that's going to be reflective of our supervisors here today, supervisor mark farrell, supervisor shehy, supervisor norman yee who is irish for the next 2 weeks along with former supervisor assesser recorder campen chew. all our departments heads will be irish for the next 2 weekzs. commissioners because we are going to celebrate not just the history of the city, but the migration and history of families that are so a part of the history of this great city. st. patrick's day of course is irlands national day and once again honored to have with us irlands counsel general phillip grant. thank you, counsel general. he and his team are doing a great job representing their government right here in our great city and want to thank them for the many servicess that you provide to the city and region of san francisco. you know, we happen to work closely with the counsel general and all of you to bring the air lings back to san francisco. isn't that wonderful? [applause]. we are so please today have the non stop service from san francisco to dublin. this year is a exciting one for the san francis

supervisors land use and transportation committee meeting for monday, march 20, 2017, my name is mark farrell'll be chairing this committee and joined by supervisor peskin sitting for supervisor tang we have supervisor jane kim want to thank adrian and phil jackson for covering this meeting and mr. victor young mr. clerk, any announcements? >> on the mayor 28 agenda oracles. >> okay just to be clear shall we be choosing supervisor tang. >> make a motion at your discretion and supervisor kim and seconded by supervisor peskin 0 without objection item one please item one ordinance for the

assistant district attorney and president of the board of supervisors london breed and malia cohen and mark farrellhy assessor-recorder carmen chu chief of police william scott and former greg suhr and competitive of the fire department chief joanne hayes-white and sanchez. >> i don't know the title but the fun man around town paul this is a huge amount of support for all of us and thank you, thank you, thank you. >> (clapping.) >> and now it is my honor to direct you for a video screen about our first hero this afternoon. >> my specialist is trauma in the area he came to hospital because it got a representation reputation of one of the best trauma centers in the world i enjoy the challenge of people the most part. >> we live in san francisco and have 3 young obesity 9 and 11 zachary was clvj on a wet bar and fell on him. >> my husband called and zachary is hurt bad. >> he was pail he wasn't responds and we know in an instant he was critically injured we have to go a zuckerberg right now and some of the things we did with zachary used tools i learned from the military in germany and moved to iraq d

. >> hello and thank you this is my husband david mark farrell we bought the house in 2009 about thententions of remodeling it is a smaller house on the block we've lived in the immediate neighborhood for many years and including me living on the block next door in the house next door this is our family home it fits our growing family needs a baby on the way this summer. >> plan to have a second he work from home full-time a home office my husband worked from home part time and have elderly parents will come and stay with us and potentially live with us your project has overwhelming support including the dr requester co-owner that has an equal interest in the property and manages the property so those two letters that david lindsey alluded to one from the co-owner from the deferring dr and the tenant the main unit the requester is referring to say vacant i was not doing anything that would harm that our neighbors to the immediate west are in support we met with the immediate neighbors on march third, analyzing and the dr requester and offered a compromise to pay for skylights that we

concern much more concern from you the aspirin ingredient regulation and protect not enough to mark farrell kickoff or say business as usual like the woman that remarked about the undue corporate influence that is important to note that san francisco has begun using local green street mixing that with hetch hetchy reservoir water and that your compelling us to use the water at this point wastewater treatment plant are not using those to claim that the ground water exposed to herbicides and pesticides opens the city to expensive lawsuits it is danger for those reason alone it can be disruptive and a member and cellular health for corrigan that is a tochlg that sdruchz bacteria but alternates the generic code and has birth defects i drank contaminated water and been struggling ever since that was 25 years and a coworker. >> thank you. >> (calling names). >> i'm ellen and i'm a member of the california native planter society speaking for myself i am a professional gardener been one for over 20 years in san francisco i'm a license pest controller in a perfect world we'll not use my assistant pr

supervisors land use and transportation committee meeting for monday, march 20, 2017, my name is mark farrell i'll be chairing this committee and joined by supervisor peskin sitting for supervisor tang we have supervisor jane kim want to thank adrian and phil jackson for covering this

