health proposes to do in terms of compliance with the affordable care act and maximizing access to san franciscans, i believe that when those specifics are finalized that the specifics will look very much like what we have proposed and while we believe that the coverage san francisco portion of the program is a workable program, that as soon as it lays out a way for san francisco to insure that every worker and every resident is insured and i understand that there is always a need for flexibility by city agencies and so we are open and prepared to work with the department of public health to give them the flexibility. we have distributed to the committee and they are available to the members of the public, a set of amendments that i will be making today. and address the specific issue of what happens with the aca i am mri thentation and coverage san francisco piece of the ordinance and the amendments that i will make today direct the department of public health to develop its own plan that the employers made to the city, are used in a manner to get as many workers insured as possible. and the amen

the injuring nut called the ground water supply project needs to be delayed until san franciscans know about it because the mix of ground water into san francisco's legendary high quality hetch hetchy water will reduce the quality off our water and very few people know about the decision. i consider myself a well-informed people but until i read an article in the commenter. i think just cop a coalition a the neighborhood and the employees of the law library and public library and persons working on the yes on b campaign. one person heard of the project and that person thought that the project was going to be limited to drought conditions but you know it's not true this project is going forward regardless of the drought conditions in normal years i urge you before you go forward with this project and have it backfire on you, please provide appropriate notice to all san franciscans you're changing the composition and quality of their water after 80 years. you should and they deserve to get appropriate notification i'm going to do my best to inform them >> thank you again for that being h

i'm an attorney representing san franciscans for liveable neighborhoods the appellant in this case. we're here because the superior court of san francisco found that the city violated the requirement of the california virtual quality act about when it approved the final impact report for the 2004 and 2009 plan because the analysis of alternatives in the eir was conclusionary and not supported by fax and the finding rejecting the finding were conclusionary the court ordered the approval of the housing element set aside for the reasons stated in san franciscans reliveable comments submitted to the decision and the planning commission on our appeal to the board of supervisors for the eir certification we respectfully oppose the housing element because the deficiencies have not be occurred and their unsupported by fax as are the proposed finding. as an example faeflt a was defined as subject to all the area plans where 95 percent of the growth is expected by i eir says the housing will be dispursued because of the resident policy by the way, the majority of policy will be directed to the

so that our community and our local communities my delivery and keeping san franciscans in san francisco we keep our culture alive thank you very much. >> next speaker >> i'm a second year apprentices with local 510 when i started my apprenticeship i had 5 dogs now widow he would it down to 3 to afford to live lessor for the first time i have health care and a pension and money in a savings account please approve that measure so we can continue to live here and support our community. thank you. >> thank you is there any further public comment mr. chairman may we close public comment. >> colleagues at this i mentioned that is a good step forward in our city's commitment to earn a wage where we can live in the city and i would like first to adapt a minor amendment i mentioned and ask we moved with a positive recommendation. >> we have a motion on the floor it's bs'd been circulated a second by supervisor mar without objection and the underlying item. >> a motion to move forward are a with a positive recommendation. >> okay is there anyone who wishes to speak on the item? >> no, mr. chair.

astronomical housing costs like we're facing today in san francisco is the greatest concern of many san franciscans throughout our city from the rich modxctionv to ~ richmonds and other neighborhoods as well. we need to work together to preserve our neighborhood, character and diversity, also to make sure san francisco is affordable for all. if we pass this measure, we have a fighting chance to accomplish these goals. it will take grassroots efforts and unity across our neighborhoods to win in november. i wanted to thank the san francisco antidisplacement coalition, the antieviction mapping project, affordable housing alliance, alliance of californianses for community empowerment or aid, [speaker not understood] housing opportunities program, [speaker not understood], central city collaborative, the chinatown community development center, ccdc, coalition of community housing organizations of [speaker not understood], [speaker not understood], harvey milk lgbt club, [speaker not understood], san francisco rising coalition, san francisco tenants union, sda or san francisco senior and disability actio

francisco provide tickets, class lessons and enrichment to literally tens of thousands of young san franciscans at almost every public school in san francisco, benefiting those who need it most and who rely on these services to succeed. in the last few years, we have begun to see a welcome increase in funding. however, our spending is still more than 20% behind level from a decade ago. please help keep the arts community remain and thrive in san francisco. for every dollar these organizations receive in public funding they are able to leverage private money, making eve dollar count even more. supporting arts excellence places thousands of city residents and visitors every year who contribute to our local economy. i urge the board of supervisors to continue to support the arts and artists in san francisco by increasing funding for grants for the arts and the arts commission. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>> good morning, supervisors. i work with a nonprofit tenderloin housing clinic. i'm a union janitor and i'm here asking for an increase in cost of doing business. th

