our city attorney is youv first, mr. herrera, thanks for being here. colleagues also member of the public, i've asked each city department to take no longer than 5 minutes to present their initial budget presentation and then we'll hear from harvey rose, our budget and legislative analyst if he does have comments or he has prepared a report and we can have discussion on that. >> thank you, supervisor farrell. very much appreciate the opportunity to come speak with members of this committee this morning. you'll notice from our budget that i propose fy 2014-2015 budget has increased by 3,035,0 98 largely due to salary and fringe benefit increases. we have had an opportunity to review the budget analyst recommendations. i'll start by saying i have no substantive disagreements with the budget analyst but i would like to take a couple minutes to offer some highlights of the work the city attorney does on behalf of the san franciscans that it serves. now, i'm sure that you know our mission is to provide first rate legal service to the board, the mayor, and al

my understanding, mr. city attorney, i'm blanking on your name here, is that at some point the city attorney actually did advise to sunshine task force that they needed a disabled person to be on the task force and they could not meet without that. is that correct? >> deputy city attorney tom. >> it has been a long week, guys, sorry. >> as dr. kur mentioned, the sunshine ordinance requires that the sunshine ordinance task have separate attorney and on most matters are generally that that attorney cannot confer with other attorneys in the office. i believe -- i have -- i did not speak with that attorney at the time about the advice that was given. at that time i believe the attorney for the task force advised that there was a risk that the task force would be in violation of the ordinance if it continued to meet and i believe the task force chose not to meet. currently my understanding is that mr. occa who meets the physical disability requirement as holding over, so that issue is not -- it wouldn't be raised by

my understanding, mr. city attorney, i'm blanking on your name here, is that at some point the city attorney actually did advise to sunshine task force that they needed a disabled person to be on the task force and they could not meet without that. is that correct? >> deputy city attorney tom. >> it has been a long week, guys, sorry.

mr. pacheco? city clerk: we have a motion from commissioner honda to adopt the memorandum of understanding for the port commission. on that motion, commissioner fung, huang, hurt doeshgs lapis -- lazarus. this item is adopted. >> thank you for coming today. >> then item 5 is our next item up which is two jurisdictions request. item 5: subject property at 56 presidio avenue. letter from brian soriano, attorney for steven minisini, requestor, asking that the board take jurisdiction over electrical permit e2014/02/26/7657 and bpa no. 2014/03/13/0693, which was issued on february 26, 2014 and march 13, 2014, respectively. the appeal periods ended on march 13, 2014 and march 28, 2014 respectively, and both jurisdiction requests were filed at the board office on may 06, 2014. permit holder: steven greenwald & rochelle alpert. project #1: 27 roof mounted solar pv modules, 250 watts per module; 1 interactive inverter, 250w power rating, ttl no. of rating 6.75kw905039, meter main electrical service will also be

city attorney's shop. you should read that. every word of what i wrote. because mr. gross man's lawyer michael absolutely obsoleted deputy city attorney andrew shins garbage. there's nothing in the city chart that protects city attorney i mean attorney-client privilege not a peep. that was the root of mr. gross man's case the superior court was right to order the immediate release of the 24 documents withheld from mr. gross man should not have dragged on for two years before arriving as that hearing tonight and you're going to go into closed session god, only knows what. if the commission has too long of a history giving us reasons not to building you. mr. gross man should prevail other than the merits of his case and the appellate court should get over itself trying to hold attorney-client privilege immulberry it's not when it comes to narrow area of law focused on public utilities access. mr. gross man is not waging a battle to get at some kind of documents that will give him a road map he's after public records what part of that don't you get? >> it somewhat baffle

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mr. pacheco? city clerk: there is a motion from the president to deny this appeal, uphold the permit on the basis that it is code compliant. on that motion, commissioner fung, aye, commissioner hwang, aye, vice-president hurtado? aye, commissioner honda? no. >> the vote is 4-1. the permit is upheld on that basis. >> thank you. next item, item 8: golden gate heights neighborhood association, appellanttss vs. dept. of public works bureau of street-use & mapping, respondent 203 quintara street. protesting the issuance on march 19, 2014, to sbc- pacific bell engineering, excavation permit install new cabinet; telephone purposee. application no. 14exc-1497. for hearing today1234 you have seven 7 minutes to present your case. >> hi, my name is sally stooens the president of the golden heights association. the steward came to us and asked for help in pealing this permit. it's a group that's been active for five 5 years at -- beautifying the and where they want to put the at&t box. i live about half a block aw

mr. pacheco. city clerk: we have a motion from the vice-president to uphold this letter of determination on the basis of the zoning administrator did not error or abuse his discretion. on that motion, commissioner fung, aye, commissioner hwang? aye, president is recused. commissioner honda? no. >> thank you. the vote is 3-1. this lod is upheld on that basis, thank you. >> there is no further business. >> we are adjourned then. >> [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >>

