commissioner mirkarimi: good morning, i'm ross mirkarimi, joint joined me with me is super swriesor cohen, supervisor campos is absent away for business. we'll want to take a motion in a second to excuse his absence. i don't expect this to be a very long meeting as i am also concurrently sitting on the budget and finance committee which is meeting across the hall. i'm happy that we are able to deliberate on two important items. before we start, can i entertain a motion for the excuse of supervisor campos? motion. woid, so moved. madam clerk, good morning. please read item number one. >> good morning. item one, resolution authorizing the department of emergency management as primary grantee and fiscal agent for the capital-bay planning area to retroactively accept and expend a fiscal year 2010 interoperable emergency communications program grant award in the amount of $1,227,632 from the united states department of homeland security, through the california emergency management agency, for the period of july 1, 2010, to march 31, 2013. >> very good. anybody like to present on this at all? p

supervisor mirkarimi: good morning. i am ross mirkarimi. joining me supervisor david campos and we expect supervisor cohen to be joining a shortly. madam clerk, would you please read the first item tofu -- first item? items one, two, and 3. >> item 1. resolution authorizing the police department to retroactively accept and expend $155,370 of fy2007 supplemental port security grant program funds from item two,resolution authorizing the police department to retroactively accept and expend $1,863,920 of fy2010 port security grant program funds from the federal emergency management agency. security grant program item three,resolution authorizing the police department to retroactively accept and expend $458,000 of fy2008 port security grant program funds from the federal emergency management agency. >> good morning. i realize all three items have to be addressed separately. is that correct? i can give an overview of the i can give an overview of the program to start off with. the grant program has been in existence since 2002. what we're dealing

supervisor mirkarimi: ok. supervisor wiener: in the planning commission discussions, there was a mixture between residential and commercial. is there a formal term the to use for that? >> i know that the jaycees the building on california might be one of the taller ones, there are buildings that might be about 45 feet tall that are very boxy. >> there was not necessarily a planning term or even a layman's term, but it seemed to be very transitional period there is a shopping complex there. it is also where the residents look across the area as well as the tail end of laurel heights on the top of the hill. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. ms. rodgers, would you like to give more context? >> i should be able to provide more information. supervisor mirkarimi: ok, good. >> i think that this, if i could take a moment, supervisors. the graphics might be washed out, but this is an aerial photo of the block phase. this is the existing community center. this is actually where they parked the buses. the actual structure

supervisor mirkarimi: ok.sor wiener: in the planning commission discussions, there was a mixture between residential and commercial. is there a formal term the to use for that? >> i know that the jaycees the building on california might be one of the taller ones, there are buildings that might be about 45 feet tall that are very boxy. >> there was not necessarily a planning term or even a layman's term, but it seemed to be very transitional period there is a shopping complex there. it is also where the residents

supervisor mirkarimi: ok. it gives me something to think about. can we switch topics a little bit on the city college? >> sure. supervisor mirkarimi: i think rightfully the president of the community college board of trustees is making a good case. he's basing it on other agreements we have with other institutions. we have been charityible with other institutions in the past. i'd like to know how we can help them despite the fact that the p.u.c. is also struggling to figure out their budget quandaries too. so while we're all together, why don't we figure out what's possible here? >> sure, supervisor. i completely value what city college does. i'm appalled of the cuts at the state level. the school district is relatively speaking better off and they will not let me say that but basically they went to the voters a few years back and went -- ended up with access to the city's rainy day reserve and also a work-aside to the arts, music in schools, the slams program. they are getting more of the benefits because the

commissioner mirkarimi: thank you. item two. >> item 2. approval of minutes of may 24, 2011 meeting. this is an action item. commissioner mirkarimi: comments or questions? public comments? public comment is closed. approval of the minutes seconded by commissioner campos, avalos. roll call. >> [roll call] there are nine ayes. commissioner mirkarimi: please read items 3 and 4. >> item 3. chairs report. this is an information item.item 4. executive director's report. this is an information item. commissioner mirkarimi: the region is now in the throes of an important policy discussion about the way that growth will occur in the next two to three decades and the focus is on dealing with climate change and assuring we invest in truly sustainable transportation infrastructure and services. this is a debate that has been taking place at mtc and abag. last week, at a meeting, we had a clearer look at how the debate will go. san francisco already is and will increasingly be a leader in the region baker's the pushing policies tha

supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. supervisor chiu: 512 again move back to the topic of overtime, which we have discussed before. how confident do you feel that the overtime no. you are budgeting for is something you will be able to stay within? >> at this point we will continue to work with the mayor's budget office. every year we have delivered on budget. which we are proud of. not an easy thing to do, but obviously necessary. this year we overspent on overtime, but we had reduction in salaries. within the own budget -- within our own budget we were able to manage that. place the budget into overtime to be able to balance that. i understand we were putting limitations on that. whether or not we need to look at before finalizing, we do see that our staffing is challenging for us. these targets are a bit of a moving target for us. particularly using concessions from our members. we have certain target projections, but they are just that, projections. we will continue to do our best and live within the budget. superviso

supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. i'm the chair at the land-use subcommittee. the neighborhood supported the project which was within the zones and this project is far beyond what the zoning allows. on a personal basis, i played at booker t. washington what i was a young man and my brothers played there. i support the programs booker t. has been providing. in regards to the gymnasium, it will be fine, but the primary user is not daugherty. -- is not a booker t.. that is an important issue because the gm is a physical part of the community center and this whole project is based on a private motive. the city had some planning, perhaps the community land trust to get some funding. perhaps the gymnasium could have been more primarily used for the use to attend booker t. washington rather than a private high school. that's another point of contention -- the school is going to have primary use of the gymnasium. that is something that should be considered. perhaps with the mayor's offi

supervisor mirkarimi. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. this is one of those rare moments where we actually find ourselves probably perhaps maybe of some light mindedness here. i think that this is only attributed, in some respect, to the idea that what has been handed out to us does not necessarily serve the premise that when we arrived at this meeting that i think there had already been a preset idea that this program failed or this program fails the city in its savings. my conclusion so far is that we do not have enough information. based on the conversations i have had in talking to other cities, it seems that there has been a different yardstick used. i agree with the comments by the actuaries that it is not an apples-to-apples comparison. but there are some fixed knowns here. this data was handed out to us at the beginning of this meeting. so from the controllers office. on city cost detail, what stood out to me is on the question of fto. do not believe that the 55,100 is reflected of the cost. when it record comes in and goes to the

supervisor mirkarimi: thank you, sir. i am going to read some other names. ruth clay, steve williams, and vanessa conrad. please line up. >> good afternoon. i am the managing director of programs at first place for you. our mission is to work with young people emancipating out of foster care. we provided with housing, employment, and healthy living services to maintain their independence and interdependence. mr. clarke already talked about the difficulty of finding housing for youth raised in san francisco. it drains san francisco of its use and affects the youth and the city by separating them from each other. it makes it harder for them to maintain connections they have had as youth. this project is unique. i believe it should be recognized as a model and replicated across e

supervisor mirkarimi: very good. thank you very much. >> i've brought you all a copy of the article. anything else? supervisor campos: i want to just make a very brief point. it is not so much directed at you. it is a general statement. i think it is something that i hope that we are mindful of, because one of the things i have seen in the last two years as the interconnection between all of these violence prevention efforts, whether it is child abuse, a senior abuse, you know, the family is impacted in a lot of different ways. one of the concerns that i have with respect to the budget is that even though a lot of progress has been made by the mayor in terms of minimizing the types of violence prevention cuts that have been proposed, there are still very sizable violence prevention cuts in the dcyf budget, for example. the head of this has done a very good job of trying to minimize those cuts. i think that department has gone as far as it can go. i think it is now up to the city family, the mayor and the board of sup

supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. ms. rodgers, would you like to give more context? >> i should be able to provide more information. supervisor mirkarimi: ok, good. >> i think that this, if i could take a moment, supervisors. the graphics might be washed out, but this is an aerial photo of the block phase. this is the existing community center. this is actually where they parked the buses. the actual structure is here. two stories tall, more like a three story residential building. as for this corner here, there is a larger apartment building that is four stories tall. and along here you have more multifamily, lower density buildings ranging from a few stories to four stories. looking at it from the elevation point of view, here is the proposed community center and the apartment building on the corner. four stories tall, 45 in height. along sutter st. we have the proposed community center. here is the peak structure that supervisor mar was speaking to. this is more of a typical pattern. here is a three story building over a basement. >> the solar panels over that bui

