on that because it is within the board's policy that that is the authority of the board and the discretion of the board. >> we know that the board in the past has seen the real threats to human survival through tobacco and that the conditions in the sudan are important to work on. i think that when it comes to the real dramatic impact that we will see in decades, ahead if not in the immediate future, the human habitat its will be something that could move the retirement board and i hope that is the case. >> i cannot issue an opinion on that. the board has engaged tobacco and the companies who are aiding and abetting the situation with the government of sudan in the past and so i think that they have a record of being, you know, willing to consider those issues. and again, i would have no way of knowing how or what the out come would be of the board. >> okay. >> and you don't think that the fossil fuel companies have a big deal of influence over the retirement board members either? >> i would have no knowledge of that. >> yeah. >> just a question, i had we originally got the rough estimates

in fact, that's heard by the board. you know, i think there are a lot of concerns in terms of how this process would look differently. at least for members of the community that are very used to the process the way it is now and of course would like to have that opportunity to have the dialogue with the full board. >> i will address those two issues in turn. in terms of submittal of an appeal only if you have submitted a comment on the draft e-i-r, e-i-rs have a very wide circulation effort. both at the initial scoping process and then at the time of the draft environmental impact report. and the comment period is to even have a 30-day comment period requires special approval from the state. so, if the comment period is a minimum of 45 days. to add to that, maybe i am shooting myself in the foot, but we certainly never ignored comments that are submitted after the draft e-i-r comment period closes. those are comments in the record. and we do address the subtantive issues that are raised. ~ substantive i do not recall eve

elet's move forward. >> and we can do this recommendation for the full board and do you want to the full board two weeks from today? >> the 23rd. >> and we can have a motion to move it forward to the full board for the meeting on april 23rd. >> we can do so without opposition. >> and mr. clerk, do we have any other announcements. >> just to an firm that the amendment was accepted and recommended without recommendation to the full board meeting on april 23rd. >> yes. >> that complete thises morning's agenda. >> okay. we are adjourned. >> this lodge is home to some of the best fly casting pools in the world. these shallow concrete pools don't have fish. this is just a place where people come to practice their fly casting technique. ith was built in the 1930's and ever since, people have been coming here to get back to nature. every year, the world championship of fly casting is held in san francisco and visitors from all over the globe travel to be here. >> we are here with phil, general manage of san francisco rec and parks department at the anglers lodge. what do you think about this? >>

and it gives the retirement board to reenvest in clean energy and jobs. and consider the options for reinvesting the funds for securities that will promote renewable energy and local jobs and things that our city desperately needs. so i have a number of speakers i would like to call up. we have director jay huish from the retirement board we would like to call up first, mr. huish. i do not see him coming up. he was going to talk about the retirement board, social responsible policies and about the portfolio that we have in investment in the fossil fuel companies and i do not see him here and he is not coming up so we will go to the next speaker, i have a number of cards that i will call as well. i would like to call up jamie hen followed by antonio gehas. >> well, good morning, and thank you very much for hosting this hearing on fossil fuel investment and special thanks for supervisor avalos and his staff for crafting the resolution. i am the co-founder for 350.organize an international climate campaign that is helping to lead this movement. we launched th

>> good evening and welcome to the march 20, 2013 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals. preceding officers this evening is hwang and joined this evening by commissioner fung and honda. at the controls is the board's legal assistant. >> i'm cynthia the board's director. and we are also joined from members who have matters before the board and scott sanchez is here, and city administrator and also representing the planning department and commission. joseph dufy is here representing the building of inspection. and we are joined by derek smith he is a health program coordinator at the department of health tobacco free project. >> if you could go over the meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in. >> the board requests that you turn off all phones and pagers so they will not disturb the proceedings and carry on the conversations in the hallway. the board's rules of presentation are as follows, appellant's and permit holders and department representatives each has seven minutes to present their case and three minutes for rebuttals. people affiliated with these parties much

it was in this specific case that the board when he evaluated determined that, yes, even though the ethnicity is different, it's still considered like food and that location was denied specifically this board overturned the department's position in this specific case. our evaluation determined using that criteria, the evaluation of the department determined there appears to be like food at 560 mission street and it was definitely like food at 510 mission which is slightly beyond that 300 foot area for notification, however, we believe it is sufficiently near to create the situation that would impact the competition and as it relates to the tenant, and the intent of the law as is established. the follow-up question, comment by the appellant was that the idea that other food trucks are being served at this point and it is not a level of saturation, overpopulation, again, there has been many appeals to this board as it relates to food trucks in the immediate area of the financial district and others, and the continued complaint by the community has been the oversaturation of facilities again and

