to continuing to have this public communication with the agency and moving forward and with that madam chair, i ask we continue this to the call of the chair. >> thank you very much seeing that is seconded by supervisor kim and i move we send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> to the call of the chair. >> sorry to the call of the chair supervisor wiener wants okay. >> okay filed to the call of the chair. >> okay. thank you. >> not foiled. >> continued to the call of the chair. >> madam clerk let's dba go back to item 4 supervisor campos is here he's the sponsor for today is item. >> the ordinance for the million dollar calculations for the tenants. >> thank you supervisor campos. >> thank you, madam chair and thank you to the land use commission and my colleagues for hearing this item i am sure in october of last year u.s. district just steven mirror stated any ordinance passed by this board a super majority respectfully i believe that judge mirror was wrong nefariously what we have before us is the introduction of a revised ordinance to address the concerns that have be

nunes: thank you, madam chair. at this time i'd like to yield three minutes to the gentleman from georgia who also is the chairman of the subcommittee on cyber for the house intelligence committee, mr. westmoreland. the chair: the gentleman the -- from georgia is recognized for three minutes. mr. westmoreland thank you, madam speaker. thank you, chairman neen us. i rise in -- nunes. i rise in support of hr 1560 protecting cybernetworks act. the bill safeguards personally identifiable information from being exchanged during the process by requiring private companies and the government to both make sure that no private information is exchanged. my home state of georgia is home to many companies that deal with and secure sensitive data on a daily basis and they are , constantly looking for better ways to protect their networks. after the recent cyberattacks against american businesses, i have spoken to industry leaders from georgia and across the nation about how we can make information sharing between the industries a

thank you. >> not foiled. >> continued to the call of the chair. >> madam clerk let's dba go back to item 4 supervisor campos is here he's the sponsor for today is item. >> the ordinance for the million dollar calculations for the tenants. >> thank you supervisor campos. >> thank you, madam chair and thank you to the land use commission and my colleagues for hearing this item i am sure in october of last year u.s. district just steven mirror stated any ordinance passed by this board a super majority respectfully i believe that judge mirror was wrong nefariously what we have before us is the introduction of a revised ordinance to address the concerns that have been raise by gentleman broir you have copies of the amended ordinance and if based by the board of supervisors this amended ordinance would still be subject to just broirz state we're submitting this the package of that ordinance will comparisons of strengthen the city attorney's appeal before the ninth circuit that is the assistance for tenants under the ellis act to give the evict tenants a fighting chance to live in san fran

. >> thank you very much madam chair was called for last year to make sure we as the board of supervisors are exercising oversight over the vision zero program work this board adapted disposition as a policy some 7, 8, 9 ago to put us on track ending death on our streets we know that as a growing we have more use of our streets whether pedestrians vehicles or cabs or ridership or muni buses and shuttles and cyclists and so forth we have to work very, very hard to make sure that as we growing grow as a city to continue more and more uncle we're designing them in a way and educating people enforcing the law not to see a continuing escalation of the collisions and death and the last thing we need more it to get worse we want to be aggressive and moving forward so vision zero moving forward i know this board is supportive supervisor kim and chair committee on the transportation authority thank you to her office for the work we want to make sure mr. sharp that the work around vision zero is moving forward in a good way and we're exercising the necessary oversight and fall out we'll be hearing

. >> senator gardener. >> thank you madam chair and welcome back to the chair, secretary moniz.respect to energy policy of existing executive and legislative actions and recommend executive and legislative actions as appropriate and i believe the chair had cited one of those areas where we could have more energy policy driving action as the issue of l and g exports. did the qer take into account or look at or will a result of it be discussions of crude oil exports or perhaps administrative action policy considerations of crude oil exports? >> the qer was really specifically focused on the infrastructure as opposed to that kind of a policy issue. so it does not really go into that in detail. >> thank you. and then when it comes to modernizing the electric grid the example of taking too long and pursue modernizing and extending the grid, in the substation in pennsylvania the substation in new jersey, there was a need for a transmission line and it will be in service this spring but it took a total of eight years for that service line to come into service. so we have to have this a

