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mr. chiu, with the 1.5 million, how many rehabs and how many families are helped with loan down payment assistance? are there numbers up? >> yes. so we typically are able to support 19 families with down payments assistance. with a maximum low amount of 36,000 and we support approximately 13 families with single family rehabs with a maximum loan of $60,000. so a total of 32, different house holds. >> thank you. >> colleagues any further questions? >> thank you very much. mr. chiu. >> we don't have a budget analyst report on this item so i would like to open it up for public comment, any members of the public come forward, seeing none public comment is closed. >> colleagues, could we have a... >> yes. >> i wanted to clarify, are we amending this legislation to remove the language concerning execution? >> i believe that was the discussion that we had. >> back to mr. chiu. >> well, my request would be to approve the resolution as you have in your packet that does include the execution language be
mr. chiu, with the 1.5 million, how many rehabs and how many families are helped with loan down payment assistance? are there numbers up? >> yes. so we typically are able to support 19 families with down payments assistance. with a maximum low amount of 36,000 and we support approximately 13 families with single family rehabs with a maximum loan of $60,000. so a total of 32, different house holds. >> thank you. >> colleagues any further questions? >> thank you very much....
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thank you, mr. chiu, for the resolution regarding the ndaa. the united nations began here in the city in an earnest effort to call an end to the fighting, or at least to try to promote peace. of course we have the u.n. plaza right outside the door with the inscription embedded in the concrete advocating an end to the fighting, and an eye toward peace. not a great deal of help is on the way from washington when it comes to our civil liberties. we need to hold the line locally. i urge the supervisors to vote unanimously to pass this resolution of mr. chiu's. we need to hold steady with the bed rock american values of liberty, justice, equality. thank you. (applause) >> thank you. next speaker. >>> i'm going to keep it really brief. i know it's been a long night and i want to also just say i really enjoyed the commendations today. it was really inspiring. my name is nadia. i'm a legal fellow with the bill of rights committee. i've worked with many organizations here supporting supervisor chiu's resolution. i want to thank all co-sponsors and enco
thank you, mr. chiu, for the resolution regarding the ndaa. the united nations began here in the city in an earnest effort to call an end to the fighting, or at least to try to promote peace. of course we have the u.n. plaza right outside the door with the inscription embedded in the concrete advocating an end to the fighting, and an eye toward peace. not a great deal of help is on the way from washington when it comes to our civil liberties. we need to hold the line locally. i urge the...
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. >> mr. chiu and members of the supervisors, my name is -- closer? my name is amber baker. i am a native of san francisco. my grandchildren are 6 generation and i sit on the designs zoning of russian hill neighbors and as you know, this is spring break for many in the country and we have a very large pops of visitors this week and always. and when they finish their lovely trip down the lom bard. i want you to see the view they are going to enjoy. i'm coming today to encourage my supervisors to make undergrounding of utilities a priority of all of san francisco for all of us, the residents, the visitors, the world. the time is now to start a plan to get this done to finish the job we started. thank you. thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is douglas, and i have lived in san francisco for 61 years. hopefully the carnival is successful. if it isn't, i'm going to chalk it up as a continuing process. second, there is one person missing from the seat. the same person in my opinion that led to the cancellation of last week's 2 committee hearings. in my
. >> mr. chiu and members of the supervisors, my name is -- closer? my name is amber baker. i am a native of san francisco. my grandchildren are 6 generation and i sit on the designs zoning of russian hill neighbors and as you know, this is spring break for many in the country and we have a very large pops of visitors this week and always. and when they finish their lovely trip down the lom bard. i want you to see the view they are going to enjoy. i'm coming today to encourage my...
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mr. chiu's office and justin true at the time argued that the surrounding buildings were 50' height. that is simply not true. if anybody goes down there and justin never paid a height visit. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is mark brun [kwro-erbgs/] a long-term resident of north beach and head of the group save north beach, which includes3 2 businesses now that have joined in opposition to extraction at the pagoda palace. this is a letter from lorenzo petroni and other businesses have signed as well. please note that save north beach and north beach restaurant are opposed to the neighborhood as a site for the tunnel-boring machines. we have been offered carrot, that it will result in a new site. there is nothing in the lease with the pagoda palace that assures that the city follow through with this respect. we strongly disagree with the extraction of the pagoda as well. there is no benefit tonight for the neighborhood or the city while potentially condemning the ones alongside it. our understanding is that the reward to the abandoned property will be nearly $3 million. the pro
mr. chiu's office and justin true at the time argued that the surrounding buildings were 50' height. that is simply not true. if anybody goes down there and justin never paid a height visit. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is mark brun [kwro-erbgs/] a long-term resident of north beach and head of the group save north beach, which includes3 2 businesses now that have joined in opposition to extraction at the pagoda palace. this is a letter from lorenzo petroni and other...
