. >> chair mandelman: great. mr clerk, please call the first item. >> agenda item number 1 is a hearing to consider the promise to premise transfer of a nonsale general public liquor licenses doing business at a pub located at 1706 post street. it will serve the public convenience and necessity of the city and county. >> chair mandelman: great. i don't believe we have a representative from the sfpd here but we do have the recommendation for approval. >> hold on but we do have the police department's recommendation for approval with conditions and we also have the applicant. go ahead. >> thank you. mr chair, supervisors, i'm here today -- >> chair mandelman: please state your name. >> my name is mark and i'm here with my client who is the owner of the pub at 1706 post street. this is an interesting situation where my client purchased at this establishment it has been in operation under the previous owner for seven years, and before that another owner but it was a karaoke lounge and sport bar. towards the end of hi

open soon. >> supervisor mandelman: mr. clerk. >> clerk: ordinance amending the police code to require law enforcement officials to provide either a verbal warning or a written warning rather than having to provide a written warning prior to issuing a dispersal order to ensure access to reproductive health care facility. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. thank you so much, i just wanted to give a little history about this legislation, since it's something that i've been working on for about eight years now as the former legislative aide for former district 9 supervisor. in 2013, after continuous, really disturbing protests outside planned parenthood, which is is in district 9, then supervisor campos created legislation for a 25-foot buffer zone around the clinic where protestors were not allowed to enter. that legislation was very successful. it really struck the right balance between allowing the protestors to exercise their first amendment right to express their opinion, while all

supervisor mandelman? >> supervisor r. mandelman: thank you. madam president, today i have three items. first i'm introducing legislation to make it easier to open new residential care facilities for seniors and people with disabilities, also known as board and care homes. over the last five years we have lost 19 such board and care facilities and with them hundreds of beds. as our population ages and redouble our efforts to move the most vulnerable folks off the streets and into care the loss of these beds presents a challenge. i want to thank norman yee and the mayor for identifying an additional $1 million to commit to stabilizing our remaining board and care facilities in this year's budget. next year we anticipate the long-term care coordinating council residential care task force will be presenting recommendations for the city to address the need going forward. but meanwhile, i'm offering this ordinance to clear one hurdle to the establishment of more residential care facilities in san francisco. specifically, the legislation will elimina

. >> chair mandelman: thank you. are there members of the public who would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. the item is before us. i believe we need to act first on the amendment. so moved. we can take the amendment without objection. and then. >> supervisor ronen: i moved to bring this for the positive recommendation. >> chair mandelman: great. we will do that without objection. all right. thank you. mr clerk can you call our next item? or our last remaining items. >> there's one remaining item. agenda item number 3 pick an ordinance to amend the height -- health code to establish a surplus of medication suppository program to be overseen by d.b.h. >> chair mandelman: supervisor safai is here as our guest. >> supervisor ronen: -- 35 this is an exciting thing. i had the great fortune of sitting down with janet riley, one of the board members of planning by the bay and she said i had this great idea. it will help low income san franciscans that have a hard time accessing good, reliabl

without objection, supervisor mandelman is excused. please call the roll. >> clerk: 21 and 22 safai aye. stefani aye. tang aye yee aye. brown aye cohen aye fewer aye kim aye peskin aye ronen aye there are 10 aye's. >> president m. cohen: thank you. without objection these motions are approved. madam clerk, please call item 23. >> clerk: item 23 is a motion to appoint supervisor vallie brown to the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district for term ending january 31, 2019. may we have a motion to excuse supervisor brown? supervisor brown is excused. >> clerk: yee aye. stefani aye. tang aye. yee aye. cohen aye. fewer aye. kim aye. mandelman aye peskin aye. ronen aye. there are 10 aye's. >> president m. cohen: thank you. without objection the motion is approved. madam clerk, please call the next item. >> clerk: committee reports, items 24 and 25 were considered by the budget and finance meeting at a regular meeting september 13th, 2018 and forwarded as committee reports. item 24 specifically was recommended as amended with th

