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all right, one more time, sfgov. oh, turn it this way? oh, okay. so it needs -- i can just raise it up. i'm -- i'm responding specifically to the memorandum that was sent out last week regarding the predicted effect of the city tax on cannibas businesses. oh, that's fine. i can just move it. on cannibas businesses. the memo did not contain references or specifically link to the data which it cites. so mainly this claimed that a percent of this tax could be absorbed by the consumer and this was asserted by the claim that the gross revenues have increased by 25% in the last year. and ignoring the fact that we just transitioned to recreation and so that 25% increase actually could be due to the number of purchases. the study goes on to say that some amount of this could be due to increase in price. however, we have had not seen any data to substantiate this. we'd like to advocate a data-driven strategy to best serve both the city of san francisco and the emerging cannibas industry. if we represent the san francisco tax revenue by the multiplication of

. >> commissioner covington: and do you have any presence on sfgov tv? >> we may need to reup them, but we did have snippets of our sessions running on sf gov tv. we still live in earthquake country. shutting off the gas is still relevant, so if they're still running those old pieces, then we do. >> commissioner covington: i haven't seen them in quite sometime, so perhaps it warrants a conversation with the director of sfgov tv. >> yes. i'm happy to reach out to them and just see if they still have them available. we paid them to put those pieces together, so if they need to be updated, i know there's some cost incurred with that. >> commissioner covington: thank you. do we still have any in the department? >> through our division of training, we have some resources. they're limited, though. >> commissioner covington: okay. >> one thing i wanted to mention, we have in the past, we cycle between presentation training and nert. we avail ourselves of free space in the voter information pamphlet and fire presentation. we've reached out to them and they've gi

we're waiting for sfgov-tv to catch up. all right. we're back.nce sub-committee, today is july 26th, i want to welcome you to our meeting. and i thank sfgov-tv, and jesse and samuel who are assisting with the broadcast and miss linda wong is our clerk. and i want to reog

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s for purchase of this program are available from sfgov tv. now we will swear or affirm any member of the public who wish to testify. 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 are able, raise your right hand and stay "i do" after you have been sworn or affirmed. do you swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? thank you. okay. president fung and members of the commission, we have two how's keeping items. -- housekeeping items. this is item number 6. leslie and barry will, and department of planning inspection. we don't have mr. duffy here. we'll just move onto item number eight as a housekeeping item. this is appeal 18-051, schiff technologies versus the zoning administrator, subject address is 2336 market street, protesting the issuance on march 28, 2018 of a notice of violation and penalty decision. alleging violation of planning code section 764 for the unauthoriz

we're waiting for sfgov-tv to catch up. all right. we're back. budget and finance sub-committee, today is july 26th, i want to welcome you to our meeting. and i thank sfgov-tv, and jesse and samuel who are assisting with the broadcast and miss linda wong is our clerk. and i want to recognize my committee women, we've got to my right supervisor sandra fewer and to my left is catherine stefani. >> clerk: silence all cellphones and electronic devices and have any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk and items on today will appear on the supervisor's agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. let's start with the first item. >> clerk: resolution authorizing the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to execute amendment number 5 to an agreement with u.r.s. corporation, increasing the length of the agreement by up to 13 month for a total term of september 11, 2003, through july 10, 2020, and increasing the agreement by their 2,415,000, adjusting the estimated cumulative contract amo

sfgov tv please show the office of small business slide. >> welcome, everybody. it's our custom to begin and end each small business commission meeting with a reminder that the office of small business is the only place to start your new business in san francisco and the best place to get answers to your questions about doing business in san francisco. the office of small business should be your first stop when you have questions about what to do next. you can find us on-line or in person here at city hall. best of all, our services are free of charge. the small business commission is the official public forum to voice your opinions and concerns about policies that affect the economic vitality of small businesses in san francisco. if you need assistance with small business matters, it starts here at the office of small business. >> clerk: call to order and roll call. [roll call] >> clerk: mr. president, you have a quorum. >> president adams: thank you. next item. >> clerk: general public comment allows members of the public to comment on matters of jurisdiction b

