mr. conaway: i thank the chair and i -- mr. connolly: i thank the chair and i thank mr. polis for his leadership. i join with the distinguished chairman in support of this amendment. i'm proud to be one of the co-authors. i must say, contrary to what our dear friend from california just said, a lot of small investers have in fact endorsed this bill because it protects innovators that are being killed off by large litigation they cannot afford. it is precisely the opposite of what was being asserted by our friend from california. that's why application developers alliance, engine, e.f.f. and others have in fact endorsed the bill. i want to commend my friend, mr. polis, for his leadership on this amendment and am glad to join mr. chaffetz and marino in authoring it. businesses large and small are being inundated with demand lets that are essentially amount to an extortion for money based on vegas or even illegitimate claims that a patent has been infringed upon. because the cost of litigation runs often into the millions of dollars, many businesses have forced -- are force

so do we have a motion to move this forward those appointments to the full board >> mr. chair. >> let me finish with patricia and dr. cars on seat 8. supervisor breed first >> well, that was i wanted to make a motion we have two very excellent candidates i'm excited their voids will be heard and with president i'd like to move patricia for seat 4 and the other person for seat 8 with positive recommendations from the religiously. >> i want to say i seconded that i have a lot of folks that are beneficiaries of the health care and people that are employed as health care workers a lot of folks help to take care of people and i did my master thesis on aging in place. you ladies have a commitment to really continue to move forward and love to work with you as we continue to advocate the cuts open the state level as we protect folks to make sure itself funding is robust. so mr. chair i'd like to second the motion it supervisor breed made >> wkts 9 motion passes. congratulations >> congratulations. >> madam clerk item 7. >> item 7 hearing to appoint two members to the w6 investment ad

mr. chair. please silence all cell phones and complete speaker cards and documents to be part of the file should be submitted to the clerk and will be on the november 26 agenda unless otherwise stated. >> great. can you call items one and two together. >> item one is sale of general obligation bonds - general hospital improvement not to exceed approximately $210 million and item two is appropriation - general hospital improvement general obligation bonds fy 2013-2014 authorizing the issuance of these bonds and earthquake safety for the hospital and trauma center for fiscal year 2013-2014. >> okay. thank you very much. do you want to speak first on the item. >> good morning i budget and finance committee. the item before you is a resolution to authorize the sale and issuance of city and county of san francisco general obligation bonds and amount not to exceed $209,955,000 and the supplemental proceeds the same proceeds to finance the cost of the general hospital project. i will give a introducti

mr. chair, i am barbara smith, acting executive director of the san francisco housing authority and i am here to request a waiver of the pilot payments from the san francisco housing authority from 1991-1992 to 2013-2014 in the amount of $12 million which is approximately $550,000 a year for the past 22 years. pilot is payment in lieu of taxes and established in 1965 under an agreement between the housing authority and the city and county of san francisco. it was established in lieu of paying real and personal property taxes and special assessments. as 10% of rent payments charged to the housing authority's low income residents. it has previously been weighed by the board from these years listed and requested waivers but those requests weren't acted on. since that time the housing authority has not requested additional waivers and as i understand it the city has not included revenues for those payments in the annual budgets. in its may 2013 performance audit of the san francisco housing authori

. >> good afternoon, mr. chair, madame vice-chair and members of the board, director reiskin. i hope you had a chance of the letter i wrote that was dated november 18, 2013. there is a lot of technical detail that i can't possibly address in the gong time here. but i want to say one thing, the proposed speed humps are on 8th and 9th avenue, at least the ones that affect me and that is not forest hill and that is not golden gate heights. if they have problems with speed in their neighborhood, then i don't know why they are putting the speed humps in my neighborhood. going beyond that, my basic concern here is that in this nice pdf that they gave you, they talked about considering alternatives, but the one thing that they specifically carved out of any alternatives was addressing what everybody is telling you is the problem, which is the bottlenecks that i maintain are created by deliberate policy of your staff on those arterials. they had an ability to facilitate traffic flow, and they choose, i think, deliberately to restrict it and create artificial bottlenecks so that everyt

so, mr. chair, without further a do, let's get into this. >> thank you. i want to thank -- from the american heart association that's been very helpful. margaret fisher from the department of public health and janet cord row and maryann. thank you. supervisor avalos did you want to make remarks? >> thank you, let's call our budget legislative analyst. thank you very much mr. bruce oh. >> today we'll be presenting a report on the study of impacts of high consumption of sugar sweets and beverages for the city and county of san francisco. we have some slides if we can. i'm just going to briefly introduce the report and then amanda guma from our office will walk you through details and we have hammond smith who will also be available for questions. we were asked to prepare a scientific research on the health risks associated with the consumption of sugar sweet and beverages. that's largely pertaining to obesity and diabetes and taking a look at the financial risk for the san francisco residents. we have prepared analysis that identify cost that the city and c

