a city piece of legislation or a city election but not having direct contact for example situations uber and airbnb have spent large amazes amounts of money for mobilizing people to come down to city hall for various types of things that were on before the board of supervisors or 09 matters spent fairly large expenditures in terms of training for those people meetings and lobbyists be lobbying and chore leading efforts and transporting them no where is it in regards to how those measures are being affected that those high paying paid to play characters were involved in spending a great deal of money influencing city policy i think in terms of the interested persons meeting colleagues it was clear that everyone agreed that in terms of the people in san francisco they should know what sort of money is being spent and who is spend in native americans to measures before our city government we shouldn't have a hidden pay to play not a question or outlawing they can do it unfortunately, because of the decisions like citizens united, anybody can pretty much government can be corrupted by m

my sisters and brother we cannot 4 sake or city. remember hour destiny to lead the world to freedom out of the slavery of a broken greedy system towards economy of care and celebration. no one owns the mission, the city, this ourth, her heart belawns to those who love her. we need a moratorium, hanz off lady of inmission, you can't touch her anymore >> thank you next speaker. >> good evening my name is amie farrell and the founder and director ofnerics developing deviz tar r daro and saying yes to sustainable development since 2011 but sometimes as community advoicates for balance and well being we sooto say no and have to stands in soldaredy with the mission now and say, we are not gonna take it, no, we antenot gonna take it, we are not gonna take it anymore. those are the words of twisting sister but they may as well be the words of thomas jaurfson and may be the words of helen mary rogeroffs the fill more who sat in front of fill more businesses and said no to the bulldozers and may have been the words of ed lee a community activi

change, let's hope they do these can be added back -- for third party groups that distribute adds or city elections, it requires spending a thousand dollars or more 90 days prior to an election to be disclosed within 24 hours -- sent by third party groups, if the communications cost over $1,000 or more which almost all of them do. thirdly, legislation has disclaimers, on print and ads, that help voters understand who is behind a message, we're setting clear standards for readable font size and understandable spoke b disclaimerer, in advertising, the changes, improve upon state law requirements by man dating larger font size on mass and smaller mailers -- disclosing top donors and require -- on the website. all together they will update simplify and street signingthen, the cfro's, disclaimer requirements, and making compliance easier for grass roots candidates, and smaller neighborhood groups campaign finance reform is a delicate issue -- understands that. she has not always been met half way, i would like to briefly address an article, by larry bush from 48 hills yesterday -- about electi

housing crisis struck the soul of our city i grew up many of the classmates have moved out of the city or living with their parents they can't afford the rent so san francisco is i am not the crisis will threaten the diversity of polyps o population of the city and the opportunity of people that want to make this their home and threaten you know the opportunity to offer kindness to the unemployed and negligence overview negligence mentally oil people i believe that supervisor campos we should build as much housing as possible as cheaply as possible and container hours and bring in container or manufactured housing to built as much as possible, however, i disagree with supervisor campos is where this is enough i don't think that subsidized housing will ever be enough to house people in the area in income let alone the housing middle-income or the hundred 20 percent of the area middle-income when you in fact on zero-sum policies like this you increase the the rent of everyone what happens when you don't win the lottery you're back in the list the open solution for the majority of people. >>

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children who are using vouchers whether those vouchers are funded with state funds, federal funds, or cityfunds, are struggling. so we are likely to see slow increases at the state level in terms of increases both in the standard reimbursement rate for contractor providers. read 5% last year. we learned. another 5% this year and also increases the voucher rate. we are committed to keeping our city funded subsidies at the same level of those increases in the voucher area so for our axis program for homeless families, for our city childcare program, which funds subsidies for infants and toddlers and for subsidies directed to our families who are in the child welfare system. we want to keep those vouchers at the same rate of increase as the state vouchers. so, with that, i will take comments.. i also want to say that we received a budget analyst report that we are not in agreement at this time with the finance. >> thank you. supervisor yee >> thank you. i am glad you brought up the issue of state system. the majority -- the biggest piece of revenue that comes into serve those families either

