and any public of the public that would like to comment, seeing none, we will close public comment and if we could have, the roll call, vote on the minutes? >> on avalos? >> aye. >> breed? >> aye. >> campos? >> aye. >> chiu? >> aye. >> cohen? on the minutes in >> aye. >> farrell. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> mar. >> aye. >> commissioner tang. >> aye. >> commissioner weiner? >> aye. >> commissioner yee? >> aye. >> yee, aye, the item passes. >> very good. let's go into our next item, please? >> item number three, the chair's report this is an information item. >> okay, good morning colleagues, the year has begun and already i feel that we have a full work program on our plates. and we are all saddened by trat gik pedestrian fatalities of the start of the year, it was a stark and urgent wake up call that we must act now to prevent these terrible crashes. and i want to thank commissioner campos for the hearing and breed as well with so many participating and commissioner yee was part of that as well, and many of the other participants from the board of supervisors transportation authority an

the education of the public, and on this, a high level public utilities officials lobbying her own agency for $200,000 for lobbying for a company that she works for and that is fairly significant in terms of conflict of interest and we should be delving into it and the staff must have to come up with this and we should be talking about it and discussing it more and analyzing it and we should be telling the members of the public about it, and educating the public about it, and if nothing else, just to blow our own horn, i mean that we have people who are coming here, and saying, that, the three meetings that i have been at saying and that you guys don't do your job and this is an indication to me that the staff did do their job. and terms of the findings and the woman is admitting that she committed these offense and she is going to have to pay a fine, and you could argue about whether or not that is enough or not. but she is, it is in effect to finding a guilt and a plea of guilty, or that is fine, but can someone please explain to me, why the procedure is, as it comes to us, it would hav

any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. 17 is communications. any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. and 18 is jfrment. >> we're adjourned. >> thank you commissioners >> good afternoon, good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors. my name is scott wiener, i'm the chairman of the committee. i apologize for my voice. i have a nasty cold that everyone seems to be getting. and to my -- i'm the chairman of the committee and to my right is supervisor jane kim who is the committee vice-chair. to my left is supervisor supervisor tang who is sitting in today for supervisor malia cohen. our clerk is andrea osbury. i want to thank sfgov-tv for broadcasting today's hearing, charles kremenak and jennifer low. >> completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of files be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on february 14 agenda unless otherwise stated. >> can you please call items 1 and 2 together? >> item number 1, resolution approving re-des

soak seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner sugaya oh, no, no, no. >> it's not about rules per say but about the use of the word 10 days is it you were interpreter or interpreted to mean calendar or working days in article 5. >> i interpret those to be calendar days. >> okay. >> commissioner moore. >> i like to say i would have hoped that the rules as their september to us today and if they indeed annoyance the different commissioners comments for the sake of this discussion would have been identified. it's unclear what the basis is for the rules. i've not received any comments from my fellow commissioners that recycle 0 r talk about the procedural issues with the underlying submissions. i've not gotten a single comment or if their rejected by whom. since i've start to talking about the lack of clarity not specific targeted issues for anyone or the department or anyone in the department almost seven years ago i didn't know the drawings were submitted. i've said it over and over again when are we going to get more c

you don't make that public. in this case, the documents that you were -- that were distributed to you, the city has made an initial determination through the executive director that those are confidential. the commission tonight may decide those documents are not confidential and then they will be disclosed. but at this point, it was proper for the san jose city attorney to provide you those documents in confidence. >> okay. thank you. >> any other comments from the commissioners? >> well, i guess i'm just not sure -- it's not clear to me that the text of the emails meets the definition of "confidential information." that is what i'm struggling with a little bit here, but maybe i need to be directed in a more analytical fashion. >> my view of this matter is that as redacted, i think miss herrick is correct that the information can be publicly disclosed. now i'm not sure how enlightening or satisfying the redacted information -- the redacted version will be. it appears that the information that was redacted relat

