madame clerk, are there any communications? >> yes, madame president i have received a communication from supervisor scott wiener informing us of his trip to washington, d.c. with the metropolitan transportation commission for regional transit funding lobbying trip and requests to be excused from today's meeting. >> okay. is there a motion to excuse -- motion by supervisor farrell, seconded by supervisor mar. supervisor wiener is excused from today's meeting. [ gavel ] >> okay. madame clerk, can you please read the consent agenda. >> items 1-13 are considered routine unless a member objects. an item may be removed and considered separately. >> seeing no members on the roster, madame clerk, can you please call the roll. >> on items 1-13, supervisor mar? >> aye. >> marway. >> supervisor tang? >> aye. >> tang aye. >> supervisor wiener is excused. supervisor yee? >> aye. >> yee aye. >> supervisor avalos? >> aye. >> avalos aye. >> supervisor breed? >> aye. >> breed aye. >> supervisor campos? >> campos aye. >> supervisor christensen?

march 31, 2015, and if you can't find a seat in the chamber we have an overflow room in room 263 timed madam clerk call the roll >> thank you supervisor avalos supervisor president breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar not present pursue supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee not present madam president we have quorum. >> ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all okay. >> madam clerk any communication. >> yes. madam president two communications dated march twhith one from supervisor yee they'll not been able to attend and request to be excuses eye is there a motion to excuse supervisor mar and supervisor yee we'll take that without objection. those two are excused okay and colleagues before we move on supervisor christensen i see you think the roster supervisor christensen do you have comments. >> no. >> colleagues, any changes to the march 24th seeing no changes a motion by sup

madam clerk, can you please call the role. >> yes madam president. supervisor avalos. avalos present. breed. >> here. >> breed present. campos. campos present. christian ten. >> present. >> cohen present. supervisor farrell. >> here. >> farrell present. supervisor kim. kim present. supervisor mar. >> present. >> present. supervisor cheng. >> cheng present. >> yee. >> present. >> madam president, all members are present. >> thank you ladies and gentlemen, can you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance]. >> thank you. colleagues, are there any changes to the january 13th board meeting minutes? seeing no changes is there a motion to approve the minutes? motion by supervisor mar, seconded by supervisor farrell. madam clerk, are there any objections to the approval of the minutes? seeing none, the minutes are approved uunanimously pending public comments. are there any communications? >> i have two communications associated with two separate items on today's agenda. item 21 and 27 through 30 dhl be read and considered when the two items are called

madam clerk, can you please call the role? >> yes, madam president thank you. supervisor avalos present president breed present supervisor campos present supervisor supervisor christensen present supervisor cohen present fairly supervisor farrell present supervisor kim supervisor kim present supervisor mar not present supervisor tang present supervisor wiener present supervisor yee present. madam president you have a quorum. >> thank you and can everyone stand up and join us in in the pledge of allegiance? >> pledge of allegiance. >> thank you. and colleagues, are there any changes to the board meeting minutes of january 27th? seeing no changes may i have a motion to approve. motion by supervisor cohen and seconded by supervisor tang. madam clerk, are there any communications. >> i have no communications today madam president. . >> can . >> can you please at this time read the consent agenda? >> the small business commission to establish a region a registry and authorize a a a $50 fee. >> thank you very much i want to thank my cosponsors and supervisor farrell

madam president. >> thank you. colleagues, we have before us now the sequel category before us at 26445 broad street in district two. can you call item 27 through 30. >> compromised a special order of 3:00 p.m. for public

price: thank you, madam chair. it has been said that budgets are about visions and about tissue and that they're a moral document and they are. budgets are -- what's our vision? we believe in promoting the greatest amount of opportunity. and the greatest amount of success and the greatest number of americans so that the greatest number of american dreams can be realized. and doing so in a way that demonstrates real hope and real compassion and real fairness. without washington picking winners and losers. many of our friends here on this floor have talked about budgets being a moral document, and they are. so let me ask, madam chair where is the morality in trapping disadvantaged people in a web of welfare programs that discourage self-sufficiency and instead shackle them to government dependency. where is the morality, madam chair new york committing retirees to a health coverage program that's going bankrupt, that can't keep its promises if its so-called protectors keep blocking reform? where is the morality, mada