campaign consultant or with supervisor farrell's employee representative a city contractor or grantee. the idea behind the good-faith effort provision is that, if you take steps in good faith to god tried to comply with the ordinance, as a circulating that have sign in sheet, he would not be in violation of the ordinance if you end up with a incomplete list of names. >> thank you. i would imagine at some point some future body will probably come back and put some meat around the term good-faith. i think certainly when we talk about local hire without about local higher ordinances of punters and contractors getting work, good-faith effort was always called into question as to being ambiguous and vague, but i think it is a great first step . i am glad this measure passed. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor avalos >> thank you. if you are willing to do that now we can perhaps consider amendments that could strengthen it, but to me good-faith is also like if you are neglecting purposely neglecting the new not practicing good-faith. so, good-faith is really making an effort. i look forwar

zoning for the purposes of gaining the ceqa exception i see how this is reasonable for project at city hall or the city offers this but if it is a c zone i'll look at 3 hundred jobs on site this is as less than 3 hundred employees that are transferred from the adjacent building not creating creating less than 50 jobs and they're asking you to say this is an unemployment project that is not reasonable we shouldn't do that and the last one is about air quality you didn't hear about this level of detail one the issues the air quality and the noise levels in this area- is next to the freeway their high and unacceptable when we pointed out in our appeal letter the staff said, yes but there building is fwle fully enclosed they'll never be able to go outside that's like being in jail if you're looking at the staff letter they've identified number one we're not correct this is fully enclosed and this building is designed to comply with state codes and st. patrick's day standards for jail construction that is wu why you don't need to be concerned with air quality that's the agency you were hearing abou

target college aged students 18 to 25 they have to carry and full load of 18 units at any university or city college we recruit our future grats grads program for the local cologne criminal justice programs once they reach 20 years of age they can apply for police officer he have others that have began in the mid 90s next year's budget our program of thirty cadets will grow to 57 due to a public-private partnership with benny hoff he'll be providing half the fund on a condition of 50 city match wore hoping to hire those young people and cadets as quickly as possible >> i'm sure you're aware of in this year's budget we have the hope of being able to be approved to hire 5 academy classes in addition to the extra class at the end of this frshg this get us to the 43 full staffing at 1971 if you look at the following slide it show us how we're doing with the hiring with the recommendation of mayor ed lee and i back in 2012 we've hired over 5 hundred recruits by the end of this fiscal year next fiscal year we'll hire 4 classes or 2 hundred and 50 plus a lateral class that will make up for attritio

. >> thank you very much, colleagues any further questions for the department or the city administrator's budget. >> mr. rose? >> when i was asking about the interpretation and what was the name of the positions, and it was, adrian mentioned that it was, management or something. >> are you referring to a specific recommendation? >> it looks like it is specific, yeah. >> could you tell me the page? >> we requested management assistance. >> you are talking about page 10 and, i can go over that with you if you want. >> yeah. >> would you -- and because i am just curious how you are -- analyzing this. >> specifically, what we are stating supervisor yee and mr. chairman and on page 10 of our report we are recommending that you deny two new management assistance positions and the department has cited a new increase work load due to the deportation, and that is the item that you are refering to? >> unlawful immigrants and additional dream, sf fellow to supervisor. >> and with this actually several places but what i am concerned about is that, we would have enough of those to actually implement s

reducing the exposure to toxic dhemz throughout san francisco whether it is to workers or residents or city operations our investment now program what we like to call career development for residents of san francisco to be ambassadors for the investment and reach out to increase served community and our business population is where he have a phenomenal school educations we're in abandonment in public and private schools helping them to achieve zero waste in their cafeterias and preservation efforts we have wonderful programs and work closely with puc we work on compliment initiative with every he did not as well as the private sector a green program we help the city departments to achieve their minimums as well as working with public housing affordable housing and residents throughout the city to green their buildings we work closely with the mta on clean transportation our transportation demand management to get people out of their cars and finally we work in many of the neighborhoods in san francisco that are considered environmental justice communities to you make sure that environmental

list goes on and on all those income generating events are now being held in oakland and san jose or cities where they have larger arenas but i think this will help us all so you know, i know there's been opposition and they always say we're not against the arena just not here it has to be here there's a reason why it can't be at a particular site this is a great site you know a lot of the capacity even for the largest events is only going to be around 18 thousand people compared to professional football that has 70 or 80 thousand and baseball that has 45 thousand or more the impact is fairly negotiable and we know that the giants are demonstrated the split is between those who come by autopsy or foot or transit is favorable one that is more so, so i think that it is a great site and i'm anxious to see it moved and anxious to hear more comments from the other commissioners regarding a good job. >> commissioner richards. >> actually. >> sorry commissioner moore then commissioner richards. >> this is an existing progress report the site is the crown jowl when you look at the waiting of the si