sfgov tv, can you pick that up? colleagues when i look at this picture, i see technology advancing and moving forward. on the screen on the left, we have the sprinter. that's the dvr and the big box of the ambulance on the right is like a vcr. i way see it, we are not recording our programming vcr anymore. time and technology are advancing. i think it's incredibly important for our department to have the quintessential tools that they need in order to do the best of their ability. i believe we've become more efficient with our technology. this is like the physical manifestation of 21st century technology. i'm leaning towards i like the idea of a lean agile sprinter of unit. i think that it is where the department needs to be going. i have not heard from 798 pointed to acknowledge in. they haven't reached out. because i haven't heard i will interpret that as they are neutral on the issue. chief, i want to encourage you and your department to really depart from the way of the 20th century and move in direction that is

i want to acknowledge sfgov tv for broadcasting the meeting. mr. clerk, can you please call the roll? [roll call] >> clerk: we have a quorum. >> supervisor kim: thank you so much. i will begin with the chair's report today. and i just want to highlight recently as we test out different technologies on treasure island that the metropolitan transportation commission, which i also sit on, effort to update the clipper transit fare payment system. clipper has made great strides in integrating bay area operator transit fares to a single fare card but the system is decades old and in need of renewal and enhancement. clipper 2.0 is a critical opportunity to achieve excellent customer service experience, bring technology to transportation payment and improve administrative effiency for operators and agencies including timma. as we move forward with the next generation of clipper, we need to ensure that clipper 2.0 will be nimble and advance forward. new york city, who is going through a similar process, has chosen to do away with paper tickets altogether an

and the broadcast on sfgov-tv and welcome miss linda wong who is the clerk of this committee.am clerk, any announcements? >> clerk: please silence all

sfgov tv, thank you very much.want to thank jesse larsen and michael baltizar, assisting us with the broadcast. our clerk is linda wong. give her applause. [applause] she is incredible. she helps to keep us focused and on time and she -- if there is a supplemental, she adds it to the file. she's on top of her job. i'm compliments. i'm budget and finance subcommittee. i'm malia cohen, and to my right, sandy fewer and catherine stefani. we're ready to rock on. madam clerk, can you call item 1? >> clerk: ordinance approving contra

i would like to thank sfgov tv for staffing the meeting. mr. clerk, do we have any announcements before we begin? >> clerk: yes, be sure to silence all cell phones. completed speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. items acted on today will be on the july 31 board of supervisors agenda. item 1 is a motion approving or rejecting malia cohen, nominations for the reappointment of dennis richards to the planning commission, for a four-year term. >> supervisor safai: unless there are additional comments, i would like commissioner richards to come up and address the committee. >> 2 or 3 minutes? >> supervisor safai: there's really no time. brevity is appreciated. >> i will be brief. it's weird being on this side of the railing. i'm nervous. to supervisor stefani, i always tell people, please don't call me or write me the morning of the commission meeting to try to talk to me or send some substantive communications, and i did the same thing with you this morning, so i apologize. i'm happy to meet with you any time day or night between now and

and then three, thank you to sfgov tv and media services for airing this meeting to the public every time we meet. we can go ahead and start with the roll call. >> commissioner lee. >> here. >> commissioner bleiman. >> here. >> commissioner thomas. >> here. >> a commissioner comino. >> here. >> commissioner perez. >> here. >> and president tan. >> here. we are still waiting on a law enforcement rep. which is all good. okay. first order of business is general public comment. is there any public comment on matters related to the san francisco entertainment item that is not on the agenda? i don't see any. public comment is closed. two is the approval of minutes from june 5. commissioners, unless there is a change you would like to make, happy to entertain a motion to approve. >> just correct the spelling of my name. under call to order, it's thomas. thank you. >> all right. any other changes? if not, would someone like to make a motion? >> a i move to approve minutes. >> a second. >> an any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, public comment is closed. let's take a vote. >> a com

it got approved in -- hello, sfgov, can i have the overhead? it got a revision from the planning department for the site permit. there it is. there's the original building. here it is during the work. this is the rear of it. here it is now, just prior to the staging, which has taken place and it's now for sale at 4 1/2 at one point, a revision to the ground floor and here's the original plan by the 311. there was no d.r. and they were small units. they can only approve what is before them. they wanted a stair unit up there. and there's a closet there and the stairway is up the closet and over the closet and there's a washer and dryer. here's a detail of it, so you can see it better. there's the entrance from the garage. there's the stairway going up. over the kroz th-- closet. it hit the market and here's the plans. here's the garage. here's the main entrance to the unit. here's the stairway going up and now the washer and dryer and the closet are on the side and the doors are open. it's being market the as a single-family home. surprise. i cer