madam president, i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from maine. mr. king: madam president i rise today to share some good news from my home state of maine. it's the story of veterans helping veterans of three people from maine who have positively impacted the lives of thousands of veterans in my state and done so in a unique way. they make personalized wooden canes with a bold and intricate bald eagle head carved into the handle for any maine veteran who wants one. i have some pictures here that show a ladies and gentlemen of the jury number of -- a large number of thecanes. as i noted when one of these canes appeared in my office recently this eagle has an attitude and he's positive about the future of this country. about eight years ago george and donna gunning from windsor maine, heard about a project in oklahoma called "the eagle cane project." the mission was to help post-9/11 veterans who had trouble walking because of leg disabilities due to combat-related action by providing them with a unique

with that, madam president, i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. mr. vitter: thank you madam president. madam president, all this week i've come to the floor to talk about this issue of birthright citizenship and to introduce my amendment that would end that policy. i come to the floor again on that issue. i have an amendment pending on this bill to change that policy to end birthright citizenship and i just want to read a statement on the subject. the american people are upset and i think they have a right to be upset. but they're upset for a reason. our immigration policies regulating all aspects of entry to the united states have simply ceased to function in the national interest. immigration policy and national interest are terms that are rarely heard in the context of immigration. we seem to have lost sight of the fact that it is a public policy and like all public policies our immigration policies should serve the public interest. but they do not. let us talk about legal immigration. we now a

. >> madam president, supervisors, department people i'm thomas robert simpson thank you for the warm welcome to the special visits from the western edition i'm here to say i think it is really important that a number of you are here who live within 5 or 6 blocks maybe 8 blocks of this chamber my hope and my wish is that they will get an inspiration or something one-on-one within them that says oh, this is an african-american that used to live in my neighborhood the president of the chamber oh, it's the african-american woman from the other part of town that's from this chamber also or there's a gay white man part of the chamber they'll say off a oh a possibility i my one day be a part of this chamber so i welcome you're welcome for us i hope i didn't put you on the spot too much. one person you did mention was angela part of bringing the youth here thank you for bringing us here and hopefully one day one the youth behind me will take our position thank you very much >> thank you very much>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> approximately i'm dana i work here and talked about the hi

mayor to our meeting at this time madam clerk can you please call the roll. >> yes madam president. supervisor avalos present president breed present supervisor campos present supervisor christensen present supervisor cohen present supervisor farrell present supervisor kim supervisor kim present supervisor mar present. supervisor tang not present supervisor wiener present supervisor yee present. madam president you have a quorum. >> thank you ladies and gentlemen. will you please join us in the pledge of allegiance? >> pledge of allegiance. >> thank you. madam clerk, are there any changes to the agenda? >> nomad no, madam president there are no changes and there are no communications. >> okay colleagues are there any changes to the meeting minutes? motion by by supervisor mar seconded by supervisor cohen without objection the meetings are approved pending public comment. madam clerk, can you please call our special order? >> the first item of business is the policy discussion between the mayor and the board of supervisors the mayor may make initial remarks not to exceed 5 minutes an

