, the vote is four ayes. >> commissioner mondejar: the motion carries. [ roll call. ] >> clerk: madam chair, the vote is four ayes 6789 monday mopd t --. >> commissioner mondejar: the motion carries. commissioners, can i get a motion to approve 5-e as moved by commissioner bustos? >> so moved. >> second. >> madam clerk, can we get a vote? [ roll call. ] >> clerk: madam chair, the vote is four ayes. >> commissioner mondejar: so this motion carries. so now, fellow commissioners -- [ inaudible ] >> commissioner mondejar: whoops, hang on. i need a motion for items 5-f through g, but we will vote separately on each items. >> so moved. >> commissioner mondejar: commissioner abuse toes moved, seconded by commissioner singh? mad madam secretary, please take the role call. [ roll call. ] >> clerk: madam chair, the vote is four ayes. >> commissioner mondejar: the motion carries. [ roll call. ] >> clerk: madam chair, the vote is four ayes. >> commissioner mondejar: motion carries. okay. thank you. [applause]. >> commissioner mondejar: madam secretary, please call the next item. >> clerk: the next orde

thank you, gentleman, thank you madam chair. >> great, thank you madam chair. couple of quick questions. thank you so much. the european deterrence incident is critical, i think the more we see the level of threats that are facing our democracy here in the united states, as well as what's going on in europe, to continue to read and dive into some of these issues that's absolutely incredible that most americans don't really understand the level threat that we're under right now. i appreciate what you're doing and what the guard is doing. i have a question, i know the army plans to stand up six security for assistant brigades, five are going to be active duty, one's going to be national guard. can you give us an update on that and what it's looking like from your end? >> yes, sir. the single security forces brigade is standing up across five separate states. indiana, illinois, ohio, florida and georgia i believe are the five states. ohio will get a share of that s fab and it's about 65 people i believe and we are i think on track for, i think it's -- i have to ge

. >> thank you, madam chair. i apologize for being here late. as i told the distinguished chair here that sharing the house budget committee is just jerking all my time away from the, and i miss sitting here on this dice and engaging in military discussions. i want to associate myself with the remarks of my friend over here about medical fitness and out of that as commander. medical fitness is a medical problem across the spectrum of society but certainly with regard to the military. because we have certain standards we got to have and if they don't have them, we can't take them. i want to ask you a question about retention, recruiting and retention. it is my belief that as our national guard and reserve components are utilized more and more in our national defense posture, and i know general kelly has talked about the guard 4.0 or whatever his term is for it, and the notion that we need to increase the training days available to a lot of the people, particularly does going into the box, that sort of thing. i get all that. there has got to be a s

thank you, madam chair. >> ms. kaptur. >> thank you, madam chair. thank you for your work. i'm going to focus on two areas initially. one is the state partnership program which for ohio means hungray and serbia. and the funding levels. if you can focus on that what you have requested compared to the current fiscal year and a suggestion. i just returned from ukraine and if we are going to win the battle and blunt russia's propaganda, we are going to have to deal with the soldiers in the field in a more effective way and one thing i have discovered is that many ukraine soldiers have ptsd and those who are surnt currently serving and younger soldiers and those who served years ago. my question is, how can you in your leadership role provide apps and devices where soldiers who have these illnesses would literally self-treat as opposed to having nothing in the field. do you have the capability using the defense-health capabilities that exist in the d.o.d. and the guard, ukrainian-speaking health professionals to get apps to people who are facing a third deployment to the front a

>> yes, madam chair, two speaker cards. oscar james. >> good afternoon again, commissioners, my name is oscar james. that was a nice presentation. and one thing i'm glad of, they are taking care of us retirees. as a resident of bayview-hunters point, and first african american to buy a home in bayview-hunters point and homeowner myself for some time, finding out a week before last friday that my home was worth 1,400,000, i could not afford to buy today. p ok, but at the same time, people in the community who were homeless, some have low income where they cannot afford to be in any of these houses. you did a project on armstrong and third that housed homeless that was in the bayview-hunters point community. they came in homeless, got furniture donated to them. i'm looking for each project now to do that same thing for people who are homeless. i'm also looking or asking you to look at brothers and sisters coming home from the penitentiary to have housing. look at them. they paid their debt to society, ok? they don't want to g