that does not have to be voted by the board but i thought it would be good to acknowledge . what some of those changes were for several unwanted numbers the amendments made per hour budget and save analyst at budget committee which acknowledge that we will also look of the next fiscal impact of the proposed project areas on the city's general fund so not just looking at the economic benefit it also looking at the actual impact to the general fund. we are also making three other amendments to the guidelines. one restates the board of supervisors will review project specific and infrastructure finance plans. and the second, is it the board of supervisors may request more frequent nexus analysis in instances where specific project may create significant impact on city services for example every five years rather than every 10 years with respect to specific projects on the services that are demanded and is really came from concerns about impacts to specific projects like the proposal and on pier 30-32. 10 years maybe too long on nexus analysis. mr. benson, from the port, you're h

i handed out copies to all members of the board. it is just a whereas clause and i will be to the record: whereas the city policy for the use of city infrastructure is unique to the portal seven cisco and does not establish a precedent for the use of infrastructure elsewhere in the city and county because this concern cannot because isd plans are going on in other parts of the city. we did make some amendments to the actual guidelines. that does not have to be voted by the board but i thought it would be good to acknowledge . what some of those changes were for several unwanted numbers the amendments made per hour budget and save analyst at budget committee which acknowledge that we will also look of the next fiscal impact of the proposed project areas on the city's general fund so not just looking at the economic benefit it also looking at the actual impact to the general fund. we are also making three other amendments to the guidelines. one restates the board of supervisors will review project specific and infrastructure finance pl

what is happening but it is getting to a point where people that i represent as a member of the county board of supervisors are contacting me and tell me about how they are being impacted by what is happening at city college. and unfortunately, many of them, right or wrong, believe that the current structure including the role of the board of trustees has vis-à-vis the trustees, that the current structure is not providing enough of a process for the community to actually be heard in terms of their concerns. and when it reaches that point, then i do think that it is appropriate for this body to consider stepping in and providing some perspective. when i was working for the school district, i was very protective of the fact that the school district was a separate government entity and it had its own authority and jurisdiction and i want to respect that here. but just like i think it is appropriate for the board of education to pass a resolution on whether or not we should have free muny for low-income youth and opine on things that impact the board of education i do think that it is appropriat

are there any comments from the board? >> (calling names). >> thank you the next item the revisions instructional calendar, you know, in my agenda it is really is 2013 or 2014 and the telling him, 13 is the correct year. >> i know why i apologize. may i hear a motion please? >> so moved. >> thank you may i villaraigosa a reading. >> yes. thank you sprrnt. this requested item is based on our collective bargaining agreement with the united educators of san francisco there's a parity clause win the agreement that states that the amount of fur low days needs to be the same within the units and with the previous adoption this enables the board to now be a full day and half of that furlough day will be restored to our teachers >> i'm sorry can we - >> so the requested action is that the board adopt the revised unstructural calendar and the board has the sole authority to do you want this. >> i have one speaker for this susan solomon. >> good evening. on behalf of the u s f members i urge a no vote on this resolution. the backgrou

i am wondering now if there's any comments from the board before we vote? >> i think we can't underestimate the importance of this particular resolution. it's very clear that no longer are the needs of our special needs kids just the concern of the special education department. it's a concern of the entire school district, including enrollment and student assignment. and so i know there are going to be impacts in terms of the number of seats available at particular schools because we are moving full force on inclusion so i just wanted to mention that the proposed equal student assignment committee meeting will be /hraorbging at the impact of the inclusive policies on a student assignment and we hope to have a good public dialogue on that. >> thank you. >> i wanted to say this is long overdue and it's about time we did this. and that also i'd like this to sort of be this idea that every student is a general ed student, that we also look at other areas in our district -- our pathways, emersion programs and hopefully we can get it integrated there and truly an