>> madam president i will call item 33, and that does conclude the other business on the agenda. >> madam president --. >> sir, you are out of order. >> public comment is closed sir, you are out of order. >> emergency. >> sir. sir, sir, you can leave us a document, and we can pass them out to the members of the board. >> thank you. >> can you call item 33, madam clerk? >> item 33 is a motion that the board of supervisors convene in closed session on february, 24th, 2015, for the purpose of confering with or receiving advice from the city attorney, regarding existing litigation in which the city as a plaintiff, defendant and petitioner and gas and electric company is an adverse party. >> all departments nice of you to join us, could you begin by introducing, we are missing somebody? >> okay. >> we are going to go into closed session. >> okay. >> and so, we have already. >> okay. thank you, we have taken general public comment for this particular item as i have announced when that we would take public comment in the time that we opened general public comment for item number 33. and so at th

madam chair, madam president umai'm so sorry. republican congressman eric paulson of minnesota drafted the house version of the same human trafficking bill. he wrote the bill. it passed the house. even he believes that inclusion of the abortion provision in the senate bill is inappropriate. here's what he said, ann and i quote. "there is no reason it should be included in these bills. this issue is far too important to tie it up with an unrelated fight, politics as usual." this is his bill. and he says, take that language out. he is a republican. the path forward then is clear. take the abortion language out of the bill and we could pass it now -- right now. that's it. if hijacking the human trafficking bill with an unrelated abortion provision wasn't already enough, listen to this: the majority leader is now holding loretta lynch's nomination hostage also. it is hard to comprehend, but that's what's happening. just last tuesday the republican leader gave his word that he would bring up a vote this week on president obama's attor

madam clerk. >> thanks colleagues. madam clerk can you please call item number 15. >> an ordinance to amend the planning code when adding dwelling units to existing buildings undergoing retrofit and making the the appropriate findings. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you very much madam president colleagues today before us is legislation that will allow for the addition of accessory dwelling units also known as in law units in buildings either undergoing mandatory or voluntarily retro fits and provide an incentive to add new accessible moderate typically moderate income housing without public subsubsidy and for buildings to provide seismic retrofit and this builds upon the castro unification that creates new rent control units in san francisco because the legislation provides that if a unit is added into an existing rent controlled building it will also be rent controlled and has the support of various organizations including livable city the hack and was endorsed unanimously by the commission and we know we're in the m

. >> madam clerk. >> electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the march 17 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> that's correct madam clerk so we have a number of items number one is a hearing i requested i know one participate is not here we'll go through the other items first and tackle item number one madam clerk call item 2. >> 2 an ordinance amending the business and tax regulation code which contains a license requirement for the merchant that have been suspected. >> thanks madam clerk we'll take them in order. >> good morning amanda freed i thought i which is here for the wrong reason nice to be here today this is an item amending the business code to repel article 3 on the taxes for merchant this is suspended by the board of supervisors since the year 2000 the reason we're asking for an appeal we have taxpayers calling and questioning this for taxpayer clarification we want to strike this from the

madam secretary please call the first item. >> thank you madam chair. the first item is roll call. commission members please respond when i call your name. commissioner mondejar. >> here. >> commissioner singh. >> here. >> commissioner bustos. >> here. >> madam chair rosales. >> here. >> all members of the commission are present. the next item is two and the next regularly scheduled meeting at march 3, at city hall. b, prohibition of sound producing electronic devices during meeting. please be advised that the ringing of and use of sell phones and pagers and similarly devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any persons responsible for sell phones or pagers or other similar sound producing electronic devices. c allotment for time for public comments. please be advised that a member of the public has three minutes unless the commission adopts a shorter time on any item. it's strongly recommended that speakers fill out a speaker card provided by the commission secretary and submit that card to the secretar

madam president i yield the floor. mr. sanders: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: i would yield five minutes to the senator from michigan senator stabenow. the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. ms. stabenow: madam president first i want to thank the distinguished senator from vermont for his advocacy and passion and hard work in laying out what this budget is all about. i also appreciate the work of the distinguished chair even though we have disagreements on the budget, because this is really an opportunity that we have to create a serious budget, a serious budget that gives every american a fair shot to work hard and to get ahead. if the opportunity to strengthen the middle class of our country -- but that's not what is happening here. what america needs is a middle-class budget. unfortunately, instead what we have is a budget that continues to rig the system on behalf of the wealthy and the well-connected. this budget does not close corporate tax loopholes or end practices like inversions

