madam president, you have a quorum. >> madam clerk, supervisor yee is present. >> thank you, madam president. >> thank you. okay, ladies and gentlemen, can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and just -- justice for all. >> okay, madam clerk, are there any communications? >> i have none today, madam president. >> colleagues, any changes to the meeting minutes of april 28 or april -- for the april 29th special meeting? seeing none, is there a motion to approve those minutes? motion by supervisor campos, seconded by supervisor cohen. without objection, those minutes will be approved once public comment has been completed. madam clerk, are there any changes to the agenda? >> there are none today, madam president. >> can you please call the first item. >> the first item of business is the policy discussion between the honorable edwin lee and members of the board of supervisors. the president will recognize the mayor, who may provide

esty: thank you madam chair. madam chair, i come to the floor once again to urge this house to invest in rail safety. my amendment adds $3 million to the federal railroad administration for safety in operations, to fund vital rail safety education programs like operation life saver. railroads move the goods that fuel our economy and thousands of commuters in my district rely on passenger rail lines every day. in fact, over 11 1/2 million americans took the trains on the northeast corridor last year, a record high ridership. freight rail traffic is also increasing, reflecting a growing economy and booming energy sector. however as we have seen in the news almost monthly, there have been a disturbing number of rail accidents in the last few years, many of them preventable train derailments and collisions. we in this house stood in silence a few weeks ago to mourn the loss of eight passengers killed in last month's amtrak derailment near philadelphia. those deaths were tragic and completely avoidable. we must do mor

madam speaker, this is an important issue. it's not the only important issue facing our country right now but it is of course an important issue. it is an issue upon which there are sharply divided views inside this parliament. inside our respective political parties. and indeed even inside my own family. it is important that all views be treated with respect, because this is one of those subjects upon which decent people can disagree. now, madam speaker i can't foresee the future. i don't know how our society will develop. i don't know how this parliament will proceed in the months and years ahead. i do just make this one point though, madam speaker. if our parliament were to make a big decision on a matter such as this it ought to be owned by the parliament and not by any particular party. so i would ask the leader of the opposition and all members of parliament to consider this as we ponder the subject in the weeks and the months to come. >> much had been preoccupied with an extraordinary blow by blow leak by cabinet about

madam president >> colleagues, are there any changes to the board meeting minutes for me that? seeing none, is their motion to approve those minutes? motion is by supervisor campos seconded by supervisor mar. colleagues, can we take that without objection clicks once the public comment has been completed to mix >>[gavel] >> madam clerk, we please read the consent agenda >> items one through nine, the consent calendar these items are considered routine if a member of objects on item baby removed and considered separately. >> okay can you please call the rollcall >> items 129, supervisor tan aye; wiener aye; yee aye; avalos aye; read aye; avalos aye; christiansen aye; cohen aye farrell aye aye i got 11 aye >> those ordinances are finally passed unanimously,, >> can you call item 8 >> i am sorry can you call item 10 >> item 10 is an ordinance to approve minor amendment to the translate project area to provide -- for general office buildings in zone one and make people but findings under the california environmental quality act. >> collies committed his items in houston called? wit

lewis: thank you madam chair. madam chair i rise today to offer an amendment to h.r. 2577. when i was first elected in 1987, congress created the first nationwide home equity conversion mortgage program. also known as reverse mortgages, these loans differ from traditional mortgages and have very good intentions. they're designed to help seniors stay in their homes by using the value of their property as means for living a more stable and independent life. since the borrower must be 62 years of age or older lenders often advise some borrowers to remove a younger spouse from the title. this allows them to be eligible for the program, to qualify for a greater loan. unfortunately madam speaker, many seniors are experiencing challenges in the program's actual operation. for example a zeven my district, mrs. helen griffin, reached out to my office last year she and her husband took out a reverse mortgage on their homes in order to qualify -- homes. in order to qualify, she agreed to be taken off the title. the lender promised that she could be added back to their title at a later

