chair: any further direction, madam city attorney, based on that? >> we recommend that the board amend items 20, 27, and 28 that deal with adopting the previous ceqa findings, and there is a similar clause that would be put into each, the two ordinances and a resolution that is indicated the board will view this in today's memorandum and considers the effect of reducing the commercial parking and concludes that such a reduction would not result in any additional in our metal impact beyond those analyzed in the final eir for the reasons stated in the memorandum and incorporate that by reference, so we can prepare that and give that to the clerk. chair: thank you. will someone make that motion? the motion is offered by supervisor chu. is there a second? seconded by supervisor olague. can we take that motion without objection? yes, ok. that will be the order. any other comment on the underlying items? supervisor olague? supervisor olague: that was 312 students that would have access, not 12. i think that was misinformation. chair: president chiu? presi

with that, with the city attorney like to add any legal announcements? rex madam chair, a deputy city attorney cheryl adams. we do not consider the transfer teach -- transfer fee to be a tax. we consider it to be enforceable. it is part of the transaction and a term of the sale. chairperson chu: supervisor chu, are you on the roster? supervisor kim? supervisor kim: i think it is a little disingenuous to include a private club as a part of a public benefit of the value. i would disagree with including that in the public's memory because it is not open to the public. putting the $12 million value should not be included, because we're also giving the value of a parcel that we are exchanging. >> if i may speak to that, supervisor kim, first of all, i agree with you that this is a gray area. the $12 million of improvements -- not land, but improvements to the facility for a new poll, they thought it was germane. maybe it should be put outside of the overall public benefits, but is still important to the area. some of the other differences are almost stylistically in te

if i could ask the city attorney who has also reviewed that email, could you respond to that? gregg's madame question posed was a little bit different. it was whether the agenda had to have the electronic versions of all of the documents that supported the file. the ordinance does not require that. it requires that the file itself be available for public inspection as to the question -- for public inspection. as to the question of what documents you do and do not have relative to the port, i do not know. i cannot speak to that. president chiu: i think we received some high-level documents relevant to today's discussion, but there were documents on file that the board staff reported to the commission that are not in front of us today. if the board were to approve our decision, we would be a blessing those documents that are not in front of us. i would like to raise that as an issue that we can discuss but through the course of the hearing. chairperson chu: with regard to moving forward with our items today, item seven and eight, d you see any problems continuing forward based on the conversa

will make it easier for the citizens of san francisco to code -- to track code violations in the city. madam chair, you had some questions with respect to internships. you asked about work opportunities for youth. i told you last week the vast majority of opportunities in our office are four law students. that is in fact true. i do want to expand a little bit because i know it is of interest to your. of program does include undergraduate students and high school students and our law student volunteers received work study credits. we are working with political science and public policy programs, most specifically at the university of san francisco, and we have heard -- we have three or four graduates every year. we take from existing internship programs and the organizations we work with are generally san francisco youth works, which reaches out to try and find available candidates from a variety of high school programs throughout san francisco. supervisor kim, you asked a little bit about the line-item with respect to professional services. i wanted to clarify something i said earlier becaus

city policies. >> thank you, madam clerk. supervisor wiener, this is your item. >> supervisor wiener: thank you mr. chairman -- thank you, mr. chairman. i called for this hearing several months ago. i called for it when something i had never seen before happened during will call introductions. 5 of my colleagues spontaneously co-sponsored it. that does not happen often. the reason it happened is this is an issue with significance for the residents of san francisco. perhaps more than any other concern, buy it, and i know my colleagues as well, hear from our constituents about the problems with our streetlights, about the slowness and lack of responsiveness in fixing broken, otherwise problematics street lights. and i hear about dark streets and sidewalks, whether it is related to a enough street lights or the street lights are malfunctioning or the street lights are so high up they are not providing good lighting. and i hear about the lack of safety that this causes in terms of our streets. we know that our street lights are n

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madam chair. i want to thank both applicants for a willingness to serve the city of fran and i, too, have been very impressed with both applicants. with respect to the application of miss fransiz, i actually think that the work that she has done with fair trade u.s.a. where she led in the development of standards around fair trade and making sure that you have -- that you ensure that you're buying purchases from companies that are not exploiting workers, to me that's the kind of background that you want and not just the recent work there but also with other companies so i think it's precisely the kind of individual that you want to see working on these issues, and with respect to mr. maroquin, i think that his presentation speaks for itself. i'm more proud to see that we have that level of caliber in our community and that we have someone who is interested in these issues. the fact that nickey is here speaks highly of him and it means that you're extremely highly recommended and, you know, i say this completely objectively. i'm not surprised that two amazing candidates have this connection to the m

city attorney. at this point, i would like to -- madame secretary, what would you like to -- >> the next item on the agenda is item 13, adjournment. is there a motion to adjourn. >> i move that we adjourn. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> we are now turned at -- now adjourned at 1:55 p.m. chairperson hur: i would like to call this special meeting of the ethics commission to order. welcome to this special meeting of the ethics commission. we will begin by taking the role. commissioner studley: here. commissioner liu: here. commissioner hayon: here. commissioner renne: here. chairperson hur: we are here to conduct the hearing by the proceedings instituted against the khmer by the sheriff, -- againste sheriff, evidently objections. because this is going to be one continuous hearing, we will not be taking public comment today. we will be taking public comment at the end of the evidence 3 portion of the hearing. -- the evidentiary portion of the hearing, based on which witnesses are called to the hearing, which evidence is included. it could be over as early as june 29, although it depends in large

city attorney. at this point, i would like to -- madame secretary, what would you like to -- >> the next item on the agenda is item 13, adjournment. is there a motion to adjourn. >> i move that we adjourn. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> we are now turned at -- now adjourned at 1:55 p.m.

