we are here doing what san franciscans do best. we are improvising. we made what? ly we made soup out of out of lemonade. i want everyone to remember that back then san francisco was pretty dark. i know some remember that. we have an incredible fire department. the fire department and police department are the strongest safety units anywhere and i know in any situation we can get through it because we are san franciscans. my colleague president david chiu. >> good morning san franciscans. i can't believe you were here in 1906. i would like to welcome you. we know in 1906 this was ground zero. i want to thank all of you and want to thank our men and women in uniform from our fire department and police department who have sacrificed over the years and been part of our early response system. when the alarm woke me up this morning, i didn't know exactly what was going on and i think that is appropriate because when the earthquake happens there is a great deal of confusion. unlike 1906, we are much better prepared. with that being said, i still have nightmares that at so

and san franciscans are getting back to work. in fact, our unemployment rate has dropped, as you all know, from 9.5% in january of 2011 to an astounding 5.4% just last month. (applause) >> i know, i know it has -- it has not been easy. we've had to work hard with our health services system, our care -- our health care providers, and labor to reduce employee health care costs. and because of our collaboration, we will now save $52 million over the next two years. and we've made tough but necessary choices on everything from escalating pension costs to reforming our unfair job punishing business tax. we've injected a healthy dose of fiscal discipline with two-year budgeting, five-year financial planning, and a 10-year capital plan to get to us this point. but it's been worth it. san francisco's credit ratings have been upgraded by every rating agency in the past year, making our tax dollars go further when we deliver capital projects, and giving our city even more investor confidence. so, now it is not the time to take our eyes off

that redesign can begin in earnest and cpmc can move to the next phase of delivering care to all san franciscans. thank you. >> thank you. [speaker not understood]. >>> supervisors, [speaker not understood], san francisco building construction trades council. the window of my office actually looks right out at the site of the future cathedral hill medical center. some others in the office have said they're not looking forward to the sounds of demolition and of construction. to me those will be music. it may be spayctionv and music i will have waited long time to lear. we thank you for your work and we look forward to ours. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> hi, bob caplan. good afternoon, supervisors. i'm going to join the chorus thanking you for your diligent work to ensure [speaker not understood]. because of all the belief in the potential we've been investing in the tenderloin for many years. i've been a consistently strong supporter of the cpmc facility project. [speaker not understood]. the tenderloin is desperately in need of an economic engine and the ambitious plans for cpmc [speaker not u

when the next he earthquake occurs the san franciscans deserve to have save hospitals for help. the time to improve that plan is now. thank you >> good afternoon thank you for lowering any tospectro speak. i'm the policy director and i'm here to speak in support of the agreement before you today. we represent the 11 non-profit community health centers in san francisco. collective we serve l about 10 people v. of the san francisco's population. i know you've heard a lot about the health care reform. we feel we've been working on preventive care and we offer many, many languages we serve many sub populations and with our partners with the health department. we're happy to have a pie to be used to help the clinics to help our april work in expanding assess as more and more get assured more will come to the clinics and we want to make sure we're keeping people out of the hospitals and into the doctors' offices for the best care >> thank you members the planning commission. i'm john and over ten years ago, i was the architect for this project. since that time i've been an independent

and non-san franciscans can enter and through won't be additional costs to running the operation of the facility. and also one of the other things i want to see happen i don't know if you want me to go over those changes but the lease official name will be the san francisco botanical garden at - and 3 will be retained throughout the entirety of the lease. and the lease will note that the facility was built with the intent to serve the community and it offers calm sitting and that's one of the other recommendations. as much as i want to take credit again dennis i have a whole list of community folks who came together and proposed many of those changes and number 4 they agree to remove the last thing and they will grant easements and antennas commercial signs and commercial advertising and number 5 no vending machines that advertise on the case shall be visible in this garden and for food business there shall be no regularly scheduled food trucks inside the garden. i'm going to make a motion that we add my 6 listed amendments to the lease changes and i have the specific sections and n