madam director? >> thank you, madam secretary. good afternoon to commissioners and members of the public. this you for joining us. commissioners we have seen a number of designs related to hill top hunters point shipyard phase one dda and this is the first overall concept design you will see for block 48 which is a bit of a misnomer. it's actually up to 404 units if you approve the density units which is in multiple blocks and multiple phases. you have the schematic design for the four phases. i would like the manager to walk you through these items. >> thank you madam director and greetings and commissioners, rosales project manager for office of community investment and infrastructure. i hope this slide is showing up. yeah. here we go. i just want to give you a quick overview of what this presentation will be about. first describe what your action is being considered here before you. to what the hunters point shipyard and giving you an overview of the a major phase application for block 48 and phase 1a. >> so the action at the c

madam clerk call item number 3 please. item 3 an ordinance rivaling authorizing the technology department to enter into the second amendment if that the city and at at by extending the term of the agreement to 2016 not to exceed one hundred and one million. >> is miguel is not here and item 4 are for the administrative code for the amendment for the body of puc and number 5 for the issuance and revenue of bonds in an agency vat not to exceed $48 million to capital projects with the construction of the electric power according to the chapter section. >> okay. thank you madam clerk both of items four and five restraining order - are revenue bonds is the puc here i like that we tried they're not here we don't have the department of technology here we'll work on that call item 1. >> hearing on the support of the causes for the city improvements and soon to be released housing and city report. >> thank you madam clerk and thanks to everyone who is here and put the time in inform prepare this guess a hearing i asked and called f

madam clerk now any other business before us. >> no, mr. chair good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the san francisco budget & finance committee for wednesday march 25, 2015, my name is mark farrell i'll be chairing this committee i'm joined by commissioner chan and supervisor scott wiener i believe we'll be joined that i supervisor mar and supervisor norman yee i want to thank the clerk clerk linda wong and members of the sfgovtv mark and scott >> madam clerk, any announcements? completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the march 31st board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated okay. thank you madam clerk call item one. >> item one hearing to review the health insurance trend of reclassifying certain life saving drugs including aids drugs thereby increasing the cost of access for those drugs for patients. >> thank you madam clerk this item was sponsored by supervisor wiener. >> thank you very much mr. chairman and scheduling this colleagues today will be discussing did growing heal

madam director. >> thank you madam secretary. commissioners in 2013 you previously authorized both design and construction contracts with the san francisco county transportation authority related to this off ramp work. this work is necessary as you know as we reentering into development agreements with developers along folsom and in particular this particular site is for the transbay block eight which we're scheduled to close on with related -- later this year so this realignment work that the ta is conducting on our behalf is critical to that and these are additional costs associated with that and we expect to come back with likely another amendment after this, but we're bringing this item before you now with a first time and we have representatives here to go over this and from the transportation authority as well here. >> thank you executive director bohee. acting president and commissioners i am kevin mo suita and an emergenc -- engineer and i this is an amendment with the san francisco transportation authority for the folsom

>> thank you madam clerk. you know, last week on wednesday at the request of supervisor farrell and i believe supervisor christensen as well, we had a very enlightening hearing at the budget committee to get a presentation on the planning department's efforts to enforce the short-term rental law and so-called ab and b law and it was a very informative presentation and i have to give a great deal of kudos to the planning department staff who were very forthcoming and the long and short of it for those of you that watched this hearing is what we heard from the planning department staff was essentially that that as currently written this law is un forceable and it's interesting a number of issues were raised but one of the fascinating things is that over the course of discussing this legislation, we have heard from hundreds if not thousands of folks who are engaging in short-term rentals and

