. >> once you place something down, sfgov tv will go to it. >> ok. thanks. good afternoon. and happy new year. lisa fromer, liberty hill. after two years, it's gratifying to see that the u.d.g. is not the overarching city-wide guideline. and all waivers have been deleted. but it's vague generalities and modern bent still won't guide development that in any way complements our older residential or historic neighbourhoods. many eastern and downtown districts and other neighbourhoods already have their own very granular-specific guidelines. an appendix in the first version of the u.d.g.s listed 33 of them. the latest draft now applis to the neighbourhood commercial corridors. that's the residential commercial interface that has always been part of the residential fabric. the r.d.g. has the detail and granularity to inform design here and includes historic preservation but not u.d.g. there is nothing in the u.d.g. that speaks to light air privacy. and now there is a little more on light wells. the reason it's up to neighbourhoods to write their own special area guidelines for t

county of san francisco and chair of this committee and i want to acknowledge charles kreminek at sfgov tv for broadcasting our meeting and making sure they're available to members of the public. mr. clerk, would you please call the roll? >> item one, roll call. [roll call] we have quorum. >> thank you very much. and may we take a motion to excuse commissioner cohen and commissioner fuhor. mr. clerk, can you please call the next item? >> item two, chair's report. this is an information item. >> thank you. and i do not have a report today. and may we take public comment on this item? seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. item number two. can we please call the next item. >> item three, executive director's report. this is an information item. >> chair kim, commissioners, i'm pleased to report on some recent developments at the policy level. we've been track federal and state autonomous vehicle legislation with interest and with some concern in late last year of october. sfmta director sent a letter for the deployment of driverless vehicles in california. we are apprecia

clerk is alyssa summerall and i'd also like to thank samuel williamses and high -- maya hernandez from sfgov tv. >> items acted upon today will appear on the january 30 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> great. thank you. thank you, ms. summerall. can you please call item number one? >> item number one is a hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending november 30, 2018, to the ballot simplification committee. there are two seats and two applicants. >> great. we have two applicants, unless there is any initial comments from committee members. let's hear from mr. scott patterson first. if he is ok. great. please come forward. >> hello. thank you for having me here today. i'm scott patterson, candidate for the ballot simplification committee. my family traces its roots in san francisco back to when they immigrated from italy in 1881 so we've been around for a long time. i've been a member of the faculty at san francisco state university as a professor of broadcast and electronic communication arts for over 20 years. for 10 of those years, i served as chair of th

if anybody knows anything about this case out there on sfgov television, please help. thank you. >> president turman: thank you. any further public comment? thank you, mr. salinas. >> thank you, president, chairman, commissioners. jim salinas. i'm here to thank the chief through the chair for the respect and the attentiveness he's given the latino community the last few months. i truly appreciate the fact that this chief is in great demand, and as i said earlier is working favorishly to try to reinstill the trust and the confidence and to build the community relations that were once much much better. i just wanted to come down here. i know that he's very busy, and i know that he's taking time. i also want to thank while i'm here deputy chief sainz, when he's not able to come down and answer questions and continue to build on this relationship, that they're there. and again, despite the fact that all of them have a great many duties. lastly, i just want to say in december, commissioners, i read an article in the mission local regarding some issues with the sfpd, and i h

our clerk is victor young and from sfgov tv, thank you to jim smith and maya hernandez. i guess as everyone was ploting to become the next mayor of san francisco, i was secretly plotting to become our next chair of the land use committee. so, i'm supervisor katie tang, your new land use committee chair. >> vice chair for life. [laughter] >> all right. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> yes. please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. complete speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items asked upon today will appear on the february 18 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> all right. thank you, mr. clerk. can you please call the first item? >> item number one, establishing the gary masonic special use district in the area generally bounded by gary boulevard to the south, masonic avenue to the east and [inaudible] number 1071 lots numbers 1 and 4 to north and west. respectively. >> thank you. and i believe that you have assumed sponsorship of this item

this meeting is broadcast live on sfgov tv and will be rebroadcast on friday on channel 26. there are dvds of the meeting available for purchase. we'll swear or affirm all those who intend to testify. any member of the public may speak without taking an oath pursuant to their rights under the sunshine ordinance. if you do intend to testify at any of tonight's proceedings and wish to have the board give your testimony evidentiary weight, stand, if able, raise your right hand and say i do or i affirm. stand now. thank you. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth? thank you very much. vice president fung, two housekeeping items. first is item 10 ch. the parties have jointly requested that the matter be rescheduled to january 10, 2018, to give them more time to come to a settlement agreement. >> so moved. >> thank you. any public comment? >> last time people were not aware that the case had been continued and waited for a significant amount of time. want to be sure that they are aware that

welcome to the budget and finance committee meeting for january 25th, and i guess i want to thank sfgov tv, michael and jim, for recording today's meeting, and making it available to the public and also good morning to our clerk, linda wong. announcements? >> silence all cell phones, completed speaker cards and copies of documents submitted to the clerk. item acted upon appear on february 6th, board of supervisors agenda unless others stated. >> number one. >> authorizing the police department to accept and expand a grant in amount of 166,000 from the department of homeland security federal emergency management agency for the safe boat refurbishment and service life extension program, september 1, 2017, through august 31, 2020. >> and chair cohen will be here in a moment, since i don't have notes in front of me, i won't know who is speaking for which item. as you come up, please announce yourself. >> good morning, patrick young, the grants manager for the san francisco police department. i'm here to request recommendation from the budget and finance committee for our sf expend resolutio

