting. >> commissioners any comments or corrections or restrictions seeing none, we'll opening it up for public com

and then lastly, the way this solicitor general argued that i said would bring the most massive expansion of federal power in the history of the country, he would let the fourth amendment, would have to -- the fourth amendment wouldn't have anything to do or to say about a police attaching a g.p.s. device to a citizen's car without a warrant and constantly tracking their every moment for months or years. now, i've given you five reasons of expansion of the federal government, and these positions aren't in any way mainstream positions. at the end of the day, the common thread that binds all of these challenges together is the department of justice has become deeply politicized, and that's what happens when the attorney general of the united states views himself and these are his own words, as the president's wingman. because of all the decisions we've witnessed over the last few years, i've said from the very beginning of this process that what we need more than anything else out of our new attorney general is independence ever since she was nominated, it was my sincere hope that miss lync

the eir period can say we accelerate those projects to bring them online this elevation a going on lastly actions by another water agencies actually i'll be going to the santa clara board meeting their commissioner moran for severe restrictions like 3 percent restriction on use so we will be talking with them and others before the implications their situation is one where their worse off than us in terms of storage so we have a lot of concerns it is back to our storage slide the use of water bank we're in a better situation but at least we're positions relatively well so we're going to continue for sure the 10 percent water reduction through this year we demanded no more than 2 hundred and 9 modified per day of it's an extreme dry year hetch hetchy will be potential near that and under our agreement with our customers mid-april we make a determination on the water outcome for the year we have hard decisions it will be around that timeframe and i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> commissioners yes. >> steve what do we know about san franciscans use and i'm thinking of two things the

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and will be intrigued it will not be straight up by into the neighboring community and not isolated lastlyant to a big shout out to our staff letdz by i can't freeman this is the first project in the history of hud where choices neighborhood and rad are in the same development now to the layperson out there what's he talking about i know? that's an incredible feat that brought in all kinds of unusual financing to get down and it takes a village to build a village with all those folks we've created some very interesting principles about which we operate that will be embedded into the development going forward i want to giving them to you real quickly we believe that there is nothing more important than a decent secure and affordable place to live a nourishing place a happy place where everyday is a peaceful life and people what rest and dream in preparation for the next day and an assembly place for nutrition and schools and health care and public transportation a good jobs a welcoming place for residents to see the neighbors not only someone living down the street or next door a place for

>> so lastly ryan invented the great incessantly later a fan of ribbon colors that projected into the the infection that appeared in the yacht supported 4 foot supported spotlight and 60 marines were r5gd to make the lights swing with the names of the devils fan and fairy and the sincere pant and octopus one magazine said quote on receiving a color champion a straumg in sudden but the lamps trained to the position and above entitled the otero now innocent thanks to many, many more people we will again above entitled the wonder of the awe illumination in the fair city a citizen technology later thank you very much (clapping). >> thank you laura right now let's bring back craig and the ditch he is for their rendition of san francisco by the way a i heard was the number one song and the theme song for the 915 fair. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in >> oh, e oh, away u way when it is waiting there before me i love her so wherever i go i think of her all day where eyeing and her smile and light and her voices soft and dreem write i can't forget the ones i've met on san francisco bay on san francisco bay wel

cover-ups with the united health and with meeting a obtain hewitt open the blue shield discussion and lastly the substantive conversations my reappointment to the board i'd like to ask the board members to take note of the fact we've been given and have returned today information on educational conference that was held national summit on price and cost transparency as we've put together those new terms for the references forbid the board the issues was education of the members of the board this conference was held few weeks and we've got to the opportunity to look at portions of it over the next 3 months and so i would innovative members of the board to look at this document and identify which particular sections of that conference they would want to be part of the webinar and the times are provided on the document as well i'd like to ask you to complete this before you depart the chamber rather than take it home email that back we all have again intentions cooperate please that's the end of my report. >> we can go to item 10. >> item 10 director's report director dodd i'll be quick and we s