and then finally, madam chair, you want to speak to this, but today, chair brinkman and i had the opportunity to go down into the chinatown station of central subway with mayor farrell and abililbert ho. chinatown station was the last to complete excavation. it's now complete. that puts one of the highest risk construction activities behind us, and the concretes trucks were already there, lined up on washington street, getting the concrete down into the station so we can start building it from the bottom up. we remain on a course to have revenue source open in december 2019, and it was just a great opportunity to be down there and see the progress firsthand. because i see the photos every week, and they just don't -- can't capture the magnitude of the space down there that before long will be a beautiful new muni subway station. so that concludes my report. i'll be happy to answer any questions. >> thank you, director reiskin. i'll just second, that station, now you get a sense of what it's going to look like. the people coming down through that station and i am going to be so happy when the

commission members, please indicate your vote when i announce your name. [ roll call. ] >> clerk: madam chair, the vote is four ayes. >> commissioner mondejar: the motion carries. madam secretary, please call the next item. [agenda item read] [agenda item read] good [agenda item read] . >> clerk: madam director? >> commissioner mondejar: thank you, madam secretary. through the chair, this is a major milestone for the project. as you know, the approvals occurred in 2010. the hunters point shipyard redevelopment plan and the bayview-hunters point redevelopment plan and dda was approved in 2010. it was a nonstadium alternative. since then, the 49ers have left san francisco and have constructed a new stadium in santa clara, so the developer is now proposing a more robust mix of land uses that is phased better to respond to market conditions. prior to that, or since then, there's been various amendments to the dda, and -- which was allowed for early transfer of the candlestick point stadium to accelerate development within the existing stadium site, and also subsequently, the proposition o was app

we already had public comment so we'll move on. >> madame chair, i do not see the cac chair or any member of the cac present to present a report so item 9, general public comment. this is the opportunity for member of the must be to address the board that are not on today's agenda. madame chair would you like to submit a time? >> chairman brinkman: two minutes. >> all right. herbert winer followed by paul court and then jeffery fang. >> hert -- herbert winer. this is about the old servile line. last week i waited 30 minutes for a bus which finally showed up. i had to walk two blocks to wait for a bus that arrived 30 minutes later. now i don't know if any new things have been ae added to this line it's a long line from downtown to the zoo. it requires more coaches. this has not been the case. instead you have a disaster rows -- disasterous plan comes to fruition. it reports itself, first this and then a tragedy. >> chairman brinkman: next speaker, please. >> paul court, jeffery fang, matthew lane. >> good afternoon. i'm jeffery fang. i was told the person before me wanted to speak after so

yes, director hsu. >> thank you, madam chair. so i'm encouraged to hear that this joint effort with b.a.r.t. on the station homeless services seems to be having some results. i'm just curious. do we just split that evenly with them or how will that take shape going forward? >> generally how it works with the stations, is we share maintenance responsibilities roughly 50-50, so for those pilots, we've just carried this forward. we -- you know, a lot of the areas are shared, and that's where a lot of the issues are, in the shared areas, but we both equally benefit from anything that improves the rider experience or reduced the maintenance ticket or both. >> and i take it well, this is something that could come from additional city sources, but we've got to get it done. >> i think it would help b.a.r.t. to say well, the social service agency should be paying for that. the social service agencies have their own budget challenges that they're trying to address. these are our stations so we're working very collaboratively with them on t

commissioner cop, >> thank you, madame chair. i recommend that the commission consider the now broadly amended version at its april meeting. i would not vote for such version tonight. after i have an opportunity to read a final product, and not a summary from the city from our staff. i will be prepared to consider voting for it. >> thank you, commissioner cop. your suggestion is to continue the item until our next regularly scheduled commission meeting. and that would give the city attorney an opportunity to work with staff and the board of supervisors to make sure that the ordinance we're considering incorporates all the changes that we just discussed. please stand by. >> yes. madam chair, as i had advised you, that i believe i'm unavailable for the regularly scheduled meeting on the 20th of april, and i would ask if you could check to find another date before that date when we could have the meeting because i'm prepared to vote for this -- this ordinance. >> we do have a may 7th meeting, but that's further out from our april 20

