hochstein and then mr. yee. >> thank you, chairman murphy and ranking member johnson and members of the subcommittee. i appreciate the opportunity to be here today to discuss european energy security during this critical time. the department of state and the administration as a whole are committed to improve europe's energy security and we're working closely with our partners in this effort. let me begin with an update on the energy crisis in ukraine. ukraine has been negotiating with russia and the european union to resolve the issue of price, debt, and future payment for ukraine's gas imports from russia. russia, unfortunately seized supply of gas to ukraine on july 16 showing little willingness to continue negotiations until ukraine pays off its debt. the situation is urgent. while production is sufficient to cover summer demand, without russian gas, ukraine will not be able to meet its consumption needs when the heating season returns. although the united states is not party to the trilateral gas negotiatio

hochstein and then mr. yee. >> thank you, chairman murphy and ranking member johnson and members of the subcommittee. i appreciate the opportunity to be here today to discuss european energy security during this critical time. the department of state and the administration as a whole are committed to improve europe's energy security and we're working closely with our partners in this effort. let me begin with an update on the energy crisis in ukraine. ukraine has been negotiating with russia and the european union to resolve the issue of price, debt, and future payment for ukraine's gas imports from russia. russia, unfortunately seized supply of gas to ukraine on july 16 showing little willingness to continue negotiations until ukraine pays off its debt. the situation is urgent. while production is sufficient to cover summer demand, without russian gas, ukraine will not be able to meet its consumption needs when the heating season returns. although the united states is not party to the trilateral gas negotiatio

>>supervisor norman yee: mr. richards, would you like to make a statement. >> supervisors, thank you for allowing me to be here today. this is the first time i'm able to serve. i would like to thank those that support me. the committee report i submitted today involves many great details. i began my work in the historic preservation at the time the sounding board was threatened and we are glad to see it's now part of the lgbt community center. and also served the time in the last economic boom on the community street services for dolores home and the housing for folks with hiv and aids. after that i served a little bit of time with supervisor leno on the task force and some issues that you are going to be hearing about today which reminds me about 14 years ago. i have been a member of the heritage for years. we reached help to get to under represented communities and getting more involved. i'm happy to say the work that my leader of heritage has done has really not only from a physical environment point of view b

>>supervisor norman yee: mr. richards, would you like to make a statement. >> supervisors, thank you for allowing me to be here today. this is the first

supervisor yee. mr. president, all members are present >> ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. colleagues, we have meeting minutes from june 24th as well as june 23rd and 25th do i hear a motion to approve the minutes wksz those are approved >> madam clerk that any communications. >> none. >> consent are considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. arrest roll call >> supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. there are 11 i's >> those resolutions are adapted item 3. >> an ordinance to authorize the department of public health to enter into operating leases for equipment. >> colleagues, same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. >> item 4 the reoperate $23

supervisor yee. mr. president, all members are present thank you ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> thank you. >> excuse me. sir, you are out of order. >> (inaudible). i'm sorry to a >> colleagues, we're back in session with the approval of the minutes motion that i supervisor cohen and second by supervisor mar the may 2014 minutes are approved madam clerk, any announcements? >> items 51 through 55 for the condominium conversion from friday june 19th we received a communication stat she was with drauld her appeal the hearing shall be open and we will table the motions to approve and prepare vntsd and colleagues we'll take that up at an appropriate time. >> items one through 368 commission on community investment & infrastructure and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. >> would anyone else want to sever any items. >> superviso

yee present. mr. president, you have a quorum. >> thank you.ies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands; one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> colleagues, we have our june 10th, 2014 board meeting minutes as well as the june 11, 2014 special meeting minutes of the rules committee. could i have a motion to approve those minutes? motion by supervisor mar, seconded by supervisor breed. without objection, those meeting minutes are approved. [gavel] >> and with that, madam clerk, are there any communications? >> there are no communication, mr. president. >> and could you read our 2:00 p.m. special order? >> the first item of the business is the policy discussion between the honorable mayor edwin lee and members of the board of supervisors. this week representing the odd districts, specifically districts 1, 3 and 11, the mayor may address the board initially for up to five minutes. the president

