and people who relocate to another city with the illegal unit that mr. chiu proposed when i do an o m i you can only get think the one floor but not the lower unit the ellis act is the only ways to get back bottom floor. and you live in one unit and rent the others we have to ellis act to get back the other floors. at this it's mind boggling f it in any circumstance during retirement or volunteers or death bankruptcy or out of business or probate issue or inheritance issue we can't do the ellis act. we're not able to dispose our property it's costly to our lives. most of the times - >> thank you. thank you >> and also being penalized. >> thank you. ms. thank you >> everyone gets the same amount of time. >> it's hard to get - >> many thank you. everyone gets the same amount of time >> the same - >> appreciate it. >> i just wanted to testify we get some testimony about evictions in this ceremony we heard we're in the midget of a eviction epidemic from last week to this week and the ellis act is the driver and if we're in the city and county of san francisco the

so for this conversation we're here to discuss housing and mr. chiu thank you and for your leadership. i'm again open to the discussion around in-laws. i want to go on record for recognizing the in law units in the assessing and i'm happy to support in without a positive recommendation >> supervisor kim. >> you brought up an interesting conversation i'm interested in the section 8 who you report to and what address do you report. >> so i think the question acres from the spelling the last name of the legality of it there's section 8 vouchers to keep the main house from going into foreclosure but how to get the legal units to a legal place. you think about the affordable housing and the influx of african-american and the deplorable conditions in the illegal units those are of great concern for me >> so thank you colleagues. i just want to reiterate in terms of where i'm comfortable. first of all, i want to say a president chiu and staff have had conversations and they've been open and receptive to convince for me and my staff and stakeholders across th

herrera and mr. chiu may want to address and that's on page 13 of the ordinance with definition of a non-profit organization which is based on the word active refers to any entity that within the past 2 years has attempted to influence city legislator administrative action. on the other hand at the subsequently there is a reference to any non-profit organization to whom it should be to which, a developer has made cumulative donations of $5,000 or more since the date 1 year and before an application for environmental review occurs. i maybe missing something, but it seems to be an inconsistency between the two 2 years and the 1 years and i'm sure that's easily curable. finally i want to comment and commend the sponsor and the author for attempting to get a handle on the conduct of attorneys. attorneys historically have been able to hide behind attorney-client privilege while lobbying like a non-attorney does at city government. i think that's a major recognizable effort to face the fact that attorneys are n

and, mr. chiu. >> thank you, very much. i would like to say i appreciate the support of our programs and plans committee. and, i want to make really two brief points. first of all, this is a study that is long overdue. we owe it to future generations to understand the options, benefits and cost of extending a crucial transportation project that's has already been in the making. also, our project connects the eastern parts of our city where so much growth is expected to occur with a few of our northeast neighborhoods as we consider another half mile extension. we also know that north beach and fisher man's wart is a destination for jobs and /taourist all over the world. i believe it's a study that deserves a lot more thought and a lot more analysis. i want to take a moment and thank the dedicated efforts of the community who worked hard to get us to this point, the a for their support and everyone for their persistens as we continue with this. for that, i ask for support of this item. >> thank you, very much. if there's no o

mr. bryan chiu from the mayor's office of housing is here. >> supervisor yee. >> thank you first of all, like other supervisors i want to commend the effort like supervisor breed has run a nonprofit i did 18 years of running a nonprofit with 7 sites i was around when the.com hit us with the rent. so the panic that people have running nonprofits especially, when their lease it up it's a real feeling that dramatically impacted other organizations that were around at the time they went under. in the nonprofit world for those who are not from that world most of the expenses you have are pretty much going to remain standard you might have increases in saliva you build it into our budget. two things in the nonprofit world that are inbe predicable one of them is insurance. when we got hit with an insurance hike about 20 years ago it was doibl and tripling we didn't have the money and another one how much you're paying for rent if your paying 2 thousand for a space and they want to raise it to 35 hundred a month for certain nonprofits it's a big chunk of changes. i appreciate the effort we're mo

supervisor chiu? mr. president? >> i'm sorry. aye. >> 12 aye, chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the ordinance is passed on first reading. [gavel] >> colleagues, why don't we now go for a moment to a 2:30 special commendation that supervisor campos will provide. >> great, thank you very much, mr. president. and it is my honor to call upon norman w.salcedo. if he can please come up to the podium. ~ thank you. thank you, mr. salcedo, for being here. and i also want to acknowledge that his family is here. they're in the chamber and it's great to see them here. it is my great pleasure and honor to recognize norman w. salcedo today for more than 30 years of work as an attorney, immigrant rights advocate, and philanthropyist here in the san francisco bay area. norman is a true pioneer in the legal profession. he was one of the very