for this or any other item, if you wish to make a public comment we have blue public comment cards and pens in the front and you can fill that out and hand it to the clerk. public comment today will be 2 minutes. go ahead. >> my name is francisco decosta. i really don't like coming here. i prefer writing about you guys and so i have come here to that people at home can know the schenn gans that are going on here. we know the john stuart company is all over the place. thousands of units at the presidio, treasure island, tenderloin, north beach, hunters view. why are we giving this gentleman more work? why? so here we have millions of dollars, $45 million in bonds, catering to the join stuart company. but then you read the language here and what you get from the board you see that the signed document so that they can speed up this process. which is okay. i'm going to ask you. if you are really represent the four people, low income because that's public housing land which is not mentioned here anyway. what are you doing for the poor? right now in san francisco we have the filthy rich and

. >> is there any public comment on item 5 a, and b? >> hi, commissioners andy, and on this issue it is unfortunate what happened, but we just remember that it did go through the peer review and so kind that in mind and so on plan checking quite frankly i think that dbi has done a great job on plan checking and also when it comes to fees, we could lot of this you and they are looking at the what the cost of the project is and they are very tough about it and they are really are. and so, i know what happened over here that came off what it did buff i just wanted to try to separate the issue of the plan checkers from what actually happened, it happened in the field and that is not a matter and, so on the whole, i think that dbi as far as plan checking they are doing a great job and i think that we and everybody else and we had them working there and so i just wanted to say that, thank you. >> any further public comment? >> okay, seeing none, item six, review and approval of the minutes of the special meeting of september 25th. >> move to

i don't have any public comment cards. seeing none, we'll close public comment. [gavel] >> i want to thank everyone for working on this. we are in dramatic need of this kind of housing. like to thank supervisor breed and planning department and mercy for really moving this forward. supervisor kim? >> yes, thank you. i just wanted to concur with chair wiener about the need for this type of housing. but in particular, for this subset of our community. it's true there is not a lot of housing dedicated to individuals with developmental disabilities. it's also good to see a vacant s-r-o building come back online. i know we have a number in our district [speaker not understood] as well, and it's a constant exercise to think about how we can a mass the resources to bring existing housing back into line and back into code and, so, it's great to see a model of this move forward in the western addition area. so, thank you for your work on this. >> thank you very much, supervisor kim. so, with that, could i get a motion to forward item 3 to the full board with positive reco

i'm perfectly happy to continue this conversation after public comment to allow members of the public to certainly say their piece. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you. i would suggest that we perhaps proceed to public comment so that we give members of the public the opportunity who have been standing to speak. and i would hope that between now and the time that the public comment is closed that maybe some of the questions that have been raised can be answered. i do agree with supervisor kim and supervisor avalos that it's important to move this forward. i understand that there may be question, but maybe we have an opportunity to clarify some things, but i'd like to give the public an opportunity to proceed to public comment. >> thank you. president chiu. >> thank you. i'm going to be brief because i also agree with supervisor campos. i would like to get to public comment and i don't think any of us expected that this discussion would take so long. but let me say a couple things. first of all, yesterday at land use we had a lengthy discussion about this and as supervisor avalos knows,

they present number relating to the finances of friends of the public library and through public records request i found they have absolutely nothing to back those numbers up. we're talking $10 million that they have claimed that the friends gave to benefit the public library, and they can't back up the numbers. and yet, they come before the public and say oh, yes, they are doing a wonderful job. now at the minimum, that is misrepresentation. if i am on a board or commission, and i go before and i present finances as part of a public record, and i say oh, yes, these are good numbers. and it turns out that i don't know what i'm talking about, that is dereliction of duty as far as i'm concerned and malfeesance of office. you say show us something to prove that and they are just silent. we went before the government general bond oversight committee and said the number here is not a valid number. and they asked some questions of the chief financial officer of the library and she admitted yes we don't have anything to back that up. at that point it was only $6 million and now it's $10 million

