it's a financing structure that will allow san franciscans at no cost to our city st. to have refume upgrades to property homeowners in san francisco. it's the special pinsz that will help prevent energy efficient upgrade and a spreading e spraifd the cost recovery over the life the unit. it will help to finance upgrades through the property assessment and the capita will be priority by private entities would no financial risk to our at the center everyday we're here fortunately in lieu of to witness the clean up air energy economy we know this could trigger a market transformation for the evolution we're witnessing but in order to unleash the potential we must provide the cat lift for a are you unnecessarily product and services. that catalyst as i mentioned it green finance sf. we've seen other parts of the state here in california that have adapted pace programs like in riverside county and have each year the positive impacts. we know the stories of individual that have benefited from the pace programs. we know those upgrades can save money for crucial home improveme

especially san franciscans most vulnerable people. dorisy a communication and digital story telling and assures that the glides work continues it reaches and moves the key constituent sisters. urging the digital story techniques grand engagement and social media programs she motivates the glide to provide their many, many services. and actually dorisy has been schooling me how to use twitter as well. i'm sure she does for others. strategic marketing services she leads the original contents in house mike agency and oversees the work of architects and artists to assure growing social media. on behalf of our dedicated talents flip at glide in special recognition to our commitment to those in need and in honor to you're touching many lives i present you this honor (clapping.) thank you, supervisor avalos and congratulations dorisy. all right. keep it going. yes (clapping) all right. and now i'd like to bring up our next supervisor and this is the supervisor who's done an amazing job in district 6. yes district 6. she's also my favorite el

i'm alex i'm a native san franciscan. probably pretty rare. i was looking at this from november 12, 2013, the san francisco rent tracker and it says the petitions by building owners 57 units compacted that's only the beginning. this is old news for more people in san francisco that are born and raised here. so, please i support this. i can't believe it's even on the agenda but it has to be some type of - okay. who somebody buys a property and they want to buy the property at a certainty amount of money they have to adhere - they have to believe to give affordable housing what was i was trying to say. i think you guys are doing a good job san franciscans don't know where to go they don't know the process. the people with education and money and, you know who their they hound they want to get their projects through. there's a lot of people in the mission and in the city of san francisco that are or have been evicted are for many years mission is a sad thing to happen until we're all gone i'm 52 years old i own a house here and have brothers and s

i'm a fourth eights san franciscan. i've seen many beautiful improvements, however, this give me graphic cleaning of low and he moderate income people is is a giant step barred in maintaining a visitor city. not only would i like to see tutors and families staying in the city but people who are planning on living in the city to have an affordable place to live. i choose to raise my kids here and i want other people to have that benefit. my grandchildren love to come and visit staying overnight is wonderful. anyway my thanks to you for proposing those ordinances that will help prefer affordable housing . thank you >> thank you. next speaker, please >> good afternoon john, i want to start by commending this legislation several impacts of it first, thelogies o london's of the control over the non-conforming use and the presumption of that dwelling unit being legal right it or not it makes sense if it's operating as a dwelling unit to remain so. i want to speak to the hotel issue important right now the group is bringing up

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

climate change, push out city down the path of reducing greenhouse gas emission goals and put san franciscans to in the neighborhoods and finance projects in their home. this program for residential properties of our units or less is referred to as pace so financing structure that will enable san francisco at no cost to the city to fund energy efficiency and upgrades for property owners and this will overcome market bear barriers and -- over the life of the improvement. this special form of financing allows property owners to do the upgrade through text assessments each each with favorable terms and competitive interest rates. the capital will be provided by private entities and no financial risk or exposure to san francisco. everyday we witness the birth of innovation and models with the clean economy and the -- excuse me, with the green collar jobs that come with that. we know that the green energy economy can have a market transformation as the it1 we are experiencing here in san francisco but in order to do that we as a city must provide strong demand for energy efficiency and renewable p

for decades san franciscans have tried to keep it available for san franciscans. it went all the way to the sxukt with wenld holmes said it is not the request for the land you might say holmes established the standards for discretionary review in a case involving exactly the same land. laurel house is developed on world war ii during a housing crisis. it was developed a as carefully mix it maximum misses housing decent within the complnts of the infrastructure while making the community attractive to families. it's a releasing developer who's business has been to purchase buildings and create a steady stream of rental income. it would be in the middle of a row of family homes with a disruption to the planning of the homes developed over 50 years ago. it would disrupt the neighborhood and it's no wonder the neighborhood hats rallied. they have a pabt hadn't of telling commissioners what they want to hear. it was sold as a condominium project. but now marketed at student housing like a minnesota don't remember. the project as all the necessary permits. when the perm