chiu absent. mr. farrell farrell present. commissioner kim. tang present. commissioner wiener.present. we have quorum. ? m. any comments or questions on the minutes? okay we can do comment on item number 2 seeing none we'll close public comment and the motion to approve the minutes a roll call vote. commissioner avenue avenue. >> aye. >> commissioner breed? >> chiu absent. >> commissioner cohen. >> kim aye. >> wiener aye. >> commissioner ye the item passes. >> chair report this is an information item. >> good morning colleagues it has been another busy and productive year at the transportation authority. in particular i wish to thank vice chair scott wiener for your partnership and leadership on transportation issues and eric mar for plans and programs and on behalf of my colleagues i wish to thank all of our aids to help with the large work we have here and the transportation staff. during the selection process -- i would like to thank you maria for your great work keeping the organization running smoothly and helped to keep all of our projects on track during the transition p

chiu. supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm just -- want to express my gratitude that this was worked out. i know this was heading to a very contentious space and i think a lot of us were very concerned that it would become a real fight. and i want to thank president chiu and his office for bringing the these two parties together and really spending a lot of time ~ in getting an agreement hammered out so that we can move forward as we should with this important project. this is going to be a really terrific addition to uni i don't know square so that we don't have a vacant space and a better space for the apple store. and it will do it in a way that's i think consistent with a lot of our community values. so, i want to thank president chiu for bringing the parties together and getting this resolved. >> thank you. supervisor cohen. >> i, too, wanted to just take a moment to recognize supervisor chiu's leadership and also acknowledge the labor leaders that came and coalesced around this particular issue, and also the apple --

chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. i first want to take a moment to thank all the members of the public that came to speak on this item and i wanted to just make a couple of observations. first of all, to thank all of the environmental activists both here in san francisco and around the country that have been really furthering this issue starting with think outside the bottle campaign run by the corporate accountability international organization. want to take a moment and really thank our students here locally particularly at the san francisco at sf san francisco state for leading the way. students have really championed this around north america and really need to be commended for your activities in this area. want to also thank racology because right now they need to collect 10 to 15 million single usev plastic water bottles every single year. if we are successful with this ordinance hopefully we can reduce the cost to our rate payer and what racology needs to do every single year. also want to appreciate their repr

chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. colleagues, you remember that last november the voters of san francisco passed proposition d which has now made it official city policy for our city to employ all available resource he he to reducing the cost of pharmaceutical medications. this is a measure that was passed by an overwhelming majority of voters and placed on the ballot with 18,000 san francisco signatures. the resolution we have in front of us, and i want to thank both supervisors wiener and campos for their co-sponsorship, is the next step in moving forward with this commitment. and specifically the resolution asks the city to commit to four things. first, to ask the department of public health to explore the feasibility of using consumer websites to provide cost and price comparisons for specific medications by san franciscans. secondly, to ask our city to pursue the extension of the federal 340 b drug pricing program to inpatient settings in our city's federal legislative agenda for this year. thirdly, it states tha

chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. colleagues, i very much want to thank you for your consideration of this item as well as members of the community that have worked with my office for the better parts of nine months to move this forward. we all know with climate change and the importance of combating climate change that san francisco, we've been leading the way in fighting for our environment and this is why i ask you to support this legislation, to reduce and discourage the use of single use single serving plastic water bottles in san francisco. the ordinance we have in front of us really does three things. it helps to restrict the sale or distribution of bottled water on city property. it sets city policy to increase the availability of drinking water in public areas. and it generally bar the use of city funds to purchase bottled water. ~ bars folk who have asked why we are moving forward with this legislation ~ and i want it remind people that it was not long ago that our world was not addicted to plastic water bot

could mitigate those but we've not seen any interest on the part of supervisor chiu >> i have a question. >> all right. mrchamberlain we have a couple of questions supervisor kim and supervisor cowen. >> so i appreciate the concerns that the council brought up as stacey said there are amend that would mitigate some of the intended consequences i'm curious. >> specifically one thing we want to see is the owner that currently, the out of respect should be in it on january 1st, 2013, that will mean it affects only current places accompanied. >> we want to see the only owner be an owner that owned the property on january 1st, 2013, or before so that would stop future developers swooup and trying to purchase single-family so they could buy is and flat it 20/20 flats and rent it is important expensively. >> thank you. >> i have a question if in your remarks you talked about speculators coming in and doing what you said whatever spectaculars do i'm curious about your thoughts. >> if there were an amendment that said only the owner could apply if they owned the property prior to january 1st, 2013, it would stop p

mr. mayor, welcome back to our march question time. i'd like to ask if you have any opening statements. >> thank you, president chiu. i do not and i'd like to thank everybody for, again, being here and let's go on with the questions. >> okay. with that, i actually have the first question. mr. mayor, to address the affordability crisis, you have rightfully pledged in your state of the city address to facilitate the construction of 30,000 unit of housing by 2020. as you know he, even as we build more housing, we need to do more to prevent the displacement of residents who are currently grappling with being priced out of our city. i believe that our city's housing policy must include a preservation strategy for existing affordable rent control housing in addition to new development, which we all know has been a much more cost-effective way to provide affordable housing and stabilize our neighborhoods. two initiatives that i've worked on to preserve our affordable housing stock are, one, to create a pathway for the tens of thousands of existing inlaw units to become legalized and two, to establish the right for tenants t