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i won't go on too long, but i am also a native san franciscan. i couldn't believe it sitting here, seeing so many folks who are native san franciscans. i don't usually see that, but it was pleasant to see folks who are native to san francisco come up and make presentations. i was actually born and raised in the commission distributeding in san francisco, and graduated from mission high school and later got my degree in public administration and serves as executive director for two mayors and had an opportunity to work with many folks, non-profit organizations, organizations, members of the board of supervisors and others and was able to enjoy what my passion is, is to work, especially with low-income communities and non-profit organizations to build affordable housing in san francisco, but also to provide needed services such as child-care and workforce development and so on. during my tenure as executive director, i was able to have the opportunity to be involved in provide something of those programs to the city. also i had some national involv

rebuild providing - for facilities even to provide more sports in terms of the health not only to san franciscans but it, the people who live in the san francisco bay area. the idea for me in terms of building the facility is to improve and save lives. and i would hope you would make this decision what outline due haste and i'm speaking primarily from the african-american community from the disparities that exist and i know two people that passed away and i think that that having some facilities on line could go a long ways in terms of improving the health throughout our community. i support it with all due speed. thank you >> thank you. i'll call some more names (calling names) >> good evening commissioners. i represent 1 thousand van ness garage. as a long time owner i'm here to speak in support for the hospital project. i can't overstate the positive impacts that will have on the resident. we've had the opportunity to wit house our community has suffered. the ambitious plan will help the surrounding neighborhood. in addition to the construction jobs c pmc has pledged a large number of local hi

and moving forward with tech and business coming back, and concern about the most vulnerable san franciscans. one bedroom apartment is averaging 3,000 a month. median income has reached 77,000 here in san francisco. i'm concerned about the draconian cuts put forward by the department of health that will hurt many of my employees who rely on the systems of care of their own welfare for them and their families. i am concerned about the workforce system that is not addressing individuals with huge implement gaps. there is innovation being put forwardboth to the mayor's office from the various groups to reform the work for system; there are new ideas on how to get homeless individuals back to work. these are expensive options. i hope that in the age of innovation we take the risk to spend more and help those citizens and have the san francisco dream achieve self-sufficiency. thank you. >> thank you very much. bill bowen, district two. thank you for inviting public comment. and give ideas on how to spend more money; i'm sure it will be helpful to the people here. i like to shift a bit though, alm

it trued all san franciscans. the non residents fees are for those living outside of san francisco and it's for the garden of the garden has areas of growth that can't be sustained in most places in the world. for example we have a cloud forest for south america, southeast asia and no where else can do that because we have unique climbate here and with the california native garden and with birds and insects from california. the volunteers provide a great service to the city in education and managing the nursery and many other tasks. these are services that enrich the garden and enrich the lives of californians and san franciscans so i urge you to support the management agreement, and for the continuation of the non resident fees. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is monica martin and i have two statements this afternoon. my own and one who had to leave earlier. i'm a botanical garden volunteer and a member of the board of trustees. in the botanical garden society was form

we are having an infusion that is pushing the heart and - san franciscans have lost their homes and we must add more subsidies that it is assessable to thetox

am currently a member of a few community organizations that promote the support of vulnerable san franciscansl with the goal of raising awareness and resources, and most recently i served on the alice b. tucker democratic club for five years where i gained a deep knowledge of the san francisco government structure and the political process. i am a proud african-american gay man that is grateful for the educational and professional opportunities that have been afforded me, at the same time i am keenly aware that those opportunities for advancement often without government have historically been not available for everyone. if appointed, my priorities would be to work with the commission and staff on continued development of educational programs, making them available for all san franciscans and my second priority would be to work with the commission on strengthening and increasing the commission's enforcement, authority, and other efforts. while the commission must maintain an impartial stance on issues that are brought before them and work hard to avoid conflicts, it also must seek to possess

san franciscans during campaigns read everything they are sent in the mail. love to meet candidates. a gauge with them in conversations. i also learned how important it is to build bridges between communities, particularly communities of diversity we have. i was just incredibly honored to have been elected in november 2008. my district really encompasses the ethnic and economic diversity that exists throughout the city. as a result, i think my district is really emblematic of the entire city. you can find every political perspective that you could possibly want in district 3. so oftentimes, the interest of my district and the city really are quite a line, so i do not have to think about this difference is probably quite as often as some of my colleagues may have to. i in particular want to thank the mayor for his decision to protect our nutrition programs. this is something that i think we all believe is incredibly important at a time when we have seen massive federal and state cuts, for us to hold the line locally and stand up in the city of st. francis for

