is there any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner? >> i just want to thank the staff, i want to thank the chair, all the cochairs from land use and transportation to resiliency, as someone who is new and came to this process at the very end, i am astounded by the amount of community input. i think this is a model of how the city should work, so i just want to thank you all for your dedication and your recommendations. they really struck a chord in me, and diane, thank you so much, you guys, for your work. >> commissioner woo ho. >> well, i was to echo what -- i want to echo what has already been said, but i want to thank janice and rudy for their tremendous leadership on the working group, and diane for her leadership and all the team that she's mentioned. i think this has been a labor of love, and when we started out, i don't think that we knew it was going to take three years, but i think we were also very concerned at the time with all the commitment of all the volunteers and the quality of the recommendations which h

there any general public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed and the t.a. is adjourned. >> clerk: call to order. roll call. [roll call] >> clerk: item 2, approval of the minutes of june 22, 2018 meeting. >> so moved. >> second. >> is there any public comment? all in favor? [voting] >> the minutes have been approved. >> clerk: item three, public comment on executive session. >> is there any public comment? seeing none, okay, is there a motion on executive session? >> i make a motion. >> okay. okay. rec reconvene in open session. >> i make a motion to reconvene in open session. >> second. >> okay. [pledge of allegiance] >> clerk: please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones, pager's and similar sound producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair my order from the meeting room any person responsible for the ringing of cell phone pager or similar sound producing advice. please be adviced that members of the public have two minutes to make public comment on each agenda item unless the commission ado

some members of the public are seeing public land quite differently. the federal government is passing the statutes and people are still doing what they think they are going to be doing apart from the federal government. this question about federal sovereignty is at play here. in the last lecture, i talked about the ways the federal government was not nearly the centralized authority that people imagined it to be. it is important. it has authority, but this is new and not everybody is on board with what its scope should be or is and what its authority should be. here is a good case in point. the federal government is passing legislation and people are ignoring it. many people form organizations that are designed to keep land prices down. they organize and do this through incorporation. they incorporate themselves, which is a legal act to form a corporation, so that they can bid to keep land prices down. they will move out to a place, and when they show up for the auction, none of them bid in the and the land prices go down. so they are collaborating le

>> second. >> any public comment regarding our minutes? no. public comment is closed. all in favor? [ gavel ]. >> number two. [agenda item read] >> thank you very much, sergeant kilshaw. commissioners, in your packet, there are the necessary documentation regarding these consent items. for members of the public, any time the police department receives a gift over $25. it has to come with a consent fore the -- for the police department even if it's a $25 donation or a $2,000 donation. so in your packet, there's memos, and if there's anybody -- any questions about this, the chief or one of the staff members will explain, for example, the wilderness program, for example, they take kids camping. it's a great organization, and is it's been around a long time. do i have any questions? do i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second? >> second. >> any public comment regarding the consent calendar? >> director of san francisco open government. the chair's comment about the amount of the gift being accepted, i understand why he says that, but people should know that there's a very good reason tha

our meetings are public, board meetings are public, committee meetings are public. and we've had four discussions leading up to the submission to the state board. it was appropriately times around that. since that time, the conversation has had to stop, but the ball was back in the state board's court. we were waiting for them to respond to the comments and that's what they did earlier this month. that's where we are with that. add usally, there were some questions raised. our website, bawsca.org, contains several documents that will be helpful for people. we publish an annual survey that provides information by each of our agencies, so 26 water suppliers, use, population, employment, business counts, projections, water supply sources, out to 2040. it's quite a comprehensive set of information. we also do an annual water conservation report that documents what's going on. and lastly, drought response report that talked about what the service area did in response to the drought. he found it to be very helpful so far. those are the key things on that. lastly, if i can

