based on their review of our programs, extensive stakeholder input, and research of other metropolitan areas, the key findings of the consultant's report that were provided to you are that there's no one comment or universal definition of community benefits, that most programs which would be considered community benefits are decentralized, lack coordination and are duplicative. that resources are not sufficiently allocated to effect live establish a sustainable and robust program. that most programs do not clearly articulate a community approach as the prior agency's commission and there are no measures to measure effectiveness or impact. we worked closely with the consultants to prepare recommendations detailed in their executive summary. the draft community benefits policy that we're presenting to you today is based on these key recommendations. the policy lays the framework for the development of a comprehensive community benefits program that is intentional and centrally coordinated throughout the agency. the policy provides sufficient resources should be allocated to the developme

because we have complex legislation, and we want to your concerns from community and stakeholders better concerned about this legislation -- to your concerns from community and stakeholders that are concerned about this legislation. the actual hearing where we vote on it we are planning to happen november 22, the monday before the thanksgiving, so this is an opportunity to your concerns, and my office is planning to make amendments based on the comments that come to rest during this hearing. i want to thank you all for being here. sentences go's unemployment is holdings -- san francisco's unemployment is holding steady. supervisor maxwell: i would like to ask you to please find a seat, and if you could not, please go to the chamber. i see some empty seats in the middle there. thank you very much. please find a seat. supervisor avalos: san francisco's unemployment is holding steady at 10%. we are in the worst economic crisis since the great depression, and there are some neighborhoods that we know the unemployment rate is much higher than 10%. in view. in a black community, it is much hig

there's a lot of stakeholders in san francisco that would love to have the opportunity to be part of this process. and whenever that there is a lack of transparency about who is representing who, i question that. and there's too much money involved here. i'd like the opportunity as far as the local hiring goes, but we still need to be setting at the table. whenever someone is not setting there at the table, there is a tendency for the process itself to be glossed over. so i would question to have more community participation, especially when it comes to monitoring the jobs and making certain that different communities are actually sitting at the table to deal with the discussions that come up with the draft. thank you. president vietor: thank you very much for your comments. >> again, commissioners, joshua arsay with brightline. i want to echo the statements of my friend terry anders of anders and anders. it's getting close to a year since i think the process was initiated. it was december 9 when commissioner ellis and the commission had a hearing about how to have a plan to lead to

that is what i have introduced, and i have worked with stakeholders over the past year to develop this. the past decade the city has run its local hiring program under the first source program. it has a requirement contractors demonstrate good faith efforts to meeting 50% local hire go. -- goal. the goal was to show good faith efforts. the requirement would be meeting a mandate we want to phase in over the years to come. that is a big change common and -- a big change, and know that we are not ready yet. one area i expect we would engage in is to find out what is real. what are the ways the city is already meeting those goals? we have representatives from the mayor's office of economic workforce development and economic agencies. there have also been studies that have shown what the makeup of our workforce is, so they are there to give both an idea of how we might want to construct this legislation as we move forward. we know already there are so many franciscans out of work, and we know there are communities that have not always have access to education or job opportunities. we notice

in 2006 they approached the port and stakeholders to enhance them. that is to say they had a proposal to enhance service barriers and install marine carriers. last year, the area stakeholders approved the design and layout of the barriers concept. since that time, we have been working with bart to come up with an agreement to accommodate these barriers. bart will be responsible for any repairs or damage is required because of the project or issues that arise. to achieve this, prior to construction, bart will lead to finalize agreements with area tenants. we request that we not move forward with this agreement, going forward, until those agreements are in place. bart is also required to provide support with an engineering assessment. the board will need to review this assessment for accuracy. bart will not be able to move forward with the project until the fort has proved -- approved the assessment. bart has agreed to take on repairs themselves, the full cost. bart has also agreed to submit to the port a building agreement for the surface barriers and

she has the ability to communicate effectively with all the real stakeholders. one thing i have in common with -- supervisor campos: i know you wanted to say something about some of the other applicants. >> yes, mr. chairman. supervisor campos: my question would be what would you have to say about -- >> i would try to keep it down to a few words. in jean-paul's case, as a planner, i think he brings a great deal of expertise to the board. in the case of claudine, again, someone who has served the treasure island authority with distinction, and again, accessible. all three candidates, in my case, it is important you understand they have committed to jobs for local residents. they understand the issues because we have talked about it until blood runs out of the years, so i want to thank the committee for allowing me to speak on all three, and ask that you move their candidacies forward -- and i ask that you move their candidacies forward. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm here to support the appointment of commissioner linda richardson. of course, i also

, at which point, you could decide to -- gauging stakeholders, at which point, you could decide. >> i think there is an expectation that we move on this. some policy is better than no policy. let me from this as an observation. it is apparent to me we are going to continue to get budget cuts. do we lay people off? do we find ways to generate income. laying people off will generate public comment. it is incumbent upon us to have an outreach program in place, and we are all learning. i will weigh in and say, let's move this forward as fast as possible and have an easy way to modify or improve it who as we go forward. >> just one comment to echo your thoughts, which is that we do live in a time of constrained budget resources, and that does include our outreach team. what we are trying to do is set up a system where we can best disseminate public information, and we are grateful to the parks trust. we are on a constant road tour of meetings. we were at the meeting two saturdays ago, and we do this a number of times a week. we just spent over a year developing a new tool in our website, a

