and they see it as a personal afront to the way that they run their business, being legislated by city legislation. and because small businesses personal to them. and it is another reason and maybe the reason for finally take their business out of san francisco. and this small business network urges the small business commission, to reject this legislation unless it is amended, and let's not rush it, let's not legislate, let's focus on the right to ask, and do this in a collaborative way that keeps the employees and employers together creating a happy place to work. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> mr. president? >> commission? >> my name is art swanson and i am here as an individual and although many of you know me as being a member of the network and also the small business advocates. and i am going to try to add a little bit of levity to this and actually some what serious issue. first of all i do want to say to president chiu, you have over the last several weeks tried to amend this to make it pal able for the business community and you are to be applauded fo

materials do not have to be compliant with the benefits, regulation or any of the other social legislation required by city vendors. they also tend to have the process by implementing a consolidated monthly billing process, quoting the documents just like oca had with office depot. i want you to remember that this type of billing that by quicker and the lower administrative costs also allowed office depot to over charge the city by more than a million dollars a year for the five years of that contract. at the end of that contract, the controller's office with the contract, and it required additional controls to be in place and subsequent office supply contracts. none of those controls are written into this contract. finally, i would like to point out the alternative that sfmta has rejected when they chose to get this contract. they reject the idea of accomplishing these objectives and improvements in house because it would require, and i quote, a significant investment in technology and training i submit that investing in the technology infrastructure and employee monthly base would have better benefits to

want to make sure that my office is working with the city attorney's office to explore different legislation we can do with the city that's preempted by the city law and we're exploring all options here and certainly applaud the senator at the state level >> i spoke last week and i don't think there's too much more to be said expect to adopt those rates. i was a little bit upset with the process the state board is the only one who can negotiation rates. the staff worked hard on that and with the flip of a switch we're booking back to a dealing with the special interests changed the whole picture and it wasn't right to ignore the hard work by our staff and board with serious thought. we really in the past have adopted some rules regarding black hawk rates and benefits. there isn't any backdoor dealings and the vendors are not lout to do any dealing with anyone but the board so those transparency issues could be addressed so the dealings are proper. before the public all our meetings are before the public i encourage you to go ahead with this >> i want to thank you. for us to ask you to hold the meetings i will say the backdoor dealings

and we should make transparency on those programs and they should be questioned by the legislative branches. russia's city of put its best face on as the twenty seventh the world university games set a kickoff and a splendid opening ceremony that will be presided over by vladimir putin as organizers apply the finishing touches artie's paul scott took a walk around the venue. over the course of the next fortnight more than thirteen thousand from one hundred seventy different countries to descend on the majority of them staying here this is the university village a purpose built brand new university complex in the city center now despite the fact that the authorities say the finishing touches are still being applied to some of the venues the message is clear. is ready. every time. you are excited. everything is going to go well that you don't have any trash. whether it's. even if sometimes a venue is where with a little bit too late we go they will be ready on time but. sometimes some of the things this is. hosting an event like this doesn't come cheaply official estimates say these games cost up to five bi

legislate a new criteria. that's what the penal code has empowered us to do. we could start right away by corralling a number of legislators and cityhall to get behind this effort completely. and i suggest budgetary wise pretrial as will represents is not funded enough. frankly. and our ability to i think really discharge in a supervised capacity so there is an alternative to incarceration is something that the city should put on a higher pecking order. since it costs about $50,000 a year to incarcerate somebody. when i look at the collaborative court models. when we look at the pretrial supervisory models we are talking about here. they are really a fraction of the cost. and i don't think we have that on system down as fluidly we would like, i think many of these are eligible for that program. and that requires pretrial to staff and have expanded population. >> george, we will give you the last word, we are pretty much at our time. >> we are underway, the reality that several of us here are members of the sensoring commission, including our public defender, mrs. mccracken and sheriff mirkarimi and myself. and this is an effort tha

want to make sure that my office is working with the city attorney's office to explore different legislation we can do with the city that's preempted by the city law and we're exploring all options here and certainly applaud the senator at the state level >> i spoke last week and i don't think there's too much more to be said expect to adopt those rates. i was a little bit upset with the process the state board is the only one who can negotiation rates. the staff worked hard on that and with the flip of a switch we're booking back to a dealing with the special interests changed the whole picture and it wasn't right to ignore the hard work by our staff and b

legislate a new criteria. that's what the penal code has empowered us to do. we could start right away by corralling a number of legislators and cityhall to get behind this effort completely. and i suggest budgetary wise pretrial as will represents is not funded enough. frankly. and our ability to i think really discharge in a supervised capacity so there is an alternative to incarceration is something that the city should put on a higher pecking order. since it costs about $50,000 a year to incarcerate somebody. when i look at the collaborative court models. when we look at the pretrial supervisory models we are talking about here. they are really a fraction of the cost. and i don't think we have that

