. >> before we make that motion, just mr. chiu, if you could just send me and my office information about what we have seen the level of funding that has been for our hud programs, and how it has changed over the years, and i know, probably we are seeing the continuation of funding at a certain level but i am certain about a drop off as well and i want to look at the friends moving forward with what has happened in the past. >> certainly, we have a card that goes back 15 years and i swil send that to all of the committee members offices. >> thank you. >> thank you so much there chiu. >> we would like to prove the item and move forward. >> can we do that without objection? >> thank you. >> could you call items one and two together? >> item one is,ordinance amending the police code to regulate the operation of formula retail establishments, including requiring employers to offer additional hours of work, when available, to current part-time employees, and requiring successor employers to retain employees for 90 days upon a change in

chiu. supervisor wiener? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank both supervisor president chiu and supervisor mar for moving this conversation forward. this is a very important issue and i think it's a growing one in terms of ensuring that people have access not just to work, but to work that actually pays a living wage and a wage that people can actually survive and raise families and certainly the number of hours that people work is important part of that. you can have a good hourly wage. if you're not working many hours it's not going to really do you very much good. so, this is an important piece of legislation. i do think that -- want everyone's view of this legislation. this is legislation that deserves the fullest possible dialogue. i will say i've had some frustrations in the last few weeks, the last month. this has come forward to the -- to committee and to the full board, that it seems like we have ships passing in the night in terms of the business community and some of the supporters of legislation. i don't fully underst

mr. sway i know the plan will be coming to the board in the future supervisor chiu. >> mr. sway you mentioned our goal in the next 20 years to increase our street trees by $50,000 and la is increasing there's omi by one million dollars how are they funding it and for other cities like portland that shows up in they're in the study from pourld 0 other cities like seattle there's a bigger canopy how do they fund it the los angeles trees caption there's one in new york city those are high profile funding and they've been the friends of the urban forestry knows more but collected a lot of private money and there's large a nonprofit involved but a large committed of money from the city support to achieve something like that. >> you've raised a good point because it is i don't want to say easy by you can raise a lot of money to plant trees so in the interest of planting trees go to corporations and sexy to plant trees but the problem to maintain it not only now but forever for the life cycle of a tree so the problem we've had and hopefully la won't have the same problem we'll go

mr. president. >> president chiu. >> colleagues this is an overwhelming moment and at some point because of the hurdle every one of you will massachusetts pass through this moment as your last day we know the opportunity to serve is unparalleled an incredible experience leaving this chamber looking at the the ceiling and all of you it is hard i want to most of my comments are around thanksgiving, i am thankful for any family and parents and my close friends the true cabinet crew and the unbuildingly patient wife candice thank you i also want to, of course, thank any district every one of us thinks we represent the most amazing neighborhoods in the city but i do i can't thank enough the 75 thousand residents of district 3 about worked closely to deliver for our neighborhood thank you to the advocates we work with beverly upton and so many that represents the best of what your communities are about thank you i have to thank the hundreds of city staffers you've had a chance to work with two mayors to 3 board liaisons to our controller and our muslim city attorney marry madam clerk you and your incredible

novice them of the requirements they're fully aware to comply with the clarity. >> president chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair let me say with regards to supervisor breed's amendments i have not had the chance to look at the language but i appreciate her going with the trailing legislation i'll be inclined to support it but i'll appreciate our thought and there will be further communication i want to echo supervisor mar thanking the labor leaders swals as well as employers that worked with our offices to move forward this forwarding we know our economy is going better we've heard from hundreds of apartment workers that can't tell their families when they'll work and how much they'll eastern their joulg many jobs i'm intruding proud of the fact our city has led the way in minimum wage and sick leave and last year with the friendly workplace ordinances we will continue to establish a real standard for predict i want to thank you for your unanimous vote i hope we can look forward colleagues to working with you and those context in the coming years to insure that our low wage hourly workers have the protec

mr. president. >>president david chiu: next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm a staff attorney. thanks for the opportunity to speak today. we are here to support resolution with most standing in our community of the anti-arab advertising. in addition to this victimization and post 911 environment their civic engagement has been severely impinged as the problem. as you know we've been here before. this has been in san francisco for years. when we first came, san francisco stood together and at all -- at tall in such hate. 35 leadership, the board of supervisors, district attorney and the mayor of san francisco all sent a clear message. the 1st amendment may not allow san francisco to these hateful ads. this stands with the arabs and now the advertisements are back. we know that san francisco leaders will work with us to address discrimination after they arrive. by this resolution you rea firm your commitment to protect the arab communities in the san francisco family. for that we are thankful. we are here to ask for a little bit more as well, hate speech on these ads is not the o