mr. pacheco. city clerk: we have a motion from the vice-president to uphold this letter of determination on the basis of the zoning administrator did not error or abuse his discretion. on that motion, commissioner fung, aye, commissioner hwang? aye, president is recused. commissioner honda? no. >> thank you. the vote is 3-1. this lod is upheld on that basis, thank you. >> there is no further business. >> we are adjourned then. >> [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> on december 28, 1912, san francisco mayor stared into a sea of 60,000 of constituents that gathered at geary. the berth of the first publicly owned transit system in the city, the san francisco municipal railway. come and experience lafayette park and enjoy the people, picnic and sunshine. this is a lovely place to take an afternoon stroll with your loved one hand in hand. located at got and sacramento street in the middle of pacific heights on top of the city's steep rolling hills, lafayette park offers a great place, peaceful beauty. comfort

to continue this for two weeks and proposing a inclusion for two weeks maybe the city attorney might want to suggest. >> mr. gibner is it possible to do closed session. >> john gibner, deputy city attorney we can have the closed sessions closed session on the same day with a vote or next week and the following welcome to consider the closed session. >> so the motion i'll make in anyone wants to suggest a restriction to continue the item two weeks and schedule a closed session next week so we have a motion. >> a motion second by supervisor campos. >> thank you, supervisor wiener for your comments i was on the rules committee the two of us who were sitting on the rules committee without going into details of closed session i feel a lot of the questions that have been raced through the continuance were raised by city attorney with that, i won't be support a continuance i feel we had our questions answered and points clarified so i want to make that known. >> okay. we have a motion to continue this item first two a closed session next week and to resolution on is 17 of june it's been seconded. >> supervisor av

mr. owen. >> tom owen, city attorney's office. just to be clear you are asking that the word youth be stricken at the beginning of line 11 so it would read the plan shall include a plan for equity analysis for children and family, correct? >> that will be included as part of the amendments that we will make. okay, no other public comments, public comment is now closed. again, most of these amendments that we're introducing today to the children and families first initiative really are what we consider minor amendments but it had to be done to make sure that we do everything correctly. so one of the major things is that we're including a rainy day reserve in there and referencing it to the general preamble for the combined ballot initiative. then for the children youth fund amendments we just wanted to further clarify the role of children youth and their families oversight and advisory committee. the committee would be allowed to review and approve the department's budgets and grants as a package. however, the board of supervisors

mr. clerk, sorry. city clerk: item 14: [park code - annual increase of west harbor berthing license fees] sponsor: mayor ordinance amending the park code to require the controller to increase the berthing license fees for the west harbor of the san francisco marina small craft harbor each year by 3 the annual increase in the consumer price index, whichever is higher, until september 1, 2043; and making environmental findings. fiscal impactt1234 >> thank you. thank you supervisors for allowing us to present. we are excited that we've started to come out of the worst of the budget. we are very grateful for the mayor's suggest in the budget process. we have a very very a vast system. we are blessed with an incredible park system in san francisco. it's big in scope and diversity and activity. ranging from 200 to now 21 neighborhood parks and 179 playgrounds and 72 golf courses, marina, our swimming pools. it's an incredible system and every three corner neighborhoods of san francisco in the statute that i am mo

for working hard for us and a number of people throughout the city realizing our city is more expensive and work families mr. taylor those who eastern minimum wage have struggled longer hours to try to make end meet and recognizing we'll have a tremendous effort being given to sustain jobs in the city and want to continue doing that but beyond the jobs how much you that make and so you can pay the high rents and all the things that costs sometimes beyond our control are increasing i'm grateful that last year, we made this announcement and he repeated it earlier this year at the state of the city address that we thought it was the right time to make a boost to the city and counties city's minimum wage to our lottery workings i prengd to work with all the different businesses small and big with workers themselves the representatives with economic experts any public comment? with the members of the board of supervisors, to try to reach a sequence around raising the minimum wage in the city. and this is one of the great issues that we can ail unit around and push forward to the residents of this city with our s

mr. syncountry or by the city attorney. i wouldn't touch right now the issue of asking for the material provide by the city attorney but i do think that any material you've got from mr. syncountry must be available to the public which this notice and agenda were published that's right in the law. on the assumption you know something about it i'll go ahead. the attorney-client belongs to the client that's you. doesn't belong to mr. syncountry. there are 24 public records that he refused ultimately to disobey close 4 are disclosed once the lawsuit was filed. at the task force hearings he said when asked have you can you describe the records and mr. syncountry said i haven't read the records and these i haven't counted them okay. so he u serpd your job you were the ones who should have been looking at the records to wave the privilege i can go through this whole list of occasions when this matter could have been brought to you there are at least 7 when the task force acted on them and i when mr. syncountry was responsible to r