and to recognize our clerk john carroll and thank the staff at sfgov-tv for making sure that our meetingse both to the public and online. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements. >> clerk:? please make sure to silence your cellphones and complete the speaker cards and any documents to be part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. and itemmings will appear on the july 24, 2018 agenda unless otherwise stated. >> supervisor kim:, can we call item number one. >> clerk: to approve a conditional land disposition and acquisition agreement with 2000marin street, for transfer of property at 639 bryant street for 2000marin street, for the public commission costs. and it's a conditional agreement under the california environmental quality act guidelines with closing conditions on city discretionary approve after the completion of environmental review. >> supervisor kim: thank you, mr. clerk and i want to invite our lead sponsor on this item which i'm a co-sponsor of to make opening comments. and i appreciate his diligence in working in my district and working to make sure that we could move

quintanilla is our clerk and i would like to take a moment to thank maya hernandez and adrian starks at sfgov tv for broadcasting this meeting and making everything available to the public. mr. clerk, would you like to

we would like to thank sfgov tv. can we get a motion to excuse suspects safai from land use? >> so moved. >> clerk: make sure to silence all cell phones and recording defsh uses. and any documents to be in a file should be submitted to the clerk. items here will be on the july 31 supervisors agenda. planning 1, planning code, permit review procedure and zoning controls neighborhood commercial districts in districts 4 and 11. and affirming appropriate findings. >> supervisor tang: colleagues, we already heard this item in land use. it's our pilot program to attract more businesses. today we have amendments to introduce in light of the process improvements legislation passed by the board of supervisors. there's been an entire reorganization of the planning code. and so the amendments i'm introducing today literally just put our legislation in the proper sections now given that change in the planning code. so i won't have any further comments on that, but it's really a technical change. if we can adopt the amendments, i would like to send it to the full board as a committee repo

sfgov tv, thank you very much. want to thank jesse larsen and michael baltizar, assisting us with the broadcast. our clerk is linda wong. give her applause. [applause] she is incredible. she helps to keep us focused and on time and she -- if there is a supplemental, she adds it to the file. she's on top of her job. i'm compliments. i'm budget and finance subcommittee. i'm malia cohen, and to my right, sandy fewer and catherine stefani. we're ready to rock on. madam clerk, can you call item 1? >> clerk: ordinance approving contract between the city and department of energy administration for low-cost power and scheduling coordinator services to treasure island and yerba buena island to extend the term by four years and three months and increasing to approximately $28.4 million. >> president cohen: we have randall smith from p.u.c. are you here? >> i am. >> president cohen: come on down. the floor is yours when you are ready to get started. >> i'm randall smith from sfpuc. we are requesting an amendment of the ordina

the committee clerk is albertoquintanilla, and the staff would also like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovrd each of our meeting and make the recordings available on-line. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: no announcements. >> supervisor yee: okay. we have to silence our phones or anything? our cell phones? before i call the first item, i want to say a few words. the vision zero of the transportation committee meets quarterly, but recently, there's been a gap of -- with meetings, so i'm happy to be back on track for the new fiscal year, and hopefully, we'll just get back into our quarterly meetings and be a lot more productive in the coming years -- or coming months. then, vision zero's not about bulb outs and red curbs. vision zero is about, really, people in this case. all san francisco residents and visitors have the right to transverse our city safely as a pedestrian, a bicyclist, a motorist or on public transit. i look forward to the updates that's going to be presented this -- this morning in our future meetings, also, and want to ensure that actions -- action items

and before we go a little -- any further, i want to just recognize our friends at sfgov tv, jesse larson and colina mendoza, and of course our faithful clerk linda wong is here. she's one of my favorite clerks here, just on top of her game. madam clerk, are there any announcements, anything we need to take care of today? >> yes. please silence any cell phones or electronic devices. documents or anything to be included as part of the file should be submitted. items acted on today will be part of the june 25 agenda unless otherwise stated. >> supervisor cohen: okay. i'd like to get started and call items 1 and 2, please. >> clerk: yes. [agenda item read] >> supervisor cohen: all right. so this is the order that we're going to be calling departments. first we're going to be hearing from health service sam systems, the assessor, controller, fine arts museum, asian art museum, public works, emergency management, superior court, adult probation, juvenile probation, treasurer tax collector, art commission, war memorial, children and families commission, children, youth and their families, publi