>>supervisor norman yee: ms. wilson, it's really nice and refreshing to have somebody not only well qualified professionally for this position, but when you say you want to give back, a lot of people say that. but when you listen to them you wonder what they really mean when they give back, but eye a -- i have a strong sense that it's not only this time, but you've always given back. the other thing i really appreciate about you that you will bring to this board is your very strong strong sense of social justice. i appreciate your view on this and how you see things. if everybody in the world were like you, it would be perfect. so there is a motion on the floor and i think everything has been said for the motion, amendments and all. there is no objection. the motion passes. congratulations. [ applause ] >> we are joined by supervisor mar. madam clerk. item 4. city clerk: item 4: [appointments, assessment appeals board no. 3]1408394.hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending september 5, 2015, and one

>>supervisor norman yee: thank you very much. for public testimony i have paul henderson, david shay, dan call, >> good afternoon. nice to see everyone. paul henderson. i'm here today. i'm a friend of bobby. i have known her for many years in my role at the san francisco attorneys office. one of my duties in management was monitoring and evaluating lawyers that came in to the firm to be prosecutors for a period of time. this is a big program that had hundreds of people a year that was very rarely that i saw talent and ability like bobby's that would stand out, that would cross the years where i would say personally engaged with specific individuals like bobby based on those experiences, but that's exactly who she was. i saw her in the courtrooms, i saw her interacting with the public, i saw her engaged with the legal community, as an advocate, working with the bench and a wide number of related agencies and remained impressed with her, not just with the work she did with me and through that agency at the time but over the years w

>>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: 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 polic

>>supervisor norman yee: i guess we are coming off recess. we are going to resume to the last item in which we already called, right? so we are joined by supervisor jane kim. she will introduce the item. >>supervisor jane kim: thank you chair yee. i just want to thank and acknowledge the rules committee. we've hat a tough session. we made it finally in time. we were just negotiating literally words to make sure that we came forward to the rules committee with the right amendments and changes that we would not have to make later. i'm really happy to announce that today we have agreed upon a set of core terms between the mayor's office for housing and neighborhood stabilization plan to achieve our goal of balance of achieving 30 percent of housing. this plan of 2014-2015 via legislation and if necessary ballot measures in the future. we are starting this process today by presenting to voters on november 2014 a ballot measure with core values which memorialize the agreement. this is a compromise but under we share the same goal. we are taking of

chair of the committee and we are joined by the chair, eric mar, and committee member, supervisor, norman yee is en route, the clerk of the committee is derek evans and we want to thank the members of sfgtv staff who are recovering the meeting for us, jim smith and jessy larson. >> do we have any announcements. >> be sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices completed speaker cards to be submitted to the clerk and the items acted upon today will be appearing on the july 29th meeting. >> item one is a hearingconsider that the issuance of a type 42 on-sale beer and wine public premises license to vladimir cood for buzzworks, inc., dba sf:buzzworks:soma, located at 365-11th street (district 6), will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of san francisco. >> great, if we could begin by hearing from the applicant. and i apologize if i miss pronounce your name. vladamir. >> good morning. and i guess that i will just fry to keep it short and sweet here. i am opening up buzz works, directly across the street from the operation called butter on 11th street and i

i am supervisor norman yee and i will be chairing this meeting.d campos, the clerk today is alisa miller. the committee would also like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv jennifer low and mike freeman who record our meetings and make transcript valuables online and clerk are there any announcements. >> yes, please make sure to silence electronic devices. >> can we have a motion to excuse supervisor tang from this meeting? >> so moved. >> okay. without objection, motion passes. madame clerk, please call item no. 1. >> item no. 1 a motion order og policy delicious submitted to the voters is making findings and declaring policies of the city's commitment to address housing afor the recordability crisis, support production of new housing and create a housing action and neighborhood stabilization plan and ensure financial support of public housing for the new york 4, 2014 election. >> okay. we have heard the amendments last thursday from supervisor kim and she was wondering if she needed to be here and i said no. so is there any public comment for this

>>supervisor norman yee: thank you madam chair and colleagues. i would like to thank you for attending this particular hearing. i would like to say a few words at the outset in support of the nominations that i have made today. first up is kathrin moore who i think all of you know. i have decided to nominate her to rea point her back to the planning commission for a third term. and given how in incredibly time intensive that position is for a volunteer position, i just wanted to thank her for here willingness to serve as what i know for all of our commissioners a significant labor of love. kathrin moore is an architect and urban designer and we have appreciated her expertise and her design that is for our noble character. she has plenty of experience planning and in design and how we as a city submit ourselves together and she has experience in every neighborhood and every corner of this city. i heard from many members of the public who reference her not just her deep knowledge but the fact that she knows so much history about what our city is ab

>>supervisor norman yee: is there any objection? seeing none. the amendment passes. >> can i just, i forgot the most important for me to thank at least folks in public comment have thanked me for the hundreds of hours that i have put into housing balance measure. but there is someone who put in dozens of house, that is april. i want to thank her for the hours she's put in this for the last months. >> okay. can we take a motion to move this for monday july 28. th. >> so moved. >> no objection, motion passes. thank you very much. madam clerk, are there anymore items on the agenda? >> that concludes our business for today. >> okay. the meeting is now adjourned. thank you very much. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> we're here to raise awareness and money and fork for a good accuse. we have this incredible gift probably the widest range of restaurant and count ii destines in any district in the city right here in the mission intricate why don't we capture that to support the mission youths going to college that's for the food for thought. we didn't