through strengthening the language access ordinance to something that was spearheaded by supervisor chiu here. mr. [speaker not understood]'s legacy will continue to impact our communities. he was a gem in our district and has impacted so many through his service to our city. and i don't know if this is up and running now, but we recently, mr. [speaker not understood] was actually honored by asian, inc., so, we do have a video that they played there as a tribute to him, his life, i'd like to show a short clip of that. [video presentation] >> he what in the personal page. he was a [speaker not understood] very accessible. [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. so, they he were able to not only able to be successful [speaker not understood], but they were [speaker not understood]. >> [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. one of the first filipino board members in san francisco. and right before he passed away, we were so proud to [speaker not understood] that the filipino language was added as a certified language in the city and county of san francisco and even after had

chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair and colleagues. thank you for your thoughtfulness on the various amendments to the legislation. let me just address my perspectives on what has been proposed. first of all, with regard to the motion to continue, this legislation has been, as i think many of you know, a long work in progress. the conversation really started last year during the family friendly workplace ordinance discussion. we decided to take out the predictability provisions to what we would refer this year. my office convened a six-month process between business, labor, and families to work on these issues. legislation was introduced late summer and early fall. we've had a couple of months of discussion. when we had our first meeting in budget we were told that there was still additional questions and we [speaker not understood]. yesterday in order to address these issues, i very much hope we can move this forward and i do hope to be able to vote on this legislation before i leave. that being said, i know there have been four amend

mr. wimdz. >> thank you president chiu steve williams on behalf of the appellants in this case and the surrounding property owners and residents thank you supervisor mar so far that introduction and that is the focus of our appeal so those concerns around housing we're here to challenge the planning department conditional use authorization for the don't guess of a building on the corner of 26th avenue and clemente street that has is two affordable housing the subject site in the outer commercial district and the subject lot is one of two development lots on that particular block that is sdoebd within the commercial district if i could have the overhead here's the lot here it is just captured by the neighborhood commercial district the rest of the block is zoned residential planning department approval the conditional use authorization demolish those at a supplied vote of three to four with commissioner wu and commissioner moore voting against the authorization and in favor of saving those affordable unit departments analysis in this sustains is simply wrong the may or may not finding this project

mr. sandy segal. >> with that, madam clerk, is there anymore business in front of the board of supervisors? >> that concludes the business for today. >>president david chiu: ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >>okay. >> mark is stuck on me mr. president, the recording has officially started. >> okay. >> item number one first, i'd like to officially start the small business commission it is 541 and please for the audience if you can turn off our cell phones and pagers please fill out a speaker card and it's not required item roll call. >> commissioner president adams commissioner dooley commissioner dwight he's stuck on muni. >> commissioner torres arrest commissioner riley commissioner tour-sarkissian sxit is absent mr. president, you have wrourm. >> thank you. next item. >> item number 2 general public comment likewise members of the public to comment generally on matters of pursue verify items and considers futuristic items. >> do we we have members that are commenting not on today's agenda seeing none, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> item number 3 is discussion and possible action to make recommendation

chiu? madam clerk, could we have a roll call? >> mr. president has made that motion. do we have a second? >> seconded by supervisor farrell. >> supervisor kim? kim no. supervisor mar? mar no. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. we'rev? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos no. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor co-ebb? ~ cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. 7 aye and 3 nos. >> the categorical exemption certification is affirmed and president chiu has said that he would introduce a number of potential conditions -- >> potential conditions related to addressing construction impacts. so, colleagues, as ms. barkley for the appellants suggested, my office did try to bring the parties together and i know that thises was a matter that over a number of months ~. there were many discussionses to try to resolve it. while we weren't able to get agreement between the parties, i do want to suggest that we amend conditions that i believe both parties could agree on. there were a number of concerns raised around construction impact and spe

will be coming at us tvn let me from the author and sponsor our board president david chiu (clapping.) >> thank you, mr. mayor after two years of credibly hard work and countless meetings and testimony and a lot of discussion in the city we're feinstein at the point i want to thank everyone behind me and san francisco thank you for sharing (clapping) i want to take a moment and specifically thank some of the stakeholders we worked with tenant organizations and landlord representatives and small property owner owners and labor and management we worked with neighborhood advocates all over the city and worked with many departments the department of building inspection the city attorney their staff and commissioners, i want to thank my aid amy chang that worked on this two years of her life and the colleagues the board of supervisors in particular supervisor wiener supervisor tang and supervisor malia cohen and i want to take a moment and thank an individual not with us ted was one of the first leaders in the tenant community we worked with over a year and a half ago he helped that the legislation in april

mr. butler. >>> good afternoon, president chiu, members of the board. telegraph hill has always been about orientation in san francisco. the hill offered the most visible placement for a semifour at the golden gate for the practical use of electricity, business [speaker not understood] communication system was based upon line of sight d established its own flag and stick language for communication purposes. telegraph hill has always been in the middle of it given visual orientation and information to visitors and residents alike. over a six year period from 1995 to 2001 several dozen neighbors and hundreds of other neighbors organized and funded a project at hoist tower to build stairways and ramps and make the site accessible to the handicap for the first time. to do so we sold stair tiles and where we put the stairway were always considered the view. so, here we are at the top of the stairway and we have a little seat here at the bench. everyone can see the bank of america, downtown, the union square portion of downtown. from the overlook you see the