madame clerk, roll call vote, please. >> supervisor kim? >> no. >> kim, no. >> supervisor wiener? >> yes. >> wiener, yes. >> and chair cohen? >> yes. >> yes, you have two yeses and one know. >> thank you, this motion passed with positive recommendation to the full board. [ applause ] >> all right, madame clerk, could you please call item 3. >> item no. 3 is the ordinance amending the planning code to change the designation of 149-155-9th street also known as the western manufacturing company building. >> okay >> supervisor kim is the maker of this item and we'll hear from her first. >> thank you. i just wanted to make a motion to continue this item to two weeks to may 11th. there was something that was discovered by the project sponsor thursday of last week. we need to insert that amendment into this ordinance and we did reach out to both the project sponsor and the planning department. and they have already agreed to a recontinuance. >> thank you. jonathan lammers is here to make the presentation. >> the department supports the continuance. >> thank you very much. let's take public comment on this item. seeing no public com

. >> madam chair i'd like to if the committee can make a motion to amend along the lines i've outlined and once amended to move it forward. >> commissioner lee has something to say. >> i'll move the amendment. >> okay. all right. so motion has been made by supervisor campos and seconded by supervisor wiener. >> i'll make the motion supervisor campos is not a member of the committee. >> supervisor campos is not a member of the committee so supervisor wiener makes a motion and supervisor kim seconded that motion this amendment excuse me. pass unanimously thank you very much thank you supervisor campos for joining us. >> and madam chair if you can move open the amendment item to move it forward if you could approve. >> motion made to move forward with a recommendation from supervisor kim and seconded by supervisor wiener. >> this motion passes thank you madam clerk, any other business before this committee? >> madam chair no further business. >> thank you very much this committee is closed >> you're watching quick bites, the show that is san francisco. and today you're in for a real treat

you very much madam chair today before us is a landmark ordinance very exciting one one of the most historic buildings in san francisco the swedish american hall on market street near sanchez and i'm trial we're moving this forward as an article 10 landmark this landmarking was recommended by the historic preservation commission and it is supported by the building owner who will be represented here today colleagues i'm sure you're aware of landmarking has a high-level of protection requiring that a invest certificate of appropriation for any significant modification currently there are more 2 hundred and 60 location throughout san francisco built in 1907 the swedish american hall is significant in the history of the castro upper market having served as a social hall for the swishing and scanning in an communities 3 is reflect in a large scanning in an community and the turn of the 20th century for decades it has been homes for the swedish community including cafe la in regard after the building was constructed and today counts amongst the old restaurant the architecture finishes of

thank you. >> we certainly will. >> thank you, madam chair. >> thank you. >> thank you madam chair. mr. baker, i'm a sponsor of the pilots bill of rights and i believe a third class medical reform will help reverse this trend of a declining general aviation pilot population, will also maintain the appropriate level of safety for pilots who are flying for recreational and private purposes. your testimony mentions that medical has the potential to improve safety by keeping pilots in the airplanes they're most familiar with. could you expand on that a little further? >> yes. the faa about a dozen years ago started down this path with testing what we call light sport aircraft. aircraft that are designed to be flown at under 1350 pounds, 1326 i think is the exact number. and in many cases some old airplanes like the j3-cub, and then it evolved into aircraft companies that were built with that purpose in mind. in many cases those airplanes are flying and they do well but in bigger wind, and you get wind in montana i know it's a little harder to control those aircraft. we're forcing a pilo

. >> thank you, madam chair. secretary, one of the areas i'm pretty excited about right now just because we're seeing such rapid change is the area of power storage where capability is increasing at a pretty good clip. costs are coming down quite quickly as well. and i'm wondering if you could take a few minutes to talk a little bit about what you see as d.o.e.'s role in accelerating this technology sector that could really change the way we think about energy, change our generation needs, really facilitate time shifting and move us forward to a very, very different kind of grid than sort of what we've experienced in the past. >> thank you, senator. yeah storage certainly could be a game changer. as you sea, costs are coming down across the board. utility scale storage, distributed storage, which is actually very interesting. >> sure. >> and then of course, transportation storage systems, batteries, which of course might also be grid connected in the future. so we are working on all of those. arpa e, for example