is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. i would like to thank staff. we went through these items. from my perspective, putting a new fleet when we have an old fleet when we have an old deteriorating system. i will push that envelope when we can get rid of the buses and the obscene wires in our city and take care of that and do it in a climate friendly manner. i appreciate you doing that and hope that king county will give us a discount when we beat them on sunday. can we have a motion on this. >> we can do that without opposition. >> madam clerk. do we have any further business before us? >> no, we do. supervisor mark farrell: we are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> >> >> good afternoon, and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors land use and economic development committee. i am scott wiener, the chairman of the committee, to my right is supervisor jane kim, our committee vice-chair and to my left is supervisor malia cohen. and supervisor cohen i would like to welcome you back. our clerk is lisa mille

any other members of the public wish to speak on public comment? >> i guess i want to say wow, i'm surprised i'm speaking about abortion today. i this i we should just start by digging a little deeper and trying to address why somebody would have an abortion in that how we can help like help people before they get into that type of position. sometimes the issues are economics and other things, just how as a city can we help men and women before they get into that type of a situation. for me, the other thing about it is how do we help and support women after they have had an abortion. there is lots of thoughts going through their head and how do we support them in being comfortable with going through that situation. i think the other thing for me is i'm going to move on to homelessness and this whole library i'm really concerned in that how do we help people in that help them get passed the homelessness and that scenario. it's not all about the drugs and alcohol that they are talking about on the front cover. i'm just looking for solutions as to how

there's nothing from the developer pushing promise or the public available to the public. and see if you're going to say the 7 of you are the public step into the shows you of the public once again and have a hearing that was promised about this. you haven't had a hearing at all in a long time and i'm tired of being here in a ridiculous format. thank you >> good afternoon commissioners. as a point of procure i point in a comment card inform 16 a but i can speak to the doctor >> that's correct if you wish to speak about the environmental impact and item 167 abc will be called up later. >> i'm mike murphy i'm a resident of the outer suspect. i'll tack my 3 minutes now i have to pick up my son from school. i want to thank the commission for the eir which is subsequential the one that's before you today. it's a project who's time is well past due. i represent an organization who's primary concern is for the watersheds. this should have the watersheds into support of future. it generates a greater sense of stewardship and unfortunately, i'm the one here to see i don't want to d

we will go to public comment. anyone wish to comment? okay. seeing none public comment is closed. i look forward to see you throwing your disk around. >> you said it was going to be a lengthy report. it was good and i make motion to move forward to the full board without recommendation. >> without objection. madam clerk can you call item four. >> item four is accept and expend grant - san francisco youth back on treatment to recovery through accountability, collaboration, and knowledge. >> okay. thank you. we have rita from dph to speak on this item -- oh mr. johnson is back. >> i have to feel the microphone a few times today. supervisor breed sponsored this on behalf of department of public health as well. this is an important program for public safety and for the welfare of the troubled youth in the area and supervisor breed is happy to support it. >> thanks for those comments. all right. dph. >> director of behavioral health and integrated treatment services and here with rita paris and director of aim higher and an assessment and planning unit at the juvenile justice center an

>> one thing, societies have public values, and they enforce those public values. and to some extent, that's okay. a society has decided what it's values are. and it enforces it's values. and i don't think that it's healthy to spend a great deal of time pursuing political sex scandals, but what's interesting about a lot of these scandals, they're not things that the media was just pounding and going after. eliot spitzer got snagged up in an investigation. >> we have to stop there because we're out of time. but thanks to all of our guests for a wonderful discussion tonight. and until next time, we'll see you online. >> protests this cairo, with the trial of egypt's deposed president about to resume. >> hello, welcome to al jazeera. also ahead on the program. the first batch of chemical weapons is taken out of syria by sea. >> north korea celebrates kim jong un's birthday, by announ announcing elections. >> and taking aim at the commander-in-chief. a former u.s. defense secretary attacks barack obama

any public comment on the item 23? seeing none, public comment is closed. all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> the ayes have it. >> item 24. approve conditions by the general manager to execute a lease. >> commissioners, >> moved. >> moved and seconded. any comment? >> on this item i certainly recommend approval. this results in a lower rent that went paying at 1155 market. i want to raise a concern about 1550 evans which was acquired a year ago and i understand there has been a lot of interest anatomy discussion but not a lot of motion as to make that property usable for staff and utility purnsz. purposes. i don't know that those two items are linked but i just wanted to suggest greater sense of urgency about determining the use of 1550 evans and moving the staff because we bought that and yet we are still paying rent across the street at bayview plaza. again this 544 lease across the street certainly makes sense for the intended purposes. let's get on market street. thanks. >> okay. so i will call for a moved. it's been moved and second. all in favor say,

