supervisor mark farrell: supervisor mar? >> that will ensure and that we are monitoring this very carefully and impact that the resources are going into preservation and i intend to work with stake holders on that and i would like to move the recommendation from the budget analyst. supervisor mark farrell: we have a motion to make amendments. and we can take that without opposition. madam clerk please call item no. 2. >> the clerk: item 2. item 131238: event fund - $400,000]1312382.resolution approving donations of $100,000 or greater, totaling $400,000, to the airport capital improvement promotion and event fund from the boeing company, hensel phelps construction co., and united airlines, inc., pursuant to administrative code, section 10.100-18. airport commissionn >> the clerk: item 2. item 131238: event fund - $400,000]1312382.resolution approving donations of $100,000 or greater, totaling $400,000, to the airport capital improvement promotion and event fund from the boeing company, hensel phelps construction co., and uni

tdr transfers in accordance with planning code, section 128 the clerk: sf 11234 >> supervisor mark farrell: okay, they very much, i believe mr. up dike is the speaker also on this item. >> thank you, chair, farrell. so we are returning after a brief discussion of this item at the last meetings. we were asked to discuss with stake holders our concerns about historic preservation issues and just particulars of the legislation in front of you. so i'm here to give you a brief report on that and we have some staff on that to support me addressing other particular questions you might have. so, what occurred since the last meeting we had a very productive discussion with the representative of the sf heritage foundation, mr. bueller and the planning staff. just to go over some of the issues raised at the call for the audience last week. there i believe in your package should be a letter from sf heritage. i would like to address briefly that and then we can throw it open to questions and we have the technical staff to assist you through this. essentially three request were made in that letter. i wi

supervisor mark farrell: okay, no other questions. mr. rose can we go to your report, please. >> mr. chairman and committee i did summarize this report last week, i will go to the recommendation unless the committee has any questions. it is the same recommendation last week. page seven we recommend that you approve the recommendation and submit the legislation to the board of supervisors to reauthorize such tdr sales immediately upon reaching sales of 550,000 square feet and tdr's as necessary and we recommend you approve this as amended. >> thank you. mr. uptike, you understand these recommendations? >> yes i am. >> all right. colleagues any other questions. we'll open this up to public comment. anyone wish to comment on this item. >> good afternoon members of the committee, mike bueller with san francisco heritage. i would like to thank the committee for continuing this item for a week to enable me, myself to meet with mr. up dike as well as staff from the planning department. it was a very productive meeting and helped to clarify a num

supervisor mark farrell: colleagues, any questions? is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. i would like to thank staff. we went through these items. from my perspective, putting a new fleet when we have an old fleet when we have an old deteriorating system. i will push that envelope when we can get rid of the buses and the obscene wires in our city and take care of that and do it in a climate friendly manner. i appreciate you doing that and hope that king county will give us a discount when we beat them on sunday. can we have a motion on this. >> we can do that without opposition. >> madam clerk. do we have any further business before us? >> no, we do. supervisor mark farrell: we are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> >> welcome to our first committee meeting for thursday, january 16, 2014. i'm norman you won't and i'll be chairing this meeting. i'm joined by supervisor xhoovm. the committee would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv yes, sir, i didn't larson and mark who record each of our meeting and i and make the tran

my name is mark farrell and i'm joined by vice-chair eric mar and avalos and would like to and this linda wong and sfgtv. madam clerk do we have any announcements? >> yes, please be sure to silence all cell phones and complete speaker cards and any documents to be included to be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay. thank you, madam clerk. we are going to take one item out of order. can you call no. 5. >> the clerk: item 131218: real property lease - employees' retirement system - 1145 market street - $119,228.21 monthly] 5. 131218 sponsors: kim; cohen resolution authorizing a 10-year lease of 37,289 sq. ft. at 1145 market street, for office space for the employees' retirement system from 1145 market street, lp, a california limited partnership, for $119,228.21 monthly for the period of july 1, 2014, through june 30, 2024>> the clerk: sf 51234 farrell supervisor mark farrell: thank you very much. >> this is for the 11345 market street for the san francisco retirement system. they are relocating from

supervisor mark farrell: okay, we have a motion to continue this item to january 29th. chair make well thank you for being here as well. i look forward to talking to you about that in further detail. we'll accept that without opposition. madam clerk please go to item 1. the clerk: item 131193:agenda[sale of transferable development rights - war memorial complex - 301 and 401 van ness avenue]1311931.sponsors: mayor; chiu and wienerresolution authorizing the director of property to sell up to 1,100,000 gross square feet of transferable development rights tdrr from the war memorial complex, 301 and 401 van ness avenue, at fair market value; and to execute and record certificates of transfer and to take such additional actions as may be necessary to effectuate one or more tdr transfers in accordance with planning code, section 128 the clerk: sf 11234 >> supervisor mark farrell: okay, they very much, i believe mr. up dike is the speaker also on this item. >> thank you, chair, farrell. so we are returning after a brief discussion of this item at the last meetings. we were ask