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item no. 1, commissioner breed, campos, present, commissioner david chiu, absent. mr.sent. kim absent, mar, wiener present. yee, absent. we have a quorum. >> very good. call item no. 2. 2013 meeting. >> comments, questions on the minutes? public comments open. no. 2. no member come forward we'll close public comment. commissioner breed and without objection. >> next item, please? >> this is information item. >> good afternoon, colleagues. hopefully my voice will work this morning. i want to thank lombardy for these note. there were two issues to be addressed at the federal level to provide funding for the federal government through the end of the fiscal year and sequestration. congress passed a continued resolution to provide funding through the end of the budget year through september 2013. congress approved funding at the map 21 at the federal transportation bill funding levels, however this is a presequestration. the sequester official took effect on march 1st. however it taking time to find out how to federal budget cuts will affect individual programs and projects
item no. 1, commissioner breed, campos, present, commissioner david chiu, absent. mr.sent. kim absent, mar, wiener present. yee, absent. we have a quorum. >> very good. call item no. 2. 2013 meeting. >> comments, questions on the minutes? public comments open. no. 2. no member come forward we'll close public comment. commissioner breed and without objection. >> next item, please? >> this is information item. >> good afternoon, colleagues. hopefully my voice will...
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chiu? >> thank you, colleagues, first of all i want to thank mr. murphy for his service to the city and has already been described he has contributed to our city. from my purpose we have not had any issues. there have been a number of allegations regarding potentially inappropriate permit expediting as well as violation of campaign finances law and i have given the clouds of allegations we should not support the item in front of us today. if he is appointed i look forward to working with him, in particular around issues that impact my district and the neighborhoods and the northeast. but what i want to say is the neighborhoods that i represent have not felt that the port commission has been as responsive as it needs to be on all issues relating to the neighborhood. i asked before the appointment was moved forward today to consider pointing someone who is a bridge to our neighborhoods. i do hope we'll be able to see that from this particular appointee and others. i will not be able to support that appointee today. >> i have known murphy for some tim
chiu? >> thank you, colleagues, first of all i want to thank mr. murphy for his service to the city and has already been described he has contributed to our city. from my purpose we have not had any issues. there have been a number of allegations regarding potentially inappropriate permit expediting as well as violation of campaign finances law and i have given the clouds of allegations we should not support the item in front of us today. if he is appointed i look forward to working with...
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mr. chair that is the end of public comment. [ gavel ] public comment is closed. president chiu. >> mr. chair i'm hope something city staffers can answer questions raised during public comment. the first question is what was raised by the attorney for save muni. i wanted to ask the city attorney's office if he could respond to why you think that that is not appropriately in front of this board? >> >> john givner, deputy city attorney. as the speaker mentioned our office issued a public memo last friday, explaining that the board could not hear the appeal of the planning department's determination to issue an addendum of the final eir for this project. the board has the authority to consider appeals of certain types of ceqa documents. neither ceqa, nor any local law provides the board the authority to hear appeals of issuances of eir addenda. >> thank you. >> and then if i could ask mr. guy from planning. there was a suggestion by one public commenter that somehow the height related to this sud was going to be significantly taller than other height as round it. could you clarify the heig
mr. chair that is the end of public comment. [ gavel ] public comment is closed. president chiu. >> mr. chair i'm hope something city staffers can answer questions raised during public comment. the first question is what was raised by the attorney for save muni. i wanted to ask the city attorney's office if he could respond to why you think that that is not appropriately in front of this board? >> >> john givner, deputy city attorney. as the speaker mentioned our office issued...