. >> mr. yee, let me ask you. i'm calling it putin's pause. i have actually been appreciate the fact that he's not sent, you know, overtly more support and looks like ukraine is having some success at stabilizing the region, certainly getting, you know, stabilizing some of those cities. do you have any explanation for that? do you know what he's thinking? >> i think it would be very risky to try to get inside vladimir putin's brain and to explain what he's thinking. >> let me just ask. does that surprise the state department? >> that he's paused? >> yeah. >> i think i would say that it's not a complete surprise that in light of some resolve on the part of the international community in standing up to what russia and russian proxies are doing in you yan, in addition to some bold military action, security action by ukrainian government and security forces, it should not be a great surprise. if we're talking about the recent days. since march, i think there's been a cumulative effect with measures led by the united states and nato showing that we

and i'll direct the question to you but happy to have mr. yee respond, as well. the reforms they need to undertake are dramatic. and the effect of those reforms done too precipitously is, perhaps, destabilizing in a country right now that doesn't need much more instability. the vector between what gas prices are today and what they would be without the subsidy is enormous. the amount of money they have to spend on reengineering this wildly efficient soviet architecture is essentially almost a rip down and build back up proposition. without requiring them to spend money they don't have and impose price increases on citizens who are right now looking for reasons to be confident rather than angry at their new government. >> mr. chairman, those are great questions. and it's a very difficult task to do. but it must be done because if we don't -- as i said in my testimony, if we don't reform it, just pour money into this and make sure there are some reverse flows and gas comes in, as i said before, we're going to be back at this problem right, you know, again very shor

mr. chair. >>supervisor norman yee: so, could i have bobbie wilson. maybe give him a few seconds to leave the room. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am privileged and honored with the opportunity to speak with you today. thank you. i started my legal career in san francisco as a legal aid society employment law center in the mission where i focused on high impact employment cases representing farm workers and black firefighters, lesbian police officer whose fellow officers put a rat in her locker because she dared to complain about sexual orientation discrimination. as part of the employment, i also staffed the workers rights clinics. those would be clinics that we would have at different locations and would have people come in who couldn't afford lawyers and talk about their employment problems and they had many many types of employment problems. i tell you that because it goes to the diversity of my legal experience. after the employment law center i went to a private practice to a firm that is no longer around but a great firm, howard rice. they h

yee present. mr. president, all members are present. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of allegiance? i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands; one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> colleague, we have our june 3rd, 2014 meeting minutes. can i have a motion to approve those minutes? motion by supervisor kim, seconded by supervisor campos. those meeting minutes are approved. [gavel] >> are there any communications? >> there are none today, mr. president. >> if you could read our consent agenda. >> items 1 through 5 comprise the consent calendar. these items are considered routine. if a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately. >> kiloton, i want to sever item 4. with that, unless there are any item to be severed, supervisor tang. ~ colleagues >> items 12 and 13, please. >> i think we just called the consent agenda which is items 1 through 5. >> apologize. >> no worries. madam clerk, could you

mr. fields. >> good afternoon, supervisors. supervisor yee, supervisors campos and tanning -- tang and kim. i want to truly let you know how grateful we are that all the time in the mayor's office and some of the supervisors we talked to individually specifically today i'm going to address the cop-out for 55 plus older workers. i think many people do not know that for seniors to be eligible for medicare they have to have a work history of 10 years and a full 40 quarters. many people thought that only if i work one or two 2 years when i grow to be 65 i automatically get medicare. this is not so. almost 30 years ago, the elderly, the older workers who do not get medicare will be in a dire situation particularly when health care is so costly. first we provide training and we hire people over 55 and provide employers, people like us who house housekeepers and they work for 10 plus years, maybe 12. at 65 they qualify for social security. we are not here to ask for a discounted minimum wage rate because we want to pay the older workers lower. we are just here to make sure that older workers get s

mr. smith. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor kim. supervisor mar absent. supervisor yee. that item passes >> thank you. can we please call the next item >> item 67 recommended approval of 14, 2014 prop k 5 year provisions prioritization programs this is an action item. >> any questions from the committee oh, we have a publication. >> i'll be really, really fast. >> maria thank you supervisor kim. this is probably would be one of the most important decisions this is the approval of the is 5 year plans that the prop k savings measure