is there any public comment on this item? no public comment. commissioner woo ho? >> thank you very much for this report. i guess a couple of impressions. number one, the fact that so many of the city agencies have come together and integrated in a collaborative way. i want to commend all of you, and obviously, we did play a central part in the sense that it is the central waterfront, but i'm glad to see there was so much interest across all the various agencies, and it seems like it's nice to see how the plans were integrated and the left-hand knows what the right hand is doing. so i think that's number one. sometimes that's not easy in a city of our size, so i want to commend you all on that. but the second thing is i think the plan has obviously been thought out. and i know that there's two projects that you pointed out that really affect us on the port that david has mentioned. and i just want to know, and i am aware that we are of some of the funding or four projects, but what happens -- for our projects, but what happens to the other projects that you're plan

what we think applies in this case is a public affairs public interest case. that is what protects the expressive use your companies are concerned about. that is why you don't have and should not have right of publicity claims pertaining to the right of publicity cases. we think it ought to be correctly applied. the three stooges case, we think that was the right decision. it has not been highly criticized or challenged, in my view. some of the other cases have been. this is part of a developing jurisprudence. we are not suggesting nor do we want a chilling effect on the creation of bio picks or stories inspired by real life events. obviously, my members work in those very projects you are creating and they would like to continue to do so. the issue, as i said at the beginning, when you take a property right and their own persona and you misuse that for commercial purposes. destroying the dividing line, that is where the battle is happening. the company's have chosen to create this area. it used to be easy to distinguish advertising from expressive content. ev

anymore public comment? hearing none, public comment is none. public comment is closed. ms. brown comes in hopes of gaining attention for the murder of her son who was a graduate of st. dominick's grammar school and about to graduate from high school and ms. brown went and received his diploma. he was a great kid. and one of the things we hear the d.o.j. recommendations about what the police should do, what the police should do, what the police should do, but the community is a big part of that equation. and nobody has the courage and conviction to come forward. that tells you a little bit about the fear out there being a former prosecutor and a gang prosecutor, $250,000 won't get somebody to come forward and help solve the murder of this young man. and in other murders. it's not enough money. so the community has to make a decision whether or not they're going to work with law enforcement to solve this murder and give ms. brown some closure. if anybody has any information, i know ms. brown usually gives the names of the perpetrators that are involved. one i actually partici

public persona. you would not have publicity claims for somebody like that. >> it is a terrible case from my point of view. nobody seriously asserts someone who is not referenced at all in a referent -- work like that, factual events occurred, some element is incorporated into the work. should have a right of publicity claim. i think that conveys the impression you have to have a certain level of fame or whatever. you can be a noncelebrity who has a developed persona. perhaps in a narrow field. thee, the question is economic value. without compensating you for it. put this to the panel. we are familiar with the thai soccer team just saved from drowning. documentary companies have announced they are going to do stories about this. what would you do? how would you approach it if you wanted to do this? is happening so quickly in real time, there is no book or a great vanity fair article yet. if you want to jump on the story, i would not do it unless i was able to get the rights to the kids and the coach

is there any public comments? seeing none, public comment is cles. we're on item three, the general manager's report. >> that's pressure, and i'm not going to live up to it, but be relatively brief. this past weekend, i wanted to offer an outside lands wrap up. this past weekend was the annual outside lands concert. the three day festival featured 83 local restaurants, 41 local wienerys, 31 local brewerys, and a series of local artists, comedian, and speakers, including our former mayor, gavin newsom spoke. he was not the headliner, however. those were the weekend, florence and the machine, and miss jackson herself, janet jackson. this incident has become woven into the fabric and culture of our city. it also generates enormous economic activity, according to a 2017 economic impact report, in 2017 numbers, the festival pumped $67.8 million into the san francisco economy and 75 million into the entire bay area. it created the equivalent of 75 full-time local jobs. over the past decade, the festival's contributed over 20 million to san francisco's park

is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. and now we move on to item 10, the vote to hold item 11 in closed session. as there is no further public comment, is there a motion to hold a closed session to discuss and possibly select nominees? >> i move to hold a closed session. >> motion has been made. is there a second? >> second. >> motion has been made and seconded. could we have a vote please? >> commissioner lee. >> aye. >> commissioner bleiman. >> aye. >> a commissioner thomas. >> aye. >> commissioner camino. >> aye. >> commissioner per resz >> all right. we good to go? excellent. thank you, katelyn. the meeting of the entertainment commission is reconvened in open session. thanks, everyone, for your patience during the closed session. the commission generally chooses not to disclose matters discussed in closed session. the privacy of the candidates and commission's ability to freely discuss the nominations are paramount. and may i have a motion not to disclose any of the discussions held in closed session? >> i make that

