they will follow scott wiener, eric mar, and myself and the board of supervisors. hopefully someday they will follow major lee has the next mayor of this city. and, as a basketball fan, i hope they also followed jeremy lin in being able to play for the future san francisco warriors. [applause] so thank you for being a part of our history. thank you for being a part of our present. thank you for being part of our future. thank you for being part of san francisco. [applause] >> thank you, david. david mentioned the 2008 and the 2012 park bonds but those are a creature of the city's 10-year capital plan. i want to recognize the leader of that effort, our city administrator naomi kelly. thank you for all of your support. [applause] supervisor eric mar was elected in november 2008 to represent the district 1, the richmond district. for over two decades, he has been a dedicated and response of advocate for working families, youth, seniors, small businesses, and all the diverse residents of the richmond district in san francisco. eric and i have had a great pleasure of wo

want to thank mayor lee and his staff but also my colleagues on the board including supervisor scott wiener, david chiu, carmen chu, christina olague, john avalos, jane kim, and malia cohen for cosponsoring the legislation. i am grateful for the work of debbie city attorney jane alexander and from the treasurer tax collector's office for helping us draft this ordinance and finally to treasurer jose cisneros for his incredible work as well. and pta's and pto's hold events to raise supplemental revenue. the san francisco business and tax regulations code requires these events be taxed at a rate of 25%. this creates a burden on the volunteer grassroots organization who are staging events for the sole benefit of san francisco schools. and by amending the role in allows volunteer parent organizations to reap the full benefit of their efforts in the schools to better meet the needs of their students. i urge your support and thank all those involved. supervisor kim: thank you. i wanted to thank supervisor mar and their office. it is important that we helped our families and pt's that are of workin

also joined by one of the co- sponsors of our first item, supervisor scott wiener. are there any announcements? >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. make documents included as part of the file. these will appear on the july 24 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. supervisor kim: thank you. item number 1. >> charter amendment to amend the charter of thisqcity and county of san francisco by adding a section 16.110 to create a san francisco housing trust fund by setting aside general fund revenues beginning in fiscal year 2013-2014 and ending in fiscal year 2042-2043 to create, acquire, and ribble it affordable housing and promote affordable homeownership programs in the city. and lower and stabilize the backs of affordable housing regulatory imposition of a private residence projects and to authorize the development of up to 30,000 affordable rental units in the city under article 34 of the california constitution. supervisor kim: thank you. we spoke about this. are there any comments about this item? supervisor campos

on behalf of my colleagues, i would like to express my gratitude to supervisors scott wiener, the san francisco board of supervisors, the san francisco human rights commission, and the department of public health for reaching this consensus and approving this resolution. we have been working on this together for two years and i want to thank you in the other city agencies for working with us. the removal of the exclusion of medically necessary transition related care from healthy san francisco will constitute the ending of a longstanding barrier to the health and well- being of many transgendered san franciscans. exclusions' like this one have been one of the many ways in which transgendered women and men have been pushed to the margins of society and forced to live in desperation. denied the equal treatment we all hold precious. pervasive employment discrimination and the resulting lack of health insurance coverage has driven many transgendered san franciscans to seek needed medical care from healthy san francisco. with the passage of this resolution, hopefully in the near future, it

we're here with supervisors got scott wiener. he started his first term this january. we are going to get to know him and talk about the issues facing the city. welcome. thank you for joining us today. tell us about your background, where you grew up, went to school, and what kind of jobs to have had. >> i grew up in the philadelphia area, in new jersey. i went to school up and down the east coast. i went to undergrad at duke university. i went to law school at harvard. after clerking for a judge, i came out here in 1997. i have been here for the last 14 years. i have always lived in the castro. i am an attorney. i started out in private practice. i settle private law firm during complex commercial litigation. in 2002, and moved over to the sentences the city attorney's office where i worked on the trial team doing trials for the city, handling my own cases, and supervising a team of attorneys as well. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? >> i always assumed i would go back to the philadelphia area since that is where my family is. i was always interested in

