mr. olsen's budget and move forward with that ordinance. >> maybe not a question appropriate for today since the zoning administrator is not here i'm curious with the actual set of ice and the city zoning administrator, what say you? is able to push back when they apply properties to this list i'm curious of the process and mr. lee the question on the cac - and this is a question i'll have to get back to you on i'll talk to my staff on the level of activities of the cac i i do not recall being noticed for the cac meeting in the recent history but i'll get that information back to the board. >> i don't think since i've been on the board in 2011 the cac met i wasn't aware until i right it last time i'd like to work with the mayor's office of housing. >> family going back to the property so why not declare this property surplus? >> because it is not supervisor fully utilized for the office functions but for the creation of the designation for the property it - you make a valid point at inspected we're entertaining a sale the board will be on the specifics of the sale and at that time the questi

. >> well, i'll defer to mr. olsen. >> there are changes that need to be made at the state level transferring a case out we need a more reasonable approach to the assistance programs all of a sudden the family goes to another county didn't make sense we need to examine can we reorient our system towards a regional approach with a regional transportation promissory note program not a regional heirs system of safety nets so that's my - >> just one more pious and i'll move on but the jobs that the subsidized jobs our talking about and many of them may get permanent eliminates plummets are those in san francisco. >> yes. almost exclusively. >> we fix the housing. >> we talked about the regional approach we're restricted to use the dollars in san francisco why wouldn't he explore the regional county like alameda county. >> supervisor if i could since you were doling out the tuesdays i want to thank joyce and scott for stepping up on the navigation center and have come online they deserve a lot of recognize. >> thanks. >> go

mr. olsen's letter. a response letter from chairman elliott cade to chairman olsen. pursuant to committee rules i remind committee members they have ten days to submit questions for the record and i would without objection again my thanks to the panel and thanks for staying with us through a long morning and without objection, the subcommittee is adjourned. >>> back in 1983 when i was graduating from high school the song that has stuck with me for the last 32 years is a song called "hold on to your dreams" by a group called ouija you're all too young to know ouija. all right. will you start the music, president? >> said he forgot the music. i'll sing it a cappella. will you all just help me out here? thank you very much. ♪ hold on ♪ ♪ to your dreams ♪ ♪ believe ♪ >> y'all don't know good music. i'm going to tell you the words. the song simply says hold on to your dreams. believe in love and let love be the light to show you the way. >> that and other commencement speeches from around the country saturday starting at noon eastern on our companion network, c-span and o

. >> i know we have the mayor's office of disabilities olsen lee here thank you mr. lee for coming and your hard work and look forward to the conversation today as well. >> before john leaves the room i really would like to thank the department of city planning for their collaboration on the mayor's office of disabilities and xhept community development i'll talk about our programs development that's the focus of a lot of what the office has done in terms of creating new resources to address the affordability criticize and under the leadership of john has been a great partner to problem solve and create tools it he has helps us regulate and create for housing to recollection look at the possibility of building on the public sites as well as improvements in the inclusionary program the mafdz what do we do obviously work on the development of the city's housing policy whether the implementing agency to assist in the construction of affordable housing we're also the office that provide for pass through grants to the strength of the neighborhood fantastic and the goal of

mr. updyke. >> sure i mean, i'll speak to the needs of the space and olsen to the housing strategies but from a space stand out we're continuing our discussions in marketplace within a simple block radius of city hall or at least approximate transit radius up and down van ness there are a number of development sites both existing and proposed that can also be a absolved a designation of thirty van ness we believe what we've proposed and the board are the sale agreement to be the best of those options we wouldn't have brought it forward but pursuant options as i say don't go as we expect them to relate to ceqa the next steps. >> and in terms of the ceqa review are we on the hook for money for some reason the board decides not to pressure that. >> the current obligation of second is over $8 million if you think of what we leverage is interests in $30 million of land for a period of 2 and a half years to be effective tied up we look at that proifrm and this was a fair price to pay a fair risk to take to move the project forward. >> again mr. lee. >> yes. just a couple of thoughts on the transactio

mr. white to inform him, i want to inform i'm a certificate holder i received a letter from olsen lee last year that the certificate holders will not be any longer than after 2016 i'm glad you're going to hold a hearing auto while take our comment during public comment. >> yes. at my age 82 i forget. >> i'll remind you. >> laughter. >> so commissioner mondejar. >> one last next thing or thing i want to hear from the nonprofit partner t n d c if it's okay. so i just want to know how that this meets our requirements as a nonprofit partner do you have any comment. >> thank you for asking commissioner don falk we're really thrilled to be part of project we're very passionate about our values and sxhuts we feel like it is important to represent those in our discussions about design and financing and how the project will carry forth i think in our mature selection always partners we felt like we needed to hear and see that and relate it they'll be responsive to us when we raise those issues that's our experience so far as far very good. >> thank you very much i appreciate it. >> would any commis

mr. lee to come back given the housing portfolio deals with homeless certainly not only exist but in the pipeline i want to include that as part of the conversation. >> good afternoon olsen lee director of the mayor's office of housing in terms of the most cd mission wanted to clarify how our mission fits within the subject matter of that particular hearing in terms of the the providing the financing and facility the purpose of affordable homes in san francisco one of the decision this were made n many years ago the decision to create permanently supportive housing rather than lease hotels or other housing and this is define in part by creating permanently affordable housing we could leverage or leverage outside resources to pay for the cost confident housing in some cases the operating costs of housing is lower than the lease housing and ♪ cases the hours is built to current standards in terms of of accessibility and other important issues of people with disabilities the people has a dual track in providing the housing for the disabled and seniors and others in terms of 0 both the master lease hotels and the permanent affordable in terms of our work and in terms of crea