if the board of supervisors is a ceqa decision making body or not. if they're not the ceqa decision making body, then the public needs to submit an appeal letter. not just that, all written materials. they need to have the letter signed either by them or an agent authorized in writing. essentially, this provision, the revamping [inaudible]. >> next speaker. >>> supervisors, david oz good, head of the rincon tenants association, a member of the rincon [speaker not understood] of south beach cmc and vice-chair mayor brown's neighborhood advisory committee. i ask that you continue the matter. this matter is obviously very controversial and there is a thoughtful alternative from supervisor kim on the table. this needs to be -- >> i'm sorry, hold on one second. can you stop his clock? we've had these sound issues all day. is there a problem with the mic? >> [inaudible]. >> okay, why don't we start again and hopefully it won't have static any more. okay, you can start. >>> supervisor kim's alternative needs to be considered. i'm also concerned about supervi

chairman and president of the board chiu, and supervisor kim, john vargas. and a past member of [speaker not understood] president of the [speaker not understood] action committee. 40 years ago we had probably the first environmental lawsuit in san francisco against the university of california san francisco. at that time [speaker not understood] and also the hospital building. at the conclusion of the negotiations, they had violated the ceqa. and the conclusion of our [speaker not understood], the housing in the sunset, let's say several blocks, as well as a lot of restrictions we impose on future expansion of the campus. but most important at the dedication of the dental school building, they thank the community for the taking -- for challenging the project and for bringing many impacts [speaker not understood] and therefore they had a much more improved project and much better [speaker not understood] balance with the community. as a former supervisor, i would urge that at this time you have -- respect the fact that one of your colleagues is proposing [spe

the appeal would -- an appeal of ceqa would come to the board. so, this is the aspect of the ordinance that deals with the board as ceqa decision making body. so, that is i think a difference that is applicable to e-i-rs. >> okay. and i'll just say -- and this is really for the benefit of colleagues on at least two of those issues. i know i've got some questions specifically around the language that suggests that all documents have to be in as far as that letter of appeal, i know there have been questions raised about the timing of those documents. and i look forward to hearing some public comment on that topic, in particular having a conversation about it. and then on the topic of whether the board and how the board acts as a ceqa decision making body has some implications about the land use committee can sit to consider ceqa actions and i know that is something that is also elicited some reactions from the community and i look forward to having a conversation around that topic as well. >> so, the aspect of when the material needs to be submitted

elet's move forward. >> and we can do this recommendation for the full board and do you want to the full board two weeks from today? >> the 23rd. >> and we can have a motion to move it forward to the full board for the meeting on april 23rd. >> we can do so without opposition. >> and mr. clerk, do we have any other announcements. >> just to an firm that the amendment was accepted and recommended without recommendation to the full board meeting on april 23rd. >> yes. >> that complete thises morning's agenda. >> okay. we are adjourned. >> the public wants to access particular information about your house or neighborhood we point them to gis. gis is a combination of maps and data. not a graphic you see on a screen. you get the traffic for the streets the number of crimes for a police district in a period of time. if the idea of combining the different layerce of information and stacking them on top of each other to present to the public. >> other types of gis are web based mapping systems. like google earth, yahoo maps. microsoft. those are examples of on line mapping systems that can be us

, many were passed without anyone speaking to us on the board of education. so it was very interesting, to see how this has evolve for me. i might not have supported this but when i thought about it, in particular with the well-thought-out amendments, it changes my mind completely. as you have mentioned supervisor mar, city college is such an anchor for our city terms of education; so many of our students to the school district and pre k -12 will enter city college before they can move onto other things, whether to another university or going through a two your program, the nursing program and so forth, to find employment. one of the biggest fears that i have, being a consumer myself and also actually teaching there for 10 years, i had a strong affiliation for this institution to make sure that it would exist beyond this year. and if they are going for accreditation process, i would hope that the governance is working to get them out of the situation. when i make a comparison, looking at details of making decisions, and i think i want to acknowledge that more

supervisor kim's legislation will allow multiple sequa appeals to the board of supervisors on the same project even though through has been no meaningful change. and this will allow more appeals amid construction. in addition the legislation continues our current practice of allowing appeals to occur in the middle of a project. we say this in a appeal on supervisor campos appeal resulted. we saw recently that the delores park was appealed to the planning commission after the commission approves that project and someone wants to appeal it it can wait until plans are pulled and at which the construction will have to grind to a halt and it will cost additional money. i think this is not the right process that will continue under supervisor kim's legislation. it will eliminate over the counter permits by requiring that the planning department go there an analysis of smaller plans and when permits from what departments might be neat and then a compilation will be another delay. this abandons the delegation to other departments. this year hundreds of categorical reductions that are done ever