can we entertain a motion to appoint supervisor mandelman? >> supervisor yee: i'll make the motion to -- what am i doing? motion appointing supervisor mandelman to the a bank with positive recommendation. >> supervisor safai: and the bay area air quality management. can we do that without objection? great. that item is ordered. >> item number 4 is motion appointing the supervisor vallie brown to the golden gate bridge, highway and transportation. >> supervisor safai: we're joined by supervisor brown -- wait. oh, actually -- >> deputy city attorney, for this appointment, supervisor, you should recuse yourself or the committee vote to excuse you from the vote. at which point, would you leave, the committee could vote. you will come back in. there is a local law -- >> supervisor safai: she's not sitting in for supervisor stefani. when she's done -- she can't speak at all? >> it's better to allow the committee to make its decision. >> supervisor safai: ok. so she can't say anything on her own behalf? no? got it. ok. so probably better you recuse

supervisor mandelman? >> submit. >> clerk: supervisor safai, you asked to be referred. >> first, i'll ask to adjourn the meeting in memory of one of our long time constituents, velma witt. she went home on august 19, and passed in peace. she was raised in louisiana graduating from dillard university in 1944 and immediately made her way out to san francisco to find work and support the war effort. the city is where she met her husband, cletus, settling down in lakeview, an area of my district, and raising her family. her daughter, beverly, said she taught her family hard work and made sure their dreams were fulfilled. she was an active member of the all my neighbors in action for over 30 years and constantly was advocating for peace and improving the overall environment in district 11. she's survived by her daughters, beverly, diane, and son cletus. services were held on friday, the 31, so we just wanted to end in her honor. that's one. second thing i wanted to bring up is something that has been vexing the

as well. >> thank you, supervisor. >> president cohen: supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: anne cronenberg, i'm so bummed that i'm not going to be able to work with you more. but i want to thank you for your incredible graciousness in the few weeks that we are overlapping. i knew of anne before i knew anne cronenberg. not only have you done all that you have done in your city career over the last decades, but you got harvey milk elected. and i was five years old when you did that. >> oh, god. thanks, supervisor. >> sorry. but -- but the work that you all did on that campaign and the work that you did at that point in your career made it possible for every single queer supervisor who has been on this board since then to be there, and so i just, i want to thank you of course for all of your contributions to san francisco, but especially for that, everybody says, you know, i mean -- many people talk about what harvey would say about this or that thing, and most of us have absolutely no idea. you do. i don't. but i imagine he would be very, very proud of you. >> thank you. >> p

applicant has agreed to all the above listed conditions. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. public comment? >> clerk: i believe the applicant is also present. >> supervisor mandelman: would the applicant like to -- >> good morning, supervisors, my name is pete glikstern. we have been at our location on turk and taylor for i think coming up on two years. it was a little bit of a slow rollout for us, but the bar is reasonably busy, and we are actually renting basically the entire ground floor of the hotel there. and so we have three different retail spaces. we are not applying to expand the premises to all three, but just next door on turk street. the space on 114 taylor is going to be a second salon for glamorama, valencia street mission institution, really great folks, and sort of a good fit because they are going to be activating a corner during the day into the evening and then we pick up around 4, 5, and go into the night. i think we have done a pretty good job in our small part trying to help things on that corner. we wash the sidewalks, pick up the trash and generate a

as supervisor mandelman had said, you know, we were dropped in a little bit late on this. so we weren't able to work on it with you and we would have loved to. and i know that it's very difficult, i worked as an aide for medical cannibas with we crafted that legislation and it was intense. i know all of the work that you have put into it. but i vote for this item because i believe that san francisco will ultimately tax and it can be amended as the industry develops between now and 2021. generating more information, more data, for all of us to work with. the tax rate established is lower than most of the other cities with a tax framework in place and that is appropriate for a city as supportive of cannibas as ours. and i want to emphasize also that key to my support for this item is the wayfair amendment. thank you, supervisor peskin. and the funding that it will generate in the near term which i expect this body and the city will dedicate to supporting our equity and compassion programs. to uplift those who are hit hardest by our failed war on drugs and we need to support