sfgov, can you go to the computer, please? >> maybe since my name was evoked earlier, i will weigh in. i think were de see this as a corner building and as a gateway. and duboce is a residential street, but also a broad and busy and very busy street from a traffic standpoint. so as a corner building, it made more sense to have that mass there and i think the tradeoff to a certain extent was being more respectful to the historic building, which is why we suggested the massing being moved. while we would have in other situations like the delores building, where whole foods is, we did that stepping down. in this case, i think the thinking was that this was a largely -- that building is a full block long. this building is much smaller and has a corner presence, which is why we're comfortable with the height at this location. >> commissioner moore: it's interesting to hear your thoughts. i follow that. i just wanted to have the question be answered by you and i kind of see what you are saying. thank you. >> i, too, appreciate your

our clerk is victor young and from sfgov tv, thank you to jim smith and maya hernandez. i guess as everyone was ploting to become the next mayor of san francisco, i was secretly plotting to become our next

thank you for sfgov tv. can we have a roll call please. >> commissioner bleiman commissioner perez vice president thomas. and we'll note president tan is excused. >> great. the first item of business is general public comment for items not on the agenda. i have one card for general public comment from michael noltey. there's my mic. you have two minutes. >> can i have overhead? it actually says five. anyway, i wanted to point out that the guidelines for mentioning neighborhood outreach, i was at one of the hearings some time ago in regards to the black cat and i asked that the black hat do outreach to the community groups and to date, they have not. and one of the conditions of approval was coming to the neighborhood groups, the pacific alliance for better district six. they failed to do it. i sent e-mails. i guess they figure they have been approved and got the permit, and it was just too much to think about. and i think that flies in the face of the actual guidelines that state what kind of outreach needs

clerk is alyssa summerall and i'd also like to thank samuel williamses and high -- maya hernandez from sfgov >> items acted

this meeting is broadcast live on sfgov tv cable channel 78 and will be rebroadcast on friday at 4 p.m. on channel 26. we have dvd's of this meeting available for purchase from sfgov.tv. now we will swear in or affirm all those who intend to testify. please note any member of the public may speak without taking an oath pursuant to their rights under the sunshine ordinance. if you intend to testify at any of tonight's proceedings and wish to have the board give your testimony evidentiary weight, please stand if you're able, raise your right hand and say i do after you've been sworn in or affirmed. so please stand now. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> i do. >> okay. thank you very much. so, the first item on tonight's calendar is general public comment. this is for anyone who would like to address the board on something within the board subject matter jurisdiction, but that's not on tonight's agenda. >> welcome. >> hello. i came here to say one thing, but i'll probably end up saying s

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one other thing i want to give a shout-out to sfgov-tv.hank you. >> item 10-a, requests authorization to award construction contract 2779a upgrades project. in the amount of $702,350 and 10% of the contract amount for unanticipated contingencies for a total authorization not to exceed $772,858. >> so moved. >> second. >> there any public comment on 10-a? i don't have any cards for anyone. is there any public comment on 10-a? being none, public comment is closed. colleagues, all in favor say aye? >> aye. >> opposed? madame secretary, passed unanimous. next item, please. >> regarding responses for request for proposals for the lease and operation of the pier 70 shipyard located at pier 68 and 70 and sea wall at 349 near 20th street and illinois street, including dry dock eureka and dry dock number two. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm jeff ballor, the project manager for the r.f.p. there we go. and, again, here to give you a brief presentation, professional presentation on the progress of the r.f.p. and the responses that the port recei

president of our board, london breed and i acknowledge our clerk, john carole, and thank the staff at sfgov tv, who

if i could please ask for the sfgov tv for the powerpoint. thank you. the following is for the women's building located at 4533 18th street in the mission district. the national register nomination was prepared by donna graves with funding from the national park service as an extension of the national lgbtq heritage theme study. in its capacity as a certified local government, the city and county of san francisco is given the opportunity to comment on nominations to the national register of historical places. any comments from this commission will be forwarded to the state office of historic preservation. the women's building is located at the corner of 18th and lapidge streets in the mission drifjts i was constructed in 109 and contains four-storeys and a basement they are classed and stucco over brick and featured balconies, awnings and applied ornament and cornice. the west fa saids are utilitarian in nature with no ornament. a built-up roof caps the building. the 1994 mural that envelopes the building's main facades is included as a contributing res

i would like to thank the folks at sfgov tv for all of their work in 2017, live streaming the land use and other committees of the board w. that, mr. young, could you please read the first item? >> item number one is the resolution renaming the 600 block of stevenson street to oddfellows way to recognize the historic significance of the architectural and cultural contributions of the oddfellows have made to the city and county of san francisco. >> ms. lopez, on behalf of the sponsor, supervisor jane kim, the floor is yours. >> great. thank you, supervisors. i'm here today before you on behalf of supervisor kim, supervising a resolution to rename the 600 block of stevenson street to oddfellows way in recognition of the oddfellows order which are on that street and doing a lot of giveback. the first high light is the stewardship of the street itself, caring and taking care of the alleyway in an area which is often difficult to care for as well as their arts giveback. as you know, that particular building is not only a historical resource center, the market street theater and lost distric

>> on sfgov tv overhead, please? hello. frank gladstone. this is regarding four, 28th street. i represent the property owner. we're requesting continuance until march 1. i'm pleased to tell you that the adjacent neighbour who's most opposed to this by the name of anne-marie zabala was kind enough to write this e-mail to the staff. and it's here on the overhead, indicating her agreement to a march 1 continuance. the plans were shown to her. the plans aren't totally final. she would like to see them in final. we haven't seen them to the planning staff. i think there is a possibility with a months's continuance that there is some settlement on the design with the next door neighbour and know that the commission hopes to have these things taken off their calendar. and we're hoping we can do so. my client, who is the homeowner who lives there and is the architect and she got this e-mail from planner nancy tran which indicates, quote, that the march 1 hearing date is confirmed. she took that to mean that it doesn't need to go to commission as it is today. there was funeral back in t