if you're taker ago stroll along the boardwalk early in atlantic city or sea isle city, or any other shore communities temple on or about 70. in the morning sunshine, as the days goes on, clouds increase, at 6:00, the models not pushing a whole lot of precipitation there's a late-day shower or thunderstorm popping up, but most of it holds off until the evening. the late morning runs don't show a whole lot in the way of showers or thunderstorms. it might be under selling it a little bit. in south jersey, i think there's a chance of pop-up shower or thunderstorm. there's an outside chance that some thunderstorms could be strong and gusty. i don't think it will be anything like the widespread stuff like we had the other day. storm prediction centers has the areas in delaware and south jersey at a low risk of something strong popping up. take cover from any storm and most of you won't have to worry about it. allentown, a storm can't be ruled out but a late thunderstorm can't be ruled out. 83. if you're down the shore a thunderstorm can't be ruled out. if you're on the beach and you hear

authorizes you to fish you hiding behind secret city attorney and advice is obscene commissioner chow. it's passed through the ballot box not through you or the city attorney if you want prop q changed go back to the voters and ask them the resend it. how did the five of you who passed his resolution know better than the 129,275 voters who passed prop 227 years ago concerned about the sudden closier of health care facilities you can't overturn a citizens initiative by passing secret city attorney opinions you who authorized you to so trash our democracy. what you should have done was retain the voter mandated well or will not be detrimental by adding a clause to a finding ruling it might not be detrimental because st. mary's had accomplished xy or z you could have done it that way without relying on a city attorney opinion that is secret. you didn't need to dock our denominatoric democracy i plan to address the civil grand jury. >> thank you. our next public speaker is dr. tompkins. >> good afternoon commission mers. unfortunately i have to report back on a process that we have been engaged in the clean air health alliance and the situati

improvements should happen the green benefit assessment district funds be can't be dictate by the city or how the city wants them to be used by but the community group they're not subject to the the ups and downs the economy it is very, very healthy program because the dollars can be used to exactly with the property owners in the district choose to put those dollars green benefit district some of the things they can do they can provide for ongoing maintenance the public landscape, of course, the parks and plaza and the amenities such the tree maintenance and planting such as repaying irrigation systems and help with removal of the graffiti abatement in the district trash and clean up and, of course ongoing maintenance of the park. >> local government transparency and accountabilities to how those few minutes are collected some examples having a management of green benefit districts finances and contracts to be set up neighborhoods or the districts can choose a certain strategy for marketing to allow the green benefit district to achieve it's potential pr and they can also premise a websi

city 33 percent. unemployment 21 percent. sixteen 16 years of age or older compared to 11 percent in the city. as i go through the statistics, we are almost doubled its. 30 percent live in poverty compared to 15 percent in baltimore city. 36.9 percent are headed up by single parents were 26% are in the rest of the city. 43 percent of our residents 16 years of age were 64 between 16 and 64 are not in the labor force at all. 43 percent, almost half of our neighborhoods' read education 75% of our residents 25 years or older have a high school degree or less compared to 52% of education in baltimore city. we look about just about everything. alcohol density. 8.1 compared to 4.6. it is just one data after another. this is report done by johns hopkins data after another. this is report done by johns hopkins and the city of baltimore health department. as a result of the data we have -- and the list goes on and on, the death rates compared to the rest of the city, 55.3 percent is your life expectancy in this neighborhood were in baltimore city is 71.8. avoidable deaths, 50 percent of the deaths in ou

it's a tough thing, if you are running a county or city across america, to say this is with it. >> sureunately, a lot of communities are getting out in front of this. sort of taking action before it's required per se, recognising that there are a lot of benefits to building more resilient communities, not just being safer and stronger and bouncing back. creating places that have a better quality of life. taking care of their residents, improving public health. we have seen a network of over 1,000 cities. in the u.s., more than 200 sign on. resilient communities, riding the action plans, and sharing success stories. seeing what is working, transferring the lessons, and scaling up. a lot of this leadership is coming from the local level before anyone is requiring it of them, i guess. >> at some point is the insurance industry going to put pressure on communities to say look, you can't build that way any more, we will not underwrite it, because we don't want to pay to rebuild it? >> absolutely, yes. it's an important dynamic, we are seeing a little bit of that. a lawsuit brought by reinsur