my name is supervisor mark farrell and have the honor representing district 2 and have for the past 6 years and until 2 months ago i had the privilege being the only irish american member on the board of supervisors. i want to welcome to the newest member of the board also irish american descent supervisor jeff sheehy is here with us. [applause] before we bebeen, i do want to say proud to have this be the 5th year i have been able to mc this event and bring the one event of money in the month of march that brings the irish community together but really to say and thank mayor lee because as somebody who has come to city hall, mayor lee not only of course has the riv named after him but has been to cork. going back to cork. has made a commitment to our irish community here in san francisco and to mayor lee i want to say thank you for all you do for our community. thank you vaer much. [applause] so, mayor lee mentioned the history the irish in san francisco is without parallel. we built the city and contribute today the city for decades for generations and we will be the future the city

it's ongoing to address i think some of the concerns that supervisor mark farrell brought up. i just want to reiterate again i don't like it when people spend money on campaigns suppose legislation i put forward to the voters either but i'm not here standing before you resenting and introducing legislation to restrict the political speech either. so we can talk about how we don't like how many is spent and we can debate it we can criticize it we can all investigation to it but it's absolutely wrong for the sport to prohibit free speech and to penalize or try to penalize, people who speak against the things we believe in. >> thank you supervisor kim. supervisor ronen >> i will also be voting, no, on this legislation will repeat the excellent explanation both supervisor kim and peskin. i just wanted to say that supervisor farrell, the way that you speak about these private political campaigns makes it sounds very simplistic and nefarious, but often times when affordable housing developers choose to educate the public about a certain ballot measure it's because that ballot measur

supervisors land use and transportation committee meeting for monday, march 20, 2017, my name is mark farrell i'll be chairing this committee and joined by supervisor peskin sitting for supervisor tang we have supervisor jane kim want to thank adrian and phil jackson for covering this meeting and mr. victor young mr. clerk, any announcements? >> on the mayor 28 agenda oracles. >> okay just to be clear shall we be choosing supervisor tang. >> make a motion at your discretion and supervisor kim and seconded by supervisor peskin 0 without objection item one please item one ordinance for the downtown support special use district to authorize a contribution in-lieu fee to satisfy the open space requirement excludes feature fraefrnz from the gross square and spent foreign the lighting on victoria manolo draves park okay. thank you this was sponsored by supervisor kim i'm going to turn it over to her. >> thank you chair farrell the international congressional hotel approaches my office as privately owned public space in the hotel on the 4 and 6 floor are their interesting in figuring out an alternat

francisco board of supervisors land use and transportation committee for marsh 6th,2017 and i'm mark farrell, and join by supervisor aaron peskin and supervisor katy tang and want to thank the clerk of mr. victor young, as well as any philim jal jackson from sfgtv for covering today's meet ing please science all cell phones and electronic dao vices and documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon will appear on the march 14th, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay. thank you for read thosing rules. mr. clerk, can you call item no. 1. >> item no. 1, ordinance amending the downtown support special use district to authorize a monetary contribution to satisfy required on-site open space requirements, exclude certain features from the floor area ratio and gross floor area calculations, and dedicate the monetary contribution for light and safety improvements at victoria manalo draves park. >> thank you very much. with the request of the project sponsor, the ordinance sponsor, i should i say, we're going to entertain a motion

supervisors land use and transportation committee meeting for monday, march 20, 2017, my name is mark farrell i'll be chairing this committee and joined by supervisor peskin sitting for supervisor tang we have supervisor jane kim want to thank adrian and phil jackson for covering this meeting and mr. victor young mr. clerk, any announcements? >> on the mayor 28 agenda oracles. >> okay just to be clear shall we be choosing supervisor tang. >> make a motion at your discretion and supervisor kim and seconded by supervisor peskin 0 without objection item one please item one ordinance for the downtown support special use district to authorize a contribution in-lieu fee to satisfy the open space requirement excludes feature fraefrnz from the gross square and spent foreign the lighting on victoria manolo draves park okay. thank you this was sponsored by supervisor kim i'm going to turn it over to her. >> thank you chair farrell the international congressional hotel approaches my office as privately owned public space in the hotel on the 4 and 6 floor are their interesting in figuring out an alternat

that note as critical oozed it might have been in the past for example, to the hearing regarding mark farrell that of the former executive director allowed to drag on literally for two years i think that was there the retention of the documents was critical you know at open space some point you lose evidence in the hearing and now that the hearings and efforts are made to bring the hearings up to date on a timing base this may not turnout to be critical still it the law and the records should be retained as judge kopp a lot of the issues come back to the matter of intent that was an article in the newspaper today as the new attorney general jeff sections has withdrawn the supports for the civil rights voting act q and a's cases in texas for 8 years where a judge resolute clearing that the records showed their intention was clearing discriminatey and other records he basically said you can't look at those and assume they're attempting to disphotograph seethsdz of the population in particular the african-american and the latino community in the stave texas as of today, the attorney general has