these conditions have sadly often kept many san franciscans from thinking of broadway as a destination. for the last few years i really want to thank a number of businesses, residents, neighbors and property owners who have been working together on a number of fronts, on public safety to better think about how to market the corridor and to think about how to clean and beautify the corridor and in particular, we have been working on this plan that is part of this resolution. a number of years ago, before i joined the board of supervisors, there was an attempt to pass a similar proposal, but unfortunately by a very, very narrow margin it did not pass and it's my hope that the proposal we have in front of us, providing services and [pw-eufts/]s to residents in the district that go above and beyond the current levels of the city to provide sidewalk beautification, economic development and marketing activities, i very much hope we can move forward on this and i want to close again by thanking members of the community who are here and who are not here, and who have been working hard on these

from condo lottery and taking tics and form of homeownership opportunitiv out of the hands of san franciscans. to mitigate this issue that we have taughtctiontion about is an amendment to allow tic owners to areas of ownership for purposes of qualifying for the lottery. to be clear, this laze zero impact on the fear which a lot of tenants rights advocates have articulated, namely replacing rent control units with owner occupied units. these units are already owned by individuals or families. they are not rental units today and they won't be in the future. no one is displacing tenants. this only affects what certain units qualify for the lottery and that is all, and what order they qualify in. quite frankly, i do not understand these objections. this is an easy compromise to achieve. second, and i'm sure will be debated, there are amendments floating around on this issue in particular, around this poison pill amendment that has been inserted into the legislation. i cannot think of any other piece of legislation that i have voted on since being at the board of supervisors that has had a similar

we know that city-wide san franciscans prefer evening howard to a morning hour by 52% in many branches where evening are cut preference is greater. ~ hours eureka valley prefers evening hours, but is losing 2 hours. the noe valley prefers evenings by 231% but is losing four hours. the board of supervisors voted for your own [speaker not understood] destroying democracy is what they get for their money, the lies cost more than the money. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> [speaker not understood] san francisco open government. the item on the overhead i would like to remain on the screen until i remove it from the overhead projector. what has it been, a month, two at most since members of this board of supervisors raised a cry about district attorney having $26,000 of office furniture. all sorts of issues and an hour long discussion especially about accepting the gift retroactively. then surprise, surprise, last week you approved retroactively $750,000 from the friends of the san francisco public library to the library. that's more than 28 times the amount accepted by the distri

as i have said all along, that we want to encourage real homeownership opportunities for all san franciscans and make our city inclusive and affordable to all. i think this legislation would do so with these amendments. and i've spoken to several of my colleagues on the board about this amendment in regards to where the funding would land. and i've gotten good positive feedback with this. thank you very much. >> supervisor kim. >> thank you. so, i just want to speak from the perspective as a member of this board that was strongly opposed to the originally proposed condo conversion ordinance as i read six months ago and i really want to explain where my perspective came from before we got to the place where we are today. over the last 10 years here in san francisco, we've actually averaged 500 condo conversions on average a year, not just the 200 number that is frequently touted in the media. between 2001 and 2011, 5,9 56 condos were converted. condo units were converted and approved, an average of 541 units per year. ~ these are 541 units that had previously been under rent control. in the p

we must work together to create a budget that helps all san franciscans to be part of the recovery and make san francisco whole and thriving and functioning so please invest by supporting the district 6 budget. thank you very much for listen listening. >> okay. thank you very much. any other members of the public -- if there are members of the public please line up on the far wall and we will get to you. all right. >> hello supervisors. address those on the budget committee today. what incredibly moving stories we have heard over the day. there is so much need in the city and probably now more than ever we have seen one of the highest levels of displacement in san francisco history and surpassing the 2001 bub and he will any of the budgetary elements go toward off setting and supplying and creating because where i see the lack is where we have some services and approach towards the disadvantaged in san francisco. we have very little assistance for work force housing. anything that is affordable those making 25 to $60,000 a year and those in the yards are making 15 to 30 if they're luck