, both in the section of our board meeting. it was to afford him the courtesy to talk to his own board and the people he needed to talk to before we could inform our board. and that was unfortunately a time lag of about 6 weeks. and he of course wanted to give proper notice and that's why he will not be officially joining us until june 1st. >> any other questions? okay. well thank you all very much. i hope we'll see you many many times in our press conferences and our dealings with our new director and the great success that i'm sure he will bring for the success here at the fine arts museums. thank you. [ applaus ]

cac chair or appointee make a full report to the full board of director. i would like to see to do the same, so that we can become better acquainted. >> okay. and we have offered that in the past and not recently, but jim laserous did come a few times to make certain statements. but, we could consider that. we will look at that change. >> i have a question about the ac transit rider. the appointee marla wilson. do you know whether or not she is a member of the transbay riders group that meets monthly? >> i don't believe that she is, no. >> that bothers me, that is group that comes to the ac transit about anything on this project and they are important to me politically, 20 to 30 people and i don't care who they want to serve on this committee. but it will be somebody from that group. because i don't know marley wilson and i called up a couple of people that i knew from the transbay riders and they don't know her and i don't want us picking, and i don't not want to disparage this woman she could be great. if i can't talk to her and have her, you know, at lea

elet's move forward. >> and we can do this recommendation for the full board and do you want to the full board two weeks from today? >> the 23rd. >> and we can have a motion to move it forward to the full board for the meeting on april 23rd. >> we can do so without opposition. >> and mr. clerk, do we have any other announcements. >> just to an firm that the amendment was accepted and recommended without recommendation to the full board meeting on april 23rd. >> yes. >> that complete thises morning's agenda. >> okay. we are adjourned.

-- >> good evening and welcome to april 24th, 2013 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals, the presiding officer is board president chris the wang, she's joiner tonight by an lazarus, commissioner frank fung, damper honda and arcelia hurtado, to my left is mr. brian, he will be here for legal advice tonight and at the controls is victor pa chico, i'm gloria, we're joined by representatives that have cases before the board, scott sanchez is there, he's representing the planning department, roger duffy is here representing the building inspection and john quan is here, he's the manager of public works, bureau street and mapping. at this time, mr. pa check koe, if you could go over the board meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. >> the board request you turn off all cell phones and pagers, please carry on conversation ins the hallway, the board rule of presentation are as follows, appellant, permit holders and department representatives have 7 minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rebuttals f, people affiliated with these parties must include their

we are making a recommendation to the board of appeals. that's what my motion says. we're not adding or taking away things and has the power and they have the last word on the permit. >> okay. >> we are powerless to make any changes. this is just a suggestion. the motion is to direct our executive director to make those suggestions on our behalf to the board of permit appeals in keeping with the negotiations that america's cup and live nation has made with the neighborhoods. >> got it. >> so my thing is when these amendments come up and we had a discussion about it last time, and i wish -- i know things change but i know that it would have been nice to have it in the first proposal than coming second because it does seem not transparent but i understand things change, so since we don't have to make any rulings on this right now because it's at the board of appeals you know i guess until after that's finished -- i mean if there is any further discussion because -- for this to come in at the last minute and i agree with the neighbors in a sense, but then again they did

it is my honor to introduce the president of the board of supervisors david chu. [ applause ] . what a great day. this is a tremendous day. a great day for the future health of san francisco. let me start by admitting no that you we are here, when we first started project i was not hugely optimistic that we are going to get here. i want to echo and appreciation for everyone who sat at the operating table to create this critical project. success has a lot of parents and let me first start by thanking my colleagues to what he referred to as the three amigos. i of course want to thank the many city staffers that brought us out today. i want to bring out the hundreds of folks but in particular thank you mr. mayor for working with us and in particular ken rich, you really get one of the major unsung hero award for your efforts. i want to take a moment also to thank our counter parts across the table from cpmc, this is a different conference than the conference i called for back in july, is that right? i want to thank you for your demonstration in san francisco and i look forward to op