mark farrell the cac thanks the long term members for the contributions for the cac kelly from be district and to mark harlan from sfusd for the seat i'm currently working with jeff sheehy and the mayor's office to produce the vacant seats and introduce a couple of my cac members here for the first time our secretary and chair please get up >> okay. and owen that served as the small business seat we gave you a copy of the survey and timed to go over a couple of items we wanted to talk about the cac members on how they feel about the cac member as as far as prepared and empowered 79 percent of the cac members feel empowered to hold people account and 14 person newly and 7 disagree one of the quotes of the members when i first came to the cac i didn't feel like i'm in my comfort zone but the cac people feel welcome and immediately have a place staff also gave feedback and they 76 percent of staff believes that cac members are fully prepared on the issues i've seen the capacity of the cac for the cac priorities while at the same time having given an empowered way to the community and with tha

for monday, march 20, 2017, my name is mark farrell i'll be chairing this committee and joined by supervisor peskin sitting for supervisor tang we have supervisor jane kim want to thank adrian and phil jackson for covering this meeting and mr. victor young mr. clerk, any announcements? >> on the mayor 28 agenda oracles. >> okay just to be clear shall we be choosing supervisor tang. >> make a motion at your discretion and supervisor kim and seconded by supervisor peskin 0 without objection item one please item one ordinance for the downtown support special use district to authorize a contribution in-lieu fee to satisfy the open space requirement excludes feature fraefrnz from the gross square and spent foreign the lighting on victoria manolo draves park okay. thank you this was sponsored by supervisor kim i'm going to turn it over to her. >> thank you chair farrell the international congressional hotel approaches my office as privately owned public space in the hotel on the 4 and 6 floor are their interesting in figuring out an alternative for low usage by the public given the floor and offer

francisco board of supervisors land use and transportation committee for marsh 6th,2017 and i'm mark farrell, and join by supervisor aaron peskin and supervisor katy tang and want to thank the clerk of mr. victor young, as well as any philim jal jackson from sfgtv for covering today's meet ing please science all cell phones and electronic dao vices and documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon will appear on the march 14th, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay. thank you for read thosing rules. mr. clerk, can you call item no. 1. >> item no. 1, ordinance amending the downtown support special use district to authorize a monetary contribution to satisfy required on-site open space requirements, exclude certain features from the floor area ratio and gross floor area calculations, and dedicate the monetary contribution for light and safety improvements at victoria manalo draves park. >> thank you very much. with the request of the project sponsor, the ordinance sponsor, i should i say, we're going to entertain a motion

my name is mark farrell i'm joined) peskin and supervisor katie tang. i want to thank our clerk of the committee today as well as asian stocks and jim smith from sfgov tv for covering the meeting. mdm. clerk any announcements? >> yes please sounds all electronic devices. >> thank you very much. while we wait for some paper to be delivered to the committee were skipping over item number one for the moment move on to item number two. >> item number two ordinance amending division of the workout to establish a violation for bicycles share program bikes left part standing or unattended without a permit for location authorized public works to take enforcement action to abate remove the mice and making appropriate findings >> thank you. this item was sponsored by supervisor peskin so i will turn it over to them. >> thank you chairman templars and thank you for your early support for this legislation for your cosponsorship. as we mentioned at the press conference this is actually the first time that the city of san fra

he refused to say he did not have anything and there was the same thing with mark farrell. if i'm the head of a board of supervisors subcommittee and i have to admit to the public that i authorized and voted on and recommended to the full board approval of something that i nor any member of my staff even looked at that basically is an admission i did not do my job. there may be something that goes on governments all the time but it's unacceptable. if i'm voting on something especially if my fellow board numbers are going to rely on the recommendation of an obligation to have someone look at the documents. >> thank you. >> if i could correct my prior comment to the board on which the individual stores would also include the board of education and the community college board and again the reason the term exists in the current law is because some contracts are approved directly by the elected official and some are approved by a board of elected officials. that's why the term exists. >> mark solomon. when i first got involved in politics i knew nothing of land-use and i do not