public work code. the public hearing was scheduled and scheduled and held on november 22nd, 2017. there were four testimonies in opposition to the mobile food facility during the public works hearing. concerns regarding over saturation, cleanliness, safety and fair competition and use of propane tanks. following hearing the director of public works commission approved the permit application 16mff00944 with d.p.w. order 187536 on may 17th, 2018. they appealed the issue and said the permit is here today. regarding the appeal, neither applicant submitted a brief for public works to review and respond and regarding some of the items listed today and if they did in the letter they submit beside theisubmitted wit. they did pass legislation, ordinance number 119-13. regarding regulations from our food facilities within the public right away. article 5.8 provides guidelines and review criteria for public works to process interview and mobile food facilities applications including quantitive site criteria such

we'll open it up for public comment? seeing no public comment, close public comment.an we take this same house, same call? without opposition. can you please call 8 and 9. >> clerk: item 8, introduction of new items. item 9, public comment. >> supervisor kim: any new items? seeing none, we'll open it up for public comment for 8 and general public comment. seeing no public comment, we'll close for 8 and 9. mr. clerk, are there any other items before this committee? >> clerk: item 10, adjournment. >> supervisor kim: meeting is adjourned. . welcome to tonight's san francisco unified school district board meeting. -- please go to the corner to borrow a headset, and we will do the simultaneous interpretation for you. and this message will be repeated in cantonese and spanish later. [speaking foreign language] [speaking

public funding for our schools. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. so we're closing public comment. i need a motion and a second for formal introduction, please. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. reading of the resolution by the authors, please. >> in support of the 2020 schools and local communities funding act, authored by commissioners merase and haney, whereas if the passage of proposition 13 in 1978, california school funding has experienced severe limitations in what was once a main source of funding for schools, the property tax. and while the intent of proposition 13 is to help homeowners, loopholes in the system have have permitted major commercial and industrial properties to avoid reassessment, a windfall to the commercial property owners at the expense of vital school funding, and revenues generated from the property tax have shifted away from commercial property towards residential property throughout the state and in virtually every county. and whereas perpupil support depending on state funding t

it also -- publication.nk this is clearly content, and if it had been on a differentk network broadcast at exactly the same time period, the runup to the super bowl but not on the network that was actually airing the super bowl, i don't think there would have been a lawsuit, nor do i think there should be ath lawsuit just because it aired on fox. is not an advertisement for a commercial product. nontheless, there was a lawsuite because the law is in somewhat of a muddle. >> well, i guess i would say, you know, i agree with, like,od 85% of what kelly just said. [laughter] >> which is -- >> which is i agree that if it had been on a different network, there wouldn't have been a lawsuit, nor should there have been a lawsuit if it had been on a different network. i guess the question that i think it raises is, you know, when something is put together, i mean, if this had started out with a nike logo, had ended with a nike logo and had been exactly the same as it was otherwise, right, i think people would generall

>> clerk: we'll take a vote. >> public comment. >> public comment. is there any public comment on the minutes? seeing none -- >> okay. seeing none, all those in favor? [voting] >> any opposed? motion carries. thank you. >> clerk: the next item is item five. members of the public may address the commission on items not on today's agenda. >> seeing no discussion, next item. >> clerk: all right. the next item is item six, presentation of the commission on the environment environmental service award to gwynn maccan he kellen. this item is for discussion. >> thank you. welcome. >> this item will be presented by commissioner wald. >> thank you. thank you, president bermejo. this evening, i must say i'm honored to present the commission on the environment environmental service award to gwy gwynn mckellen. it was created two years to aword to individuals who help the commission on the environment achieve its sustainable environment awards. over the past ten years, gwynn has led numerous community campaigns for the department all as a volunteer. she has logge