the potential that the public will have better information both the public and decision makers can look at this and not have the discussions individually and we want greater benefits of services. we talked about noolt in terms of strategies. what might be some areas for piloting new approaches for housing and sustainability under housing we can pilot a version of the prop c where you can have the inclusionary housing. around transportation in addition to various transportation infrastructure can we live for example the management programs. currently only development agreement like treasure island or the shipyard can we have transportation and management programs or other strategies. and lastly sustainability. as another aero where we can be innovative. the department has done a lot of work around the eco industries. we'll give you an up to date about the work can we pilot and create new eco districts for the program that is. the initial focuses is on enterprise agency sites they include the airport and puc and the mta the recreation and parks and some of the museums. but we're only star

public comment? hearing none, all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? there are none. mr. st. croix, can you make the announcements? >> finding of probable cause for ethics commission complaint 13-111013, at its regular meeting of january 28th, 2013, in the matter of ethics complaint 13-1103,the ethics commission made a determination that there is probably cause to believe the following violations of the san francisco campaign and governmental conduct code occurred and that the respondents committed them. one violation of san francisco campaign and governmental conduct code section 1.1 16 subsection a2 for reporting and receiving a loan to his candidate committee in excess of $120,000. two, one violation of san francisco campaign and governmental conduct code section 1.1 16, subsection c, for repaying aloan amount in excess of $120,000. 3 one violation of california government code section 81 104, subdivision a has incorporated into local law by san francisco campaign and governmental conduct code section

comment. >> general public comment at this time. >> okay, public comment is closed. thank you. >> madam clerk, is there any other business before the committee. >> no. item eight adjournment. thank you. >> this meeting is ajournd. >> good morning everyone and the meeting will come to order. this is the january 14, 2014, meeting of the plans and programs committee of the san francisco county transportation authority. >> and i would like to thank sfgtv for broadcasting us today and thank you to jessy larson and charles. and roll call? >> commissioner breed? >> here. >> campos? >> absent. >> kim? >> kim absent. >> mar? >> here. >> mar present. >> commissioner yee? >> here. >> we have a quorum. >> thank you, could you please call the first item. >> two approve the minutes of the december 10, 2013 meeting, this is an action item. >> seeing no comments let's open tup for public comment and is there anyone from the public that would like to speak, closed. could we move this forward without objection? >> thank you. >> and could you call the next item. >> three, citizen's adv

public spaces. we are in the plaza which was the very first of the program that began about 4 years ago where we decided to really start creating new plazas and having new public spaces. this plaza has been in incredibly successful in the castro and having free wifi here in this public space and other public spaces and in our parts is an incredible part to make sure that people can use these public spaces and that people can congregate here and get work done here and tried -- read the paper and whatever else they want to do. i'm glad that we are celebrating here in the plaza. next year we are going to be wiring the sidewalks on castro street which is part of the strategy to keep improving these places. thank you very much and congratulations on the work. [ applause ] >> thank you, scott. and now i would like to invite the technology visionary that helped us accomplish this corridor. selena lowe from ruckus. please join me. [ applause ] >> good morning. ruckus has been selected by the city of san fra

any public comment? is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. item no. 2, which is the annual election of board of officers. the vice-president and president shall be elected after the 15th day of january of each year. tonight is the first board meeting after january 15th so the election of officers is on our calendar. if i can take a quick minute before proceeding with the meeting, i would like to thank the president. i want to extend to both the presidents how much i appreciate your supporting my work and the work of the board and guiding us through the year. president hwang for a year 1/2. with that stated, i want to start the process with the office of the vice-president and ask if there is any member of the board that would like to nominate a colleague or themselves for this office. >> i wonder is it a good idea for us to put this off until president wong is here? >> if the board wishes to postpone it? >> that would be my preference. i don't know what my fellow commissioners would prefer. >> i think that will be fine with me. >> okay. just

there's nothing from the developer pushing promise or the public available to the public. and see if you're going to say the 7 of you are the public step into the shows you of the public once again and have a hearing that was promised about this. you haven't had a hearing at all in a long time and i'm tired of being here in a ridiculous format. thank you