comment about the schoolyard participation that's on the [inaudible] being sponsored by supervisor mark farrell. that particular location i myself i been there could [inaudible] three nights beginning like little mini size talk those. they even let me have [inaudible] and it was the fire department people that something i hope would move throughout the county where you have the schoolyards on weekends facilitating the needs of children throughout the community and old fellows, myself, and my old legs aren't going to make it much longer. anyway i just want to say to pg&e for being a community partner and i hope more of this comes out [inaudible] >> thank you. commissioner mcdonnell >> is a common and richards comments reminded me, just to commend the zoo in particular the zoo mobile but also a relationship and partnership with the shared siu art project. supervisor farrell is doing an amazing job over the last five years of extending the number of playgrounds cross our city there are now open to residents in the community and part of that has been building partnerships with the zoo city departme

supervisors land use and transportation committee meeting for monday, march 20, 2017, my name is mark farrell i'll be chairing this committee and joined by supervisor peskin sitting for supervisor tang we have supervisor jane kim want to thank adrian and phil jackson for covering this meeting and mr. victor young mr. clerk, any announcements? >> on the mayor 28 agenda oracles. >> okay just to be clear shall we be choosing supervisor tang. >> make a motion at your discretion and supervisor kim and seconded by supervisor peskin 0 without objection item one please item one ordinance for the downtown support special use district to authorize a contribution in-lieu fee to satisfy the open space requirement excludes feature fraefrnz from the gross square and spent foreign the lighting on victoria manolo draves park okay. thank you this was sponsored by supervisor kim i'm going to turn it over to her. >> thank you chair farrell the international congressional hotel approaches my office as privately owned public space in the hotel on the 4 and 6 floor are their interesting in figuring out an alternat

mark farrell the cac thanks the long term members for the contributions for the cac kelly from be district and to mark harlan from sfusd for the seat i'm currently working with jeff sheehy and the mayor's office to produce the vacant seats and introduce a couple of my cac members here for the first time our secretary and chair please get up >> okay. and owen that served as the small business seat we gave you a copy of the survey and timed to go over a couple of items we wanted to talk about the cac members on how they feel about the cac member as as far as prepared and empowered 79 percent of the cac members feel empowered to hold people account and 14 person newly and 7 disagree one of the quotes of the members when i first came to the cac i didn't feel like i'm in my comfort zone but the cac people feel welcome and immediately have a place staff also gave feedback and they 76 percent of staff believes that cac members are fully prepared on the issues i've seen the capacity of the cac for the cac priorities while at the same time having given an empowered way to the community and with tha

my name is supervisor mark farrell and have the honor representing district 2 and have for the past 6 years and until 2 months ago i had the privilege being the only irish american member on the board of supervisors. i want to welcome to the newest member of the board also irish american descent supervisor jeff sheehy is here with us. [applause] before we bebeen, i do want to say proud to have this be the 5th year i have been able to mc this event and bring the one event of money in the month of march that brings the irish community together but really to say and thank mayor lee because as somebody who has come to city hall, mayor lee not only of course has the riv named after him but has been to cork. going back to cork. has made a commitment to our irish community here in san francisco and to mayor lee i want to say thank you for all you do for our community. thank you vaer much. [applause] so, mayor lee mentioned the history the irish in san francisco is without parallel. we built the city and contribute today the city for decades for generations and we will be the future the city

that note as critical oozed it might have been in the past for example, to the hearing regarding mark farrell that of the former executive director allowed to drag on literally for two years i think that was there the retention of the documents was critical you know at open space some point you lose evidence in the hearing and now that the hearings and efforts are made to bring the hearings up to date on a timing base this may not turnout to be critical still it the law and the records should be retained as judge kopp a lot of the issues come back to the matter of intent that was an article in the newspaper today as the new attorney general jeff sections has withdrawn the supports for the civil rights voting act q and a's cases in texas for 8 years where a judge resolute clearing that the records showed their intention was clearing discriminatey and other records he basically said you can't look at those and assume they're attempting to disphotograph seethsdz of the population in particular the african-american and the latino community in the stave texas as of today, the attorney general has