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to 135 powell street for walgreens company will serve the public convenience. >> president chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. first i want to thank colleagues from the city operations and services neighborhood committee for hearing this item. i have circulate today all of you a number of amendments that simply reflect the agreement that we had discussed in cons for some reason it wasant worked into the resolution that you have in front of you. and so i'd like to ask for that motion to amend and take a moment to explain what they are. this particular liquor license was requested by walgreens and there have been a number of questions raised by the community and also the planning commission about whether drugstores like walgreens or cvs ought to have liquor licenses. this is an issue that has been rising up with increaseving intensity in my district where we have a high concentration of liquor licenses. i also know in supervisor kim's district, in district 6, and other parts of the city. now, there has been a discussion about whether drugstores ought to have liquor licenses at all, and i think that is a
to 135 powell street for walgreens company will serve the public convenience. >> president chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. first i want to thank colleagues from the city operations and services neighborhood committee for hearing this item. i have circulate today all of you a number of amendments that simply reflect the agreement that we had discussed in cons for some reason it wasant worked into the resolution that you have in front of you. and so i'd like to ask for that motion to...
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chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair and i want to thank you colleagues, supervisor mar and campos may remember that in the first few years in office, night life violence was a significant issue and the number of incidents of fights and shootings and other violence in and around night clubs and other entertainment venues was an all too common occurrence and we had in those years, a significant debate about whether the entertainment commission was capable of regulating public safety in and around the night life, you may remember that the mayor suggested that the police department take back some of those authorities. and we also heard from the entertainment commission that they did not feel like they had the tools of telling the authority to do what they were charged to do and so during that time period i spend quite a bit of time passing at this point, four different pieces of legislation to give this city and the entertainment commission more tools to do that. we passed legislation requiring clubs to beef up securi
chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair and i want to thank you colleagues, supervisor mar and campos may remember that in the first few years in office, night life violence was a significant issue and the number of incidents of fights and shootings and other violence in and around night clubs and other entertainment venues was an all too common occurrence and we had in those years, a significant debate about whether the entertainment commission was capable of regulating public safety in and around...
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mr. buckley? >> so, president chiu is correct in the sense that we i think agree on general principles. we're going to work with the tenant community and president chiu's office to create some changes within the hardship application process. i would defer to dan wolf basically to answer specific questions you have about how the process is now and how those changes could likely -- what changes would likely result. i think president chiu is correct. i think the idea is for folks who are on fixed government benefits that have already been means tested, those folks should have a more expedited process, more expedited process through the hardship application. and then i would also say that in addition to that, we would have to [speaker not understood] for residents who say they are on social security. there hasn't been means tested, we would have to essentially create the criteria around an asset assessment. but the idea would be to avoid any unnecessary hearings for residents who are on a fixed benefit. and i think that's, you know, within the interest of both the tenant community, both in
mr. buckley? >> so, president chiu is correct in the sense that we i think agree on general principles. we're going to work with the tenant community and president chiu's office to create some changes within the hardship application process. i would defer to dan wolf basically to answer specific questions you have about how the process is now and how those changes could likely -- what changes would likely result. i think president chiu is correct. i think the idea is for folks who are on...
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chiu. commissioner campos? >> thank you mr. chair and mr. newark for your presentation. what i have is to make sure whatever happens is that there is as much community input what we do on market and mission street on some ideas that have been put around for mission street. i feel unfortunately they have not included enough input from the residents and folks who will be impacted by what's being proposed. so i look to being part of this discussion. it's not just relevant on what happens on mission street on this part of down and district 6 area but it also impacts what happens with district 9, 11, other districts. i do have a question, though, there has been talks in the past about having rapid transit on mission street and i'm wondering how that fits into what is being proposed, being talked about for market street and mission street here? >> i think i would ask the mta to respond to that. >> andrew lee, transit planner. right now the mission street is not one of or corridor but it will affect the streets as well as the outside better market street study area and we are c
chiu. commissioner campos? >> thank you mr. chair and mr. newark for your presentation. what i have is to make sure whatever happens is that there is as much community input what we do on market and mission street on some ideas that have been put around for mission street. i feel unfortunately they have not included enough input from the residents and folks who will be impacted by what's being proposed. so i look to being part of this discussion. it's not just relevant on what happens on...
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mr. president. i want to begin by thanking president chiu and his office for sponsoring this item. we have seen this item continued a number of times until some of the issues that were raised by the neighbors were resolved. and i want to thank all of the parties, including the applicant here and the residents of this neighborhood, for coming together to resolve the issues at hand. and i especially want to acknowledge the work of bob besso, michelle kimbalt and acknowledge the work of the developer who worked in good faith to resolve these issues. and if i may, i'd like to ask john kwong of the department of public works if he's here. is mr. kwong here? okay, my understanding was that he would be here, but that's fine. as mr. kwong is aware, we have a resolution that will involve certain work that will be done by this developer to address some of the issues raised by the neighborhood. so, with that understanding, i would ask that we move forward and approve this item. thank you. >> thank you. colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? without objection, this resolution
mr. president. i want to begin by thanking president chiu and his office for sponsoring this item. we have seen this item continued a number of times until some of the issues that were raised by the neighbors were resolved. and i want to thank all of the parties, including the applicant here and the residents of this neighborhood, for coming together to resolve the issues at hand. and i especially want to acknowledge the work of bob besso, michelle kimbalt and acknowledge the work of the...
