chiu. >> thank you mr. chair. thank you colleagues for consideration of this item and let me first thank supervisor wiener for his consideration of a very similar item. turns out great minds were thinking alike dealerring with an issue around a inordinately large handbook this year and we will likely to save the city 1.7 million dollars with the proposals that we have and i would like to recognize supervisor wiener's aid that is here and i recognize our colleague is in budget committee and has a conflict today so colleagues the legislation that i have introduced and the legislation that supervisor wiener introduced both had the same goal of reducing the amount of material that is required in the ballot handbook to each of our half a million voters and in the instance of what is coming up this fall and november 2013 could save the city up to this amount and we had a debate about the washington lukts luxury condominium project and increase the height on the waterfront. the ordinance was five pages but included 500 p

. -- can we make sure mr. chiu is excused? >> item no. 1. item 1: [building, health, public works codes - soil and/or groundwater testing requirements] 1. 130369 sponsor: mayor ordinance amending the building and health codes to expand the boundaries and types of projects for which soil testing is required and to require testing of groundwater under specified circumstances; amending the public works code to eliminate soil testing provisions; renumbering code sections in the health code; and making environmental findings. 4/23/13; assigned under 30 day rule to the land use and economic development committee. 5/1/13; referred to department. 5/2/13; response received. 5/14/13; substituted and assigned to the land use and economic development committee. 5/17/13; response received. 5/31/13; referred to >> item no. 1. sf 1 [!ez speaker 03]: >> this is presented by the mayor's office. >> good afternoon, i'm please to be here with this ordinance that is held by the planning commission , this is an important measure towards standardizing the hazardou

. >> thank you mr. chiu. at this moment if supervisor wiener's aide jeff crittenden would come up and speak to his amendments. >> thank you supervisor. i am jeff crittenden from supervisor's wiener's office. the amendments just described and combine elements of our legislation which we are supportive and appreciative he included as well as new amendments his office drafted and have generally in supportive it. the supervisor does have one issue with the amendments that president chiu's office drafted. he disagrees with the language in the event that a legal text breaks 100 pages that pages one through 100 be included and the others excluded. we believe that if the board is going to make the policy decision to omit legal text it should omit the entirety of the legal text and to give equal measure to all pieces of the text. the supervisor feels this is misleading to include some parts of the text and not others and emphasizes that page one is more important one page 101 and from a matter of policy if the board m

chair. >> so, can we have a roll call on the chiu amendment -- >> mr. chair, we have a motion made by president chiu, but we need a second for that and also a second for supervisor breed's. >> supervisor yee seconds the motion. >> so moved. >> so, roll call on the chiu amendments. >> and for supervisor breed, supervisor wiener? >> supervisor wiener. >> great. >> madam clerk, roll call on the chiu amendment. >> supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang no. supervisor wiener? wiener no. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell no. there are 8 ayes and 3 no's. >> thank you, the motion carries. [gavel] (applause) >> madam clerk, roll call on the breed amendments to items 29 and 37. >> supervisor kim? kim no. supervisor mar? mar no. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee no. supervisor avalos? avalos no. supervisor breed? breed aye. su

mr. rich. president chiu. >> thank you, mr. rich. i want to thank you and everyone in the room about where we are. we have come a long way from the initial proposal put forth last spring. i have always said, and many in this room have always said, that we have wanted to support rebuilding the cpmc hospitals and do it the right way. it is my perspective what we have in front us does it the right way around how the hospitals are sized to how we invest in our future 21st century san francisco health care system, to how we're going to be dealing with issues around housing and jobs and transit, our neighborhoods, our community. i'm really proud of where we are. and i want to take a moment and really just thank a number of folks, starting first with all the members of the community, from all of the organizations and networks and neighborhood associations that work together to get us to where we are today. thank you. i of course want to say thank you to our leadership from cpmc, dr. braner, mike co-hill and others. we had many meetings toge