yee. supervisor tang? okay supervisor tang. okay >> mr. president, we'll make a note. >> thank you, colleagues can we take that same house, same call? . without objection this is adapted and back to our 3:00 p.m. special order and mr. quan is back from dpw >> we've met with the property owner her property was stricken in the revised list and we've met with one other prove or disprove that agrees to pay the outstanding balance this is due on her property and we what ask that the 5 of >> accomodation and that concludes our business with that lame we're >> the mayor's disability council meeting will now have introductions read by derek. we're not on yet? >> we're now. >> okay. >> good afternoon and welcome to the mayor's disability council this friday, june 20th, 2014 in room 400 of san francisco city hall. city hall is accessible to persons using wheelchair -- wheelchair access is provided at the grove, van nesand mcallister. assistive listening devices are available you been and our meeting is open-captions and sign-language interpreted. ou

mr. smith. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor kim. supervisor mar absent. supervisor yee. that item passes >> thank you. can we please call the next item >> item 67 recommended approval of 14, 2014 prop k 5 year provisions prioritization programs this is an action item. >> any questions from the committee oh, we have a publication. >> i'll be really, really fast. >> maria thank you supervisor kim. this is probably would be one of the most important decisions this is the approval of the is 5 year plans that the prop k savings measure it is by the expenditure plan meant to present transparency into the process as well as certainty for the public and others to see what is coming ahead and maximize missing leveraging issues for the city and county of san francisco. on the website what we have two presentations what is prop k and what are the 5 year plans yo go into that but it's a great reference and our deputy city attorney are going to tobacco tag team and i'd like to let the committee know we get the opposition we have folks from the mta area and other folks and strangely from the chech republic so with

yee. supervisor tang? okay supervisor tang. okay >> mr. president, we'll make a note. >> thank you, colleagues can we take that same house, same call? . without objection this is adapted and back to our 3:00 p.m. special order and mr. quan is back from dpw >> we've met with the property owner her property was stricken in the revised list and we've met with one other prove or disprove that agrees to pay the outstanding balance this is due on her property and we what ask that the 5 of >> accomodation and that concludes our business with that lame we're >> rise please for the pledge of allegiance. >> mr. president, i would like to call the roll, please? >> please do. >> president mazzucco? >> present. >> vice president turman? >> here. >> commissioner marshal? >> here. >> commissioner dejesus is en route. >> commissioner loftus? >> here. >> and commissioner wong? >> here. >> mr. president, we have a quorum and also, the chief of police gregory suhr. >> welcome to the wednesday, july 2, 2014, police commission meeting, you see that we have a p

yee: thank you. any other public comments on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. supervisor campos? >>supervisor david campos: thank you, mr. chairman. it's great to see how life works and to see people who came to speak and people who on their own have impressive careers and people that have this caliber to come and support bobbie wilson. it's my honor to approve the nomination of bobby wills ie wilson and to move that forward to the board of supervisors. >>supervisor norman yee: supervisor tang? >>supervisor katy tang: thank you for serving in this capacity. i think i was one of the individuals to ask her during your current capacity with your work lights and all the wonderful skills that you bring, why would you want to serve on this board and i appreciate that you want to give back to the community and use your skill set to help the community antd folks that do have to appear before the board of appeals which is often the last stop that people have and their last hope. i appreciate that and look forward to working with you in this capacity and support supervisor's ability to amend this and with full support to the boar

. >> we have a moved by supervisor yee if we could take that without objection. >> without objection. item passes. and mr. clerk, do we have any other items before the board. >> i believe that is today's business. >> meeting is adjourned. thank you. >> this lodge is home to some of the best fly casting pools in the world. these shallow concrete pools don't have fish. this is just a place where people come to practice their fly casting technique. ith was built in the 1930's and ever since, people have been coming here to get back to nature. every year, the world championship of fly casting is held in san francisco and visitors from all over the globe travel to be here. >> we are here with phil, general manage of san francisco rec and parks department at the anglers lodge. what do you think about this? >> it is spectacular, travis from oregon, taught me a snake roll and a space cast. >> there are people from all over the world come to san francisco and say this is the place to be. >> yeah. it's amazing, we have teams from all over the world here today and they are thrilled. >> i flew from ireland to be her