. >> thank you, madam chair for holding this hearing. i want to say at the outset i have an honor flight coming in shortly. i have somebody from bangladesh here. i was clair of this committeehair of this committee a while back. i went to yemen and mr. connolly is right, there have been problems there for years. but i would argue that they certainly have gotten worse under the administration and you know it was this administration that claimed that yemen was a success story and clearly it has been anything but that. when we were on our way over there, there was an -- a terrorist attack on a graduation at the military barracks and over 100 new soldiers were murdered by terrorists. so it's been going on for a while. but the problems in yemen are just incredible. i think the thing that is particularly disturbing is the iranian involvement there and around the region. it's four or five capitals now in the region that are controlled by the iranians. so it's a very dangerous situation. i look forward to the testimony. i won't be here. i'll cert

madam chair rosales. i have three ayes and one absent. >> same question regarding 5 b, the 2nd amendment to the mjm management grou contract. >>> i would like to remove it from consent. i want to properly explain this. >> okay. we can remove it from the consent calendar which is deemed part of the regular agenda. can we have staff make a presentation? >> sure. good afternoon, commissioners and good afternoon to the members of the public. thank you for joining us. commissioners, in mission bay we lease property from the city and the port of san francisco using tax increments. we through our master developer fossil mb lease out those parts for commercial and private property owners and as the cfg administrator for cfd no. 5, the agency issues contracts for the management of those parks in accordance with the commissions purchasing policy. there is an existing agreement in place with mjm management group and i see the president and director in the audience, as well as another colleague she has brought. i wil

. >> thank you, madam chair for holding this hearing. i want to say at the outset i have an honor flight coming in shortly. i have somebody from bangladesh here. i was clair of this committeehair of this committee a while back. i went to yemen and mr. connolly is right, there have been problems there for years. but i would argue that they certainly have gotten worse under the administration and you know, it was this administration that claimed that yemen was a success story and clearly it has been anything but that. when we were on our way over there, there was an -- a terrorist attack on a graduation at the military barracks and over 100 new soldiers were murdered by terrorists. so it's been going on for a while. but the problems in yemen are just incredible. i think the thing that is particularly disturbing is the iranian involvement there and around the region. it's four or five capitals now in the region that are controlled by the iranians. so it's a very dangerous situation. i look forward to the testimony. i won't be here. i'll cer

madam chair. >> yes the meeting is adjourned at 4:43. thank you. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> test. >> good afternoon, everyone wow. first of all thank you, everybody friends, family appointees to our boards and commissions it is my pleasure to join all of you and issue the oath of office but a celebration of more people that share responsibility thank you to our supervisors here supervisor breed formerly supervisor and new carmen chu jane kim thank you very much for being here our city administrator thank you for being here and commission thank you and tom hugh and mr. puc guy >> thank you all of you for being here today let me say at the outset we're giving the oath of office for 32 people 118 bodies and commissions that help me deal with the policy challenges but more and more most importantly and the most important thing the commission and advisory bodies do we reach out to people and engage them and bring that diversity of opinion and culture into the way we around government and this is what the exciting to me and let me tell you

nunes: thank you, madam chair. at this time i'd like to yield three minutes to the gentleman from georgia who also is the chairman of the subcommittee on cyber for the house intelligence committee mr. westmoreland. the chair: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for three minutes. mr. westmoreland: thank you, madam speaker. thank you, chairman neen us. i rise in -- nunes. i rise in support of h.r. 16 -- 1560, protecting cybernetworks act. the bill safeguards personally identifiable information from being exchanged during the process by requiring private companies and the government to both make sure that no private information is exchanged. my home state of georgia is home to many companies that deal with and secure sensitive data on a daily basis and they are constantly looking for better ways to protect their networks. after the recent cyberattacks against american businesses, i have spoken to industry leaders from georgia and across the nation about how we can make information sharing between the industries a