>>supervisor norman yee: is there any objection? seeing none. the amendment passes. >> can i just, i forgot the most important for me to thank at least folks in public comment have thanked me for the hundreds of hours that i have put into housing balance measure. but there is someone who put in dozens of house, that is april. i want to thank her for the hours she's put in this for the last months. >> okay. can we take a motion to move this for monday july 28. th. >> so moved. >> no objection, motion passes. thank you very much. madam clerk, are there anymore items on the agenda? >> that concludes our business for today. >> okay. the meeting is now adjourned. thank you very much. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> good afternoon, everyone today is tuesday, july 1, 2014, this is the san francisco community investment & infrastructure commission i'd like to call this meeting to order at one 15. please call roll >> thank you, madam chair the first order. commissioner members please record >> commissioner ellington. commissioner mondejar. commissioner si

>>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

and thank you i appreciate that and just for the record we have been joined by supervisor norman yee and his night, bright yellow tie and i think that the main question is always the community out reach. and i appreciate very creative way of doing that and i hear that supervisor kim is supporting this item as well and so thank you very much unless there are any questions, supervisor mar? >> yeah, i wanted to thank you for the amazing out reach that you have done just documenting it easily and it is a great marketing concept that man cave on steroids as you call it and not competing with the existing businesses but integrating with the 11th street corridor, where the places are and you your use of the buzz kind of very creatively and visually as well, and i think that creation of a hang out, social tavern spot is needed on a street like that and i wanted to thank you especially for the hard work with all of the residents that you have contacted and even just outlining from january of this year for the 6 months that the work to reach out to people and listen to their concerns, too, but

norman yee mentioned tom owen. wanted to thank him as well for his work and getting last minute details from us to put in charter amendment form. that was very, very helpful. and look forward to voting on this next week. >> thank you. colleague, as you know, under our board of supervisors board rules, at least six days need to intervene before the first appearance of a proposed charter amendment before we actually submit it to the electorate. with that i'd like to entertain a motion to continue this. could i have a motion to do that in motion by supervisor yee, seconded by supervisor mar to continue this item to the 15th of july. without objection, that should be the case. [gavel] >> madam clerk, could you call item 70? >> item 70 was referred without recommendation from the rules committee. a charter amendment in its second draft, charter amendment (second draft) to amend the charter of the city and county of san francisco to require the department of elections to hold a special election when there is a vacancy in

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

supervisors and the supervisors of the rules committee and particularly supervisor kim, supervisor norman yee and supervisor avalos for all of the work and time that you and your staff have committed to the children and families first charter amendments. many of the community recommendations have been incorporated into the legislation, which will have a tremendous impact on our city's families especially those with the highest needs. 13% of our city's children under the age of 5 are at or below the federal poverty level which for a family of three is below $20,000. the increased flexibility in the preschool all funds -- excuse me -- would help to create and strengthen early care for all systems that will allow the city to better address the needs of san francisco's youngest families. we have heard a lot that san francisco has the lowest percentage of children compared to all other cities and with the disturbing wealth disparity further isolates and pushes families out. in addition, to the much-needed increase in funding, this legislation exemplifies the commitment to children, youth and the c

of this legislation and supervisors wiener and breed and campos, katie indicate -- tanning and norman yee and we shared being supervisors at russian hill given the districting and he and i talked about this project for years. he's been a strong advocate this whole time and a true supporter and his support has been amazing. san francisco parks alliance and the san francisco beautiful, the sierra club, the omega boys club. the neighborhood association. i saw don earlier, this childhood development center, the galileo high school which is just a few blocks away. we talked about some of the programming for some of their classes and what can be done at a vast park like this. the opportunities, the audubon society, the dwellers, the coalition for san francisco neighborhoods. ultimately over 42 organizations have been involved in this effort. to me it was so important if we are taking on a project of this magnitude that it would be a coalition of not only city organization groups but the citywide. i think we've been able to do that. i know stacy bradley who is here is going to be speaking about

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 convene in closed session. with no objection. motion passes. members of the public, we will now be convened in closed session. we will ask you to please leave >>> >> deputy city attorney john gibner, the committee voted items 1-4, 6-9 for full recommendation. one vote with supe

i also wanted to say to my colleague, norman yee, the parent organizations through the city have been the power of the grass roots campaign we built from the second district pta to individual ptas having vigorous discussions. i know others will continue to support the children and families first initiative as well, but a lot of it is about families first and health is a key part of it. i wanted to say too that it's not just a health problem as was stated by -- earlier as supervisor wiener and especially supercohen ly supervisor cohen made it clear to me, it's a crisis out there. it's a epidemic, it's exploding from the time when coca-cola was first introduced into the vending machines until now there's been this eks cloegs because of the supervise me big gulps and other types of beverages and in many ways diabetes is regressive and the $50 million that this will raise will go to son-in-law of the most forward looking policies and progressive efforts to reduce the impacts and this crisis we're facing as others have said. i would urge you to think about those amazing studies done by man