>> supervisor winner >> thank you madam president. so, the trades first raised issues and i think there are a lot of from what i can tell, and overlapping issues seminar totally overlapping between -- and we ask dpw to work with the labor and to meet with labor and i know they have done so spent many hours by doing that. we did -- i received an e-mail from mister muscat from this letter to you was probably since wallace on friday afternoon. i left him a voicemail. i think is on vacation, which is why he has not responded, there was another local 21 representative was walking house yesterday physically delivering the letter. so local 21 has i think definitely disseminated its letter to the board although it was later in the process then the trades i did. i cannot speak to their specific concerns even with the trades, i am not the author of this legislation. so, when i just ask that apartment to do is do sit down with labor to try to work through it many of the issues as possible, which i believe deeply about dpw has done for many hours

madam clerk can you please call the roll? >> on the amendment offered by supervisor avalos, supervisor wiener, no. yee, aye. avalos, aye. breed, no. compose, aye. christensen, no. cohen, no. farrell, no. kim, aye. mar, aye. tang, no. there are 5 aye and 6 no, supervisor wiener breed, christensen [inaudible] >> the amendment fails >> i like to ask the motion go tooz pucklic safety committee. >> second by supervisor campos. roll call vote >> wiener no. yee, aye. avalos, aye. breed, no. campos, aye. christensen, no. cohen, no. farrell, no. kim, aye. mar, aye. tang, no. 5i, 6 no wean rb breed, christensen cohen, farrell and tang voting no >> the motion to send item to committee fails. madam clerk can you call the roll on the item as amended >> item 23, wean, aye. yee, no. avalos no. breed, aye. campos, no. christensen, aye. cohen no. >> madam clerk i can't hear. >> supervisor kim [inaudible] >> recess while we clear the room. we left off at the vote and we were at supervise r christensen. >> christensen said aye. cohen, aye. farr

madam president, i yield the floor. mr. cornyn: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: mr. president, the senate is not in a quorum call, is that correct? the presiding officer: that is correct, senator. mr. cornyn: madam president i've come to the floor to speak for a few minutes about the disaster that is known as obamacare. and specifically the supreme court's upcoming decision in king versus burwell which we anticipate will be handed down later this week or perhaps as late as monday. this case will decide whether the i.r.s. can rewrite the law. and the lawsuit actually challenges the legality of the subsidies to the health care policies affecting people in up to 37 states. if the court rules against the i.r.s. that would be the third strike against obamacare in the supreme court. what more evidence skew possibly need of this administration's routine overreach of its authority under the constitution? not surprisingly, the president once again has failed to accept responsibility for this flawed law that bears

madam clerk can you please call item number 40? >> item 40 is an ordinance to amend the campaign and governmental conduct code to simplify and consolidate campaign finance disclaimer and disclosure requirements. this item requires two thirds vote which is eight votes. >> okay. colleagues can we take this item. madam clerk, call the roll. >> supervisor mar, mar not present. supervisor tang, tang aye supervisor wiener wiener aye supervisor yee yee aye supervisor avalos avalos yeah, supervisor breed, breed aye supervisor cohen, cohen yeah, supervisor farrell farrell aye. there are 10 ayes. >> this ordinance passes ordinancely. >> items 41 and 42 from the rules committee. item 41 is a motion to reappointment peter cohen term ending february 23, 2017 to the citizens committee on community development. motion to appoint clinton loftman to the citizen's committee on community development. >> supervisor cohen >> thank you very much. i wanted to make a motion to table item number 41 and to table item number 41 and make a motion to item 42.

madam clerk are there communications? >> yes, the clerk of the board is in receipt of communication dated jun 1, 2015 from edwn lee within the exponentative branch. such reorgz is effective 30 days after the notice unless [inaudible] by boferd supervisors >> colleagues are there change tooz sth board of supervisors mentsing to prl 21? seeing none. without objection those minutes will be approved after public comchblt madam clerk will you preed reed the consent agenda. item 1-9 is a consent calendar and considered routine. if a member objects items may webee removed and considered separately. >> 1-8 >> 1-9. >> 1-8. >> yes, 1-8. >> call of the role supervisor kim, aye. mar aye. tang, aye. wiener, aye. yee aye. avalos aye. breed, aye. camp pose, aye. christensen, aye. cohen, aye. farrell, aye. madam predsdant you have 11 ayes. >> these items are passed squu pruchbed. >> iletm 9 is ordinance appropriateating 1.75 million dollars [inaudible] waste water nurt price to pay the claim settlement legal expenses. [inaudible] 2014 st

madam clerk is there any further business before us? >> that conclude our business for today madam president >> we are adjourned , thank you everyone. @ppx can we all rise for the pledge of allegiance >> flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all thank you madam president i'd like to take roll please you

supervisor campos. >> thank you madam clerk.k as a committee as a whole. i want to thank president breed and her staff for working with my office to help to make that happen. i just want to thank my colleagues. i know it was a very long meeting. but it was also very moving meeting and i really appreciate the fact that each and every one of you sat through that and listened to this community. it is greatly appreciated as a representative for the mission. i also want to take this opportunity to thank the clerk of the board and her staff and specifically peggy nevin who worked very hard to make translation available to all the folks that came out. i thought the translation was excellent. i know that your staff worked very hard to make that happen. it is greatly appreciated madam clerk to you and your staff who and peggy in particular who made that happen. along those lines, thank you to supervisor yee for introducing his item today on that very important issue. it is my pleasure today that after years of working on this that i have