madam chair rosales. i have 3 ayes and one absent. >> next item. >> the next order of business is item c authorizing pursuant to the transbay implementation agreement, amendment no. 2 to the memorandum of agreement with the san francisco county transportation authority to expand the is scope of the project management and construction services and to increase the budget by an additional amount not to exceed 1200, 000 for total aggregate amount of $4679541 for construction of the realignment of the folsom street off ram transbay redevelopment project. >> as you recall just last month we were before you for the 1st amendment covering cost for design and services for this folsom street off ramp work. if you tried to take it recently it's closed. this work is critical because it builds a more valuable parcel for the construction terminal under way. back in february we said we would come back to you. we needed to do some hard work with cal trans and our partner the ta who is serving as our owners rep on this an

. >> madam chair, i wish the commissioners would indulge that black community and give us more than two minutes considering how long we've been waiting for justice not only in this city but more importantly to tell us this nation and we saw one of the most egregious impressions when a young lad walter scott was gunned down in south carolina i hear you brother. >> we feel reflects a second systemic attitude and practice on the part of too many who claim to be law enforcement agents to keep the peace i beg you tonight i implore you don't limit us to two minutes give us the 3 minutes that afforded at the board of supervisors we have some serious things to share with this commission tonight and president of the san francisco naacp the pastor of the by that point church for thirty years i hope he'll we'll notice reduce the e impressions as some erroneously elected to say a city guess not much mind about race being a factor race matters if you listen to this audience you'll get a good eye and area full of how dirty san francisco is when it comes to justice for black folks (clapping). >> thank

consent and regular agenda first the consent calendar approval of the minutes of march 17 2015 madam chair >> do we have any speaker cards for this item. >> i do have one important mr. ace washington. >> mr. washington. >> 4 a. >> 5 a. >> good evening, commissioners and listening audience and public i want to commend this commission and your skeet for doing an outstanding job in documenting the minutes because she's clearly scripted what i say it makes me feel good coming back to you in a sound way telling you i'm hoping to work with the city and county and letting everyone know from head to toe i'm trying to do the best i can't tolerated is efforts i'm the new ace on the case but still in your face in not a different category you'll see my work in print and social media dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's special thanks to you, your doing a wonderful job and is opportunity to come to the western edition including but not limited to ace and i'm on is case. >> thank you are there any other speaker cards. >> no other speaker cards sir. >> would you like to address the commission. >>

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. >> thank you very much madam chair item one an ordinance recommending to the regulation of the taxi by the mta they recommended this legislation to us and we're hearing it today, the legislation will do several things first 2 repels the out police code in the regulatory oversight of the taxi through the transportation i'm sure you're aware of the taxi city also governed under the police code and transferred to the mta's jurisdiction the legislation will also make the mta investigative process around taxi more efficient and expeditious and improve the mta's ability to enforce the various rules related to the taxi industry so the legislation is straightforward that is really more of a clean and reorganization then anything else i ask for your support we have kate if the mta and the deputy director and assessable services who is here to make a brief presentation. >> hi good afternoon, supervisors kate sfmta taxis and essential services and this legislation has been a long time coming we're thankful it is here and thankful to supervisor wiener so for carrying it forward this is a clear

senator cantwell. >> thank you madam chair. mr. secretary, i had to step out for a moment, but i know that several members have been talking about the grid in general. i mean, of this quadrennial review, the key recommendation for the immediate focus is about infrastructure, and the grid is a big part of that, is that right? >> oh, yes, absolutely. one of our four kind of major core areas. >> right. so part of my question is we've in previous legislation did a lot of focus for states to help us in discussing where to go on grid modernization and try to get various schematics in place and microgrid systems and figuring out how to get those microgrids connect to the larger grid. and then, obviously, frequent -- the issue of cybersecurity becoming a larger issue, and that's mentioned in the report as well. and obviously d.o.e. plays a major role in this. what are the schematics that you think that we should be looking at, you know, on the grid? what kind of r&d should we be doing? maybe you want to talk a little bit -- i almost wanted