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chiu. >> thank you, mr.nd i want to thank you for scheduling today's consideration of a suded is at site of the pagato palace. the pagota theater site which has been a blighted site for almost two decades. by way of a little bit of background we have come a long way since this issue was first brought to our attention late last spring when hi office got a surprising call the same day as the first community meeting to provide details about the proposed construction on columbus avenue. in 2008, the plan to extract the tunnel-boring machines in north beach was approached by the sfmta and the planning
chiu. >> thank you, mr.nd i want to thank you for scheduling today's consideration of a suded is at site of the pagato palace. the pagota theater site which has been a blighted site for almost two decades. by way of a little bit of background we have come a long way since this issue was first brought to our attention late last spring when hi office got a surprising call the same day as the first community meeting to provide details about the proposed construction on columbus avenue. in...
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chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. colleagues, i appreciate your consideration of this resolution. as you know, i don't offer -- i don't often offer resolutions that impact federal matters, but when i learned about the indefinite detention provisions and the national defense authorization act, i frankly was so offended and so surprised at them that i thought it was important that we as a city speak up on this issue. and we will be joining in solidarity states, counties, and municipalities around the country at this moment. i believe we would be the 17th city to support this if that were the case and the will of this body today. the national defense authorization act, the specific provisions that we're talking about, allow our military to arrest and detain american citizens on u.s. soil without a warrant or due process. this would repeat the forced incarceration of the 1940s of 120,000 japanese americans who spent years in interment camps without notices of charges, right to an attorney, or right to a trial. from my perspective and the perspective of many constitutional scholars, th
chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. colleagues, i appreciate your consideration of this resolution. as you know, i don't offer -- i don't often offer resolutions that impact federal matters, but when i learned about the indefinite detention provisions and the national defense authorization act, i frankly was so offended and so surprised at them that i thought it was important that we as a city speak up on this issue. and we will be joining in solidarity states, counties, and municipalities...
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chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. first, i also want to start by echoing the thanks that we have already heard from many of our colleagues of the community that has worked for the better part of a decade on moving this forward. and i want to say to jim meko who is i understand watching this via television, godspeed with your recovery. thank you for the years of your service as well as to all the other community groups that were involved. i also want to thank supervisor kim. i think we all understand how difficult these tasks are in trying to balance the incredibly diverse and competing needs within neighborhoods and districts and i think we all appreciate your work in getting us to the stage to deal with the issues within district 6. there was one issue in this legislation that involved and impacted a city-wide concern that i raised in committee which has to do with the academy of art university, which colleagues, as you know, aau has had significant issues involving allegations of long-standing violations of the plan
chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. first, i also want to start by echoing the thanks that we have already heard from many of our colleagues of the community that has worked for the better part of a decade on moving this forward. and i want to say to jim meko who is i understand watching this via television, godspeed with your recovery. thank you for the years of your service as well as to all the other community groups that were involved. i also want to thank supervisor kim. i think we all...
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chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. colleagues, obviously given the vote that we just cast i was happy to support the japan center garage corporation for the reasons that were provided. and as the district supervisor for the uptown parking corporation parking garage that is in question, i'm also happy to support this particular item and i hope for those of you who supported the last item for consistency sake, we are able to move forward this item. in addition to the fact that the sfmta has stated for both of these operations that while they could directly administer the different garages, that we have in front of us, they consider the fact that the added oversight and community relations provided by these organizations are in the best interest of the garage and the city. i think and heard and believe that many of you have heard from the leadership of the union square community about the impact that this organization has had in union square within a part of town that sees some of the most densely traveled and densely par
chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. colleagues, obviously given the vote that we just cast i was happy to support the japan center garage corporation for the reasons that were provided. and as the district supervisor for the uptown parking corporation parking garage that is in question, i'm also happy to support this particular item and i hope for those of you who supported the last item for consistency sake, we are able to move forward this item. in addition to the fact that the sfmta has...