supervisor mirkarimi: i got that. but what it says here in your ionization is that you go through the academy, you go through -- what is senator item ization, you are assuming they conclude the academy. it does not include the probationary time, yes or no? s >> that is correct. supervisor mirkarimi: so it does not. you have a considerable drop-off rate through the fto program, trying to understand at a cost is calculated if it is a onetime cost savings we avoid because of the seasoned veteran officer we keep through drop, but i'm wondering would be potentially more useful to us that it is not stopping where the recruit and onetime cost is calculated but actually at the end of the probationary time? you see a considerable amount of drop-off. that might be more fair number potentially. >> i do not believe that is the case. for a fair side-by-side comparison, we need to evaluate retaining and older officer at retaining him for 12 months to the alternate, which is that officer retiring at having to incur the cost of a new

supervisor campos: commissioner mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: thank you, mr. chair. i appreciate part two of this report and mark row scopically speaking, i think the report has been helpful overall in the city's ability to move forward in its consideration of how it wants to, i think, continue -- seriously considering continuing its relationship with ricology based on information that was not there before us in the past. with the juncture that the city has met, in consideration both the lant phil contract that is before san francisco, and the strategy that is to help expedite that transportation and delivery of that contract, and the consideration that has come up because of the land phil -- landfill contract, new issues have percolated forward as to how the city can now imagine and reimagine its relationship with its waste hauler contractor. in the past, many of these issues were not as well delved into as have been recently. what that does is it takes our prospective relationship with them to a whole new level. as referenced by one of the comments, on the question

supervisor mirkarimi: come on up if i have called you. >> my name is donald clark. i was in foster care from 11 to 19. my transition from foster care was not good. i always favored being independent. now i am in the process of graduating to my own place. i am in the process of that and can see what it would have been like if i had did not have any resources such as first place for you. i was taught to talk to employers, find school programs. they cconnected me to other resources and life planning. without them, it would have been difficult to find a place to live and employment as well. it is important for san francisco used to be able to live here. the city has great resources. it is where we grew up. it is where my personal family support resources are located. i am trying to build up a social network where i live now in the east bay. i am really connected to a lot of the people out here. i know a lot of former foster's are in the same situation i am in. it is where we know and would like to be. even though it is our home town, we are the first to be kicked out. i

supervisor mirkarimi: i have a question -- the proceeding is supervisor had provided support for the original projects, correct? >> that is correct. i went to her office and she was very helpful in showing us ways to shape the project so we could make it agreeable to all, other people in the neighborhood as well. we originally wanted something very large. through the housing department, we set among ourselves and decided we would get something that made sense. from that point, we compromise further. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker. i am going to read some more names. [reading names) get >> good afternoon. i have a brief message -- please support the compromise. but there has been much discussion about the original number of this. the original number could be 220, therefore there could be a big compromise on the part of the supporters because a would be cutting it in half. this is only a joke. that's all. supervisor mirkarimi: next speaker, please. >> 30 years with local 22 and i have not met

supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: thank you, president chiu. ms. rogers, would you go over again the population of the multi, single story, double, triple, etc.? you mentioned the population before. >> i don't think i mentioned the population. i talked about the variety of areas that were in the area. oh, michael just sent -- michael, sorry. >> yes, supervisor mirkarimi. i have this here in my presentation. bear with me one moment, please. just on the project block, by my review -- i see here that the e.i.r. reports the scale of the area varies. the project blokhin includes three one-story structures, two -- supervisor mirkarimi: slow down, please. three one-story? >> uh-huh, nine two-story structures. 10 three-story structures and three four-story structures. supervisor mirkarimi: and three four-story. >> those are not necessarily all residential floors but there are -- they are residential floors over a ground floor so visually they appear as three stories, for example. supervisor mirkarimi: and then i do believe that ms. rogers made the statemen

commissioner mirkarimi: director moscovich. >> [unintelligible] commissioner mirkarimi: thank you to the school district. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner mar. commissioner mar: i was going to the knowledge reggie bahtia is here from the help department. he has been championing this issue. commissioner mirkarimi: any other comments or questions? same house, same call. so moved. next item. >> item 9. approve the strategic analysis report on the role of shuttle services in san francisco's transportation system. this is an action item. commissioner mirkarimi: any comments or questions, colleagues? commissioner weiner. commissioner weiner: thank you. first of all, i want to thank tsa staff for this study. this was requested by my predecessor, supervisor dufty. although corporate shuttles are in various parts of the city, there isn't a significant presence of corporate shuttles in district 8, particularly in noe valley, parts of the castro. these corporate shuttles, in my personal in view, provided a critical service to our city and many reside