up next is supervisor rafael mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: margaret, come on up. first of all, i do want to thank supervisor ronen and carolina morales for having us do this fantastic thing, which absolutely should become an annual tradition, and i'm looking forward to that. it's been wonderful learning about some of the honorees this afternoon. so it is my great honor to represent district 8 residents and my latinx heritage month honoree, margaret gomez. she's known for her work in solo performance and stand-up comedy and being one of the first lesbian performers in the nation. i'm so pleased to recognize marga, a resident of district 8 for the past 30 years, for this commendation. her work has been described as "deliciously cheeky and incendiary" by "new york times" and surreal. she's been called the lesbian lenny bruce. she got her start at the legendary valencia rose, where she cut her comedy teeth alongside whoopi goldberg and tom arnold, whose comedic wit is well known to those in this chamber. we reached out to other comedians, including my friend nato gree

. >> supervisor mandelman: great. i am so pleased that dana van gorder is my first presentation on the board of supervisors. he is a legend. for decades, he's been one of the lgbt community's fiercest and more effective advocates. from the very first days of the hiv/aids epidemic, dana has been on the front lines, and it's no exaggeration to say his advocacy saved many lives in this community. he did some of that serving as a legislative aide, first to harry brit and then to carol migdon, and former senator, former supervisor migdon often spoke of the extraordinary contributions that you made to your efforts, and i know that every queer and other supervisors in this office have sought your council and insight on so many issue dos. he was a founder and advocate of the lgbt community center. more than 15 years later, the center hosts over 150 programs and well comes more than 9,000 individuals each month and is leading efforts to end lgbtq homelessness, connect transgender and gender nonconforming residents with jobs, a

. >> supervisor mandelman. >> aye. >> supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> thank you, madam clerk. this ordinance passes unanimously. madam clerk, where are we in the agenda? >> clerk: the first special order 3:00 p.m. items 9-12. >> president cohen: thank you. items 9-12 com prize the public hearings for a proposed central soma plan. this is the public hearing of persons interested in the certification of a final environment aim pact reporter feir for the central soma plan issued by the planning commission dated may 10 the, 2018. this hearing was continued open from september 4th, 2018. items 10-12 are the motions associated with public hearing. >> president cohen: before four appeals of the final environmental impact report for the proposed central soma district. also known as district 6. i'd like to give the platform to supervisor kim, the district supervisor, so she can say a few words on these items. >> thank you, colleagues. this is the first of many items regarding the central soma plan that will come before this board of supervisors. today, i will be making a motion to cont

i want to go ahead and thank -- supervisor brown has already pledged, supervisor mandelman, and supervisor peskin, i've been working with your staff to reserve the steps of city hall. if you are going to participate with us this year, i ask that you either sign or scan and return it back to you to me by september 7, and thank you for your time. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. peter dreckmeyer. just want to start off with a quick pop quiz. where does your water come from? hetch hetchy. we did a survey back in the spring, and we found that 75% of san francisco voters could identify hetch hetchy as the source of their water, which only 10% could identify the true source, and that's the tuolomne river. our survey showed a really strong commitment to the environment in san francisco. 93% of san franciscans conserved water during the recent drought. of those 93%, 71% saying it plaied a major role. 97% support for san francisco bay, and 97% for protection and restoration of tuolomne river even though people didn't know it was the source of their riv

supervisor mandelman. thank you. supervisor peskin. >> thank you, madam clerk. i would -- i will submit my legislation but i wanted to adjourn today's meeting in the memory of veronica sanchez who passed away all too soon last week. there's a lot that i could say about veronica. she was -- she worked at the port for many years. she was a friend. she was an incredible person. her loss is tragic. that's all i'll say. i'm sorry to her family. and then i'd like to also adjourn the board meeting in the memory of sydney goldstein, the founder of city arts and lectures who also died on tuesday. and judge bri arear, our condols and the rest i submit. >> supervisor ronen. >> i have two resolutions that i'll speak about super briefly. in line with our very rocky transit week this week i'm introducing a resolution asking bart when they cut their hours back from 4:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m., in order to do seismic work on the tunnel, that they create a bus line which they're calling "bus nodes." not just to the transbay terminal but that they extend the shuttle to 24 park street