let's go to supervisor supervisor mark farrell: mr. mayor, g gnra is a recreation area. as the recreational use for decades has been dog walking. thousands of city of san francisco has long walked their dogs for dog walking. they are imposing restrictions that would severely limit san franciscans ability to utilize ggnra and result in a shift from many dogs from the federal urban recreation areas to already over crowded city parks. board of supervisors recently unanimously passed the resolution that i authored to oppose this proposal by the national parks service. congresswoman jackie spears has been very supportive in the opposition to the park services plan and our federal representative democratic leader, nancy pelosi recently sent a letter to the park service asking the park service to extend the public comment period which it subsequently did and also take into account the recreational needs of dog walker's and dog owners at the g gnra. mr. mayor, do you agree that the ggnra plan goes too far in restricting dog access? will you work with the board of supervisors and

it was the intention of supervisor mark farrell.ing people to suggest updates to city codes to do so, if you know of one that needs updating there is a link on abc7 news.com under see it on tv. >> for millions of women the scar from a c section is a challenge but new tummy tuck procedures are helping make scars less noticeable allowing doctors to remove fat. >> irene loves to shop. and she would love to add tighter tops to her wardrobe if it weren't or a problem from the birth of her kids. >> the c section is, above it there is this, i call it a ledge of extra flesh, or fat. >> today, irene is hoping to lose that ledge with the help of a procedure called tummy tone up. she marks the area. >> tummy tone up is done by making several very small enry points on skin i would like to use the scar as two ends i can ininterest dues the small incision. >> the procedure employs a minimally invasive liposuction allowing doctors to vary intensity of the energy. >> by doing this, i optimize the laser energy in three wave lengths to melt the fat a

it was the intention of supervisor mark farrell.rging people to suggest updates to city codes to do so, if you know of one that needs updating there is a link on abc7 news.com under see it on tv. >> for millions of women the scar from a c section is a challenge but new tummy tuck procedures are helping make scars less noticeable allowing doctors to remove fat. >> irene loves to shop. and she would love to add tighter tops to her wardrobe if it weren't or a problem from the birth of her kids. >> the c section is, above it there is this, i call it a ledge of extra flesh, or fat. >> today, irene is hoping to lose that ledge with the help of a procedure called tummy tone up. she marks the area. >> tummy tone up is done by making several very small enry points on skin i would like to use the scar as two ends i can ininterest dues the small incision. >> the procedure employs a minimally invasive liposuction allowing doctors to vary intensity of the energy. >> by doing this, i optimize the laser energy in three wave lengths to melt the fat

my name is supervisor mark farrell, i will be chairing this committee. i am joined by committee member and supervisor john avalos as well as supervisor scott wiener. i would like to thank the members of sfgov-tv covering this meeting, jonathan and charles kremenak as well as the clerk of the committee, mr. victor young. mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? >> yes. please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear

my name is supervisor mark farrell, i'll be chairing this committee joined by committee vice-chair supervisor eric mar as well as supervisor avalos. i want to thank the members of sfgov-tv covering this meeting nona smith and melkonian. and the clerk am i wouldtionv. do we have any announcements? >> yes. [speaker not understood], completed speaker cards and copies to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted on today will appear on the [speaker not understood] unless otherwise stated. >> okay, thank you very much. madam clerk, can you please call item number 1? >> item number 1 is an resolution authorizing a 10-year lease of 37,289 square feet at 1145 market street, for office space for employees' retirement system from 1145 market street, lp, a california limited partnership, for $119,228.21 monthly for the period of july 1, 2014, through june 30, 2024. ~ monthly. >> ms. [speaker not understood]. >> good morning, chair farrell, [speaker not understood], updike. a quick update. since this is for retirement lease 1145 market street, we are continuing discuss

my name is supervisor mark farrell. i will be chairing the committee and joined by supervisor avalos and joined by supervisor supervisor mar. i want to thank the members of sfgtv covering this meeting and the clerk of the committee ms. linda wong. madam clerk do we have any announcements? >> yes mr. chair. please please and complete speaker cards and documents to be part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will be on the board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you very much. we have the bonds for one and two which we're going to save and call the other items first so madam clerk can we start with item number three? >> supervisor would you like me to call item three? >> yes please. >> item three is a resolution retroactively authorizing the recreation and parks department to accept and expend grant up to $670,000 of landscaping improvements to kezar triangle and golden gate park. >> okay. i know we have some speakers on this item. >> this is west of the stadium and l

supervisor mark farrell: thank you mr. rose. supervisor avalos? >> supervisor john avalos: yes. regarding staffing changes when we see the rising increase, what year did that take place and i really want to hear justification for this expansion in square footage for office space. it seems like a very significant increase and one i don't think i'm quite ready to approve. >> good afternoon, supervisors, first i would like to change chair farrell and the committee for accommodating our schedule. we have a retirement board meeting at 2:00. we appreciate the opportunity for being here. first the increase in staffing in the area has been in the investment area, when we moved there in 1999 we were managing roughly over $10 billion, now we are managing over $18 billion. we had a management consultant come in and recommend a new structure for investment division which basically doubled and that was probably the single year where we had the highest increase in staff. and it was i think 6 fte specifically in the investment division. other than that it's been gradual as the city has, the vo