supervisor campos: i'm glad you underscore the importance of bringing stakeholders together and making sure there is community involvement. i think your background as a community organizer coupled with the extensive background you have in both the public and private sectors is something that is a very strong combination. i wonder if you have any thoughts about the involvement of the community and the diverse communities of san francisco. i especially want to make sure that communities that perhaps have been -- the level of involvement has not been as high as it should be, that those communities are also part of the equation. >> thank you for asking that. i'm very proud to say the i also am -- that i am also a filipino american. i think i might be the first filipino american woman to serve on this commission. that certainly is a constituency that is important to me and what i believe has not had a strong voice in terms of public policy decisions or being involved in the political process. aside from that, i know there are many constituencies in the city, whether african-american, latino

this legislation, but needless to say, there has been many discussions with a large number of stakeholders, and we have repeatedly tried to be inclusive, transparent, and this process could not have gotten us to this point without the input of so many people, beginning with the director wrote public health, mitch katz, the incoming director, and their staff, as well as the planning director and his staff, as well as so many stakeholders, including members of the industry. the hospital council, and community members. so to all of them, thank you. a number of amendments have been made to the legislation that we believe have allowed us to strike the right balance between all of the competing interests and i know that we have a pretty full agenda, so i do not want to belabor the point. i would simply ask colleagues for your support of this legislation today. thank you very much. supervisor dufty: thank you. i want to thank supervisor campos. there were times at which some of our major health care institutions and hospitals have expressed concern about the implications of this legislation. trut

that is what i have introduced, and i have worked with stakeholders over the past year to develop this. the past decade the city has run its local hiring program under the first source program. it has a requirement contractors demonstrate good faith efforts to meeting 50% local hire go. -- goal. the goal was to show good faith efforts. the requirement would be meeting a mandate we want to phase in over the years to come. that is a big change common

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supervisor chiu: again, i want to thank the stakeholders for the many months of work on this. to the commission and the police department, the office of small business, cmac, my staff, and representatives from the industry and neighborhoods. colleagues, can this be moved forward with recommendation? without objection, it will be moved forward with recommendations. madam clerk, please call items three and four together. >> item #3, hearing to review the current state of maintenance and repair of pg&e's pipeline and electricity transmission infrastructure in san francisco and to receive an update on actions to be taken by pg&e to mitigate safety risks and economic impact, including pg&e's plans for installing modern safety features such as automatic shutoff valves and leak-detection systems and monitoring of underground electrical vaults. item number four, hearing on the intitial report regarding the utility infrastructure safety review per resolution no. 442- 10, on file with the clerk of the board of supervisors in board file no. 101168. supervisor chiu: thank you. these are i

who are the stakeholders today?can't stand you, who don't like the system of capitalism, who don't like whatever. they will not go overboard in checking their facts when they launch either a blog, which you cannot then control... - oh, yeah, the media, yes, the media are murder. - they're not your stakeholders, but to pretend that they're not, you're just asking for real problems. - mm-hmm. - everybody is a stakeholder today. we're that interrelated. time, distance, have disappeared, and the likelihood of misinterpretation through ignorance or wilful distortion has never been a greater threat than it is right now. - and if you observe people who have started companies and they have grown and therefore they have quite a few people in them, not just partners or stakeholders but just plain old employees in great numbers-- - oh, but there are stakeholders. they are key. - they are, yeah, as a group they are. but what makes a good leader of employees? i mean, is it like the political talents? - no. i don't think you can

. >> as i mentioned, we did notified a number of stakeholders, including other city departments in the development of this ordinance, and we got input from developers, landscape contractors, and architects, different environmental groups, and other horticultural interest, and we heard a lot of input. it kind of boils down to three key areas that we really worked hard to modify in the ordinance. one, the concept of having a tiered approach so that the smaller landscapes, those between 1020500 square feet, would have a mechanism, but it would not be too onerous. also, looking at compliance plans for the large landscape owners, that they can have a systematic way to approach this. that is another thing we added in. the compliance point, where we make compliance mandatory, we worked closely with stakeholders, and also, in developing a list in an approach for determining climate- appropriate plants and native plants, so all of that is in the draft ordinance that you see today. and in terms of outreach, we have started, and we are doing outreach to our customers to neighborhoods, small contr

everyone has done our reach to find what is right for all the stakeholders involved. this legislation is not perfect. there are minor tweaks that i think a lot of vendors would say are maybe 85% of the way there. for the most part, i personally can speak and say i am very supportive of it, and thank you very much for considering it. president miguel: thank you. >> brad colorado. i was not planning on speaking. i just wanted to mention to those of you who have been to providence the haven brothers diner in front of city hall. i do not think it is 36 feet long, because it has to be towed. every time i go back, i have a cheeseburger and a piece of pie. it is open from 8:00 at night until 4:00 in the morning. it creates real activity around city hall when it would otherwise be dead. the food is really good. i would take this gentleman's comments to heart and see if there is a way we could encourage more diverse kinds of mobile food like the haven brothers in providence. thank you. president miguel: thank you. is there additional public comment on this item? if not, public

i first want to thank supervisor avalos for his leadership and really listening to all the stakeholders and giving us time to do till the -- due diligence. i think it has been valuable to help us get to this point. the first presentation will be done by our consulting team. we will also look at the city academy. we have a couple of specific projects and getting through the actual pipeline, what has happened over the past five years, and lastly we will talk about some of our discussions with other city departments in having some broad recommendations for improvement. one of the first things commission was the bright line study, which primarily focused on the building trade and their membership in makeup. there are also 26 public work projects. the second thing we're going to perform his in depth analysis on construction trade. he was very much a part of that, and i want to thank the redevelopment agency for helping us do this study. it is really a collaborative effort to put together this study. we are going to examine the academic impact, but its lens into how these programs impact rede