that is that the cities making the statement that you know what? we care. as a county , board of supervisors we care about this agency and we are paying attention and even if you are not agreeing , with the specifics of what we are saying we want to be partners in this effort. i think that an accrediting body would only see the fact that the city government is interested as a positive thing because that means there are more partners to help in this endeavor. >> president chiu: supervisor yee. >> supervisor yee: thank you supervisor campos for the statements you made. as probably many of you know, the accreditation folks made a visit, their final visit a week or two ago. they will put their conclusions and hear about it soon. in many ways, maybe this was the right thing, the timing is right. if they are working so hard in trying to - they meaning the board of trustees city college - to get their house in order, having a select committee, a joint committee formed, by the way the have extra time, come to more meetings. that may not be the right time. i want to reiterate, supervis

you can do what you want on your own but the appeals board sent this out to everybody. mr. lippy points out that our clients -- the commission taking any action except revelation while the board of appeals is pending they respond make any such action presents us with a moving target on the appeal and require us filing a second appeal which would be prejudicial to our interest and expedition of the appeal. i want to point out that the most important thing here is that the police commission that you act under -- penal code -- or police code 1006 0.5 notes that the premises of proposed operations in the business lacks safeguards for emission of noise, dust and odor and interfere with the public welfare or neighboring property and thousands of people getting out at this time of night walking out and will not affect the noise and this neighborhood is not happy with the decision so far and they appealed it. i want to thank you for your consideration and we will be back. >> thank you. is there any other public comment? seeing none public comment is closed? commissioners i would lik

they have been able to keep the secrets of the board and this particular individual. so i want to thank all of them for their loyalty and support to the museum and which i very much appreciate. we have an outstanding group of trustees and their love for this institution is as astounding but rightfully deserved. thanks to all the trustees i see in this room today and i want to say how much i appreciate the staff. we have an outstanding staff at this museum. they are a happy lot and a confident group of people. i have worked with them for years and enjoy every moment with them and i would like to say they enjoy working with me as well. they are very excited at the announcement of a new director but they have been functioning very well with our deputy director who has been here as a deputy director since september and has done an excellent job and we look forward to having him with our new director. so, it gives me great pleasure to announce our new director is collin bailey who is the deputy director of the museum and the curator of the department. the selection committe

. >> thank you any questions from the board or superintendents. seeing none please call roll. >> (calling roll). six i's. all right. next item. i'm going to announce it for the listening public it's items 2, 3 and 4 are available for the review at the desk. we are now on item won a resolution of the board of education inching general obligation refunding bond noted to exposed $80 million. may i hear a motion please and second >> may i have a reading of the provision. >> good evening superintendent and commissioners. first, i'd like to introduce our financial advisor. so if you have some really big questions tonight she's here today. i'll go do the recommendations or do you want - >> yeah, just read the first for item one. >> the first item which is the $80 million refinance refund. that recommendations is that the brshgsz adopt a resolution of the board of education the san francisco school district 30 years the school district city and county of san francisco 2012 general obligation refunding amounts not to exceed $80 million to refinance certain

, both in the section of our board meeting. it was to afford him the courtesy to talk to his own board and the people he needed to talk to before we could inform our board. and that was unfortunately a time lag of about 6 weeks. and he of course wanted to give proper notice and that's why he will not be officially joining us until june 1st. >> any other questions? okay. well thank you all very much. i hope we'll see you many many times in our press conferences and our dealings with our new director and the great success that i'm sure he will bring for the success here at the fine arts museums. thank you. [ applause ] >> all right, good morning everyone. my name is monique moirer. i have the honor of the port commissioners and staff to welcome you back to the san francisco port. and this historic pier 48. pier 48 as you may know was one of the last piers built right before world war ii. it was built in concert with pier 45 and fisherman's wharf in the changes of technology in cargo movement. those changes were stimulated by the f

typical practice oftentimes when their multiple things we try to get it to the whole board. this consolidates it to the whole border >> in terms of the efficiency and clarify and for the process i mean, you could have a situation if this is true where you end up having, you know, a number of additional hearings on a number of issues and it turns out that the sequa finding are such you may end up with a project that went through all that but didn't comply with sequa. that could potentially lead to a lot of resources a lot of time being extended on projects that didn't - >> we have had a practice when we have a number of approvals also a number of sequa approvals getting out of committee with a recommendation to make sure it's sitting at the board and then we do the sequa appeal before we make any decisions. >> i think that supervisor campos is referring to subsection b which is what i've - >> i thought you were referring to my changes. >> so and this is one area where there's some overlap between my proposal and supervisor kim's proposal. right now our process is if someone fi