i recognize san franciscans are anxious about a living and living in the city. i know that know that 70 plays an important role through this budget we're making smart, responsible targeted investments to insure that san francisco's is more footage and a better place to live for everyone. this year's proposal is hard work and collaboration of all and with you'll have you and we've met in every district and listened to community leaders and social service providers online and in person we developed this two year budget is reflects all our san francisco values. we also worked together with our employees to negotiate new contracts with each of them 27 labor unions. i want to thank our union partners and the city staff in negotiating the spare affordable and responsible contracts to insure our city's employees minimum wage keeps plays with the cost of living. the details of the budget you'll see fiscal prunes and an increase to the services for our resident and critical investments in transportation and education and our safety net and infrastructure and investment in

housed, sorry, and to house homeless san franciscans could impact 30,000 households through education, outreach, legal representation, emergency rental assistance, rapid rehousing subsidies and long-term housing solutions. this funding would keep and get many san franciscans housed in a cost-effective way directly impacting about 4,000 households for an average cost of about 3,000 per household. this is much more effective than sheltering homeless households temporarily at an annual cost of up to 45,000 per family. there are solutions to the crisis of housing and homelessness we are facing in san francisco. and if we all work together [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is jeff kazinski, i'm with the hamilton family center. i'm here to speak on behalf of the hespa budget request. when i started doing this work it took a family about a week to get into a temporary shelter with case management services. less than a week actually. today it takes over 7 months for families to get into a homeless shelter with case management s

is an executive member and as you all know, just the voters and which was the guide that many san franciscans use to depend on. and she is a frequent speaker at mta board meetings and at the board of supervisors. and she is also passionate about the environment, and a passion that she comes by naturally from her time. she advocated for maintaining sunday meters that reduces pollution in san francisco and increases safety for bicyclists and pedestrians and provides more parking for sunday drivers. and she is well versed of clean power sf and she is passionate of working in private industries to strengthen the accountability and citizenship. she serves both on the green team and also, as team captain of her companies giving comfort program, which provides low income cancer patients, with much needed and the most needed items that they have and finally she passionate about doing the research to form good decision making and having been involved and spoken out the choice voting and something that lasco voted on and community aggregate and filling vacancies at election tomorrow and i would urge yo

when the mayor and the board committed to creating more jobs in san franciscan it was not about creatingust any jobs but with health care it was not only allowing our workers to afford to live in santa fe san francisco but support their families i want to acknowledge the labor and workers they've been clear in leading issues to protect our protecting workers they fought for sick day and no other city considered those landmark lacks foundation now cities are joining san francisco's ranges san francisco has a lot of to the proud of not only are we pushing the boundary within the boundary of san francisco but impacting the lives of workers throughout the country our president made a call to raise the national minimum wage but if congress can't do it localities should it's simple and clear and i and i'm confident san franciscans will proudly vote for the measure there are so many people the mayor and mayor's office the nonprofit leaders that were committed and, of course, labor and workers that have been waiting for the wage even as different that was no one wanted to walk away from bringing

by supporting youth aware's continued funding you will strengthen the next generation of san franciscans, equipping them with the tools and knowledge to create communities

to make smarter decisions for san franciscans. when we last presented to you, the clean power sf program was august of 2013. it really was viewed as our key method to address climate change. it provides an opportunity for the city to offer green power choices to its residents. most of whom are low -- excuse me, most who are renters with relatively low electric usage and it doesn't make financial sense or they don't have the ability to put solar on their residents, it's not their property. so it allows clean power sf allows san franciscans to participate. we proposed it to start with 50 to 90,000 residents with a goal of reaching everyone. it creates an energy portfolio. the tough part was balancing our policy preferences, policy for affordable service, for the most green mix renewable sources possible, and for that local build. our general manager, kelly referred to that as the three headed monster at a recent meeting. it's hard to accomplish all three of those at once. when we presented the rate and the program to you back in aug

everyone has a right to their opinions by the fact is unless my memory served 55 percent of the san franciscans supported prop g and put it into the charter and prop g is the law of the land and governors o governors those impasse in arbitration and one can agree or san diego but 2/3rd's of voters in san francisco passed in 2010 so i don't know see what the purpose is of the lapsing in the resolution that basic is criticizing prop g i'm not going to support the language i supported prop g and most important the voters did so i don't think it is proper to put the language effectively that we disagree with prop g and switching the current language it doesn't matter what order but in terms of the additional whereas clauses that supervisor avalos read i respect pious point of view i don't think they're appropriate for the resolution >> supervisor breed. >> thank you. i just wanted to seek clarification of the language which i know we're waiting on he just wanted to explain why i have a real problem with moving this forward and adding additional whereas clauses associated with the proposition when t