. >> we have a moved by supervisor yee if we could take that without objection. >> without objection. item passes. and mr. clerk, do we have any other items before the board. >> i believe that is today's business. >> meeting is adjourned. thank you. at 62942 working wit together we can support your children. it's been my dream to start is a valley school since i was a little girl. i'm having a lot of fun with it (clapping) the biggest thing we really want the kids to have fun. a lot of times parents say that valley schools have a lot of problems but we want them to follow directions but we want them to have a wonderful time and be an affordable time so the kids will go to school here. we hold the classes to no longer 12 and there's 23 teachers. i go around and i watch each class and there's certain children i watched from babies and it's exciting to see them after today. the children learn how to follow directions and it ends up helping them in their regular schooling. they get self-confidents and today, we had a residual and a lot of time go on stage and i hope they get the bug and want to dance for the

mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. (applause) [gavel]much. >> good afternoon. i'm supervisor yee representing district that. i want to thank you all for being here today, we're here today unified for children and families yes (clapping) we are honored to have not only mayor ed lee but assembly member tom who is on his way to join us today. thank you. (clapping.) this is a special day for san francisco children we'll be introducing the final version off our legislation the children and families first initiative today at the board of supervisors meeting the final result was much, much input. from mire colleagues and from mayor lee's office the reward for working together is a strong, strong piece of legislation supported by not only by me but all 11 members of the board of supervisors and mayor ed lee. (clapping.) san francisco's population totaled children population is approximately one hundred and 9 thousand children. 56 thousands of those attend our publics schools there's about 35 thousand children between the age of zero and 5. this is why we're asking voters to support the children and families initiat

. >> we have a moved by supervisor yee if we could take that without objection. >> without objection. item passes. and mr. clerk, do we have any other items before the board. >> i believe that is today's business. >> meeting is adjourned. thank you. >> good afternoon, everyone. this is not a new version of q and a time if you're wondering but we have a major announcing announcement to make and something that all of us and particularly the people that are standing behind me want to really thank them 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 w

. >> we have a moved by supervisor yee if we could take that without objection. >> without objection. item passes. and mr. clerk, do we have any other items before the board. >> i believe that is today's business. >> meeting is adjourned. thank you. >> >> good afternoon. welcome to our rules committee for thursday july 17, 2014. i am supervisors norman yee and i will be chairing this meeting. i'm joined by supervisor katie tang and supervisor campos. the clerk today is lisa miller. the committee would also like to acknowledge the staff of sf gov. tv. san francisco television jessie larson. who record all our meetings and make the transcripts available online. madam clerk, do you have announcements? >> yes, please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. please submit any copies and documents should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the agenda. >> call you call items 1-9. >> items 1-9 involving various lawsuits. >> is there any members of the public who wish to speak on items 1-9? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues is there a motion to conv

mr. clerk a announcement. >> we have 9 member meeting we're not xheemgd with a quorum. >> next open the docket is supervisor yee. >> i really want to thank the budget committee for getting this budget to us and giving us the opportunity to support that i'm disappointed it ended so early i've heard how wonderful is is to staying hereafter 3 and 4 in the morning i'm really disappointed supervisor farrell joking aside. when you look at the things that are added in the add back you'll realize the different needs we have in the city. there's not enough funding to really meet the needs of every single item but i am happy with many of the ones that are listed here the food security at the desk piece was very important, several of the supervisors have mentioned the animal care having to judge the puppy contest with 50 dogs and so many of the owners coming up to me and saying you know, i just got this dog or puppy and it was ready to be put to sleep and there was only 3 months ago i heard this over and over again so having some additional funding having to provide staffing for the animals is important. the i am very dis