>> no, madam chair. >> no? seeing none, public comment is closed. and do hawe have a staff membe that could -- mr. rhodes, thank you. >> mr. rhode 1ed, i do know this is an attempt to make sure parking is available. could you speak briefly to exempting a couple of blocks within that stretch? i'm trying to think if there's anywhere in the city where there's parking in the city where there's suddenyly a coupe of blocks that don't have parking. >> this is all part of trying to ensure that merchants are still able to provide parking for their customers as part of the broader taraval corridor project, but there are kind of gaps. i think in this particular location, the request that came up during the discussion was that 43rd to 44th could possiblily be exempted. and in this case, it kind of makes sense because i believe east of 43rd may also be a stretch that is more residential, and you know doesn't have time limits, so instead of starting at 43rd, you start at 44th, go west of there. it wouldn't be, you know, it wouldn't create kind of a strange gap, i

. >> madam chair, i have one more question. this is public comment. there is on the agenda, number 3. which is missal i will's appeal of an adverse determination of eligiblibility. and i raise the question of whether everyone realizes that you will have an opportunity to comment on agenda number 3 rather than in a vacuum, so to speak, because the commission hasn't heard a report from the staff. and logically, and as a matter of custom and practice, the staff makes a report. and then they will be argument and representations b by miss ally. and if there need to be further investigation that will be given and the chairwoman will ask for public and then. and you and everyone else will be able to comment, including judge chianelli. a 1,000 a dollars mediator and judge bergeron who hasn't hit that yet. who is a civil rights specialist. thank you, madam. would you just verify that for me for the audience. >> vice-chairperson chiu: so verified we ask that item 3 be given now that public comment number 3 be called. thank you. >> thank you. >> vice-chairperson

with that, madame chair, i will turn it back to you. i will bring up something at the board of supervisors, at the same time they are resincing, they are lobby -- resisting think want to introduce an assembly bill that will deregulate helmet and increasing speed by 33% to 20 miles an hour and to what end? to further impair our city's pedestrians and the users of these devices themselves. >> supervisor tang: thank you. colleagues, do we have any further comments or questions? i think i will save my -- i'm sorry. we are all going to save our comments until after public comment. given the number, i will be limiting public comment to one minute per speaker so we will be able to make it through everyone. i have a couple of comment cards here. timmy waters, cathy deluca -- i'm sorry. we have m.t.a. staff here. my apologies. i will still call a few comment cards so folks can line up. john lowell. cow can please line up by the drapes. we have s.f. m.t.a. staff. >> thank you chair tang, members of the committee and supervisor peskin for sponsori

thank you, madam chair. >> thank you, madam chair. thank you for having this. a lot of people are not aware that we have kind of a dual jurisdiction, we have the environment and public works committee and we have of course the commerce committee and they handle different parts of this, but there are a lot of things that are in common, successes we have had in the past that we want to draw on. i'd say to mr. cast our epw committee held hearings in the past to consider the innovative solutions for public sector funding, in fact, we've been doing now this -- this now for 20 years that i can attest to. in your testimony you highlight that many supply chain professionals are disconnected from the policy making process, but that things have improved with the establishment of the state freight advisory committees in the past act. it was the first time we have ever done that before. the question would be how should congress bolster these and other advisory committees to ensure supply chain professionals can be a part of the policy making process? what's the best way to