we engage and listen carefully to the san franciscan immigrant community to meetings & living and breathing our daily lives here in san francisco. thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to serve as part of this commission. >> thank you. any questions? no questions >> thank you very much. >> okay. >> i think the last person is moses. >> timothy moses. >> i didn't see a timothy. >> good afternoon honorable board members. i'm timothy i'm an immigrant from africa and have been in san francisco since 1974. i was the co-founder for african-american desk club. from the bay area board members of the san francisco and the executive director of the commission. i'm currently open the immigrant commission and would like to be reappointed to continue to serve and telephone number continue to serve guideline immigrants for languages and mental health and domestic family issues. i have degrees if mental health and i've been deep involved and work closely with the hardworking staff and my fellow commissioners in passing the due process that on civil immigration that was relevance passed by the b

city further down a path of meeting our aggressive greenhouse gas emission reduction goals, put san franciscans to work in our neighborhoods, and help san francisco property owners finance energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in their homes. known as green finance sf, it is a special form of financing that will help to overcome market barriers that exist to energy efficiency upgrades, spreading cost recovery with saving realized over the life of the improvement. this special form of financing allows property owners to responsibly finance the upgrades through property tax assessments each year with very favorable terms. as a financing structure that will enable san francisco at no cost to the city to fund energy efficiency and renewable energy upgrades for property owners and homeowners. every day here in san francisco we are fortunate to witness the birth of innovation and with that new and innovative economic models one being our clean energy economy. ~ we know kleischv energy economy can trigger market transformation as big as the it transformation happening across our world also h

i guess wanted to just take a moment to express, i think the purpose of this body is to allow san franciscans an opportunity to begin to have a voice and a representation on the policy discussion in san francisco, so i don't know if there's room for a conversation here on this body, but i am leaning towards not supporting your residency waiver because i think that we have a lot of talented people here in san francisco and i'm not convinced that the list was exhausted of talent that lives and can represent district 6 as well as representing san francisco. i do value the fact that she represents a constituency, the east indian constituency which i believe is a constituency that is not normally represented in san francisco politics, but i don't know if anyone else shared any other thoughts. >> supervisor breed? >> i also am not inclined to support a residency waiver. i do understand that this is a recommendation for our district 6 colleague and she recommended this individual and i do have a lot of respect for glide and the work they do, so i'm inclined to potentially support this, but i just wo

. >> the clerk: item 130946: agenda[hearing - impact of sugar sweetened beverages to the san franciscans' health and health care sector]13094610.sponsors: mar; wiener and avaloshearing on the impacts that sugar sweetened beverages have on san franciscans' health and the health care sector. 9/24/13; received and assigned to the neighborhood services and safety committee.12/2/13; transferred to the budget >> the clerk: sf 101234 >> thank you very much. this hearing was sponsored by supervisor mar and wiener and avalos. i will turn it to supervisor mar. >> supervisor cohen as well. let me just say that we are here in chambers looking at anls analyst report. we have dr. richmond here today. over a year broad base community coalition has been meeting with my office and supervisor cohen and avalos and supervisor has been meeting with a concerned group as well and concerned about sugar beverages and the health of our community. the risk of san francisco families worries us. this is a study we have done and what our budget analyst office has done is come forward and understand the impacts. i wan

i appreciate the opportunity, and i am excited today to bring together a group of incredible san franciscans, incredible employees and members of the community who have worked together in creating a very historic document, and that's the san francisco health care services master plan. and if i may have those individuals please come forward. as you may recall in the fall of 2010, i authored first of its kind legislation directing the department of public health and the planning department to create a healthier services master plan that would serve as a comprehensive policy document that identifies both the health care services that are currently in place in our city, including any gaps in those services. this master plan is a tool that will help this board and other policy makers in the city and county to be smart, informed -- to make smart informed decisions about the critical health care needs of the city. the legislation also created a consistency determination process so that future medical uses seeking to open or expand in san francisco must show that they are meeting the health needs of

. >> thank you, mayor lee for being hair, the displacement is on the minds of many san franciscan, from the budget analyst report on the eviction crisis between 2009 and 2013t richmond district adds a whole has had 79 el sack evictions and 202 no vault evictioness placing my district among the highest of all neighborhoods in these categories. we also have a very high percentage of renters who are seniors and people with disabilities, many with serious mobility issues. the richmond district and the entire west side of the city lacks tenant focus services that are concentrated on the east side of town. given the tremendous need for tenant services and the geographic inequity in their distribution within san francisco, i would like to begin exploring hopefully with your assistance the possibility of providing a multiservice center in the richmond district that would include tenant focused services. can you commit to assisting my office on working on this? >> supervisor mar, thank you for your question and i am willing to explore with you and each of the other members of the board for ways