yee. supervisor avalos. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. there are 11 i's. those recesses are adapted and item 69 supervisor avalos >> mr. president, i'll read the item first it's a commending of the local program and declaring san francisco tennis for the joint powers authority to prevent foreclosures. >> i want to continue to the next board meeting. >> supervisor avalos has asked for a continuance of july 8th is there a second. seconded by supervisor yee can we continue it without objection we'll take that without objection.. and if you could call item 72 >> a resolution to urge the public works between visitacion valley 90 in order to identify the points of interests along the african-american free speech trail. >> supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much well san francisco has the diversity and that is what makes the city a great place to live and work and do business it's critically important we tell the history of san francisco from all impacts and the native american and the lgbt and the chinese and the african-american of those need to be included appreciating the culture and the contribution of african-american

so, supervisor yee has made a motion to continue this to the call of the chair. can we do that without objection? [gavel] >> mr. evans, is there any other business before us >> there is no more business, mr. chair. >> thank you for coming out, everyone. meeting adjourned. [gavel] you. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in landing a contract with the sfoifk is pretty champ but now with the opened contracting center visitors can get opportunity at the new state of the arc facility and attend workshops and receive one-on-one technical assistance and learner what you need to become a primary contractor or what information to be a subcontractor and a created bed public commission it will help people to assist people to compete for and performance open city contract a lot of small businesses do have the resources to loblth the opportunity so one of the things we wanted to do was provide ways to access contract >> access to the plans spiefkz and a data place basis ease contracting opportunity and funding or capital training. this is and other documents that needs to be submitted. to compete is a technical skill that it takes to win a

so, supervisor yee has made a motion to continue this to the call of the chair. can we do that without objection? [gavel] >> mr. evans, is there any other business before us >> there is no more business, mr. chair. >> thank you for coming out, everyone. meeting adjourned. [gavel] . >> welcome to the san francisco bay area super bowl 50 host committees progress update. please welcome to the stage our master of ceremonies frank (clapping) thank you, everybody and getting up nice and early for me we get up at 2:30 i'm the morning anchor that is near and dear to my heart as super bowl 50 host committee kickoff today and, of course, it was a little bit over the year ago we sent a committee out and they've been working on the foxburrow to bring this game back to the san francisco bay area this is the golden anniversary game the super bowl 50 so it's such a big event and played in a brand new stadium with the 49ers ready to play their season down at the santa clara levi stadium we've started on unofficial count down we're one year and 8 months and two days a away we're 6 hundred days and hours 14 thousand and 88 hoir

mr. chair. >> thank you very much. we are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> okay, good afternoon. welcome to our special rules commit toe meeting for thursday, july 10, 2014. i am supervisor yee and am joined by supervisor tang and tell ls. the committee would also like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv,

so, supervisor yee has made a motion to continue this to the call of the chair. can we do that without objection? [gavel] >> mr. evans, is there any other business before us >> there is no more business, mr. chair. >> thank you for coming out, everyone. meeting adjourned. [gavel] >> rise please for the pledge of allegiance. >> mr. president, i would like to call the roll, please? >> please do. >> president mazzucco? >> present. >> vice president turman? >> here. >> commissioner marshal? >> here. >> commissioner dejesus is en route. >> commissioner loftus? >> here. >> and commissioner wong? >> here. >> mr. president, we have a quorum and also, the chief of police gregory suhr. >> welcome to the wednesday, july 2, 2014, police commission meeting, you see that we have a pretty wide agenda and we are moving into the summer session and we actually may have some other days off due to vacation schedules and training schedules, but welcome. this meeting is going to be a very positive meeting. we are going to have after general public comment, a presentation by officer jason johnson, regarding a trip that the police de

yee: thank you. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisors, any comments? supervisor campos? >>supervisor david campos: thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank supervisor mar for his leadership on this item. i think it's an important effort. one that i think makes a great deal of sense. i would like to move this item forward with a positive recommendation as a committee report. >> okay. with no objection, the motion passes. thank you. madam clerk, item no. 6. city clerk: item no. 6. a motion to the board by adding rules of order by adding rule 3.43. >> would you like to make comments? >>supervisor david campos: i'm proud to bring this legislation to bring young people's voice in policy making in san francisco board of supervisors and our city. i would like to thank our cosponsor david campos for the empowerment of young people and having them heard at the board of supervisors. the youth commission asked for myself in achieving a mandate of promoting a stronger youth voice in our city's policy making. with so much business of our board of supervisors happening in the middle of the day, at times when young people are in school,