local businesses they're paying savings and a property tax and payroll tax and normally adhere san franciscansng goods and services in san francisco it really helps the economy of san francisco grow so its not only a benefit to the project but to the city. the contractors center is 5 thomas melon circle in the bayview area open 8:30 to 5 welcom thank you. thank you, everybody good morning. good morning. all right. well, thank you for joining me at the board of supervisors chambers everyone else thank you to supervisor chiu and supervisor farrell to the entire members of the board of supervisors thank you for being here our commissio

we want to get san franciscans insurance to covered san francisco, instead of giving the worker the option to use the money, we're saying we're going to require you to get insured because when you don't get insured it falls on the tax payer when you end up in general hospital. we're trying to use that $90 million that's being pocketed by businesses to use that money more efficiently to get insured. i think everyone in this room can understand that concept. number two -- >> i'm sorry. let me back up for a moment because you thought you were going to answer five questions but we are in a dialogue between the commissions and recognizing and honoring you as a representative of supervisor. i was hoping would be short answers to perhaps some of the factual issues so i think -- >> i'll try to be short but it is a critical conversation and i would hope you allow the time. if this is so complicated we should have the time to talk about it. >> i'm sorry to permit you to speak about the five points but within a sustained period of time. >> the fiscal impact, we're expecting if this passes, a lot of w

local businesses they're paying savings and a property tax and payroll tax and normally adhere san franciscansng goods and services in san francisco it really helps the economy of san francisco grow so its not only a benefit to the project but to the city. the contractors center is 5 thomas melon circle in the bayview area open 8:30 to 5 welcomyou. >> hello san francisco holly lee here with another activity there's loose to do. take time to smell the roses and admissions to the concerto of flowers is free the first toou did you have every month with rear and exotic plants the conservative is having something for everyone where you're a native san franciscan. discover the joy of so i on the fourth toy food festive in japantown that free festive as so i education and audience games and live entertainment and the highlight the soy and 80 food competition. get ready to swing that sunday at lindy in the park with a museum with the streets of golden gate park are closed and the dancers take over take a free lesson at noon. and that's the weekly buzz. for more information on any of those events visit

i work with programs to meet basic daily needs for thousands of san franciscans annually, from food to shelter to violence prevention and health. i'm here to ask supervisors to increase 1.5% cost of doing business to 3% to support our collective goal of achieving a living wage for the staff who take on the challenge of working on the front lines every day. the work we do enables our communities to do theirs, to heal, to move forward, to have hope for a more positive future. we want san francisco to be a place where all of us can live, work, and play. in addition, i'm here to ask the board of supervisors to support the san francisco food security task force request for add back for year 14-15, to support healthy supplements, delivered meals for seniors with disabilities and [speaker not understood]. this is one of the many steps to end hunger in san francisco by 2020. thank you for your time and the work you do. (applause) >> thank you. next speaker, please. [gavel] >> just real quick, reminder the policy of no clapping in the board chambers here and we do that so we can speed through t

supporting gordon even though they knew they were going to louis lose and why he said i want san franciscanssian president board of supervisors and maybe a asian mayor of the san francisco that's harry's dream i saw what we have in this great mayor, i get often asked am i sad that my usage didn't see the day when we have 9/11 drafts and xhaem shows we're i don't know people in treasure island that will be having difficult table conversations having conversations and standing up for who they are in school yards and not only lgbt people but men anyone who skins skin is different or religion or non-risen is different those were dreams he did get to see them he got to see today when this wonderful city of san francisco would be this beaming light we have a decision that the not only a-year-old people think it's old hat that the sprusht knocked down a ruling a federal discretionary law dolled the dorm don't remember a woman named edit was not going to take this she didn't have a law she said i'm not going to take this (clapping) he dreamed of the overcame people that would rise that to injustice

her to see that the research is critical to the active policy. >> and improving the lives of san franciscan and recently she spearheaded the efforts to support clean power sf to follow the administrative processes closely, and informing others of it. and we hope that you will consider her for the voting public seat, because she is qualified and a concerned citizen and rather than a professional policy expert or a politician. and her skills will greatly benefit lafco and truster that her research and the policy in san francisco with the values and heart. and you know, my personal recommendation, for miss crews, is that she is, someone that has completely energized my interest in local politics. not just because of her. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> hello and thank you. >> leah coal and i live in the mission near sf general and i am a public schoolteacher at burton high school and it serves for the bay view hunter's point and the valley districts and i spend my time and my energy in the communities in which i live and work. and i love the cities and i am enthusiastickly supp