>> supervisor peskin: madam chair, this has been through staff.bviously the bloom map is archaic and this is an attempt to replace the bloom map with some objective standards. i am not a structural engineer or a geotechnical engineer. this 25% number has now been through legal review and commission review. this is the first time i'm hearing that it should be degrees and not percent. the bloom map was actually as he said, 20%. not 20 degrees. but if mr. strom, you want to address this on the technical side or mr. lowery as to whether or not it should be 25 degrees as compared to 25%. 25% is a pretty darned sleep slope? san francisco. 25% grade is nothing i would ride my bicycle up. >> supervisor, we can investigate this 25 degrees versus 25%. >> supervisor peskin: all right. madame chair, in the interest of getting this right, i would ask for a one-week continuance and we will work with the department of building inspection. i would assume in so far as they have engineers and architects and builders on this that they would have caught this. but we

chair chu. >> thank you, madame president. i wanted to respond to supervisor and i thinking in my mind the legal question turns on whether or not the burden of providing the financial disclosu disclosure constitutes a right for political speech for individual and corporations and unions and others, to make contribution to committees. in order for a government to regulate a constitutional right it's important we have a compelling government interest and narrowly tailor what the law is to the goal we're trying to accomplish and so i absolutely support the goals of getting money out of politics and i think one of the things i would like to see in the legislation is not just where the money's coming from but who's it going to. >> supervisor cohen. >> i have a question i raised when i was being briefed by ms. pelham and her team. i don't know who's amendment it is or the owner of the legislation but it comes from regarding the prohibition which lengthens the time after the date of contract approval. i'd like to have the ethics comm

. >> commissioner kopp: well, i'm going to ask madam chair woman -- >> no, i do not have any questions. >> commissioner kopp: nobody in testifying mentioned that the fact that the executive officer under the law has discretion to waive any mistake or imperfection which was made. mr. shen, does this commission have discretion? >> i'm not sure what you're referring to in terms of the discretion of the executive director, but this commission certainly has discretion to do whatever it feels is appropriate. >> commissioner kopp: all right. then my motion is based upon, one, our discretion; and number two, upon the facts. the facts show mistakes that were made. i don't know whether this is an equitiable proceeding because it's an administrative law proceeding, but my friend, ace washington, put it succinctly and common language: everyone makes a mistake because we are all human. i think mr. marstellar testified that the intent of this law, which he knows more about than anybody in the room -- was to qualify as many candidates as possible for public financing. in case anyone watching in this

. >> thank you, madam chair. the department of energy is a global leader in science and technology with an unrivaled network of national laboratories. it is also key to our national security. an important priority for d.o.e. is energy infrastructure security, and our energy infrastructure is under attack. it's under cyber attack, and we need to do much more to protect it as a national critical asset. russia has proven its ability to disrupt the grid, and last week, the trump administration announced new sanctions on russia for attacks on the u.s. infrastructure. the department of homeland security, and the federal bureau of investigation characterized the activities as, quote, a multistaged intrusion campaign by russian government cyber actors who gained remote access into the energy sector networks, end quote. the fbi and department of homeland security state that since at least march 2016, russia has targeted government entities and multiple u.s. critical fractures including energy and nuclear sectors. a year a

thank you madam chair. >> thank you, senator. to begin our introductions, chairmans b brass seo is here. >> thank you, i am pleased to introduce nancy vehr who serves as air quality administrator for the wyoming department of air quality. administrator vehr has led wyoming's efforts to implement the clean air act since 2015. before serving as air quality administrator, she worked at the wyoming attorney general's office and in that office she served as the assistant attorney general and represented the state's division of air quality. administrator vehr has also had broad experience in the private sector where she handled a wide variety of civil and environmental matters. her wealth of experience with the clean air act and her deep familiarity of wyoming has served the state very well for which we're very grateful. due to our unique location, gee i don't gofy, and natural resources, wyoming needs flexibility to implement the clean air act. so i look forward to hearing your testimony today and listen as you explain the challenges

>> thank you, madam chair, members of the commission, angela calvillo, interim officer. i wanted to provide just a brief introduction to what i've done with the lafco's budget without permission from lafco, but i think it's a good thing. essentially because the budget process for lafco is not on the same timeline as the budget process for the board of supervisors and the city in general, what used to happen is the executive officer would provide me a ballpark figure from lafco that wouldn't be confirmed by lafco until june, so while we are, a city department, submitting our budgets to the mayor and controller as of yesterday, february -- yeah, thank you, 22nd, i asked the budget committee, and the committee has provided me permission to put in the statutory amount that lafco is entitled to, which is $297,342. so by the time lafco does determine its needs and actually comes up with a figure, if it's lower than that amount, then, we'll just adjust the department's budget by that amount. this will make things a little easier for us in our conversations with the mayor's and