engel: thank you, madam speaker. i rise in strong support of my legislation, h.r. 1493 as amended, and yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. engel: madam speaker, we worked very, very hard on this bill. this is a very, very important bill. let me first thank chairman ed royce for his efforts to move this bill forward. he's a good partner on the committee and we couldn't have gone this far without him. i also want to thank our other lead co-sponsors, representative chris smith, representative bill keating who have been champions on this issue i want to thank mr. chabot for his support and his eloquence in speaking for the bill. one of the things we do on the foreign affairs committee wherever possible is we work in a bipartisan fashion and this is a perfect example of working together in a bipartisan fashion for something that's really just so important. madam speaker, by now, we've all seen fooltage of isis extremists taking sledge hammers as chabot mention

madame chair thank you. after comments we have several speakers >> thank you i want to announce the north light court is the overflow recommend. avenue loss sn >> thank you chair cohen colleagues we're united on one thing ewith want san francisco to be and feel safer this past weekend as i was walking home from the bus someone threatened to harm me. i didn't know who he was he didn't know who i was i understand that a lot of you feel such threats on our streets i have had my car broken into two twice since i was supervisor one time at m clak mark and one outside of my house i understand what a lot of residents feel having your car broken in to or being physically threatened or harms puts fear in your daily life. often the response to that fear is greater police enforcement i understand that you know police enforcement is a necessity. we have to have the folks that work very hard at the ris why of their own lives to support our safety i'm just not clear that the best approach to looking at what the size of ou

madam clerk, call the next item. (applause). >> item 35 is an ordinance to order the summary vacation of a sewer easement and authorizing sale for 16,000 for the prompt at crown terrace. >> item 36 is a resolution to declare the intention of the board of supervisors to establish a property based business improvement district to be known as the dog patch in northwest potrero hill approving the management district plan, the engineer's report, the notice, the proceedings, the assessment and the required findings and setting a time and place for the public hearing as july 28 at 3:00 pm here in this legislative chamber, room 250. >> supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. this is also an exciting piece of legislation. so what you have before you is a resolution of intent to form the city's first ever green benefit district in dog patch in northwest potrero hill and a few years ago i started, began this conversation in working with groups of dedicated neighbors and property owners on creative solutions to fund open space

i see madam chair, i have additional questions for the dietician is she still here or did they leave she's gone? >> chris would you mind seeing if she's in the hallway? >> can you please come up we have a few more questions for you. >> thank you for city of chicago around i still have a couple of additional questions i don't know if you've seen the warning itself we're proposing the health warning and i'll read to you quote warning drinking beverages with added sugars electricities to diabetes and tooth decay do you agree with that statement. >> you know you really have to take a look at a person and what they're doing in their deity over a week or time clearly if someone is over consuming something fill of sugar objective where we get into warning collective audience of people you know it is in effect i think that people are getting tired of being told where we can't do and can't have i council people on this is what we want you to include in our diet and is that an accurate statement do you green august or disdrawing. >> if the consumption has a lot of calories yes they tributed to

madam president you have a quaurm. ladies and gentlemen, can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance? i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. madam clerk are there any communications? >> yes, we rin receipt of a muneication from the oufs of supervisorgeny kim dated may 18, stating the supervisor will be out of town and request the members exz koos her from the meeting today >> is there a motion to exkoos supervisor kim. without objection supervisor kim is excused. colleagues are there changes to the april 15 minutes? seeing none. those minutes will be approved unanimously after public comment. madam clerk can you please read the consent agenda >> item 1-7 are considered routine. if a member objects a item may be removed and considered separately >> madam clerk can you please call the roll >> items 1-7 farrell, aye. kim is excused. marb, aye. tang, aye. wiener, aye. yee, aye. ava

madam clerk any announcements? >> yes silence [inaudible] be included as part of the file [inaudible] will appear on the july 7th supervisor agenda unless otherwise stated >> thank you very much. could you please call item 1 >> resolution authrising [inaudible] city owned parcel for dogpatch and north west potrero hill >> this is a follow up item for sth intent from the cities first green benefit in dogpatch and north west potrero hill approved by the board a few weeks ago. as a standard with the formation of a community benefit district and benefit improvement this resolution allows the mayor to cast ballots for the city owned parcels located in the assessment district boundaries. my office worked with the sit a departments in the [inaudible] boundaries over the last few months including the real estate, reck and park, mta whos board will be taking action separately next week as well as dp w. we have with us mr. jonathan goldburg to present additional detail on this item >> goon afternoon mr. goldburg >> my name i