i see mark farrell, an information request and i sent him an invitation to speak with him ~. i mean, i haven't got anything back. i'm pretty well knowledgeable what the issues and i think his hearing is going to be very incomplete -- not very incomplete, but partially incomplete without the voice of me and some of the other people who have been advocating for homeless issues for five years. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in general public comment? seeing none, general public comment is closed. [gavel] >> madam clerk, could you please call the [speaker not understood] calendar? >> items 8 through 12 are being considered for immediate adoption without committee reference. a single roll call vote to enact these items. if a member objects, a matter may be removed and considered separately. >> thank you. president chiu, item 8, please. >> madam clerk, can you call the roll [speaker not understood]? yes, so, can we take items 9 through 12 without objection? thank you. [gavel] >> item 8 is a resolution supporting amendments to state law to

my name is supervisor mark farrell, i will be chairing this committee. am joined by committee member and supervisor john

my name is supervisor mark farrell, i'll be chairing this committee joined by committee vice-chair supervisor eric mar as well as supervisor avalos. i want to thank the members of sfgov-tv covering this meeting nona smith and melkonian. and the clerk am i wouldtionv. do we have any announcements? >> yes. [speaker not understood], completed speaker cards and copies to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted on today will appear on the [speaker not understood] unless otherwise stated. >> okay, thank you very much. madam clerk, can you please call ite

supervisor mark farrell: today, i'm finally introducing the resolution to implement free wifi. this project will provide three wireless service touching every corner of our city and further open up the door and provide local community groups with wireless internet where previously unavailable. this provides access where it's limited and providing additional working infrastructure. we did work on locations that help close the digital divide to serve our open communities with the heavy ier traffic to get the most out of this service. we picked the highest location of city and sites that reach the broadest parts of san francisco. and we used parts that use the most effective method. this is inside and outside city government on a creative solution to expand wifi across the city on our parks system. the cost of equipment and maintenance is provided by google as a generous grant to fund this with no strings attached. this is to benefit all of san francisco. google is a member of the advocate organization which is a leading voice for san francisco and is giving the gift to the city o

my name is supervisor mark farrell, i'll be chairing this committee joined by committee vice-chair supervisorc mar as well as supervisor avalos. i want to thank the members of sfgov-tv covering this meeting nona smith and melkonian. and the clerk am i wouldtionv. do we have any announcements? >> yes.

my name is supervisor mark farrell. i will be chairing the committee and joined by supervisor avalos and joined by supervisor supervisor mar. i want to thank the members of sfgtv covering this meeting and the clerk of the committee ms. linda wong. madam clerk do we have any announcements? >> yes mr. chair. please please and complete speaker cards and documents to be part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will be on the board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you very much.

my name is supervisor mark farrell, i will be chairing this committee. i am joined by committee member and supervisor john avalos as well as supervisor scott wiener. i would like to thank the members of sfgov-tv covering this meeting, jonathan and charles kremenak as well as the clerk of the committee, mr. victor young. mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? >> yes. please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the january 7th, 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay, thank you. could you please call item number 1? >> item number 1, resolution authorizing the execution, sale, and delivery of a housing revenue note in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $28,500,000 for the purpose of providing financing for the construction of a 121-unit affordable multi-family senior residential rental housing project, known as bayview senior housing; approving the form

i see mark farrell, an information request and i sent him an invitation to speak with him ~. mean, i haven't got anything back. i'm pretty well knowledgeable what the issues and i think his hearing is going to be very incomplete --

supervisor mark farrell: i want to take this opportunity to thank lionel for your contributions, for sharing your thoughts. and i do think that i did a better job as a supervisor because of your advocacy. president david chiu: do we have a motion? supervisor jane kim: we have a motion to recognize from the floor lolita and -- from action network to speak. president david chiu: supervisor kim has asked for these two individuals to take the floor. can we have approval for that. can we do it unanimously? without objection that should be the case. why don't we hear from these two individuals. speaker: thank you supervisors for helping us call attention to lionel. there is a lot of important work here. i just want to acknowledge and say there is a lot of people out there, a lot of folks who come out here to city hall to talk and a lot of people in the community and streets. they are not just another voice talking and another person talking. they are a person with a very rich life which a lot of us care for a lot. there is a lot of people that pass away. lionel, was a cool guy. he was real

chairing today's meeting to my left is commissioner david chiu and to my right is commissioner mark farrell. our clerk today is erika cheng and i want to thank sfgtv for broadcasting today's hearing. >> are there any announcements? >> no announcements would you read, or call item two. >> item two, approve the minutes of the november 19, 2013 meeting, this is an action item. >> any changes or comments regarding the minutes? >> okay, is there any public comment on item two? seeing none, public comment is closed. could we have a motion to approve the minutes? >> motion. >> okay could we take that without objection? >> that will be the order. >> please call item three. >>recommend award of construction contract no. 04-3a6404 to the lowest responsible and responsive bidder, golden state bridge, inc., in an amount not to exceed $49,305,345.50, authorize the executive director to negotiate contract payment terms and non-material contract terms and conditions for the construction contract, authorize the executive director to execute all other supporting agreements, and authorize an additional const