may yo, every day, we are seeing rental and homeowner ship prices -- reach san franciscans, to address our current affordability crisis, your office has been working with me and community members to prioritize housing, stabilize housing for people who live in non-permanent inlaw units among other initiative, while building subsidized affordable housing won't solve the crisis, we also know that last year's voter approved house fund will approve 1.3 billion dollars nor low and middle income san franciscans in the coming years, can you provide us with an update in the plan for the near future as well as other housing programs supported by the trust fund, what creative approaches can we do today, and what else can we do to [inaudible] on-site as they construct market rate housing? >> thank you, president chiu for your question, and certainly i will currently -- currently 20% of what is being built in the city is permanently affordable housing for our low-income households and working class families. as you know, supervisor, over broadway is helping to develop 75 new permanently affordable

we take pride in knowing our guests and our store leader is a perfect example she's a analyst san franciscan laej please join me in a welcome of '86 many >> thank you meredith. good evening, everyone. i'm so excited to be here today and would like to kickoff the celebration for thanking each of you. i want to recognize mayor ed lee and supervisor ed farrell and supervisor mar of district one and also our executive vp eric mcdowned and we have our beloved mascot thank you so much for being here. (barking) today is a very excited day for target in san francisco. i grew up in san francisco and everyone since i was a little girl but i didn't know i would be running one one day. as some of you know city target a relatively new development to commencement the consequence and friendly shopping experience to this neighborhood. this city take the will offer local manufactures to meet the needs off our guests. we are very excited to provide a place for people to work for those who live nearby and ride muni. we intend to continue our reputation of being a good neighbor in the local community. navigate

we have a history of doing the wrong thing but san franciscans have the forefront of new thought. we have to slowly turn the tied. i survey this monarchs. i was the one that spit my dinner out carols the room when they realties 57 hundred anyone intooshgz the county. so all the data had to be thrown out. the entire state of washington because of the butterfly community has not seen the money arc. it doesn't acknowledging it in weird placed they're showing up in weird places >> i have to say you have to summarize for us. >> yeah. i'll be front side i'm thrilled to be part of a group that would consider this. >> (clapping) >> fantastic. >> good afternoon. i'm with golden gate austin bond and a resident. golden gate austin bone is in san francisco that was established in sporting by adversity and managing remaining nature resources. the practice of releasing commercially arbitrations butterflies violates those it unnecessarily harms nature butterflies by interrogating invasive butterflies with disease. it cuffs the nature butterflies making management for identifiable and inhumanely

housing, really housing for all working families, working san franciscans. so, that's quite exciting. and then i did want to draw your attention, just as a personal point of privilege, to share a communication that i received from the hunters point developer, lennar. i have received notice that cheryl smith, who is the director of their community affairs, many of you know her from her deep work. she comes from the bayview. her tireless work of the last six years. certainly she will be missed. she's created a deep bench there in order to carry on her work. but really, i think the shipyard, it stands where it does today in large part to her personal commitment and her work on behalf of her neighborhood bayview and all san franciscans. she certainly will be missed and we wish her well. but they certainly do have a deep bench to carry it on. but i did want to draw your attention to that. that concludes my director's report. >> thank you very much. we will be sad to see cheryl go, yes, she will definitely be missed. not that she's like, you know, not in the commu

he's also a board member of y cd you've all spoken in terms of employment for the protecting san franciscans the doctor is a fine person. and lastly we need hispanics on the commission so this community needs representation >> i'm here with selena less than to ask for your support in rereinstating her as vice chair and talk about the other commissioners the other seats 4, 6, 8 and lifting. this is personally one of the most important commissions it keeps us you plugged into the community. on particularly our immigrant community. one of the biggest challenges is keeping the full commission. i'm totally on the attention when we first took over that was a problem. there were 15 commissioners and lack - we wanted commissioners that would show up. as you can see all you get is a nice warm feeling when you put in the time it's important we show up for meetings. it takes about all the commissioners all 6 of them. they've paid their dues. it's atkins the kind of commission you kind of develop and evolve as the years good bye. it's taking a long time to get part of the commission. in my particular ca

so native san franciscan it's the neighborhood i grew up in but also, because in this building in this space is where i spend my afternoons my mother worked in the receiving department and i had to come after school. so i want to say that's tlooiflg u thrilling to be here. more importantly it's important to see target growing in this city. the community is intrinsic to the value of the organization and it shows up from to that to bottom. we love the team members who show up in community giving of their time and talents in our schools. at hill street it was chavez before that. in and through unit campaigns they've give. we've celebrated 90 years and target was a major part of this partnership vested $100,000 in our beacons initiative so on behalf of unit way our community at large we're thrived target is here and we look forward to them growing as they invest more and more of themselves so thank you very much (clapping) >> thank you so much eric we're getting an awesome crowd. i want to introduce supervisor farrell. so supervisor farrell i'd like to invite you up (clapping) >> thanks so