i'm with the san francisco tenants union. thank you supervisors so far bringing this legislation back. harassment is definitely on the increase and a fashd way to get tenants out of their part times. as supervisor campos note it's a difficult issue for tenants to deal with. senile they need to live with harassment long enough until an attorney feels their suffered medical bills and that sort of thing enormously to say most tenants can't survive through the harassment and it's an effective way of getting tenants out. this legislation corrects the issue of prop m passed by the voter that denied and prohibited harassment but unfortunately, the courts throw out the issue. this denies harassment an illegal evict attempt and go to the rent board and have it investigated. in addition to being a city attorney and district attorney prop a put in the statute for $200 a day so tenants can go to small claims court and get a monetary settlement. so thank you supervisors >>

hear me out is increasing and we're seeing that reported drishlg directly from organization the tenant unions and other the main recourse the tenant can file a civil litigation matter in california supreme court and we know that that's a very dawn task and expensive endeavor and not surprisingly we haven't seen those kinds of cases being fidelity because it's difficult for tenants to very wellism of that recourse. it's that reason why working with the tenants advocates we've created this administrative process for tenant to make an official complaint about harassments. it creates a mechanism at the rent board for the tenants to file a sclament if the landowners is harassing the tenant to vacate the unit. the legislation would allow the attempted to file a complaint with the rent board that would schedule a hearing before a law just between the tenant and landlord would believable to present their case. this judge would present 9 board with a summer so the rent board could decide and make a referral to the city attorney to initiate civil altercation or the zake district attorney to initiate cr

thanks to the community housing organizations and the san francisco tenants unions, the housing tenant union for their great work in developing they legislation with my office. lastly i'm introducing a hearing today regarding eviction not of residents but of the recycling center at the market street safe way. colleagues, many of you know that the market street safe way is scheduled for eviction this coming may. market street safe way recycling center, i mean. it closing part of the trend that is allowing community recycling in san francisco. the neighborhood council recycling in san francisco in the park. 5 centers have closed down. i have heard from community residents that this will have a severe impact to members of the community who rely on this small income. people really rely on this stream of income. i also fear that our small convenient store owners might be impacted if the state enforces these laws that face $100 per day fines. finally i'm curious to learn how these will meet the abilities to meet the zero waste goals as well. for these reasons i'm calling to a hearing on thes

i have to point out that it comes in the context of the kind of affordable questions that the tenant union focuses on to for the ren ter's affordable and it comes in the context of affordability that 100 percent of san franciscans support and 100 percent of them support, affordability like an earthquake just hit the city and the housing was needed like a tsunami, it has reached the national media and mores that to be done about it. and it is interesting that it comes to fruition right now because 6 months ago the affordability question was one of a lot of questions that have been put on the table for years, the tenant union, you know, and advocating for more affordable rental housing and preserve vasing, and falling on the deaf ears, until the last ballot involved 8 washington and band c, and we saw that much in the mayor's office and the official family had not read the temperature of the city. accurately, in order to make the appropriate use of public land on the water front and elsewhere, we could not be inthrauled to the idea that it was going to build our way out of the affordability

as ted of the san francisco tenants union indicated in order to file in superior court things to have get so bad that you as a tenant have to convince an attorney that you are actually suffering damages including perhaps medical damages, but for most tenants the ability to file something in court, san francisco superior court is not an option available to them. litigation is so costly and so expensive that it's really prohibitive. what this legislation does is it creates an intermediary cost of action at the rent force that if there is any harassment that the matter can be brought to the rent board so there can be a hearing before an administrative law judge so they will be able to present their facts, their sides of the case and the administrative law judge would provide the rent board with a summary presented by each side and depending on what that evidence shows, the rent board may decide to refer the matter to the city attorney to initiate civil litigation or to the district attorney to initiate criminal proceedings. the point of this is that it creates a forum byway of the rent b

which we have several cards >> thank you for the opportunity i represent the tenants and 5 owners on union street that's open the terrace. there's handouts - is this vision thing on? >> give us one second. >> just so the audience can have a chance to see what i'm providing for the commissioners this is the area were there used to be 48 foot wall. when i bought into the building and this was removed without permit and that happened in 2010. and if you see the juxtaposition of the coit tore two structures open that roof have never been permanent but this is has escaped the per view of the planning group. so that would be the second penthouse and this which i am i didn't and are four feet above the legal limit and couldn't be permitted. so i want to quickly move on to the next item. the technical is the notice of violation which occurred in june of 2010 and this is a record of what the building department felt and they dropped the ball at one point i think they thought those people were pursuing a permit which never got past the planning state because it was caught up at the countered. so fin

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tenant there. witnesses say the same man was seen rattling door handles earlier. if you recognize him, you are asked to call the ucsf police department. >>> atu union members have approved a tentative agreement with barret that ends months of heated negotiations. the barret board approved the new deal with the union thursday. it dropped the clause granting union members up to six weeks of paid family leave that b.a.r.t. says was mistakenly put in the contract. the contract will be voted on an january 13th. >>> first week of the new ye year -- >> it's getting old. not everyone's loving it. but we have another mild day on the way. a nice shot for you from mt. tam where temperatures are hovering around freezing. low clouds. a spare the air day and maybe, maybe just some rain. we'll talk about it when we return. >> lisa, thank you. >>> also next, state officials are calling it abysmal. the results of this winter's sere va snow survey and what it could mean for our water supply. >>> and then there's the one bright spot to t so we made our own commercial to tell you why. first, chex makes lots of gluten free flavors. which is a huge thing for us. and there's seven to choose f

tenant there confronted him. witnesses say they saw the same man rattling door handles earlier. if you recognize him you are asked to call the police department. >>> atu union members have approved a tentative agreement with bart that ends months of heated negotiations. they approved the deal thursday. it dropped the controversial clause granting union members up to six weeks of paid family medical leave this bart said was mistakenly included. they will vote on the contract on the 13th. >> kind a damp morning out there. >> yeah. fog across the bay and oakland as well with an eight-mile visibility. here's a look from the emeryville camera where it is 42 degrees in the city. we are looking at low 30s in the north bay. certainly chilly and fog extends up around the by. we will talk about that. and the ridge of high pressure, will it get out of here? that when we return. >> thank you. also next, state officials are calling it abysmal, the results of the snow survey. and what if can mean for the water supply. and the one bright spot, all t right?! is this the bacon and cheese diet? this is the creamy chicken corn chowder. i mean, look at it. so indulgent. this i

tenant there could be fronted him. witnesses say they saw the same man rattling door handles earlier. if you recognize him you are asked to call the police department. >>> atu union members have approved a tentative agreement with bart that ends months of heated negotiations. they approved the deal thursday. it granted a controversial clause granting union members up to 6 weeks of paid medical leave for family that was mistakenly included, says bart. it would go into effect on january 13th. lisa argen is with us. some rain maybe? >> yeah, maybe. we will look at that and the extended outlook. but we have some fog this morning. golden gate bridge, visibility is reduced. some shot from our sutro camera. 45 in san francisco. fog is east of the by in oakland. we do have some low clouds and high clouds to talk about. and the possibility of a few drops. we will go into the details when we return of. >> all right, lisa. thank you. also next, at this time officials are calling it abysmal. results of this year's snow sur viola and when it means for our water supply. also, the one white spot. all the cloudiness skies we've been you've got to try this sweet & sour chicken he