thank you. >> madam chair, committee members, such deference. i'm very honored. thank you very much. to supervisor ronen and the cosponsors of the legislation, and of course to supervisor campos for bringing this issue forward and for your taking it so very, very seriously. i just want to share with you one story i hope will touch your heart and move the legislation forward. when i was in the state legislature, we had a queer youth advocacy day every year, and we brought young people, young lgbtq folks to sacramento to be trained and lobby and have an opportunity to meet their legislators for the very first time, and to tell their stories and to talk about the need for putting in place statutes to protect civil rights of all people. and i remember one young girl, she was about 16 years of age, self-identified as lesbian, and she told me that because the only other gay or lesbian person she knew in her life was her mother, and that because her mother was drug addicted, she could not envision any other life for herself that went beyond her mother's limitations, and

>> madam chair and ladies and gentlemen of the board and ladies and gentlemen of the audience and directork and miss austin. my name is jim hancock, the president and founder of the san francisco sailing science center incorporated, a california non-profit benefit corporation whose mission is to inspire a passion for science and sailing through the creation of a museum, a hands on interactive museum, much like san francisco's explore exploratorim but every exhibit is pertaining to sailing. it's the hope of our group to set this museum up in treasure island's hangar 3. we think this is the ideal location for the museum. and so i am here today with the purpose of both introducing myself to all of you and the project as well as beginning a conversation with the board and those people who are making things happen on treasure island to help establish this project. we expect this project will take seven to 10 years to bring to completion. so with that said that completes my statement. are there any questions, and i'm happy to take those at this ti time. >> supervisor tsen: thank you. since it's

>> thank you, madam chair. with all respect to the representative from spur, who i think that were one of the original proponents of proposition a, including the carve out that i proposed that the sky will not fall, that there will be a handful of decisions that are reviewed on an annual basis as i referenced earlier relative to the board bringing conditional uses before it. and hopefully they will be things that positively impact the public realm and transportation, particularly around the ever evolving world of new emerging mobility technology where directors and this board agree that actually having some accountable elected officials make tough decisions in the end, and regardless of who it may or may be, and how that individual may be affiliated with tech billionaires and venture capital companies, this is the people's house. actually, having a bunch of city council members, if you will, who have to hear it every day on the streets of san francisco will be a positive thing. so with all due respect to spur,

. >> madam chair, i would nominate commissioner kopp. >> i would also nominate commissioner kopp. >> and so would i. >> any other nominations? nominations are now closed. public comment. >> commissioner chiu. >> vice-chairperson d. chiu: kopp. >> commissioner kopp? >> aye, kopp. >> commissioner lee? >> kopp. >> commissioner renne? >> kopp. >> and commissioner ryan? >> judge kopp. >> commissioner kopp is elected vice chair of the commission. thank you. >> vice-chairperson d. chiu: judge kopp, i look forward to serving with you in the coming year. agenda item number 4, consideration of possible action on anti corruption accountability ordinance as amended on april 3rd, 2018 at the ethics commission special joint meeting with the board of supervisors, to amend the campaign and governmental code to institute campaign finance and conflict of interest reforms, see file 180280 as well as attachments from the staff. so as many of you have been with us on this long journey, we started a year ago with this anti corruption and accountability ordinance and it took many forms, and went through a

lee: thank you, madam chair. i think i've said this several times but as someone who has benefited directly from non-profit, i started my career with a wonderful non-profit, my mom benefited from non-profit service providers everyday for the last few years of her life. i don't question commissioner kopp's view, his view of pay-to-play among certain players. just like there are bad apples in the corporate world, i don't pretend that 100% of the non-profits are angels, but at the same time i must speak up to really defend the thousands of service providers who work with difficult circumstances with a very passionate belief they are doing a common good for the city and for the residents of this city and i think that for them they have a voice they represent a community who do have a voice in the community's policy, legislative process and if that is being perceived as pay to play then i salute them for standing up on behalf the community and i think there may be ways, the dedicated community service providers and th