next up, scott wiener, the board of supervisors, like a ding dong i forgot that they were in recent -- recess. he will be here to talk about a cool project that we are working on. >> good afternoon, everyone. the supervisor left this statement on his behalf. "i am not in town while we do -- while we are in recess, but i am here in spirit. the sooner that we recognize in a brace the fact that night life is key to the city, policy makers to often viewed this as challenges to deal with, focusing on violence, drunken behavior, and the like. it is one of the things that makes san francisco unique and defines us. without these unique abilities to enjoy ourselves, it would not be san francisco. understanding and embracing this has been a priority for me as a member of the board of supervisors. engaging in the study of the economic impact as an entertainment and lite light industry, this study, which i anticipate will be completed later this year, will be providing a key policy tool. no longer will we be unduly focused on the negative. instead we will see the negative and the positive. i look

supervisor scott wiener. supervisor malia cohen, supervisor carmen chu. and the other members for their support in making public safety a priority. the president is here somewhere. and the rest of the police commission. this is just a tremendous day for san francisco. we have made tremendous inroads in impacting violent crime over the last few years. it is because of our staffing and the community support to do it through the community policing in the engagement of young people. this will allow us to keep doing that. we're going to lose close to 300 officers with the sunset of drop, and maybe another 100 officers before the summer of 2015. this will dramatically impact that. what the academy is is 29 weeks for entry level officers. eight weeks for lateral transfers. that includes a one-week fire arm training, one-week vehicle operation steny, one-week of officers of rival, and then continued use of force and physical training throughout. -- one-week vehicle operation training, one week of officer survival. and community policing. the mayor mentioned gary.

this is assuming the amendment that passes that was brought forward by supervisor scott wiener. i support that. i would also like to hear the rationale about september. i have not seen the data. i know there are several municipalities that have a september primary, and it would be interesting to say how the turnout is for those municipalities. i will probably support one of these amendments to the charter, but i think over the next few weeks, i would like to spend time talking to a lot of groups that are engaged around election and of course increasing civic engagement and to get their perspective on how they feel about this step process for the mayor's race. supervisor elsbernd: supervisor campos? 'supervisor campos: thank you. i was not thinking of this when i came in, but if i could ask the attorney, through the chair, when we have to act on a charter amendment regarding this item, what is the deadline? and i am just following up on what supervisor kim was saying. >> july 24, but we have an option. >> so i think, to that chair, what are the meetings in july that we have for t

i am joined by board president david chiu, and we will be joined momentarily by supervisor scott wiener, who was filling in today for vice chair supervisor sean elsbernd. i would like to thank the clerk of the board, victor young, and the members of sfgtv you're covering this meeting. nona and john. >> please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards sent copies of documents should be submitted to the clerk of the items acted upon today will appear on september 4, 2012 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. supervisor farrell: ok, thank you, mr. clerk. right now, we have supervisor wiener as sponsor items one and two. he is stuck in an endeavor committee. he will join us momentarily. we're going to take things out of order. call item 3 first, and then we will go to item number four. >> item number 3, resolution authorizing the director of the mayor's office of housing to executive level operating subsidy program grant agreement with mercy housing california xl to provide operating subsidies for formerly homeless single adults at the arlington

supervisor scott wiener has introduced legislation that would allow developers to build units with juste feet of living space. but it would also require a separate kitchen, bathroom and closet for a total of 220 square feet. >> when you have a city that is popular, that is densely populated, we need to make sure that we are being creative and flexible in meeting our housing needs. >> under his measure only new construction could qualify to keep owners of existing buildings from chopping their units into small spaces. that's alleviated the initial fears of the community housing partnership, a nonprofit that builds apartments for no income , low income and formerly homeless. >> i think the new market rate developer, whether they chews to build a 220 square feet or they want to build at 1,000 square feet, if they think they have a market and can get the new construction within the height, bulk and density of the parcel, we should allow them to do it. >> if the supervisors approve the measure, it will bring the city in line with state law which already allows for the small sizes. >>> coming

supervisor scott wiener has introduced legislation that would allow developers to build units with just 150 square feet of living space. but it would also require a separate kitchen, bathroom and closet for a total of 220 square feet. >> when you have a city that is popular, that is densely populated, we need to make sure that we are being creative and flexible in meeting our housing needs. >> under his measure only new construction could qualify to keep owners of existing buildings from chopping their units into small spaces. that's alleviated the initial fierce of the community housing partnership, a nonprofit that builds apartments for no income and formerly homeless. >> i think the new market rate developer, whether they chews to build a 220 square feet or they want to build at 1,000 square feet, if they think they have a market and can get the new construction in the height, bulk and density of the parcel, we should allow them to do it. >> if the supervisors approve the measure, it will bring the city in line with state law which already allows for the small sized. >>> coming up, t

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