city attorney. at this point, i would like to -- madame secretary, what would you like to -- >> the next item on the agenda is item 13, adjournment. is there a motion to adjourn. >> i move that we adjourn. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> we are now turned at -- now adjourned at 1:55 p.m. commissioner white, here. commissioner riley, here. we have a quorum. president adams: next item. >> at this time we will call item no. 3. is that correct? general public comment. >> this is general public comment for anything that is not on our agenda. if anyone has any public comment that is not on our agenda today. seeing no public comment. >> would you like to call item 4 and 5 together? discussion of possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors. file 120681. initiative ordinance, business tax and regulations code and the gross receipts. introduced by the mayor and president chiu:. in your packet is the ordinance no. legislative digest. there items of public comment and staff notes. >> i would like to thank the mayor, a supervisor david to -- chiu, the city chief economist and their

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madam clerk, can you please call item 5? >> charter amendment to amend the charter of the city to change the election cycle for the offices of city attorney and treasurer so these offices will be elected in the same years as the elections for the offices of mayor, a district attorney, and sheriff, and to amend the definition of general municipal elections other such elections occur only in even-numbered years and every other odd- numbered year. supervisor wiener: thank you very much. this charter amendment would consolidate the city attorney treasurer election with the mayoral, sheriff, d.a. elections. we elect those with those of the only offices on the ballot, sometimes with additional ballot measures, of course. it is historically a low turnout election. i was reading coverage of tuesday's election, which was a quite terrible turn out. this would consolidate with the mayoral election, would encourage a larger turnout in electing our city attorney and treasurer. it would also -- every four years, with the election does not occur, it would save a little over $4 million, it averages out at $1 million a year. we save money, g

madam chair and commissioners. moon i am going to keep this very brief. the court used to be funded by the city for all our operations, but that changed when state legislation removed responsibility of all trial courts and placed it with the city. the court receives $80 million in state funding to operate the court, but we still operate two city functions that have not transferred to the states, and those staffing the grand hatchery and managing the defense program, and it is to provide recommendation in cases of public defender cannot take due to unavailability. these are the functions of that constitutes the budget, and we are in full agreement with the budget analysts office. good as they recommend a reduction to the budget, and i am happy to take any questions you may have to. >> any additional comments? >> i have no additional comments. >> thank you for taking the time to agree to the cats. we really need it. i want to thank you for aboutha. we will not be requiring you to come back. can we take a motion to entertain these? we will do that without objection. let's return to the police depa

must represent the student and staff from city college and the fourth is for seniorses is disabled community. we encourage members of the public to apply. madam clerk, please call item number three. >> hearing to consider apointing two numbers and select three for human advisory group. there are two seats and two applicants. supervisor kim: thank you, and i do believe that both applicants are here today. i will call up first heather. >> good afternoon. my name is heather and i'm a proud resident of the mission district. i was invited to apply by current members of the procurement advisory committee. i have over 20 to 10 years of experience with a supply chain of various products, including manufactured and artisan goods. i spent a lot of times in factories in the united states as well as overseas in seeing the factory conditions. i'm doing what i can to improve the working conditions. this will be my first involvement in local government but i did serve the country as a peace corps volunteer in west africa early in my career. in terms of public experience for this particular seat requires experience with public goods. when i was working in th

madam president, it is a pleasure to have you here. commissioner maufas. commissioner maufas: thank you. i wanted to bring this item for were to our combination of school district and city committee, because it is something that is vital to both of our entities and the city of san francisco, particularly in the exiles your district -- the excelsior district. in areas where health care is not provided in the way that most of us have access to it. the clinic by the bay, i think it is a godsend. i am so grateful it is in that location, serving the community and the neighboring communities. i would like to bring forward ms. riley, who is the president of their board of directors. and eliza gibson, the executive director of the clinic by the bay. we have some audience members that will tell us all about it. then we can ask some questions that will help to fill in the gaps of all of our understanding of this wonderful space that is on mission street. thank you and welcome. >> good afternoon. thank you so much for having us. commissioners, especially commissioner maufas, thank you for bringing this item for and championing our beautiful clinic. my name is janet riley and i am

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. >> madam chair, members of the committee, this estimate is what we would have assumed as well. chairperson chu: $24 million and roughly 95% as the cityare. $24 million is 1% across the entire system. >> that is correct. i think the last time we looked was roughly 95% with city /employee covered pay. chairperson chu: the areas where it would change that liability would be with fewer employees or better returns, it sounds like. >> the passage of the two pension reforms assumed a very gradual replacement of existing employees with basically, the employees that have a lower level of benefits. i think we have been surprised at what is happening with the city that the turnover as far as replacing and people retiring with a higher level of benefits and be replaced with folks at the lower level, that is more rapidly taking place than the actuary assumed. the actuary was very conservative in the cost of those programs. i think we see people -- as we see people leaving the city and been replaced, there is a chance to accelerate those savings. the savings from passing does two -- those two were crossed that the board of supervisors thought woul