supervisor chu: supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. since office was substantially involve in mobile hiring, either you or perhaps the team, it might be nice to get an idea. i have never seen in this report. for the obvious ongoing commercial activity. >> the bulk of the spending that you are projecting to be in indirect effect our small businesses. the profiles that we pay out to receive the spending our small businesses in san francisco. we know that retail trade on average has significantly higher averages of employment being seven cisco residents coppe -- san francisco resident. you would expect the majority of the jobs generated to go to san francisco residents. supervisor mirkarimi: but without a particular mandate or direction, you are basing that on a trend, correct? >> yes, that is the city's current practice and pattern. supervisor mirkarimi: in order to support proper have its towards the idea of a practice upper local hiring, from what we can tell in this document, there is nothing that really perfects that particular objec

supervisor mirkarimi: agreed. you are a cfo, so, if we put an academy class six months from now or nine months from now, we would not be able to realize the benefit until a year after that, because -- a year-and-a-half after that, because they would have to go through the academy, which is a seven-month process. and have a one-year probation period. it is essentially 18 months. even if we were to budget today an academy class for next year's budget, the earliest date would be six months. >> obviously, i would like to start sooner rather than later getting officers and to the academy. i think once you get the officer out of the academy, even officers from the fto program are very capable. officers working in pairs, they get a lot more accomplished and have more safety and security in doing whatever they do. especially at night time and finance -- and in some of the more at risk areas. definitely wants some officers get out of the academy, although they are not able to work alone and in one not be, as you say, the s

supervisor mirkarimi: gary, vety, also on scope for the next few years. very good. mr. shcherbakov i believe that we should go to public comment. and everything in the washington community center involved picking a number and speaking as well. supervisor mirkarimi: if they want to send representatives from that group, they should do so. but not everyone, i think. supervisor mar: let's open this for public comment. supervisor wiener: my understanding is that just because we have an impending certification and the conditional use appeal, that we are not permitted to forward this with a recommendation. is that correct? it just said that folks in the public understand that we are required as a matter of due process and, assuming this is forwarded, assuming a his for bid, it should not be too much of a concern to anyone expressing negative opinion. supervisor mirkarimi: we are trying to be somewhat reserved in asking the questions that we are. we will ask people to navigate as best we can. let's begin. i have cards that have been handed to me. >> [inaudible] supervisor mirka

supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. i wanted to close the loop on something that i have yelped about a few times and i know that your department responded in favorable and positive ways. let's have you provide the update, i do not want you -- i do not want to steal your thunder, about the unresolved issues that i thought you had close the loop on that are not currently covered by a 50 tpg and whatever other monitoring public access so that, as i brought to your attention, concerns about our dealing with larger issues, until a certain point, not taking care of sort of an outdated or unresolved business. it feels like this is one thing that you can check off. >> we agree with you. we do not see it as our thunder, we see it as a collaborative process. we appreciate your leadership and reminders about how well we can do the big things. highlighting to the public, we have released a few memos about this and we will continue to advertise through restructuring some of our priorities. we have found the means to refund the equip

it's a pleasure to be here and to follow up on supervisor mirkarimi's presentation to you. let me just first say that i think what supervisor mirkarimi and i are both doing is to try to advance the ball here in terms of this discussion. i don't believe our legislation is mutually exclusive. it takes a bit of a different angle. to give a bit of a different background from my perspective on my impetus to talk about this legislation, it arrived in connection with the mid market tenderloin debate, which was ultimately deemed the twitter debate here in san francisco and in staal. the one thing that came out of that, -- and in city hall. i know the report supervisor mirkarimi is referring to, but the report that came out afterwards said that we are the only major city in the u.s. that taxes stock options or stock-based compensation. new york is part of a potential formula, a greater-of formula, but we're the only city that explicitly does it because of our payroll tax and that's what really caught my attention. my previous careers were in the private sector in, the technology wor