. >> maybe thank you mr. chair typically we start the status with the status of the puc and barbara hail is here to provide that to you. >> thank you. most of our activities recently on the cca front for in puc proceedings where pg and e's green tariff option has continued to move forward. developing a green rate the statute requires a commission decision by july so we are expecting that the commission will need to issue at least a proposed decision in the april time frame in order to meet that statute requirement at this point we would expect pg and e's projected green tariff rate to be initially offered at 12.3 cents a kill owatt hour and that rate is forecast to increase to 9.4 cents a kilowatt hour in january so pg and e's basic service energy component of basic service rates is increasing come january to 9.4 cents and their current proposal before the cpuc under the green tariff option would be to offer the one hundred percent green power at 12.3 cents a kilowatt hour again that's just a proposal. we're expect

. >> thank you, mr. chair. last week, we heard testimony if the chinatown about the addition of names of community leaders who have really meant a great deal to chinatown as well as to san francisco with the alley with the moose alley and limb additional being attempted e addressed to those streets. i have a couple of of quick amendments i want to clarify whether those signs are on single and the lettering but i want to first is if there's that i public comment >> any public comment open items 3, 4 or 5 seeing none, public comment is closed. so colleagues at the request of the mta i want to propose two technical issues. one was to allow the mta to erect those on separate signs it in the further rove clause they ask the transportation agency having the existing names to either on a single or separate sign and for the limb resolution we want to clarify the language so the honoree name there's a tip to so the board of supervisors request that the municipal transportation agency to erect the honoree and existing na

. >> good afternoon; mr. chair, members of the board, mr. reiskin. it's quite an impressive feat having all of these years of safe driving is much longer than i have been alive. [ laughter ] anyway, this is a bittersweet moment for myself personally, as well as all of the colleagues in the back there. this occasion of her impending retirement. she is obviously with us on her second career. she retired from the police department in 2011 after over 30 years' of exemplary example as a commander and she joined us as the director of security and investigations and enforcement and has been with us were to for two and a half years. she has really been impressive with her leadership, not only is she direct and she has tremendous communication skills. believe me, she will tell you what she thinks. and one of the things that she was charged with was managing our special events transportation management program. and she implemented a program called "the integrated command system." and we put it to good use right away in that october, you may remember last year?

. >> so mr. chair there's some consensus here to move forward mr. parish and dj. are >> there's not a full consensus here my can i add something. part of the challenge here again is having 3 criminally talented people but i'm familiar with dj and his work and his ability to get one off our most challenging population employed. i care about most in the city we're not continuously networking this population and we need the that you kind of experts that have a proven record what this population. with that, i'd make a motion to move doug parish or second supervisor cowen's motion to move douglas parish to fulfill seat 3 and i guess we need to take those separately because of the residency waiver requirement >> that's correct. >> so i'm happy to move that forward with positive representations. >> this is only for seat 3. >> yes. >> without objection that motion passes. and then you want to make a motion to strike for the residency waiver >> yes. i want to make a motion for a residency motion for dionne j for seat 4 and appoint him to serve on the workforce development

>> yes thank you mr. chair please make sure all cell phones and electronic devices -- items acted upon today will appear on the board of of supervisor's agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you very much. for the record supervisor mar is enroute. >> consider the issue ans of ance for. >> great thank you let's begin by asking the applicant to come forward. i don't know if it's justin beem and daniel brooker for resolute drinks or daniel book er that are coming in but if you could just come up to the podium and briefly introduce yourself and if you can mention in your presentation the kind of outreach you have done to the community and to the district supervisor. >> good morning this is marcia garland and i'm here with dan book er and justin about beam 678 geary will replace a vacancy one that's been vacant for a year and one for 3 years. they began their out research and contracted first off for fifty apartments. they then sent 700 letters to people in the immediate area and followed that up later formally t

. >> mr. chair and mr. president, members of the board and commission, thank you first of all for hosting us here, and particularly to the small business commission and i did not realize that you were seating your meeting time for this joint gathering, but i think that this is a great opportunity for us to explore the ways that we can help each other because i think that our goals are very much aligned as i think that the director mentioned and i think that the cozy seating arrangement is a good model for efficient board meetings. i have i will try to be brief. i do want to give an overview of kind of where we are coming from and the context within which we are operating. but i think that we will be helpful for the conversation, i think, many of the recommendations that came out of the first presentation, you will see kind of directly in or directly, i think that many of them we are doing, or could be doing. and so i think that it was very helpful to have that kind of specificity. the existence and the inti