. >> thank you madam chair. just kind of a follow-up question. with the administration coming out, saying it is a success over there back in september still touting that as of march 24 or 25, how can we be that far off. you explained the counter terrorism portion, but to have a country taken over while we are sitting there, it feels like overnight, the marines have to take the weapons with them. i don't understand how that happens, how we can be that disconnected? what are your thoughts on that? is it just denial or is it -- i don't know what it is. i am confused because before you answer it its counter intuitive claim, says it enrages republicans, i am sure it enrages a lot of people. i am kind of baffled. >> it was very frustrating. we again i think that if you go back to where we were a year ago successful conclusion of the national dialogue conference, which was really the last major hurdle in completion of the gcc initiative, houthis participated in that participated in constitutional drafting exercise which was completed successfully, and w

wilson of south carolina. >> thank you madam chair. and thank you for your leadership on this issue. ambassador i just can't imagine a more extraordinary time for you to be serving as the deputy assistant secretary for the bureau of near eastern affairs. and hey, i want you to succeed. but i am obviously very concerned about the yemeni evacuation, what this means for the security of the united states and our allies. i'm obviously concerned about libya, its dissolution the murders in benghazi, with the rise of isil the failure to have a status of forces agreement with with iraq, which leads to the destabilization of iraq. the regime in iran, which has an ideology of death to america death to israel. that's their plan. and as they're moving ahead with the nuclear capability, also building missiles to include an icbm which could only be interpreted as a threat to the american people and american families. and then finally, of course, i'm very concerned about chaos and civil war in syria. the purported red line of the president which simpl

. >> thank you, madam chair for holding this hearing. i want to say at the outset i have an honor flight coming in shortly. i have somebody from bangladesh here. i was clair of this committeehair of this committee a while back. i went to yemen and mr. connolly is right, there have been problems there for years. but i would argue that they certainly have gotten worse under the administration and you know it was this administration that claimed that yemen was a success story and clearly it has been anything but that. when we were on our way over there, there was an -- a terrorist attack on a graduation at the military barracks and over 100 new soldiers were murdered by terrorists. so it's been going on for a while. but the problems in yemen are just incredible. i think the thing that is particularly disturbing is the iranian involvement there and around the region. it's four or five capitals now in the region that are controlled by the iranians. so it's a very dangerous situation. i look forward to the testimony. i won't be here. i'll cert

madam chair rosales? >> yes. >> i have three ayes and one absent. >> okay, the commission approves the request. reluctantly. >> please call the next item. city clerk: the next order of business is 5d adopting environmental review findings pursuant to the california environmental quality act and approving amendments to the mission bay for south design for development and signage and master plan to allow a wall signage to be located at a maximum height of 80 feet versus 45, the western facade of commercial industrial designated building located to the west of owens street. >> mission bay is governed by the redevelopment plans. the development standard are not in the planning code but rather for the development and a companion document is master plan north and south. as mission bay has been fully built out there are a number of buildings adjacent to the 80 freeway, now that they are built out or in the process of being built out like the kaiser building, it has been become clear that we need to alter our sig

. >> madam chair rosales we can certainly get you a copy of the market study but i'll tell you why it's happening in my opinion we're not strangers but with the former development agency it opened in 2001 we track the market as it's gunning gone with when the paramount opened the square feet in the building was seven hundred and 70 square feet studios and ones and two's at the time people thought that was small a kind of new york building now that's large and if you look at the large buildings developed recently particularly in the middle market area is 14 hundred unit they're all really small there's a huge surge if you look at building coming online i'm saying there's anything wrong with that but is second thing in the market study b will documented this is for is very expensive tall buildings in the market unit high rents interestingly it is not just a rent per square feet calculation the smaller the higher rent it is true for some level rather is bigger unit are commanding higher rents in some cases it is a practical thing paying that much rent a phenomenal rent not looking rent per