. >> thank you supervisor chiu, mr. mayor. nice to have you all here.his is a great opportunity to say happy things to all the department heads that i am looking at who have been our

. >> thank you supervisor chiu, mr. mayor. nice to have you all here. this is a great opportunity to say happy things to all the department heads that i am looking at who have been our partners in great project and today will concentrate on projects that we don't have a apologize for that. i beg your indulgence. everybody has a wish list and today i get to talk about mine. four things. happy days are here again is the mayor said; companies are moving in, companies hiring, tourism is back up what we are not sustaining our open space rate. mission center, patrol hill, all are experiencing vast increases in jobs; additional funds are required to maximize existing open space and recreational facilities as well as adding new space where feasible. rdp and dpw need additional funding to provide the maintenance required by the additional use of existing facilities. in district three we all know we are severely underserved for recreation and open space. national urban stems call for 4-10 acres of open space. does not take into account the thousands of workers an

chiu? >> thank you, mr. chair. and i want to just take a moment and thank all the members of the public that gave us feedback today and reiterate the fact this is a project that's been years in the making. i along with a number of my colleagues have expressed significant frustration over the pace of progress, but i'm not going to repeat that again today. we all know that early on in this project there was probably less coordination and overall management from all the various departments that we would have liked. that being said, i do think from that standpoint things have improved. i want to thank the department heads for their work, but we all know at the end of the day the success of this project will be measured on how we actually get this done. i know that there have been a number of questions that have been raised today around enforcement, around near term pilots, around budget, how we ensure thisproject is going to work for the community. mr. chair, if it might be possible for us to continue this item at the

chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair, and i want to thank you for partnering to really move this project forward. i also want to thank all the members of the public who have been focused on this for a number of years. let me start first by just mentioning that in 2011 i sponsored a resolution that was unanimously supported by this board to urge the sfmta and other department agencies to focus on the better market street project to speed up transit along market street while improving the comfort of people walking, biking, supporting local culture function of the street. i'm paraphrasing from the title of that resolution. and while i do certainly appreciate the process supervisor wiener alluded to i think in recent months the management and coordination of this project between different departments has improved, we have a ways to go which is why we're here at this hearing. in addition to the topics that supervisor wiener has discussed, i am particularly interested in two issues. one, just want to get a sense of the b

mr. mayor. why don't we go to our next question from our district 9 colleague, supervisor campos. >> thank you, president chiu. thank you, mr. mayor. as you are aware at my request, and if i may add, with the approval of the entire board of supervisors, our budget and legislative analyst conducted a performance audit of the san francisco housing authority which it recently released. as you are aware, mr. mayor, that audit detailed an agency that is in crisis. i know that you have been conducting housing authority working group for many months to address this crisis. and given that the local management has been problematic and the fact that the federal government for many years has been turning its back on the nation's poorest residents by de funding housing authorities across the country, what is your long-term vision to save public housing, ~ a significant asset for so many of us in this city? >> thank you, supervisor campos. well, the budget analyst's audit does confirm what we learned back in december when the housing authority was placed on the troubled list. the san francisco housing authority as it is c

chiu? >> thank you, mr. chair. colleagues, i am very excited that we are finally considering the final development agreement and related approvals for the cpmc project. a lot has been said about this project. i'm going to be very brief, but after years of discussion and months of negotiations this historic health care project will ensure our hospitals get their rebuilds done right and to ensure that san francisco has a health care system ready for the 21st century. in addition to ensuring that two critical cpmc hospitals are rebuilt and seismically safe, this project will not only address major health care and local hiring needs throughout the city, but transportation and specific needs in the immediate vicinity of these two hospitals. i want to take another moment to thank the entire village that worked on this for the last couple of years, from my colleagues supervisors campos and farrell to immediate -- mediator lou girardo, [speaker not understood], ken rich, his incredible work the last few years, our attorney