mr. quan that's the city attorneys document he times it back >> sorry. >> go ahead. >> scott sanchez you can see the underground vault and the mile box in the different bay. >> oh, okay. that's very helpful thank you. >> could you leave it up there for a second mr. sanchez? okay. thank you. >> the drawing shows the gap between the center line of the mailbox to some point before the edge of their box as being 3 feet does that look like 3 feet to you? aren't they proposing to put the new box - >> no, i'm talking about the dimensions to some point before the edge of this green box i've seen 3 feet. >> this is a much tolerant showing. >> that's 3 feet. >> okay. >> well. >> maybe that's the reason they didn't want to show us those backgrounds before (laughter). >> well, i'll start. as commissioner fung stated that's been the problem at&t has been here many, many times before us in the last evidently weeks and months that seems we grandfather new information piece immediately by permit holder on each occasion as mentioned. so it gives me a hard time to process the information if i don't have a

mr. ordinary city. and i'll be added to further extradition. he was up to now a vatican citizen as ambassador of the vatican, but this will no longer be the case. i also understand that the vatican may have other charges to bring against him, an. >> commemorations are being held to mark 100 years since the assassination since the arch duke ferdinand. people have gathered in the capitol of sarajevo at the site where the arch duke and his wife was shot in 1914. it wait would trigger events that led to the first world war. take us through events, jonah. >> reporter: it's been a low key day until the end of the day. we saw just a little while ago the ente centerpiece of the event. playing a requiem and all those who died in world war i. dignitary, head of state, and the united nations looking to keep peace and reconciliation. of course, there is no disguising the fact that there is no reconciliation. bosnia torn apart by civil war and then physically split apart by the treaty that ended it. depending on what side of the political line you're on how

and vote own the underlying resolution >> i believe i want to acknowledge the city attorney to the amendments flying motion mr. gibner. >> john gibner, deputy city attorney. first, you should open for public comment when it is closed you should take a vote on the imperative finding which is the necessary prerequisite to asking and then vote on the single or two motions and the underlying amendments as amended >> supervisor campos. >> just wondering if there's any openness to having a different way of saying providing the context that supervisor avalos is saying. i would think that maybe the whereas it describes there are two perspectives on prop g but the other prospective of people that felt it was necessary maybe that's the way to address it maybe the board could factually describe there's a difference that opinion on that >> colleagues, any more discussion at this point. why not open this up for public comment and supervisor wiener >> so there are several whereas clauses that's are very, very clearly laying out not only the important roles of the mini drivers that's a difficult job and that there's a lot o

mr. wagner. sorry. madam clerk can you call item 17-20. thank you. city clerk: item 17. a resolution retruax actively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $166, 446 from public hementdz foundation enterprises. >> item no. 17. accept and expend grant probability based is survey of hiv risk among transmenusing a novel sampling method. item no. 19. resolution accept and ex-spent grant ryan white part c outpatient ei circumstances program. $322, 645. item no. 20. #15e79 and ex-spent grant medical monitoring $20. #15e79 and ex-spent grant medical monitoring project. $556, 874. >> thank you. >> very briefly as mr. rose touched on a number of these, we have a couple of pieces of legislation in front of you. item no. 4 is our patient rates. this is our annual update to our patient rates for medical services. these are our official rates, although the vast majority of our payers including medi-cal clients do not pay these rates, but they are the bases of funds that we recapture through commercial payers through san francisco ho

city. >> thank you chair farrell. i'm looking for mr. winn he's the deputy city attorney. colleagues this legislation is frail many years in the making because it is overall on amendment to the local hiring ordinance that was passed in december even if 2010. that ordinance was applying the local hire principle percentages rising every year we're in the year of a pause to do an assessment for workers to get hired for publicly you funded public works projects. this new amendment to the ordinance is actually adding in 2 parts that we will extend local hiring to public and private land for language for prevailing wages as well it follows the same process we had in place for the local hire ordinance and mr. flynn is coming now. it's pretty straightforward the approach but there's many departments that have coverage and we're concerned about how the policy will fit the work they're doing and i wanted to be flexible to make sure we can maximum local resident getting hired but understand the complexities that the departments had to go through. there's 3 well, actually now 2 main p

no city attorney fees now mr. syncountry if sustained it is contradicting little public documents. according to our website quote the commission provides records in ethics matters unquote unquote and contrary to your mission to practice and promote the highest standards of ethnical behavior in government. the mission goes on to say in order to accomplish that the commission shall enforce the campaign finances and open government laws. the commission shall should is question the action by mr. syncountry has he not experimented your decision making process and the brown acts about president chiu public meetings he defied the task force and took it upon himself to defend the layout then when he lost he brought an appeal on his own all could have been resolved if brought before the commission before litigation. thank you >> i'm pete arrest warrant field the director of the library associations we've had a variety of containments including at least one that was included in mr. grossing man's lawsuit which he won and th