thank you, madam chair. thank you, madam secretary. >> thank you, madam chair. i'll continue on this parks discussion and i have appreciate what senator king from maine was talking in terms of enhancing some of the opportunities to get some more money to the parks to help with some of the clear issues you've identified in your budget. i want to back up and talk a little bit about the centennial challenge and some of the initiatives there. as you know, madam secretary i've been working with you on this and we talked a lot about how in 2016, 100th anniversary of the park, we can do some exciting things to try to generate more interest in the parks and also to deal with some of the budget challenges. in 2007 when i was -- we launched this centennial challenge where you get the private sector more engaged with the parks. i think your former company was part of that. it seems to make so much sense to me. it's basically you provide a federal match in order to level private sector dollars. we had hope to raise $100 million per year over a 10-year period, substantial fu

madam president ms. lynch would make a superb attorney general and someone who has herself served in law enforcement and served in that role at the state level, i think you well appreciate the importance of having a confirmed attorney general to lead our federal department of justice. loretta lynch has demonstrated throughout her confirmation process and her many years of service to her country that she is well and amply prepared and qualified to take on this vital and important role. so i urge my colleagues end the delays and give loretta lynch the vote our country deserves. thank you. and with that, i yield the floor and suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: a senator: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from montana. mr. daines: i request unanimous consent to call off the quorum. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. daines: madam president i request unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. t

thank you. >> madame president, members of the board, we want to say thank you.e feel honored to receive this acknowledgment. we wouldn't have done it if it won't for the great community response and we thank you so much for that. >> just want to say thank you. i think just to be able to come together as one body takes the difference and it takes everybody to make things work. thank you everybody. >> i want to give supervisor kim an opportunity to see a few words and i want to say that we want to thank our team as well, and just to my colleagues and staff, there is cake in my office after the meeting. tartine was so impressed with the two captains that we wanted to make sure a cake was presented to them. so captains, wanted to make sure and anyone who has been to tartine knows it doesn't get better than that. so congratulations. supervisor kim. >> thank you. and i just wanted to take an opportunity to thank the salvation army as well. you have really helped us out on numerous occasions, with fires, but also with helping us to put together the emergency shelter wh

madam clerk, are there any communications. >> i have no communications today madam president. . >> can . >> can you please at this time read the consent agenda? >> the small business commission to establish a region a registry and authorize a a a $50 fee. >> thank you very much i want to thank my cosponsors and supervisor farrell and supervisor yee after speaking with supervisor tang and others about the particular legacy businesses in their districts that might not be protected under the legislation i'd like to make the amendment to the legislation. we are removing the category of businesses that were eligible for recognition and instead have included language that would allow the mayor or any supervisor to nominate a business in their district and the idea there is no one knows the businesses better than the various supervisors who represent that district and we're also asking that the small business commission hold a hearing to determine if they meet the following criteria the business has operated in san francisco for for 30 years or more that the business has contributed to the ne

madam clerk now any other business before us. >> no, mr. chair >> hello. welcome to "culturewire." we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. >> i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the san francisco arts commission school and realized there was a pre-qualified school you had to apply to, so i applied to the. >> how long did it take you to develop this work for the plaza? >> this was a fast track projects. design development was about a month. >> let's look at the beautiful mural. i have never seen a mural created on asphalt. >> the heat of the asphalt, a new layer of asphalt. then, these wire rope templates that were fabricated for the line work get laid down and literally stamped into the asphalt and then everything was hand-painted. >> maybe you could talk about some of the symbolism

madam clerk can you please call the next item? >> a motion to appoint utuma belfrey to the equal pay advisory board. >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you. just as supervisor wiener said yes it's a challenge to be on the rules committee when you have very qualified and talented applicants who are applying for a few number of seats and that was the case with the seats for the equal pay advisory board and it was actually kind of nerve racking to actually look at all of these very well qualified candidates i i actually wanted to explain my vote on this one i had wanted to support wendy aragon a woman working in the construction field for a number of years and has had firsthand experience of what it's like to work in the field and experience what it's like to have a different kind of pay than male counter parts in the industry and she would be one that knows the industry very well and can do the investigative work but she didn't pass the committee. the person who did pass in her stead was marisa diaz i will vote in favor of her today i f