mr. cavanagh. >>> good afternoon, supervisor chiu and supervisor kim, and supervisor wiener. my representative from district 8. my name is dave cavanagh. i am a registered nurse who works on the floor at the cpmc davies acute rehabilitation facility. our patients come to us on gurneys. some cannot walk or talk. some cannot so much as lift a finger. yes, we see medical miracles at some of these patients walk both the floor with their families thanking us. but these medical miracles don't just happen on their own. four years ago we moved into a completely rebuilt world class facility. we see lives restarted, careers resumed, families reformed. opportunities for medical miracles are fleeting. the great city of san francisco needs world class medical facilities across the city without further delay. >> thank you, mr. cavanagh. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is bonnie nelson and i'm the founding principal of nelson/nygaard, transportation [speaker not understood]. we worked on what we think is a groundbreaking management plan part of this project. i will ma

chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. thank you, colleagues. and i want to thank everyone in this room who has been traveling on this very long and hard road on ceqa reform which i think reflects the challenges that our city faces around land use and our very deep civic engagement as a city to these issues. i want to take a moment and appreciate supervisor wiener's leadership on this issue and your patience and to your point about it being the 11th hearing. i think we are finally in the 11th hour and it is my hope that very shortly we'll be able to resolve these matters. i also want to take a moment and thank all the members of the community who have worked with each of our three individual offices in trying to move this to a better place. obviously we have two competing ordinances in front of us, and what i have been trying to do in recent weeks and months is to pull what i think are some of the best ideas from supervisor kim's and the so-called community coalition's perspectives and offer them potentially as amendments to supervisor wiener's

chiu. okay? 601 in thank you mr. truit. >> thank you. >> >> we are going to move on to item kadvisory committee report and appointments to the advisory committees. superintendent carranza? >> the delac report. >> thank you, president norton at this point i would like to ask lucielle (inaudible) to come forward for the presentation from the multilingual pathways department for the delac report to the board. >> >> good evening, superintendent, richard carranza, board members and president. i have the honor of serving with the district english learner advisory committee. and the members will take the time to share their recommendations on their annual report. and i just want to read off the names of our delac board members who are here with us tonight. we have maria (inaudible) our president. we have juan (inaudible). we have carla (inaudible). (inaudible) jackson. we have (inaudible), and we have (inaudible). okay. >> and my superintendent, michelle (inaudible) and myself. have this honor of working with them. so i am

board of supervisors, and the supervisor from our very own district three, david chiu. [ applause ] >> thank you, tailor. mrs okay, could you and i just declare it a city holiday today so we don't have to go back to work and hang out here on pier 39? >> i want to thank all of you who are the incredible diversity of the community that is the port. the community that our water front peers and our wharfs. this is the story of our city. our port has really defined our past as i think that we all know, the first 49ers came right here to this spot to build this city, during world war ii, our military ships were recommissioned, right here from our port. we know that our friends from labor as the mayor said, built our city, starting here with this water fort and this is the story of our city and we also know that the water front in the port defines who we are and it is amazing in 2013, if you just walk along the water front in my district, you will start at the fisherman's wharf street scape improvements and to the cruise ship terminal that we just cut the ribbon for and you walk down to the terminals and the ports

mr. mayor. now it's my pleasure to introduce president david chiu who would like to say a few words. >> thank you so much. good morning. this announcement today is about how we best prepare being ground zero. ground zero in a number of meanings. first of all, san francisco, we are ground zero when it comes to emergency preparedness. i want to thank the department of emergency management and all of the folks who as a community ensure that just as we had to recover after the 1906 fire just as we recovered after loma-prieta in 1989, we know that the big one will hit us with a certainty over the next 30 years and we have to be prepared. but san francisco is also ground zero for another wonderful phenomenon, and that is the sharing economy, the collaborative consumption movement that many of the folks here represent. i want to thank those of you who are innovating, thinking about how can we better use resources, how can we better share services, how can we ensure our housing, our transit, our tasks a shared among each other to maximize benefits for all our local communities. today obviously we are mer