seeing any further public comment, we'll turn it over to the commissioners. any public comment? >> through the vice president, just want to review the hayes street grill resolution. i think the physical features and traditions, we might have the wrong thing listed. so i just want to make note on the record to have it reflect what you presented. >> we have a cut and paste error? core physical features for hayes street grill, there's a restaurant. that's what i have in the resolution. is that what you mean? >> the draft resolution -- i have physical features and traditions that define the business, and then it has a -- looks like a listing of magazines or press that they were featured in, unless i -- >> okay. wait a minute. >> sorry about that, rick, but i just want to make sure that we don't have to come back for -- >> oh, okay. yes. yeah, that is -- those are -- i did copy the wrong set. that's the publications that they were in, so i can replace that with the bullet points from the h.p.c. >> okay. >> but the one right below that that says restaurant, that is correct. so we can

these are open to the public, intended to help people understand the value of public diplomacy, the range of programs we are investing in, the purpose of these programs. one bureau in particular, i will not name names, was struggling with questions about funding. a group of folks, stakeholders were trying to cut the bureau's funding. the impression was, we need to do a better job helping this bureau tell a story, on capitol hill in particular. i went to the leadership of the bureau and said, i would like to hand over the next quarterly meeting, guaranteed audience of 100 people, members of congress, staffers from the white house, a chance to tell your story about the value of x program. the leadership said, ok, which programs should we focus on? i said, i think these three are interesting and can tell stories, but you know your bureau best. i can't tell you what your most effective stories will be. they went back and had a team huddle, and the next they asked -- next day they asked for another meeting. they said, we appreciate the invitation, but we just don't think we can tell our story

we will now hear public comment on this item. anyone want to give public comment? >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm dan weaver, the e.d. of the ocean avenue association. we've asked supervisor yee to move this forward. we support it. we think it's a good thing for the neighborhood, where we're trying to keep the small businesses and yet grow the number of businesses that people find useful in the neighborhood. i should also mention that this process will give the information, including the c.b.d., some advance warning of what's coming next in a particular storefront, rather than not knowing until it's done. we lost two retail spaces to a law office, fairly large law office, without any kind of process through planning and as a result, they still don't know who we are. can't quite track down who the head of the office is. and it would be nice to know what's going on before it happens. this is a process that i think would allow that for medical office and medical facilities. thank you. >> thank you, mr. weaver. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is

for public comment. feel free to proceed. >> thank you. good evening. good evening president and commissioners. i'm the executive director of the union square business improvement district and i represent the stakeholders in and around union square. i want to thank you for taking the time to consider this rehearing request. we spent some time on this already and we do appreciate it. this is a request regarding the food truck permit for 281 geary street. i do want to say we do appreciate their concessions that were considered for at the volkswagen bus and moving it when space at a time. we do appreciate that. we still feel that it is not the right place for a food truck, essentially, because of the congestion concerns, which is clearly outlined in the legislation. we are asking for this rehearing request based on new information. we understand that public works and working with m.t.a., does do pedestrian counts. there was one done in 2011. in this case, if you were to do it accurately, there should be a p

public comment is welcome. item 9, public comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the m.d.c. each speaker is limited to three minutes. please approach the mike phone or give your comment to the m.d.c. staff. item 10, information item, correspondence. item 11, discussion item, council member comments and announcements. item 12. adjourned. >> i would like to move for a motion for accepting the approval of today's meeting agenda. >> i move. >> thank you. >> i'll second. >> thank you. all in favor. >> aye. >> i know i have to say but any abstentions? i don't think so. okay, thank you. the agenda has passed. we're going on to public comment. item number 3, items not on today's agenda, but within the jurisdiction of the mayor's disability council. we welcome the public's participation during public periods. this will provide an opportunity for the public at the beginning and the end to make any comments on today's agenda items. each comment is limited to three minutes, if you need more time please let the staff k