with that, madam president, i yield the floor. mr. sanders: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: first let me thank senator wyden for his remarks and i concur with what he said and i also want to thank him for cosponsoring the amendment on infrastructure that we're going to be voting on in a few minutes. senator wyden and i understand that you cannot be a great nation if your roads and your bridges and your water systems and your wastewater plants and your airports and your levees and your dams and your railroads -- railroad system is crumbling. that is not what a great nation is about. madam president, years ago the united states used to be the envy of the world in terms of infrastructure. countries all over the world looked to the united states to say how do you do it? how do you provide clean water to your people? how do you have such an efficient transportation system? how do you have such great roads? that is no longer the case. today we are in 12th place and there is no denying -- i don't think any of my republic

thank you, madame secretary. thank you, chairman. >> thank you, madame chair. secretary jewell i want to thank you for your extraordinary commitment to protecting, in particular, i do represent hawaii. hawaii's natural and cultural treasures in the president's budget, using the land and water conservation fund, which you highlighted in your testimony, and saying that the fund supports 105 projects and 39 states, including alaska and hawaii. particularly for hawaii, the hawaii volcanos and national park are the number one land acquisition projects for the national parks service and the u.s. fish and wildlife service in fiscal year 2016. this effort has taken us a long time to get to the point where these projects are the -- the top priority ranking. i want to commend you for working with us over a period of time to get to where we need to get to. i realize that the president's budget calls for full funding of this fund. i wanted to ask you, how important is congressional action in making sure that the lwcf funds are more consistent because you keep asking for fu

. >> madam clerk call item 2. >> a solution improving emergency contracts with the design seismic inc. hester and electric with an amount not to exceed $207 million. >> julie from dpw to speak. >> good afternoon, members julie from public works you've heard this item before now the amended solution is before you i want to reiterate a few key points that the fire department made and why this was a debilitation of emergency treasure island is the fire houses and medical staff on the island must be on that island to respond treasure island doesn't have a go suitable facility the firefighters occupying the facility temporarily don't occupy the former facility which is mold infested and cannot be linked in that is required this emergency contract you have before you will enable the public works department to move the firefighters who are currently temporarily located into a modular facility by march of 2015 which was an important streamlining effort on our part in order to protect the lives and safety of the resident of treasure island and also to provide suitable residence for our firefig

madam director? >> thank you, madam secretary. commissioners and thank you again to the members of the public who are joining us. commissioners, as you know -- dislugs back in 2012, we entered into arrangement with the ports leases for that process using tax increments for agreement to enter into that property. our work program is largely complete. we have been fantastically successful in creating a successful public improvement and mixed income housing program and now it's time to return the approved property and terminate the leases back to the port of san francisco. with that, we'll walk through a number of mou units and the port of san francisco are here as well. >> thank you, director bohee and commissioners. i will be very brief in my presentation relying on the memo and we'll be happy to answer any questions and i'm very pleased to have from the port peter daily, john ooh! and lawrence brown and from the port now that are acting harbor master john borrow. as director bohee said it was the redevelopment agency would naturall

thank you. >> thank you supervisor tang supervisor wiener. >> thank you very much madam clerk. the first item is an ordinance landmarking the swedish american hall near sanchez if you have not seen it before it's really a beautiful majestic building and fell into partial misuse and it's now being revital ized and it's going to be better and better moving forward with live music and food services and our first step is landmarking the building and it's an exciting step for the neighborhood and for this property and i'm also introducing today legislation briefly described by supervisor mar and i want to thank supervisor mar and supervisor cohen for cosponsoring it. requiring health warnings for stationary advertisements like billboards and other signs for sodas and sugary beverages -- quote -- warning drinking beverages with added sugar contributes to to diabetes and tooth decay. we know warning are an important public health strategy and they have worked very well in cigarettes all advertising has to inform consumers about some of some of the diseases cigarettes cause and the sam