by the city. the way the legislation works is fairly straightforward. we are going to be working primarily with the department -- i'm sorry with the office of economic and workforce development and using the resources that are already at play through the invest in neighborhoods program to help store owners who wish to turn their stores around and become less reliant on alcohol and tobacco and really become healthier, not just in terms of what they are offering to the community, but also as examples of how stores can become different. how change can happen in neighborhoods through existing businesses. it's an idea that came to us, as a result of looking at what was happening in san francisco, as a result of the expansion of formula retail. a lot of our small businesses are being adversely impacted by formula retail. one way of approaching the problem is to build up the capacity of our existing businesses by making them more competitive by meeting the demands of changing demographics in neighborhoods. and also by giving them the ability to provide product

and bicyclists and the pollution by the advertisers and to protect the distinctive appearance of the city so i have actually passed out also amendments to this legislation which i would like to make today and it's really just on the findings as brought forward to us by the city attorney's office changing the findings that we had introduced last week and then i will be making a request that we continue this item a week. the city attorney's office has spent a great deal of time reaching out to the faa to get clear guidance in terms of what the city and county of san francisco can do. they're kind of mixed outcomes of what we have seen when cities like honolulu and huntington beach have tried these restrictions so we want an understanding and the office is interested in this legislation and banning the aerial signs in the city but we want to go about it in a way that is effective and right. >> okay. and i want to -- supervisor, i want to thank you for taking a method cal approach because in addition to -- i'm not a real fan of these aerial advertising but in addition to the federal law issues i think anytime you're effectively banning an industry it's impo

historically known as the nightingale house and legislation enacted by the state of california and admitted into the san francisco administrative code and lets cities to go with this program and lets property owners to reduce the property taxes and reinvest the savings back into the rehabilitation and maintenance of the property. in san francisco the mills act has been in the past been used infrequently compared to other cities across the state. for example san francisco currently has five mills acts contracts and los angeles recently signed the 600th and this board passed legislation which was authorized by supervisor wiener. these revisions have made the application process quicker, cheaper and more predictable. additional applications are expected this year and the nightingale house is the type of scopes of work you can expect to go forward. this house was designated under article 10 of the planning code and august 28, 1972. the property is located on the west side and it's by one of the primary builders in the neighborhood. mr. nightingale was a real estate developer and a 49er's and san francisco alderman and the owners submitted their applica

legislation. the board of supervisors didn't decide to take it out or incorporate it. they were told by the city attorney's office that it couldn't be incorporated and, therefore, it became a piece of trailing legislation. secondly, this piece of legislation is not about e-i-rs, it is not about negative declarations, it is not about pomds. it's about exempted projilts. so, it's extremely limited and it has nothing to do with appealing an e-i-r in a different manner. ~ projects those are larger projects, i think, that have a different process and would be subject to a different appeal process all together. so, we're talking about exempt projects and just wanted to make that observation. >> commissioners, there is a motion and second on the floor to adopt a recommendation of approval for the staff ordinance with the modifications proposed by supervisor wiener. on that motion, commissioner antonini? >> no. >> commissioner moore? >> aye. >> commissioner sugaya? >> yes. >> commissioner wu? >> aye. >> and commission president fong? >> no. >> that motion fails 3 to 2. >> passes? >> it fails. you need a

city. so, we really appreciate the opportunity that this legislation sponsored by supervisor campos provided for us. so, just a little bit of background about the health care services master plan. i think you all are very aware of the history, but i'll just be brief. ordinance 300-10 was passed in 2010 sponsored by supervisor campos and became effective in january 2011. and really the purpose was to identify current and projected need for health care services in san francisco and to make recommendations on how to achieve and maintain an appropriate distribution of health care services. the focus of the work that we looked at was on access to health care services for our most vulnerable populations. so, how will the plan be used? the process of deciding whether an application adhereses to the health care services master plan is called a consistency determination. and certain projects will be subject to a consistency determination. not all projects. there are five thresholds for any change of use to a medical use that's more than 10,000 square feet and any expansion of an existing medical use

. >> so, just as an fyi, the pending legislation that is being worked on by president chiu and the board and the city attorney, among the proposals that we will be sending forward soon is a requirement that the ethics commission publish a contributor guide in addition to all of the guides that we have, something that we have not done in the past. it just so happens that we already had one in the works. so we bring to you a proposed draft of that, we think that it is fairly comprehensive. and the only other thing that i want to say it has a few minute of last minute typos that we want to correct before the commission considers adopting this document. >> okay. >> let's see the first typo is right at the very beginning. where in the introduction, there is just a space between the and the end of this page. so it is just a movement. >> second typo is page 4. first line, yes, as long as the contribution is under 100,000 dollars. and the third typo, is on page 5, make a contribution, and the word contribution was spelled incorrectly. >> and the other thing that i wanted to say was generally speaking the com

. >> so, just as an fyi, the pending legislation that is being worked on by president chiu and the board and the city attorney, among the proposals that we will be sending forward soon is a requirement that the ethics commission publish a contributor guide in addition to all of the guides that we