comment about the schoolyard participation that's on the [inaudible] being sponsored by supervisor mark farrell. that particular location i myself i been there could [inaudible] three nights beginning like little mini size talk those. they even let me have [inaudible] and it was the fire department people that something i hope would move throughout the county where you have the schoolyards on weekends facilitating the needs of children throughout the community and old fellows, myself, and my old legs aren't going to make it much longer. anyway i just want to say to pg&e for being a community partner and i hope more of this comes out [inaudible] >> thank you. commissioner mcdonnell >> is a common and richards comments reminded me, just to commend the zoo in particular the zoo mobile but also a relationship and partnership with the shared siu art project. supervisor farrell is doing an amazing job over the last five years of extending the number of playgrounds cross our city there are now open to residents in the community and part of that has been building partnerships with the zoo city departme

supervisors land use and transportation committee meeting for monday, march 20, 2017, my name is mark farrell i'll be chairing this committee and joined by supervisor peskin sitting for supervisor tang we have supervisor jane kim want to thank adrian and phil jackson for covering this meeting and mr. victor young mr. clerk, any announcements? >> on the mayor 28 agenda oracles. >> okay just to be clear shall we be choosing supervisor tang. >> make a motion at your discretion and supervisor kim and seconded by supervisor peskin 0 without objection item one please item one ordinance for the downtown support special use district to authorize a contribution in-lieu fee to satisfy the open space requirement excludes feature fraefrnz from the gross square and spent foreign the lighting on victoria manolo draves park okay. thank you this was sponsored by supervisor kim i'm going to turn it over to her. >> thank you chair farrell the international congressional hotel approaches my office as privately owned public space in the hotel on the 4 and 6 floor are their interesting in figuring out an alternat

assistant district attorney and president of the board of supervisors london breed and malia cohen and mark farrellhy assessor-recorder carmen chu chief of police william scott and former greg suhr and competitive of the fire department chief joanne hayes-white and sanchez. >> i don't know the title but the fun man around town paul this is a huge amount of support for all of us and thank you, thank you, thank you. >> (clapping.) >> and now it is my honor to direct you for a video screen about our first hero this afternoon. >> my specialist is trauma in the area he came to hospital because it got a representation reputation of one of the best trauma centers in the world i enjoy the challenge of people the most part. >> we live in san francisco and have 3 young obesity 9 and 11 zachary was clvj on a wet bar and fell on him. >> my husband called and zachary is hurt bad. >> he was pail he wasn't responds and we know in an instant he was critically injured we have to go a zuckerberg right now and some of the things we did with zachary used tools i learned from the military in germany and moved to iraq d

he refused to say he did not have anything and there was the same thing with mark farrell. if i'm the head of a board of supervisors subcommittee and i have to admit to the public that i authorized and voted on and recommended to the full board approval of something that i nor any member of my staff even looked at that basically is an admission i did not do my job. there may be something that goes on governments all the time but it's unacceptable. if i'm voting on something especially if my fellow board numbers are going to rely on the recommendation of an obligation to have someone look at the documents. >> thank you. >> if i could correct my prior comment to the board on which the individual stores would also include the board of education and the community college board and again the reason the term exists in the current law is because some contracts are approved directly by the elected official and some are approved by a board of elected officials. that's why the term exists. >> mark solomon. when i first got involved in politics i knew nothing of land-use and i do not

my name is mark farrell i'm joined) peskin and supervisor katie tang.ant to thank our clerk of the committee today as well as asian stocks and jim smith from sfgov tv for covering the meeting. mdm. clerk any announcements? >> yes please sounds all electronic devices. >> thank you very much. while we wait for some paper to be delivered to the committee were skipping over item number one for the moment move on to item number two. >> item number two ordinance amending division of the workout to establish a violation for bicycles share program bikes left part standing or unattended without a permit for location authorized public works to take enforcement action to abate remove the mice and making appropriate findings >> thank you. this item was sponsored by supervisor peskin so i will turn it over to them. >> thank you chairman templars and thank you for your early support for this legislation for your cosponsorship. as we mentioned at the press conference this is actually the first time that the city of san francisco is getting out in front of one of these