. >> mandelman. >> aye. >> peskin. >> aye there are 11 ayes. >> president cohen: thank you, very much. these items pass unanimously. clear call items 16-22. >> clerk: 16-22 the third special order today. we have here the board of supervisors convening as a committee of the whole. this hearing was scheduled pursuant to a resolution adopted on july 24th, 2018. this is a public hearing where the board will consider forming an infrastructure and revitalization financing district number two also known as the hoedown yard. the subject of the following items. item 17, a resolution to propose adoption of the infrastructure financing plan or the i.f.p. and the formation of a city and infrastructure and revitalization financing district or irfd to provide for future annexation. item 18 is the resolution to approve the i.f.p. for city infrastructure and revitallation financing district number two. item 18 is the resolution calling for a special election for the city. for the irfd number two. for item 20 it is declaring the results of this special election. 21 to create the city i.rfd number two

. >> mandelman. >> aye. >> there are 11 ayes. >> thank you, very much. with that objection these items pass unanimously. madam clerk, could you please go back to item 30. >> clerk: a resolution to support proposition 10, the affordable housing act on the november 6th, 2018 ballot and reaffirm the city's appeal of the rental housing act. >> president cohen: i'd like to recognize supervisor peskin. >> thank you, madam president and colleagues and thank you for considering this matter, which i actually think is the most important measure, other than maybe proposition 6 that we just voted for, the gas-tax repeal that is before california voters this november. by way of background, prop 10, which was actually pu put on by popular signatures, hundreds of thousands of signatures throughout the state of california would repeal what i think was one of the more egregious pre 'emions of local prerogatives that was passed in 1995 and for over 20 years has deprived cities of the ability to even discuss potential tools to deal with local housing crisis. particularly i

. >> supervisor mandelman. >> i come as a former local government lawyer. i remember a number of years where costa hawkins made it impossible for local governments to enable inclusionary housing ordinances to regulate the rents of a portion of market rate developments. which is something that most of us in this room think of course local government should be able to do it and took an act of the state legislature and signature of the governor to allow the local governments to do that. if proposition 10 passes, we'll have a difficult conference about a difficult conversationabout ar to costa hawkins, city was not able to enact vacancy control. i don't know whether there's a former havin vacancy. i do know that sack ra mean toet tell us we can't protected the spouses of people whose spouses have died and has no business telling us what kind of inclusionary housing we can adopt. this is a relatively easy question for a local government official and i think that we should be supporting the repeal of costa hawkins. >> supervisor fewer. >> yes, thank you very much

supervisor mandelman? >> submit. >> clerk: supervisor safai, you asked to be referred. >> first, i'll ask to adjourn the meeting in memory of one of our long time constituents, velma witt. she went home on august 19, and passed in peace. she was raised in louisiana graduating from dillard university in 1944 and immediately made her way out to san francisco to find work and support the war effort. the city is where she met her husband, cletus, settling down in lakeview, an area of my district, and raising her family. her daughter, beverly, said

. >> clerk: item 24, madam president, item 24, supervisor mandelman. [roll call vote taken] >> 11 aye. >> president cohen: without objection this ordinance passes unanimously. thank you, madam clerk. next item, please. item 25. >> clerk: item 25, ordinance to amend the planning code to prohibit cannabis retail and medical cannabis dispensaries in the chinatown mixed use districts to affirm the determination and make the appropriate findings. >> president cohen: colleagues, i would like to make a few remarks on item 25 and i will just let you know that to begin my remarks with the quote, it's a bit long, i would like you to please bear with me. this is the beginning of a quote, we will all defer to one another in each other's district overland use matters. and while this generally is true, we have to be very careful when we go down that road because sometimes society is wrong and elected officials have to be brave and stand up to what is right. proposed same-sex marriage may we some day as it relates to gun control in the united states of america where