public comment? public comment is closed. we are on item 17. adjournment. >> president buell: seconded. >> clerk: wait, wait. >> vice president low: i would like to make a motion to adjourn in memory of sean. sean is physically the biggest cousin i have known. he had a big heart. sean lost lost his battle to cancer this past monday and while he lost to cancer, you want in life. he was rich in family, friends, and community. i know he is up there in heaven, probably giving aretha a big hug. in his normal hawaiian way, it is down to us and yelling "ohana" which is hawaiian for family. >> commissioner anderson: i wanted us to honor the great? of soul, aretha fink -- franklin as well. >> president buell: we adjourned in honor to the family. it has moved and seconded. all those in favor? so moved. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. >> clerk: item 2, opportunity for the public to comment on any matters within the committee's jurisdiction that are not on the agenda. seeing none, item three, election of chair and vice chair. >> hello. >> any nominations f

seeing none, we will go to public comment. any members of the public to comment? public comment? hello? >> good morning. my name is sarah nesser and i work for the city and the county of san francisco. and i'm here today to stand in solidarity survivors of sexual violence in this city. in october 2007 a stranger broke into my apartment in washington, d.c., and raped me. i did everything that i was supposed to do and nothing happened. eight years later in 2015 after reading about the rape kit backlog i decided that i had to find a way to follow-up on my case for myself and others. and when i did suddenly there was a suspect. while the d.c. police were neglecting my case he sexually assaulted at least two other women just outside of d.c. in 2008 and 2010. i tell this story to remind you that the failure to take sexual violence seriously is an institutionalized national problem. the survivor stories that you have heard do not represent isolated experiences. these are the standard practices of many cities across the country and they are directly related to the epidemic of sexual viol

any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. any questions or commentses from commissioners? seeing none, is there a motion to move item 12? made by fewer, seconded by commissioner cohen. colleagues, can we take that same house, same call? the item is finally approved. next item, please. >> item 13, update on the independent analysis and oversight services with sjoberg evashenk consulting. an information item. >> thank you. ms. leanne liu. >> can we get the -- the presentation. ok. sbro*k deuce yourself. >> good morning. leanne liu. >> and leanne, if you could just pull that microphone a little closer to you. there you go. >> there we go. >> all right. bear with me just one second. good morning. as chair peskin mentioned, we received the green light in may of this year to move forward with the three focus areas surrounding prop-k which included program delivery, budgeting and sponsor reimbursements. before we discussed the results, i would like to briefly clarify what i mean by peer comparison agencies because you will hear me m

any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor safai: supervisor? >> supervisor yee: first of all, i'd like to say thank you once again in stepping up and serving the veterans or wanting to serve the veterans on this commission. and i appreciate the services you've given to the country in the past. so there's four of you here. makes it real easy -- three of you here, and then, there's the fourth one that's incumbent. why don't i go ahead -- would you like to? >> supervisor stefani: i just wanted to thank you for your service, first of all. it's so important. my dad was a lieutenant in the army. volunteered for viet nam, and it's so important, your work there, and your work here on the commission. and i just express so you i want to work -- to you i want to work with you as you role out any new initiatives. also i want to encourage you to touch base with the county clerk's office in terms of their city i.d. program. i know they're looking at a way to redo that. there's

any further public -- general public comment? hearing none, general public comment is now closed. and actually, i should say, we do get a lot of positive comments. but people come, and this is their opportunity to say good or bad things. we do see some of the same crowds that bring up the bad i think thises all the time. but our job is to sit here, listen, and do the best job that we can. next item. >> clerk: item 6, adjournment. action item. >> commissioner mazzucco: do i have a motion? >> motion. >> second. >> that was quick. thank you very much. we're now adjourned. >> president kwon: good afternoon. thanks for waiting, folks. welcome to the san francisco public utilities commission meeting. today is tuesday, july 24. before we take the roll, let me just say one thing. we have a number of speakers here today. we have a lot of speaker cards. to give everyone time, we're going to hold strictly to the 3 minutes. when you hear the second chime, that's when your time is over to make time for the next person. so hold it to that time or you will force me to sing to you and that will g