thank you madam clerk are there any communications? >> i have no communications today >> colleagues are there any change tooz had may 12 or may 13 special meeting minutes. seeing none do i is a motion? motion by supervisor mar and second by tang. without objection the meeting minute will be approved after apublic comment. madam clerk will you read the consent agenda, >> items 1-10 [inaudible] if a member rejects a item can be removed >> item 1-10, supervisor wiener aye. yee, aye. avalos, aye. breed, aye. campos, aye. christensen, aye. supervisor cohen, aye. supervisor farrell, aye. supervisor kim, aye. supervisor mar, aye. supervisor tang, aye. there are 11 eye's >> the items passed squu proved unanimously >> item 11 is appropriate all estimated receipts and expenditure frz the departments. madamprisedant would you like me to call item 12 as well >> yes, >> item 12 is the proposal salary continuing creating or establishing full time positions in the budget and specifying and fixing work schedules for fiscal year ending 2016 and 17 >> i

. >> thank you madam clerk. last november our auditor complete one of the most comprehensive reports in support of housing portfolio that served the homeless here in san francisco. the city services partnered to identify the type of services and supportive housing utilized. how client's needs may change and whether the services are supporting client transitions to other housing. report also noted they had a difficult time collecting the data needed to access the percentage of housing client on public benefits to give -- some of the data didn't exist or wasn't tracked. from the data they got their hands on, over 250 adults could qualify for inhome support services but country countrily receive the benefit. public benefits simply help people secure their most basic needs in our society. they provide a source of income whether it's ssi, support services that help people get connected and find employment, help them secure food through cal fresh or supportive services. public benefits also help the city's resources s

madame clerk sn >> planning public works codes street trees and adoption of associated fees >> thank you supervisor weiner is the author of this mergs >> thank you very much madame chair for calendaring this item and hearing it today i also want to thank supervisor chicagos sen for cosponsoring this with me as you know i in my office have been working with a great coalition of tree and park and environmentalists in san francisco our program and our approach today is not working we don't plant enough trees in san francisco we don't replace the trees that are dying or sick at appropriate rate and our policy for street tree maintenance is broken we require property owners to maintain trees that may not have planted wanted or know how to care for or not have the ability to cake for it does not make sense and rumented in declining frees and have put forward aing plan for a street tree maintenance to grow an urban forest. this will help us protect and have a thriving urban forest this was supported unanimously by the commission. tied to development so we can make sure as our neighborhoods

we have -- madam speaker we have -- the house is not in order, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is correct. the house is -- will be in order. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. diaz-balart: madam speaker, thank you. as i was saying, let me just briefly address the specifics of this motion. you know we have already taken action on the floor to add $9 million to amtrak for inward facing cameras to improve the safety of amtrak's operation. but let me say something else. you know, we have spent literally hundreds of hours on this bill. we have done so in a bipartisan way. in an open way. we held six public hearings with agency and department heads, six public hearings. we considered amendments in committee and we have spent as all of you know, three days on the floor now and considered about 80 amendments on this bill. after three days. in an open transparent process. it has been an open and transparent process. we have taken amendments on this floor from both sides of the aisle. so, despite obviously budgetary constraints, this bill

. >> 1 o'clock this hearing has been held and now filed madam clerk read item 39. >> an urgency items for the demolition of informs gain or loss of 5 or more resident unit for the distribution and create the permit for a hundred percent affordable housing in a portion of the mission plan funded by the north side of caesar chavez and the west of bryant and route 101 and van ness and madam clerk call the roll. >> on item supervisor kim supervisor mar commissioner hwang no supervisor wiener. >> hold on just a second. >> supervisor cohen i was expecting an opportunity to ask questions for the staff i everything it is late we went straight to 0 vote i - >> i apologize supervisor cowen so supervisor cowen. >> thank you so alright madam president. >> so colleagues is there a motion by madam chair rosales and supervisor farrell it has been rescinded at this time i'll recognize supervisor cowen. >> i have several questions about the policy discussion we have before us on this particular item a lot of the questions are district towards the staff how proximate causes and units will be impacted a