supervisors land use and transportation committee meeting for monday, march 20, 2017, my name is mark farrell i'll be chairing this committee and joined by supervisor peskin sitting for supervisor tang we have supervisor jane kim want to thank adrian and phil jackson for covering this meeting and mr. victor young mr. clerk, any announcements? >> on the mayor 28 agenda oracles. >> okay just to be clear shall we be choosing supervisor tang. >> make a motion at your discretion and supervisor kim and seconded by supervisor peskin 0 without objection item one please item one ordinance for the downtown support special use district to authorize a contribution in-lieu fee to satisfy the open space requirement excludes feature fraefrnz from the gross square and spent foreign the lighting on victoria manolo draves park okay. thank you this was sponsored by supervisor kim i'm going to turn it over to her. >> thank you chair farrell the international congressional hotel approaches my office as privately owned public space in the hotel on the 4 and 6 floor are their interesting in figuring out an alternat

assistant district attorney and president of the board of supervisors london breed and malia cohen and mark farrelly assessor-recorder carmen chu chief of police william scott and former greg suhr and competitive of the fire department chief joanne hayes-white and sanchez. >> i don't know the title but the fun man around town paul this is a huge amount of support for all of us and thank you, thank you, thank you. >> (clapping.) >> and now it is my honor to direct you for a video screen about our first hero this afternoon. >> my specialist is trauma in the area he came to hospital because it got a representation reputation of one of the best trauma centers in the world i enjoy the challenge of people the most part. >> we live in san francisco and have 3 young obesity 9 and 11 zachary was clvj on a wet bar and fell on him. >> my husband called and zachary is hurt bad. >> he was pail he wasn't responds and we know in an instant he was critically injured we have to go a zuckerberg right now and some of the things we did with zachary used tools i learned from the military in germany and moved to iraq de

concern much more concern from you the aspirin ingredient regulation and protect not enough to mark farrellkoff or say business as usual like the woman that remarked about the undue corporate influence that is important to note that san francisco has begun using local green street mixing that with hetch hetchy reservoir water and that your compelling us to use the water at this point wastewater treatment plant are not using those to claim that the ground water exposed to herbicides and pesticides opens the city to expensive lawsuits it is danger for those reason alone it can be disruptive and a member and cellular health for corrigan that is a tochlg that sdruchz bacteria but alternates the generic code and has birth defects i drank contaminated water and been struggling ever since that was 25 years and a coworker. >> thank you. >> (calling names). >> i'm ellen and i'm a member of the california native planter society speaking for myself i am a professional gardener been one for over 20 years in san francisco i'm a license pest controller in a perfect world we'll not use my assistant presid

it's ongoing to address i think some of the concerns that supervisor mark farrell brought up. i just want to reiterate again i don't like it when people spend money on campaigns suppose legislation i put forward to the voters either but i'm not here standing before you resenting and introducing legislation to restrict the political speech either. so we can talk about how we don't like how many is spent and we can debate it we can criticize it we can all investigation to it but it's absolutely wrong for the sport to prohibit free speech and to penalize or try to penalize, people who speak against the things we believe in. >> thank you supervisor kim. supervisor ronen >> i will also be voting, no, on this legislation will repeat the excellent explanation both supervisor kim and peskin. i just wanted to say that supervisor farrell, the way that you speak about these private political campaigns makes it sounds very simplistic and nefarious, but often times when affordable housing developers choose to educate the public about a certain ballot measure it's because that ballot measur

francisco board of supervisors land use and transportation committee for marsh 6th,2017 and i'm mark farrelland join by supervisor aaron peskin and supervisor katy tang and want to thank the clerk of mr. victor young, as well as any philim jal jackson from sfgtv for covering today's meet ing please science all cell phones and electronic dao vices and documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon will appear on the march 14th, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay. thank you for read thosing rules. mr. clerk, can you call item no. 1. >> item no. 1, ordinance amending the downtown support special use district to authorize a monetary contribution to satisfy required on-site open space requirements, exclude certain features from the floor area ratio and gross floor area calculations, and dedicate the monetary contribution for light and safety improvements at victoria manalo draves park. >> thank you very much. with the request of the project sponsor, the ordinance sponsor, i should i say, we're going to entertain a motion t

he refused to say he did not have anything and there was the same thing with mark farrell. if i'm the head of a board of supervisors subcommittee and i have to admit to the public that i authorized and voted on and recommended to the full board approval of something that i nor any member of my staff even looked at that basically is an admission i did not do my job. there may be something that goes on governments all the time but it's unacceptable. if i'm voting on something especially if my fellow board numbers are going to rely on the recommendation of an obligation to have someone look at the documents. >> thank you. >> if i could correct my prior comment to the board on which the individual stores would also include the board of education and the community college board and again the reason the term exists in the current law is because some contracts are approved directly by the elected official and some are approved by a board of elected officials. that'why the term exists. >> mark solomon. when i first got involved in politics i knew nothing of land-use and i do not ca