or inner-city electric railways? people bet on one system or the other. in chicago, half a dozen of these routes. we had some great investors in chicago who put their money on electric railways. any names come to mind? >> samuel. >> that's right. he was convinced that these systems were going to really redefine inner-city transportation. by the 1930's and 1940's, we see these systems in mass. by the 1950's, almost all of them are gone. we have one remaining. it is a block from here. >> the metro? >> sure. the south shore line. from downtown chicago to south bend. as i looked at the demise of the railroads on cities, it was evident that world war ii provided false signals to investors that the railroad era was going to last indefinitely. this shows the crowds of world war ii. dearborn station, shortly after the war. union station, the railroad was indispensable during the war. it was clear if you look at the trend that the system was ready to crumble, particularly liked -- lightly used lines. cities and investors were misled. you have union station. we los

using anecdotal evident what makes a neighborhood or city staif and what the praerp staffing levels should be. >> supervisor avalos made motion to amend the duplicated file and veckd by supervisor campos. supervisor campos >> thank you madam president. i want to make a important point i failed to mention in the earlier remark jz think it is important for the public to know this because while i think that it is true some people raise the issue of staffing i think one of the things people don't know which i think it is important for the members of the public to keep in mind is san francisco not doing very well in terms of the number of police officers that are actually patrolling the streets opposed to police officers sitting behind a derfck and doing the job of a civilian. i believe people want staffing and i believe people want to make sure police officers are patrolling streets and not behind oo desk. let me give you the number the per report had. when the per report was issued in 2008 had 2130 officers and san francisco had 231 civilians. interestingly enough you look at a department lik

advisory courage throughout the state if you're wondering or hear about something in some county or city and usually want me to i'll gladly talk to the person representing that ear. >> thank you very much any questions or comments questions or comments of the public? thank you. the broadcast completed speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. admissible laughter next up is the case report >> work on brevity. >> the chair case so case has been busy this last couple of months last meeting sheryl from aging comments talk about the hubs created in san francisco and the services provided it was a very welcomed discussion we've - we're in the midstream of the postcards campaign we delivered 3 thousand postcards to the mayor with the letter we've had from the department of aging a few months ago and we're in the period of the supervisors to talk with their dissatisfy and deliver the postcards to them and to give the direct number we've been asked to come back to talk with kate howard of the mayor's office for the dollars we're going to have a boarder discussion that's tomorr

for example, in the library cafÉ space or in any city storefronts, or office building.the distraction and diminishment and speaking about what only possible because of lack of public concern from this board of supervisors. supervisor london breed, avalos david campos, julie christiansen, supervisor melia, and protect mark farrell, james kim, eric aye supervisor karen tang scott wiener, supervisor yee we asked us questions about the budget and hold hearings. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please >> honorable president breed hon. members of the board of supervisors, my name is ruben david goodman. my mental health consumer. i want to thank you in advance for your kind attention. i asked that they san francisco's board of supervisors take an interest in the conditions as -- in the treatment of residents in the city and county of san francisco. these residents are among our city's most vulnerable citizens and many are unable to articulate their needs. a letter of concern to the state regulatory agency would be a start. i feel very strongly that the city needs to inv

the city investment at the navigation center many people get housed and case management service and heths services that they need. i also want to encourage the board of supervisors in the next year or 2 to look at folks that are languishing in shelter for yours and years and consider replicating the success and city investment that the navigation center is enjoying in the city adult shelter cystment. thank you >> thank you next speaker please >> sorry, didn't realize the microphone >> thank you. my name is jessica lamened and exectsk director of senior and disability action. i know you have a lot of hours of testimony to listen to and thank you for hearing us. we are part of the justice coalition and ask you to support the unified plan we put toort for meet thg needs of seniors and individuals with disability and families and low income [inaudible] every day we seniors in 80 and 90's and people with disabilities push out of their housing with no where to go. we talk to people that can't afford to put food on the table, people that are isolated kw feel they no longer matter because of the age and disability. we have people in luxiary housing who are great and other people in poverty