madam clerk can you please call the roll. >> thank you, madam

madam clerk are there any other items? >> there is no further business >> okay, meeting adjourned. thank you very much. adjourned. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hello and welcome to this presentation. i'm san francisco purrs since that time we've helped people clean up their criminal records. we created this to help you understand how this worked. we'll plan or explain all the steps. after watching this program you'll know what to expect after completing the process. hi there are i'm deputy and i'm part of the clean slate team. the first thing we will need to know whether your despicable to have our convictions dismissed can't be on parole or currently charged with a crime or serving a sentence and it must be from san francisco. while your colleagues will get to know your circumstances there are 3 steps. getting the clean slate process started it simple you can get them done in the same day. first fill out an application and they can be opinioned on sf defender.org. next you'll obtain a copy of your rap sheet that's a rap sheet going 80 the hall of justice at 850 bryant street on the fourth floor. the b

the clerk andrea ashbury as well as the members of sfgovtv jessie larson and charles kremenak that madam clerk, any announcements? >> yes. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the gin 16 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay. thank you very much so colleagues, we're to go in and out of order to get authorize those items items 4 to 7 quick prelim all item 4 for the jury room appropriation pro appropriate all receipts and expenditures for the city and county of san francisco as of june 2017 area item 5 the proposed sdprirm annual owners and positions if the annual appropriations ordinances for john 2016 to 2017 and item 16 the interim budget for the treasure island development authority for 2015-2016 and 478 or 2016-2017 and item 7 the interim budget for the office of investment & infrastructure operating as a series agency for the 2015-2016. >> okay. thank you madam clerk those are the jury room salary ordinances to continue to fund our city's operations was we continue. >> good

madam clerk can you -- are there any other items before us today? >> we have inmemory yams. >> okay. can you read those. >> today's meeting is adjourned on behalf of the supervisor christensen and supervisors for the others listed. >> that brings us to the end of our agenda. is there any other business today? >> there concludes the business. >> thank you we are adjourned. >> good afternoon everyone and welcome to the thursday june 4, 2015 meeting of the board of supervisors public safety and neighborhood services committee. my name is david campos. i'm the vice chair of the committee. we are joined today by member julie christensen, the chair eric mar is in route. we want to thank the clerk of our committee, and derek evans and mr. clerk do we have any announcements? >> yes thank you mr. chair. please silent all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of documents should be submitted to the clerk and will be on the board agenda unless otherwise stated. >> great. we want to thank the following members of sfgtv staff cov

. >> thank you, madam president. i'd just like to add myself as a co-sponsor to all these 3 pieces of legislation and briefly will just say that i am really glad to see that the practices of our city departments are going to be consistent with our public health goals. i think that we've seen ipbs stases where the city has not lived up to our public health goals but now we are stating them very very clearly. over the past few years in civic center plaza we have had the mountain dew tour come with giant 20-foot bottles advertising mountain dew in front of city center. they have actually brought, i don't know, a whole acre of dirt that they have piled up in front of city hall to be able to spread out over our plaza and they attract people to come and they give samples of mountain dew to the guests who come. this is something that i have actually been very vocal against, is this the best use of our public land, is that how we want to use our parks, even our park department has had an expression of trying to limit access

thank madam clerk. colleagues today i introduce a number of items. the first is the draft request to city attorneys office to prepare legislation that requires both the san francisco police department and the sheriff department to expand not only the type of information collected and recorded, but also when it is collected. for example, here are facts. african american men are [inaudible] drug crimes 19 mere times. we know african american emwn face arrest rate 13 times higher than know other race. over all african americans in san francisco are arrested 3 times more often than other cities in cal. the legislation requires the name, age, race, gender and gender identity to be collected not only during traffic stops rsh but also any time either the department detains, stops or stops for questioning or search a individual. this information collected will also include whether the stop involved a vehicle search or pat down or such of a individual, the name and badge number of all officers involved, the result of the contact. for example, was a arrest mad

quan from dpw. >> thank you madam president. i went out to the chambers to wait for anyone who wished to take issue of our list and seeing no one i asked that the list be approved >> okay colleagues do we have a motion to approve the blighted property list? motion by supervirez yee. second by supervisor tang. without objection this item passes. madam clerk let's go to the next item please >> item 26 and-pardon me item 28 and 29wer c considered by the budget and fimanse meeting and forwarded as committee report. iteal twoith is recommended by a new title resolution designated the examiner for july 1-decembele] to be the official nirep of the sate and county of san francisco for advertising >> colleagues can we take these items same house, same call >> item 29 resolution to desinginate the newspaper to be the oitreach new 067 san francisco for outreach advertising for 2015-16. small business exchange, bay area reporter for lgbt [inaudible] chinese community, s f. weekly for african american [inaudible] the central city extra for c