it's ongoing to address i think some of the concerns that supervisor mark farrell brought up. i just want to reiterate again i don't like it when people spend money on campaigns suppose legislation i put forward to the voters either but i'm not here standing before you resenting and introducing legislation to restrict the political speech either. so we can talk about how we don't like how many is spent and we can debate it we can criticize it we can all investigation to it but it's absolutely wrong for the sport to prohibit free speech and to penalize or try to penalize, people who speak against the things we believe in. >> thank you supervisor kim. supervisor ronen >> i will also be voting, no, on this legislation will repeat the excellent explanation both supervisor kim and peskin. i just wanted to say that supervisor farrell, the way that you speak about these private political campaigns makes it sounds very simplistic and nefarious, but often times when affordable housing developers choose to educate the public about a certain ballot measure it's because that ballot measur

concern much more concern from you the aspirin ingredient regulation and protect not enough to mark farrellkoff or say business as usual like the woman that remarked about the undue corporate influence that is important to note that san francisco has begun using local green street mixing that with hetch hetchy reservoir water and that your compelling us to use the water at this point wastewater treatment plant are not using those to claim that the ground water exposed to herbicides and pesticides opens the city to expensive lawsuits it is danger for those reason alone it can be disruptive and a member and cellular health for corrigan that is a tochlg that sdruchz bacteria but alternates the generic code and has birth defects i drank contaminated water and been struggling ever since that was 25 years and a coworker. >> thank you. >> (calling names). >> i'm ellen and i'm a member of the california native planter society speaking for myself i am a professional gardener been one for over 20 years in san francisco i'm a license pest controller in a perfect world we'll not use my assistant presid

francisco board of supervisors land use and transportation committee for marsh 6th,2017 and i'm mark farrell, and join by supervisor aaron peskin and supervisor katy tang and want to thank the clerk of mr. victor young, as well as any philim jal jackson from sfgtv for covering today's meet ing please science all cell phones and electronic dao vices and documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon will appear on the march 14th, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay. thank you for read thosing rules. mr. clerk, can you call item no. 1. >> item no. 1, ordinance amending the downtown support special use district to authorize a monetary contribution to satisfy required on-site open space requirements, exclude certain features from the floor area ratio and gross floor area calculations, and dedicate the monetary contribution for light and safety improvements at victoria manalo draves park. >> thank you very much. with the request of the project sponsor, the ordinance sponsor, i should i say, we're going to entertain a motion

comment about the schoolyard participation that's on the [inaudible] being sponsored by supervisor mark farrell. that particular location i myself i been there could [inaudible] three nights beginning like little mini size talk those. they even let me have [inaudible] and it was the fire department people that something i hope would move throughout the county where you have the schoolyards on weekends facilitating the needs of children throughout the community and old fellows, myself, and my old legs aren't going to make it much longer. anyway i just want to say to pg&e for being a community partner and i hope more of this comes out [inaudible] >> thank you. commissioner mcdonnell >> is a common and richards comments reminded me, just to commend the zoo in particular the zoo mobile but also a relationship and partnership with the shared siu art project. supervisor farrell is doing an amazing job over the last five years of extending the number of playgrounds cross our city there are now open to residents in the community and part of that has been building partnerships with the zoo city departme

my name is mark farrell i'm joined) peskin and supervisor katie tang. i want to thank our clerk of the committee today as well as asian stocks and jim smith from sfgov tv for covering the meeting. mdm. clerk any announcements? >> yes please sounds all electronic devices. >> thank you very much. while we wait for some paper to be delivered to the committee were skipping over item number one for the moment move on to item number two. >> item number two ordinance amending division of the workout to establish a violation for bicycles share program bikes left part standing or unattended without a permit for location authorized public works to take enforcement action to abate remove the mice and making appropriate findings >> thank you. this item was sponsored by supervisor peskin so i will turn it over to them. >> thank you chairman templars and thank you for your early support for this legislation for your cosponsorship. as we mentioned at the press conference this is actually the first time that the city of san francisco is getting out in front of one of t