>> and seeing none, we will go on to public comment. >> we will close public comment. and we will go on to our next item. >> 15, public comment. >> so general public comment is now open, and related to any subject matter under the transportation authority. and seeing no one come forward we will close public comment. and we will go on to our next item. >> 16, adjournment. colleagues, we are adjourned. >> there are kids and families ever were. it is really an extraordinary playground. it has got a little something for everyone. it is aesthetically billion. it is completely accessible. you can see how excited people are for this playground. it is very special. >> on opening day in the brand- new helen diller playground at north park, children can be seen swinging, gliding, swinging, exploring, digging, hanging, jumping, and even making drumming sounds. this major renovation was possible with the generous donation of more than $1.5 million from the mercer fund in honor of san francisco bay area philanthropist helen diller. together with the clean and safe neighborhood park

there is no publicity for the public about the fate of the magazines in the library at all. there have been month press releases, there have about no flyers. there is nothing at the website about it and nothing about the magazines and no approval by the library commission. we ask you to hold a hearing on the policy practices and particularly the priorities of the library and about this magazine section destruction. thank you very much. president david chiu: thank you very much. next speaker. speaker: good afternoon president chiu, board of supervisors. i'm seymour. i came to make an impact. i'm here to support again the band. i don't know if you realize how many people in the world, in this city in the world that would be affected by the box. cecil williams has been arrested. he was a victim of the box. mohammed ally is a victim of the box. jesus christ was a victim of the box. last year we had a marathon in the city council chambers by the higher officials in the sheriff's departments. you know how many we had here supporting police official? because it was about band the b

any other member of the public would like to comment? seeing none we'll close public comment. and madam clerk if you can call our next item. >> item 14 adjournment.

seeing none, public comment is closed.ommissioner sugaya >> i move to approve the minutes for january 9th. >> commissioner borden. commissioner hillis. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya and commission chair wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes >> i went at the request of some neighborhood folks in the bayview to look at the site where the mother brown special project for the homes structure. there are so many interesting businesses like a chemical will he testing lab it tests toxins in the food and it's where tests are conducted. another place i saw next door had mick tractors and does a lot of work around pets and par suddenly. it's favshg to see this. and their concerns are whether or not the location of the shelter, of course, is appropriate for what the needs are and the other concern is whether or not there's actually, the population of the homeless population in the neighborhood to continually of the shelter. there are concerns around whether or not there's social activities in the neighborhood in ter

go on to public comment. and >> regarding this -- i've been on the cac since 97 i worked with the executive director, tilly cheng on one five year and i think you should look and see what's been done in the past under the five year and prioritize the projects that have not been done before you move forward with anything else. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker please. >> good morning my name is kate hodge. i want to commend the staff for the tremendously hard work with this plan. based on a five year plan the strategy developed by the mta an excellent strategy but it's been turned into a 25 year plan this is a strange development and i wonder how our city is going to live up to its promise. right now what you are asking for -- so we're asking that the mta and other agencies involved with this plan development articulate how this is going to be able to reach the promised goal by 2020 thank you. >> thank you very much. any other member of the public would like to comment? okay. we'll close publi

we have no one coming forward for public comment. close public comment. next item. >> item no. 6, public comment. >> our next item is general public comment. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> next item? >> item no. 7. questions or comments. >> colleagues, any questions or proposals? seeing none. public comment. >> for sf green. especially for agenda items if you are going to have a meeting with the puc. the budget issues were raised earlier today . i know a big problem that was part of the budget. it's now $20 million more per year. it's good to find out how we got stuck with a new inter connected agreement that is going to be that much more money. i don't -- i think it due to be approved in 15. especially that brings up another item besides cleanpowersf for their 10-year projected budget, the sfpuc has agreed to remove $30 million when we have been trying to get it up to $5 million a year. we need to find out what's going on with the pg & e interconnected agreement and find out why, when we've seen evidence

were over 11,000 public comments. what is in congress are completely inadequate and only a ban on fracking is going to help save the water in california. as you know we are experiencing an intense drought and we need to keep a reserve on the ground. that's why your actions today is important for the people of california to tell our governor that fracking or other techniques for dirty oil should not be what this government is promoting. i thank you very much for taking up this issue. thank you very much. >> hello, my name is jeb holts man representing 33 san francisco. a local advocacy group. a long time resident and in favor of item 20. the resolution calling for a halt on high ydraulic fracturing in california. and we greatly support those changes. as ross just pointed out, there are a number of reasons why we simply can't afford to take this action as a state. in front of me i have an article from a few days ago called dry weather in 2013 shocks meteorologist. fresno area meteorologist steve frances said last year f

we will move to public comment? seeing none public comment is closed. motion to move this item forward and we can move without opposition. madam clerk can you call item six and seven . >> item six is approving amendment to the san francisco tour impdirect and collection of distribution of fees by the office of the treasurer and tax collector and item seven is resolution for moscone expansion district management district plan and transfer fees by office of the treasurer and tax collector. agreement with the nonprofit owners association for administration and management. >> okay. thank you. lisa here from oewd. >> good morning supervisor farrell and supervisor mar. this is a resolution approving amendment to the san francisco tourism improvement district management district plan. this resolution is going to require monthly instead of quarterly assessment collection and distribution of funds by the office of the treasurer and tax collector. greg coto is here to speak more to this but the board of supervisors has adopted ordinance 203-13 that amends article

it was borderline, i think. >> i would be interested in hearing public comment first. >> public comment on this item. >> commissioner hur, i know you just want me to go away quietly. >> mr. met shaw, if i wanted you to go away quietly, i'm sure i wouldn't have given you the opportunities to speak and present papers and review and delay, so we could fully hear your argument and understand them. i hope at a minimum, you feel that i have given you an opportunity. >> can the ethics commission that speaks the english language tell me how miriam webster's definition of "willful" has not happened? this case has dragged on for two years? before it got her it was willful foot-dragging while winding its way through sotf. as far as i'm concerned you are foot-dragging in agendizing my complaint almost a year after it was referred from sotf. that you are foot-dragging was also willful. you could have scheduled a special meeting to move things along. it's willful that mr. st. croix and his staff, his deputy director, the entire ethics commission, i mean ethics department staff, more than likely had a

it's back for public works. tomorrow we have a meeting on the bureau of urban forestry in san francisco. it's bad for department of the environment who has been speaking up against towards zero waste. every agency will be directly affected as will all of us. i thank you in advance for your leadership. thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is james glover. ceo and founder. i went to the meeting last week at the citizens advisory committee on mid-market and once again nothing got done. so right here, i have been trying to pitch this for the last 5 months and nobody is listening. we can higher with the proper backing 500 people with no training pay them minimum wages with full dental and medical and all that. anyway, we have to change that. this whole face of how people do floors, the way of waxing and stripping, all this out the door. i got four proposals here. and avalos, breed, cohen, and supervisor kim, because those are the districts that we are going to be hiring out of. so the people we are going to be hirin

is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. we have commissioner matters. >> i have one on commissioner matters, in our january meeting and knocking off things that should come off the list or should have a hearing. i'm a big to do list person. if we can eliminate some of our to do list items, it would be appreciated. another matter that i would like to see come to an informational hearing in january or february is the discussion that the city now faces which is a jobs housing crisis. i think the conversation should be a jobs housing park linkage discussion. as we add more residents to the city, what is the impact of adding new residents to our park system, to open space opportunities. i'm inspired by the mayor's discussion that housing opportunities might be found on parkland which took me a little bit by surprise. i don't know if the general manager that had same reaction i did, but if we can have that discussion maybe with consultation with the planning department in january or february. it would be very much appreciated. an